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Description of the semantic potential of the si-construction in Basse Mandinka
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2012 The present paper provides a detailed description of the semantic potential offered by the si-construction in Basse Mandinka (a regional variety of the Gambian Mandinka language), by enumerating all temporal, aspectual, taxis and modal values which ...
Andrason, Alexander
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Cyclical history in the Gambia/Casamance borderlands:Refuge, settlement and Islam from c.1880 to the present [PDF]
, 2007 This article begins with a quotation from a local informant highlighting a perception in the Gambia/Casamance borderlands that there is a pattern linking the violence of the later nineteenth century with more recent troubles. It argues that there is some
Foucher, Linares, PAUL NUGENT
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Frontiers in Nutrition, 2022 The Covid pandemic has exposed fissures of inequality through heightened food insecurity and nutritional deficiency for vulnerable social cohorts with limited coping mechanisms.
Richard Sidebottom +5 more
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Ajami scripts in the Senegalese speech community [PDF]
, 2010 Wolofal (from Wolof: Wolof language or ethnic group and ‘-al’: causative morpheme) is an Ajami writing (a generic term commonly used to refer to non-Arabic languages written with Arabic scripts) used to transliterate Wolof in Senegal.It results from the ...
Ngom, Fallou
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The Plot and Its Modifications in the Temporal and Generic “Space” [PDF]
Studia Litterarum, 2017 With the loss of mythological beliefs, traditional plots become decompensated by their new interpretations. For example, when a tribe borrows a plot from a neighboring tribe but does not share the beliefs of the authentic “bearers” of this folklore, we ...
Еlena S. Kotlyar
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Women's experiences of pregnancy, childbirth, and the postnatal period in the Gambia: A qualitative study [PDF]
, 2011 Objective: In sub-Saharan African countries, there are unique cultural factors and adverse physical conditions that contribute to women's experiences of pregnancy and birth.
Ayers, S. +5 more
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BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2022 Background Unplanned pregnancy is a public health issue that has detrimental implications for the mother and baby alike. However, few studies have been conducted in The Gambia on this subject.
Amadou Barrow +4 more
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Factors associated with pregnancy and STI among Aboriginal students in British Columbia. [PDF]
, 2009 BACKGROUND: Aboriginal adolescents are more likely to become pregnant and contract an STI than other Canadian adolescents. This study provides some of the first data on factors associated with these outcomes among Aboriginal adolescents.
Devries, Karen M +3 more
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Performing Baadinyaa: Music, Emotion, and Health in The Gambia
Voices, 2015 This medical ethnomusicological study examines musical performance in The Gambia as a socio-emotional intervention to promote health and wellbeing. Based on interviews and observations conducted during seventeen months of ethnographic research (2009 ...
Bonnie B. McConnell
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Women with infertility complying with and resisting polygyny : an explorative qualitative study in urban Gambia [PDF]
, 2019 Background. In many low-and middle-income countries women with infertility are often in polygynous marriages. From a human and women's rights perspective, the practice of polygyny is commonly understood as harmful.
Coene, Gily +3 more
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