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Spoken word corpus and dictionary definition for an African language [PDF]
Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities, 2020 The preservation of languages is critical to maintaining and strengthening the cultures and identities of communities, and this is especially true for under-resourced languages with a predominantly oral culture.
Wanjiku Nganga, Ikechukwu Achebe
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Journal of Applied Social Psychology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Stories about a certain group can foster more positive attitudes toward that group, especially when they elicit identification with the story's characters/narrator. Drawing on narrative‐based interventions' literature and focusing on host society‐migrant relations, our study examined factors influencing the impact of story exposure on ...
Maria Ioannou, Andreas Michael
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Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper explores the paradox of seeking local solutions in rural development when conflicts result from structural transformations of the agrarian economy driven by national political choices. Since the 1990s, participatory approaches inspired by neo‐institutionalist theories of local governance have encouraged development actors to view ...
Toni‐Giovanni Pegurri
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Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 2015 Ika is a dialect of the Igbo language spoken in Ika South and Ika North East Local Government Areas of Delta State and the Igbanke area of Edo State in Nigeria. It belongs to the Niger Igbo cluster of dialects (Ikekeonwu 1986) spoken in areas bordering the west of the River Niger; Nwaozuzu (2008) refers to these dialects as West Niger Group of Dialects.
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Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How are young Black Americans practicing spirituality contemporarily? Today younger generations of Black Americans are more likely than older Black Americans to identify as religiously unaffiliated or as practicing a non‐Christian faith. Drawing on 109 interviews with Black Millennial and Gen Z Americans, I examine how some of these younger ...
Terrell J. A. Winder
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‘I bu Delaila ji aguba’: Revisiting the perception of sociopaths in an African community
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023 Reports of increasing family violence abound in Nigeria. Although studies have implicated cultural constructs as the basis for this trend, this study specifically contemplated the nexus between the increased violence and Anti-Social Personality Disorder (
Paulinus O. Agbo
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Christian Humanism in the Black Atlantic: The Case of Olaudah Equiano
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores Olaudah Equiano as a pivotal figure in the emergence of a Christian humanism forged within the Black Atlantic. Building on the analyses of Sylvia Wynter and Paul Gilroy, it examines how Equiano's The Interesting Narrative contests the racial figuration of the human that underwrote the development of racial capitalism and ...
Luke Bretherton
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, 2020 Models and styles of governance, especially in Igbo traditional setting, have long attracted scholastic attention largely so, due to the prime acephalousness of the Igbo traditional community.
Okoli, Kizito I.
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COVID-19 and the Food Deficit Economy in Southeastern Nigeria
Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2021 This study examines the significant impact of the total lockdown adopted by the Nigerian government to checkmate the spread of Coronavirus in the country.
Uche Uwaezuoke Okonkwo +4 more
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Macrolinguistics, 2020 This paper examines semelfactivity in the Igbo language. It seeks to highlight semelfactive verbs and other semelfactive sentential elements. The data for the study were obtained through introspection which were confirmed by two native speakers of Igbo and were analysed descriptively.
Sopuruchi Christian Aboh +1 more
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