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Recent acquisition of Helicobacter pylori by Baka Pygmies [PDF]
, 2013 Both anatomically modern humans and the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori originated in Africa, and both species have been associated for at least 100,000 years. Seven geographically distinct H.
Linz, B. +49 more
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Auxiliary Verb Constructions and Decategorialization in Gĩkũyũ
Nordic Journal of African StudiesGĩkũyũ (E.51) exhibits several verbs that can be used both as lexical verbs and as auxiliary verbs. We compare the lexical and auxiliary usages of four verbs and show that all auxiliary verb usages display uniform restrictions concerning valency-related
Jens Fleischhauer +1 more
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eFood, Volume 7, Issue 4, August 2026.Wild edible plants (WEP) in Angola: number of species recorded by family and their distribution ranges; four of the most used WEP: Tamarindus indica (Fabaceae), Carissa spinarum (Apocynaceae), Adansonia digitata (Malvaceae), and Vitex doniana (Lamiaceae).
Claudete Bastos +4 more
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The influence of non-linguistic factors on the usage of the pre-prefix in Luguru
Linguistic Discovery, 2017 This article discusses the impact of linguistic and non-linguistic factors on the use of the pre-prefix in an under-described Bantu language spoken in Tanzania.
Malin Petzell, Karoline Kühl
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Last of the JEDI's: “Coloured” Women's Active Representation in Apartheid's Public Education Sector
Gender, Work &Organization, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 1569-1579, July 2026.ABSTRACT The South African apartheid regime racially organized society into race categories—one being “Coloured” to denote people of mixed‐race heritage. The term “Coloured,” even in contemporary South Africa, is a contentious categorization given the racist legacy of apartheid. This article documents the lives of “Coloured” women who struggled against
Karen Johnston
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Pushing Back the Origin of Bantu Lexicography: The Vocabularium Congense of 1652, 1928, 2012
Lexikos, 2012 In this article, the oldest Bantu dictionary hitherto known is explored, that is the Vocabularium Latinum, Hispanicum, e Congense, handed down to us through a manuscript from 1652 by the Flemish Capuchin Joris van Gheel, missionary in the Kongo (present ...
Jasper De Kind +2 more
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“The Father is also the Sister”: A Non-binary Gendered History of Matrilineal Bantu Communities
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2023 Gender, as broadly construed by Bantu-speaking peoples, is not fixed in the same way that it is in the West. This kind of gender flexibility is counter to binary gender concepts which classify gender into two separate, opposite, and rigid forms of ...
Christine Saidi
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Alzheimer's &Dementia: Behavior &Socioeconomics of Aging, Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2026.Abstract INTRODUCTION The Étude du Vieillissement Cognitif et de Démence en République Démocratique du Congo (EVCD‐RDC) launched in 2024 to investigate socio‐environmental and biological determinants of dementia in Kinshasa. METHODS The study recruited 1000 adults aged ≥65 years across four diagnostic groups – cognitively unimpaired (CU), mild ...
Jean Ikanga +24 more
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Corpus-driven Bantu Lexicography Part 1: Organic Corpus Building for Lusoga
Lexikos, 2018 This article is the first in a trilogy that deals with corpus-driven Bantu lexicography, which is illustrated for Lusoga. The focus here is on the building of a so-called 'organic corpus' from scratch, while the next two instalments will deal with the ...
Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
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