Results 11 to 20 of about 6,888 (189)

Cultural Threads: An Afrocentric Paradigm for Integrating Social Justice Principles in the Practice of Family Therapy in Africa. [PDF]

J Marital Fam Ther
ABSTRACT Family therapy has been slowly but steadily growing on the African continent. Considering Africa's rich yet complex economic, political, and sociocultural history, it is essential for family therapy practitioners to integrate social justice (SJ) principles into their research, training, and practice of family therapy.
Asiimwe R, McIntosh DL, Nyambura RG, Kasujja R.   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Entwined economies of violence: understanding borderland conflict and resource politics in northern Kenya. [PDF]

Disasters
Abstract This article explores longstanding conflict between Turkana and Pokot pastoralist communities in northern Kenya, close to the country's border with Uganda. Conflict in this region has consistently defied interventions by both governments and development organisations.
Rogei DS.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Cephalometric Characteristics of Various Ethnic Groups in Tanzania. [PDF]

Int J Dent
Objective: The aim of this study is to investigate the craniofacial skeletal profile features of the Tanzanian population with normal occlusion using lateral skull cephalograms, to determine the differences in craniofacial characteristics among various Tanzanian ethnic groups, and to compare the cephalometric norms of Caucasians with those of ...
Hamad AK, Machibya FM, Mlangwa MM, Ngassapa DN.   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

History and genetic diversity of African sheep: Contrasting phenotypic and genomic diversity. [PDF]

Anim Genet
Abstract Domesticated sheep have adapted to contrasting and extreme environments and continue to play important roles in local community‐based economies throughout Africa. Here we review the Neolithic migrations of thin‐tailed sheep and the later introductions of fat‐tailed sheep into eastern Africa.
Da Silva A, Ahbara A, Baazaoui I, Jemaa SB, Cao Y, Ciani E, Dzomba EF, Evans L, Gootwine E, Hanotte O, Harris L, Li MH, Mastrangelo S, Missohou A, Molotsi A, Muchadeyi FC, Mwacharo JM, Tallet G, Vernus P, Hall SJG, Lenstra JA.   +20 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Jumjum phonology

Studies in African Linguistics, 2004
This article describes the basic aspects of the phonology of Jumjum, a littleknown Western Nilotic language. The treatment includes syllable structure and word shapes, vowels and vowel harmony, consonants and consonant assimilation, and tones and tonal ...
Torben Andersen
doaj   +3 more sources

Vowel harmony and vowel alternation in Mayak

Studies in African Linguistics, 1999
Like several other Western Nilotic languages, the Mayak variety of Northern Burun has two sets of vowels distinguished by the feature [ATR], the [-ATR] vowels [I, E, a, i, u] and the [+ATR] vowels [i, e, A, 0, u].
Torben Andersen
doaj   +3 more sources

Inflectional classes in Kipsigis

Glossa, 2022
In this paper, I provide a description and analysis of conjugation classes in Kipsigis (Nilotic; Kenya). While traditional descriptions discuss two conjugation classes, I show that the morphophonological properties of Class II can be reduced to the ...
Maria Kouneli
doaj   +2 more sources

The divine kingship of the Shilluk: on violence, utopia and the human condition, or, elements for an archaeology of sovereignty [PDF]

, 2011
Since Frazer's time, Shilluk kingship has been a flashpoint of anthropological debates about the nature of sovereignty, and while such debates are now considered irrelevant to current debates on the subject, they need not be.
Graeber, David
core   +1 more source

The Genetic Structure and History of Africans and African Americans. [PDF]

, 2009
Africa is the source of all modern humans, but characterization of genetic variation and of relationships among populations across the continent has been enigmatic. We studied 121 African populations, four African American populations, and 60 non-African
A. A. Awomoyi, A. Froment, A. Ranciaro, A. T. Juma, Batini, Behar, Bereir, C. Ehret, C. Wambebe, Campbell, Cann, Cerny, Chen, Coia, Destro-Bisol, F. A. Reed, F. R. Friedlaender, Forster, Forster, Friedlaender, G. Lema, G. S. Pretorius, H. Mortensen, Hassan, J. B. Hirbo, J. H. Moore, J. L. Weber, J.-M. Bodo, Jakobsson, K. Powell, Li, Lind, M. A. Thera, M. Ibrahim, M. J. Kotze, M. W. Smith, O. Doumbo, Parra, Parra, Patin, Patterson, Pritchard, Pritchard, Reed, Reynolds, Rosenberg, Rosenberg, Rosenberg, S. A. Omar, S. A. Tishkoff, S. M. Williams, Salas, Scozzari, Semino, Sirugo, Smith, T. B. Nyambo, Tishkoff, Tishkoff, Verdu, Wang, Wood   +61 more
core   +1 more source

From 3ptl-to passive : incipient, emergent and established passives [PDF]

, 2010
This paper explores, in some detail, the development of third person plural impersonal constructions into passive ones with the aim of determining the conditions most conducive to the emergence of a canonical passive, i.e.
Siewierska, Anna
core   +1 more source