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West African manuscripts in Arabic and African languages and digital preservation [PDF]
, 2017 West African manuscripts are numerous and varied in forms and contents. There are thousands of them across West Africa. A significant portion of them are documents written in Arabic and Ajami (African languages written in Arabic script).
Ngom, Fallou
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Sociolinguistic variation in the rhythm of Nigerian English speech
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract There is a dearth of research on speech rhythm in Nigerian English, and scholars have differing views on its nature, ranging from being syllable‐timed to tone‐timed. Apart from the fact that the majority of few available studies were conducted more than a decade ago, the exact nature of speech rhythm in Nigerian English remains contentious ...
Folajimi Oyebola, Osemudiamhe Ilekura
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Small fish, big money: conflicts evolving around new fishing techniques and old fishing rights at the shores of Lake Chad, Nigeria [PDF]
, 2006 Dumba-fishing was invented at Lake Chad about 10 years ago by immigrant fishermen from Mali and Nigerian Hausaland. The new technique brought about a new era of Lake Chad fishery, characterised by social and institutional changes.
Krings, Matthias
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Communication through Performance: Hausa Performance Art [PDF]
, 2015 The human voice is a natural instrument with a natural capability. Thus, speech with the aid of performance and music has been combined since earliest times to communicate valuable insights into human nature and universal themes of life.
Lawal, R
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Reproductive, Female and Child Health, Volume 4, Issue 2, June 2025.ABSTRACT Background Itinerant migrants, particularly women and adolescent girls, are increasingly a significant category in West Africa due to climate change and political instability. This has led to a surge in cross‐border migration into Ghana, potentially impacting their access to prenatal care.
Joshua Sumankuuro +2 more
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Ideophonic Description of Motion in Hausa [PDF]
, 2014 Hausa ideophones describing motion are examined in this research. It is revealed that these ideophones do not only portray the character of the actor but also evoke the auditor’s appraisal of the actor’s personality. The use of ideophones in discourse in
Askira, Maryam Goni
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International Migration, Volume 63, Issue 3, June 2025.Abstract Most migration‐information campaigns (MICs) funded by European countries or the European Union (EU) itself, with the collaboration of international and transnational organisations, have been targeting central and western Africa as origin areas for several undocumented migrants.
Gaetano Giancaspro
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Is parity a cause of tooth loss? Perceptions of northern Nigerian Hausa women
PLoS ONE, 2019 Background Reproduction affects the general health of women, especially when parity is high. The relationship between parity and oral health is not as clear, although it is a widespread customary belief that pregnancy results in tooth loss.
E. Oziegbe, L. Schepartz
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Transfer Learning and Distant Supervision for Multilingual Transformer Models: A Study on African Languages [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 Multilingual transformer models like mBERT and XLM-RoBERTa have obtained great improvements for many NLP tasks on a variety of languages. However, recent works also showed that results from high-resource languages could not be easily transferred to realistic, low-resource scenarios.
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