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Using African Indigenous Languages in Science Engagement to Increase Science Trust

Frontiers in Communication, 2022
Grace Kago, Grace Kago, Mohamed Cissé
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Diaspora and coincidence [PDF]

QJM: An International Journal of Medicine, 2005
The glories of ancient Sparta were inscribed in blood, not in poetry or art. The ruins that still exist are scanty, uninspiring, overgrown and little visited. The modern city too is a drab place, laid out on a grid. If you have travelled to Sparta in the hope of recapturing the magical experience of seeing Delphi, Olympia or Athens for the first time ...
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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
wiley   +1 more source

Égyptiens d’outre-Nil : des diasporas égyptiennes

Tracés, 2012
Egyptian expatriates in the Gulf States, in North America and Europe seem more to pertain to a transnational community than to a diaspora.
Delphine Pagès-El Karoui
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‘A Sort of Armed Argument’: Ireland's Civil War of Words

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article sets out to contribute to the study of the languages of European civil wars through outlining and analysing the deployment of language as a weapon by the opposing sides of the Irish independence movement that split over the terms of the Anglo‐Irish Treaty of December 1921.
DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL
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The Qurʾānic Jesus in Late Antique, Samaritan and Nazarene/Ebionite Profiles: A Bridge-First Model for Muslim–Christian Dialogue

Religions
This article examines the Qurʾānic portrayal of Jesus (ʿĪsā al-Masīḥ) and the naṣārā in comparison with Samaritan and Nazarene/Ebionite profiles, situating them within the Arabicised debatespace of Late Antiquity and early Islam.
Hanna Hyun
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Black Lives Matter! Nigerian Lives Matter!: Language and Why Black Performance Matters

Genealogy, 2019
This essay explores performance as a language by looking at its appropriation by other cultures, and the associated history of the crafted phrases that are borrowed along.
Abimbola A. Adelakun
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Sino‐Mexican Encounters Before the ‘Diplomatic Opening’: Exhibition Diplomacy and Grassroots Friendship in the 1960s

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the 1960s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) embraced Chinese overtures for a commercial opening as consistent with its anti‐imperialist posture, thereby foreshadowing the diplomatic opening to China in 1972. Yet this professed ideological pluralism was eclipsed by an underlying allegiance to the United States' anti ...
YIXIN TIAN
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INFRASTRUCTURAL CONCEALMENT: Everyday Festival Economies and Riverine Ecologies in Kolkata

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban infrastructures are often celebrated within marketized development logics for their promise of equitable access while concealing ecological harm. This article examines whether and how ecological degradation is integral to infrastructural modernization, showing how infrastructures that promise improvement and inclusion simultaneously ...
Debapriya Chakrabarti, Deljana Iossifova, Alexandros Gasparatos   +2 more
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AN ANALYSIS OF INTERNATIONAL LEGAL INSTRUMENTS: UN CONVENTION AGAINST TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME AND ITS PROTOCOLS AGAINST TRAFFICKING OF PERSONS AND SMUGGLING OF MIGRANTS

Pravo, 2010
Irregular migration is a movement that takes place outside the regulatory norms of the sending, transit and receiving countries. the united Nations Convention against transnational Organized Crime, along with its Protocols, considers human trafficking ...
Antonela Arhin
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