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Mansa Koli Bojang, the Last King of Kombo and his British Ally: Loyalty meets Neutrality

open access: yesStichproben, 2020
This article reconstructs the pre-colonial intercultural encounter between the warrior-class of the Soninké and the first British settlement in West Africa situated at the mouth of the River Gambia. By framing the vast topic with the diplomatic endeavour
Sebastian Forst
doaj   +1 more source

Diet during pregnancy: Influence of social characteristics and migration in the ELFE cohort

open access: yesMaternal &Child Nutrition, Volume 17, Issue 3, July 2021., 2021
Abstract Better adherence to dietary guidelines during pregnancy is supposed to result in healthier perinatal outcomes. We aim to characterize the diets of pregnant women by hypothesis‐driven and exploratory approaches and describe potential social determinants. Analyses included 12 048 mothers from the French nationwide ELFE birth cohort.
Manik Kadawathagedara   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Predicting the Consumption of Iron-Rich Foods During Pregnancy in Senegal: A Path Analysis. [PDF]

open access: yesMatern Child Nutr
Pathways between psychosocial (attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control (PBC)), environment, the intention and the behavior with standardized estimates for the structural equation model among pregnant women (n = 426): Direct measurements of constructs.
Sonia B   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Cyclical history in the Gambia/Casamance borderlands:Refuge, settlement and Islam from c.1880 to the present [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

Of meat and ritual: Consumptive and religious uses of pangolins in Mali

open access: yes, 2022
African Journal of Ecology, Volume 60, Issue 2, Page 184-192, June 2022.
Daniel J. Ingram   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Les crises de subsistances dans les villages soninké du cercle de Bakel de 1858 à 1945 : problèmes méthodologiques et perspectives de recherches [PDF]

open access: yes, 1982
M. Chastanet - Subsistence Crises in the Soninke Villages of Bakel District, 1858-I945- Problems of Method and Research Prospects. This paper offers a method for the analysis of subsistence crises in Black Africa during the colonial period.
Chastanet, Monique
core   +1 more source

Les Mandé-Dioula et l’islamisation de la Côte d’Ivoire méridionale (fin XIXèmesiècle-1970) [PDF]

open access: yesZiglôbitha
Résumé : Les Mandé-Dioula forment un vaste ensemble de peuples d’ascendance bambara, malinké et soninké. Traditionnellement commerçants, ils animent la vie économique des régions du sud forestier de l’actuelle Côte d’Ivoire.
Amon Jean-Paul ASSI
doaj   +1 more source

Numeral systems in Mande languages

open access: yesMandenkan, 2020
In the paper, eight Mande counting systems (Modern and Old Bamana, Boko, Dzuungoo, Mwan, Dan-Gwɛɛtaa, San-Maka, Soninke) are analyzed in detail, followed by the presentation of a summary table for 30 languages representing all the groups of the Mande ...
Elena Perekhvalskaya, Valentin Vydrin
doaj   +1 more source

Ajami scripts in the Senegalese speech community [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

Viabilità relazionale: una prospettiva im/mobile delle relazioni nel Gambia transnazionale

open access: yesEtnoAntropologia
While anthropologists have long studied how mobility and immobility shape social relationships, this article describes relatedness itself as a form of im/mobility.
Paolo Gaibazzi
doaj   +3 more sources

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