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Capacity building needed to reap the benefits of access to biodiversity collections

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Global conservation efforts increasingly depend on digitised natural history collections, yet the benefits of this digital data are not equally shared. We analysed biodiversity specimens and citation data from Montserrat and the Cayman Islands to assess who collected these specimens, how they are used, and by whom.
Quentin Groom, Sofie Meeus, Sara Bárrios, Catherine Childs, Colin Clubbe, Ernestine Corbett, Sarita Francis, Alan Gray, Luke Harding, Annick Jackman, Rebecca Machin, Andrew McGovern, Mike Pienkowski, Delmaude Ryan, Chris Sealys, Catherine Wensink, Jodey Peyton   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Towards a Critical Decolonial Turn/Theory: Beyond the Binary of the West Versus Africa

Africa Spectrum
As writing on decolonisation in African Studies has surged, efforts to avoid the concept becoming a mere metaphor, bandwagon, ideological trope, or mantra have grown, with scholars emphasising decolonial theory's ongoing relevance to the emancipation of ...
Richard Fosu
doaj   +1 more source

The Management of Border Disputes in African Regional Sub-systems: Comparing West Africa and the Horn of Africa [PDF]

, 2002
Kornprobst, M
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Empire, Islam and the postcolonial [PDF]

One of the most persistent criticisms of postcolonialism is that it promotes an antipathy to imperialism that tends to focus on the experience of European colonial empires and neglects other, non-western instances of imperial hubris.
S. Sayyid
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Tracing holotype trajectories: Mapping the movement of the most valuable herbarium specimens

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Global efforts to protect biodiversity depend on fair access to key plant specimens. This study examines the distribution of 119,361 holotypes—unique herbarium specimens used to formally describe new plant species. By linking collection and storage data, we found that holotypes are increasingly held closer to their places of origin, particularly in ...
Dominik Tomaszewski, Łukasz Walas, Marzenna Guzicka   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

On Decolonising Revolution through a Lens of Afterlives

Práticas da História
What do calls for decolonisation in postcolonial times offer to analysis of revolution? This article brings contemporary calls for decolonisation into conversation with scholarship on revolution.
Alice Wilson
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Fighting for White Rule in Africa: The Central African Federation, Katanga and the Congo Crisis 1958-1965 [PDF]

, 2007
This article assesses the role of the Central African Federation (CAF) of Southern Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland in the turmoil surrounding Belgium’s withdrawal from the Congo in June 1960.
Hughes, M
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Africa's Leadership in Global Development Debates: Contribution of the Common African Position to the Post‐2015 Development Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The adoption of the Common African Position (CAP) by the African Union in 2014 marked a transformative shift in Africa's engagement with global development, shaping the post‐2015 development agenda and sustainable development goals (SDGs). Despite its significance, the CAP's contributions remain underacknowledged in mainstream narratives. This
Hafte Gebreselassie Gebrihet, Fabio Andrés Díaz Pabón, Azza Mustafa Babikir Ahmed   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Economic Origins of Twentieth Century Decolonisation in West Africa [PDF]

This paper argues that the pattern of decolonisation in West Africa was a function of the nature of human capital transfers from the colonisers to the indigenous elites of the former colonies.
J.A. Agbor
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Book review- Nation on Board: Becoming Nigerian at Sea by Lynn Schler [PDF]

, 2017
Jochen Lingelbach recommends this book as an accessible labour history and a convincing bottom-up perspective on ...
Lingelbach, Jochen
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