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Grossesse, contraception, avortement, accouchement en Afrique de l'Ouest [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
Gruénais, Marc-Eric   +2 more
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The Mali and Songhay Empires

2021
Abstract This chapter situates the Songhay Empire (ca. 1464–1591) within a wider framework of African state formation, highlighting the importance of symbolic authority to the projections of power by Songhay rulers. The Songhay Empire was one of a series of early (medieval and early modern) commercially oriented polities that arose in ...
exaly   +2 more sources

sound in Songhay cultural experience

American Ethnologist, 1984
This paper considers the “inner” dimension of sound in Songhay cultural experience. For the Songhay of the Republic of Niger, sound is a dimension of experience separate from the domains of human, animal, and plant life. They believe that sounds carry forces that can penetrate an object.
Paul Stoller
exaly   +2 more sources

Sunni ‘Alī and the Reinvention of Songhay

2019
This chapter studies the onset of Songhay, which was in fact a reemergence, in that it recentered the ancient town of Gao, capital of the novel experiment. Inheriting the mantle of Mali, Songhay would undertake important innovations in meeting the demands of international commerce, ethnic diversity, and Islam's expansion.
exaly   +2 more sources

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