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Estratégias de sobrevivência Songhay-Zarma (Níger): trajectórias económicas de uma outra modernidade
Este ensaio procura resgatar a importância das estratégias de sobrevivência das sociedades rurais Songhay-Zarma na actual configuração da economia nigerina.
Paula Morgado
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A Morphological Borrowing from Central Gur into Songhay
Despite the considerable attention devoted over recent decades to contact influence on Songhay, the possible role of its Central Gur neighbours to the south has yet to be seriously explored. This paper argues that the relatively rare Songhay verbal noun suffix * -ímì, commonly attributed since Greenberg (1963) to Nilo-Saharan on the basis of rather ...
Souag, Lameen, Eddyshaw, David
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In search of cues discriminating West-african accents in French [PDF]
International audienceThis study investigates to what extent West-African French accents can be distinguished, based on recordings made in Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Mali and Senegal.
Boula De Mareüil, Philippe +2 more
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Gathering: a survival occupation in arid zones in Mali [PDF]
Dans les régions sahariennes et sahéliennes, les récentes sécheresses ont creusé davantage le déficit chronique en céréales, aliments de base indispensables à la survie des populations.
Diarra, A.
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A typology of denominal verb formation strategies
Abstract This article aims to fill a gap in the typological literature by discussing the typology of overt denominal verb formation strategies, that is, morphosyntactic strategies other than conversion/zero‐derivation that are used to derive a verb from a nominal base.
Simone Mattiola, Andrea Sansò
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West Africans throughout the region have creatively adapted the Arabic script to write non-Arabic languages, a form of literacy known as Ajami which remains widespread today despite little or no government support.
Souag, Lameen
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Archaic and innovative Islamic prayer names around the Sahara [PDF]
International audienceBerber in the Sahara and southern Morocco, and several West African languages including Soninké, Mandinka, and Songhay, all refer to the five Islamic daily prayers using terms not derived from their usual Arabic names, and showing ...
Souag, Lameen
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Le maraîchage : révélateur du dynamisme des campagnes sahélo-soudaniennes
By appearing at the end of the small-irrigation development programs wich were initiated at the beginning of the 80s by the governments of Niger and Ivory Coast, the expansion of market gardening in the Songhay and Senufo areas seems to have been ...
Stéphane Bastin, Audrey Fromageot
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Speech is My Hammer, It\u27s Time to Build: Hip Hop, Cultural Semiosis and the Africana Intellectual Heritage [PDF]
The article examines Hip Hop music\u27s relationship with African cultural symbolism and the discipline of Africana Studies. The author maintains that Africana Studies must reclaim the study of cultural semiosis, which may be used to contextualize Hip ...
Livingston, Samuel T.
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Montee et abandon des collines d’occupation de l’age de fer au nord du Burkina Faso [PDF]
Au nord du Burkina Faso aucune autre époque culturelle, à l'exception des temps modernes, n'a laissé autant de traces sur une aussi grande surface que l’Age de Fer.
Albert, Klaus-Dieter +3 more
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