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Gender and return in the Kimbanguist Church of Portugal [PDF]
, 2011 This article analyzes some events related to the Kimbanguist church that have taken place in Portugal and in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It unearths a connection between an increasing feminization of practices and narratives within this church ...
Santos, Joana, Sarró, Ramon
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article deals with anxiety about and the shaming of modern urban mothers and wives on the mines of the late colonial Central African Copperbelt. Women's various labours and public presence lead to ambivalent depictions, such as the ‘careless mother’, that were part of a broader array of anxieties about women's autonomy on the mines ...
Stephanie Lämmert
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Inter‐Model Feature Fusion for Robust Low‐Resource Speech Recognition
Applied AI Letters, Volume 7, Issue 2, June 2026.Our Self‐Supervised Feature Fusion (SSF‐FT) method enhances low‐resource speech recognition by adaptively combining features from self‐supervised models trained with Contrastive, Predictive, and Reconstruction objectives. This attention‐weighted ensemble delivers robust performance, particularly in acoustically challenging conditions, extending current
Ussen Kimanuka +2 more
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Malaria Research and Treatment, Volume 2017, Issue 1, 2017., 2017 Background. Insecticide‐treated mosquito nets (ITNs) are one of the most effective tools for preventing malaria in sub‐Saharan Africa. Objective. This study examined knowledge, attitude, and practice on the use of ITNs in the prevention of malaria among pregnant women and guardians of children under five in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Methods.
Joseph N. Inungu +9 more
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Constraining Greenhouse Gas Cycling and Emissions in Africa's Largest Humic Lake
Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, Volume 131, Issue 3, March 2026.Abstract Humic tropical lakes and wetlands are globally important sources of atmospheric greenhouse gases (GHGs). However, mechanistic insight into GHG cycling in such systems remains limited—especially in understudied central Africa. To address this, here we measured high‐, falling‐, and low‐water seasonal concentrations and isotopic compositions of ...
M. Barthel +16 more
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Journal of Tropical Medicine, Volume 2015, Issue 1, 2015., 2015 Aims. To determine the prevalence of HIV, the level of sexual risk for HIV, and determinants of VCT attendance among adult population living in a rural area. Methods. A cross‐sectional study was conducted in Mbanza‐Ngungu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. An anonymous questionnaire was designed to extract relevant data. Results.
Mida Kautako-Kiambi +5 more
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Introducing a state-of-the-art phylogenetic classification of the Kikongo Language Cluster [PDF]
Africana Linguistica, 2015 It is shown how past lexicostatistic efforts eventually led to lexically-driven phylogenetic classifications of the Bantu languages. As a new case study, 95 North-West and West Bantu language varieties are sampled across geographical space, with a focus on the wider Lower Congo region. This leads to the discovery of a discrete clade within West-Coastal
De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice +3 more
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Chemistry &Biodiversity, Volume 23, Issue 2, February 2026.ABSTRACT Hymenocardia acida Tul. is a medicinal plant used in Angola to treat microbial diseases. It is a well‐known plant among local populations; however, few studies have focused on the assessment of phytochemicals associated with their biological activities.
Ntsoaki Joyce Malebo +4 more
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A Step Prior to REDD+ Implementation: A Socioeconomic Study
International Journal of Forestry Research, Volume 2014, Issue 1, 2014., 2014 Phase 2 of the United Nations’ REDD+ climate change mitigation initiative is underway in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Meanwhile, activities are being implemented to assess the reduction of emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. REDD+ projects need to include a social dimension; thus, the aim of this research was to understand how ...
Anne Bernard +2 more
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Plant-Environment Interactions, Volume 7, Issue 1, February 2026.ABSTRACT The genus Raphia is among the commonly used and socio‐economically important plants in Africa. While Raphia ruwenzorica species is known to occur in Burundi, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda, its geographical distribution and socioeconomic importance are poorly documented in Burundi. This study maps R.
Jacques Nkengurutse +10 more
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