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Background: Glucose-6-phosphate-dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency is the most frequent enzymopathy worldwide; it is a genetic disorder that affects red blood cells and causes hemolysis. Here, we conducted a study on G6PD-deficient subjects in Mauritania to
Mariem Taleb +6 more
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Este estudio tiene el objetivo de mostrar el interés heurístico de un enfoque que vincula el análisis de varios tipos de rituales (cotidianos o no) a partir del ejemplo soninké (Malí). Para alcanzar este objetivo se efectuó una aproximación antropológica
Élodie Razy
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Geographic variation of female genital mutilation and legal enforcement in sub-saharan Africa : a case study of Senegal [PDF]
This paper draws on household data to examine the prevalence of female genital mutilation (FGM) in Senegal and the effectiveness of the country's anti-FGM law in dealing with actual breaches and providing protection to the victims.
Kandala, Ngianga-Bakwin +1 more
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Moving Memories of Slavery among West African Migrants in Urban Contexts (Bamako, Paris)
“Moving memories of slavery” are those memories of internal African slavery that move with West African migrants to urban areas. Different types of mobility towards and within urban contexts can be considered as non-discursive, embodied forms of ‘memory ...
Lotte Pelckmans
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This article investigates how memories of migration are used to maintain the status boundary between people of freeborn and slave descent in the Gambia. Based on ethnographic and historical research among the Soninke communities of the Upper River Region,
Paolo Gaibazzi
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Les réfugiés de l’environnement
Environmental Refugees. A New Category of Forced Migrants ? . -- Beyond violence, persecutions and human rights violations which are usually the main causes of exodus, there is another important but not publicised cause of forced displacement related to ...
Patrick Gonin +1 more
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Traditional poetry in contemporary Senegal : A case study of Wolof kasak songs [PDF]
This essay examines the contextual frame in which Wolof kasak songs are performed, the system of values they convey, and the artistic quality embedded within this poetic genre. It goes on to examine the change of the form as well as the factors that have
Lo, Cheikh Tidiane
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Abstract This article reports on the findings of a research study which has approached language learning motivation (LLM) following Ushioda's (2009) person‐in‐context relational view of L2 motivation, Consoli's life capital (2021, 2022), Dweck's mindset (2017) and Dörnyei's vision system (2009).
Bianca Manuela Sandu +2 more
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Aloneness and the terms of detachment in West African migration
In this article, I examine practices of social detachment among West African migrants in urban Ghana. Faced with pressures arising from expectations of reciprocity, especially from kin back home, some migrants exert considerable efforts to break, if temporarily, with relations of mutual recognition and support, entering what I term migratory aloneness.
Michael Stasik
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Contributions à l'histoire du Sénégal [PDF]
Cet article analyse tout d'abord l'organisation sociale, économique et politique de l'Etat soninké du Gajaaga au début du 19eme siècle : agriculture, artisanat et commerce, aristocratie guerrière et familles islamisées, hiérarchie des groupes statutaires,
Chastanet, Monique
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