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Impacts of the Preschool Safe Program on Marginalized Girls in Northern Nigeria

Child Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Quality early childhood education (ECE) can improve children's learning and development in low‐ and middle‐income countries, but little evidence exists of programs targeting marginalized girls in vulnerable rural communities. This study used a matched‐pair mixed‐methods community‐randomized trial to evaluate a preschool program for ...
Sharon Wolf, Johanna Bernard, Chika R. Ezeugwu, Lubabatu Ahmad, Khadijah Bello Gurin   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Is Nigeria winning the battle against malaria? Prevalence, risk factors and KAP assessment among Hausa communities in Kano State

Malaria Journal, 2016
BackgroundMalaria is one of the most severe global public health problems worldwide, particularly in Africa, where Nigeria has the greatest number of malaria cases. This community-based study was designed to investigate the prevalence and risk factors of
S. Dawaki, H. Al-Mekhlafi, I. Ithoi, J. Ibrahim, Wahib M. Atroosh, A. M. Abdulsalam, Hany Sady, F. N. Elyana, Ado U. Adamu, S. I. Yelwa, Abdulhamid Ahmed, Mona A. Al-Areeqi, Lahvanya R. Subramaniam, Nabil A. Nasr, Y. Lau   +14 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Thematic Analysis of Some Selected Hausa Proverbs [PDF]

, 2015
Proverbs as a form of oral Literature are the most consistent and most employed by the Hausa people than folktale, songs, chants, myth etc. They are frequently used in everyday situation .Hausa people as a society have their own culture which is strictly
Abdulkarim, Zainab, Abdullahi, Halima
core   +1 more source

RETRACTED: Examining the Impact of Pandemic Stressors on Parental Stress in Sub‐Saharan Africa: A Double ABC‐X and Moderated Mediation Model Analysis of Family Mechanisms

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigated family mechanisms through which pandemic stressors affect parental stress using the Double ABC‐X model of family stress and adaptation. Specifically, this study examines the moderated mediation effects to test the conditional indirect influence of a moderating variable (i.e., family resilience beliefs) on the ...
Anis Ben Brik
wiley   +1 more source

“Living in the City, You Can End Up With the City Living in You”: Urban Struggles and Mental Health in Accra, Ghana

City &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the intersection of city life and mental health in Accra, Ghana. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, including interviews and focus group discussions, it explores how urban precarity, infrastructural violence, and uncertainty in a rapidly shifting world contribute to mental distress.
Josiane Carine Tantchou
wiley   +1 more source

Temporal interpretation and cross-linguistic variation. A formal semantic analysis of temporal and aspectual reference in Hausa and Medumba [PDF]

, 2016
This thesis investigates temporal and aspectual reference in the typologically unrelated African languages Hausa (Chadic, Afro–Asiatic) and Medumba (Grassfields Bantu).
Mucha, Anne
core  

Accelerometer-determined physical activity and its comparison with the International Physical Activity Questionnaire in a sample of Nigerian adults.

PLoS ONE, 2014
IntroductionAccurate assessment of physical activity to identify current levels and changes within the population is dependent on the precision of the measurement tools.
Adewale L Oyeyemi, Maimuna Umar, Friday Oguche, Salamatu U Aliyu, Adetoyeje Y Oyeyemi   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Multilingual African Embedding for FAQ Chatbots [PDF]

arXiv, 2021
Searching for an available, reliable, official, and understandable information is not a trivial task due to scattered information across the internet, and the availability lack of governmental communication channels communicating with African dialects and languages.
arxiv  

PENINGKATAN PRODUKSI DAN PERBAIKAN UKURAN UMBI KENTANG HITAM (Plectranthus rotundifolius (Poir.) Spreng) MELALUI TEKNIK BUDIDAYA SEBAGAI UPAYA KONSERVASI [PDF]

, 2015
A decrease of the role of a species in the society culture can lead to scarcity and even the extinction of that species. Along with the government program to diversify food, it can be repopularized the underutilized carbohydrate source potential plants ...
Lestari, Peni, Setyowati, Ninik, Utami, Ning Wikan   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Text Normalization for Low-Resource Languages of Africa [PDF]

arXiv, 2021
Training data for machine learning models can come from many different sources, which can be of dubious quality. For resource-rich languages like English, there is a lot of data available, so we can afford to throw out the dubious data. For low-resource languages where there is much less data available, we can't necessarily afford to throw out the ...
arxiv