BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2011 Background Accurate assessment of physical activity is important in determining the risk for chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, cancer and obesity. The absence of culturally relevant measures in indigenous languages
Oyeyemi Adewale L +6 more
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The example of the Nigerian savanna [PDF]
, 2006 In Nigeria terrace agriculture can mainly be found in the so called "Middle Belt Economy" as FORDE (1946)1 coined this type which lies between the grain economy of males in the north and tuber cultivation of females in the south.
Fricke, Werner
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Studies in African Languages and CulturesSALC Special Issue 2024 is documentation of the Hausa oral tradition from Niger. The texts, originally handwritten notes from field research, are the legacy of the outstanding French researcher of the Hausa language and culture, Claude Gouffé (1926-2013).
Nina Pawlak +2 more
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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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Common quarrels - individual solutions : coping with conflicts in the Lake Chad Area of Northern Nigeria [PDF]
, 2006 The conflict I refer to happened at the beginning of the 1998 farming season when the distribution of land started. The seasonal migrants went into the village area were they had been farming since many years, they gave their contributions and payments ...
Platte, Editha
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Twenty years later: migration, inter-ethnic relations and land rights in new settlements in Burkina Faso and Nigeria [PDF]
, 2006 The paper presents two case studies from Nigeria and Burkina Faso, that differ in many respects, but show also some significant similarities. In both cases, previously existing claims on land were not recognised by the national authorities who ...
Kirscht, Holger, Werthmann, Katja
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: Mettouchi, Amina, Martine Vanhove & Dominique Caubet (eds) (2012). 'The CorpAfroAs Corpus'. ANR CorpAfroAs: a Corpus for Afro-Asiatic languages, [http://corpafroas.tge-adonis.fr/Archives/HAU/PDF/HAU_BC_GRAMMATICALSKETCH.PDF] [PDF]
, 2015 Document électronique. Esquisse grammaticale du haoussa (langue tchadique du Nigéria)A grammatical sketch of Hausa (a West-Chadic language spoken mainly in Nigeria) written as an annex to the annotated Hausa Corpus transcribed for the CorpAfroAs project (
Caron, Bernard
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Modalpartikeln im Hausa: Gishirin Hausa
, 2001 This paper presents a syntactic analysis of the modal particles in Hausa. The research shows that modal particles may appear at all phrase and sentence borders but that they may not appear in initial position.
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PLoS ONEHigh fertility constitutes a challenge to men's health conditions in Nigeria, a low-income country. Religion and ethnicity are central to the current Male Fertility (MF) level in Nigeria. This study determined the relationship between Male Fertility (MF)
Ayo Adebowale, Martin Palamuleni
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Nigerian video-films on history: Love in Vendetta and the 1987 Kano riots [PDF]
, 2009 This paper considers a Nigerian video-film from 1996, Love in vendetta, featuring Zack Orji and inspired by the 1987 Kano riots, one of the many incidences of violent outbreaks which opposed Christians to Muslims in the 1980s and resulted in thousands of
Ugochukwu, Francoise
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