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Molecular Characterization of Erythrocyte Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency in Different Ethnic Groups of Blood Donors in Mauritania

open access: yesFrontiers in Bioscience-Scholar, 2023
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
doaj   +1 more source

El ritual a partir de los actos cotidianos en la niñez (soninké, Mali). Cuestiones y posibles aportes

open access: yesRevista de El Colegio de San Luis, 2019
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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Geographic variation of female genital mutilation and legal enforcement in sub-saharan Africa : a case study of Senegal [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
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)

open access: yesRevue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, 2013
“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
doaj   +1 more source

Diaspora without Homeland: Slave Descendants and the Cultural Politics of Ancestry in the Upper Gambia River Valley

open access: yesRevue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, 2013
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
doaj   +1 more source

Les réfugiés de l’environnement

open access: yesRevue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, 2002
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
doaj   +1 more source

Traditional poetry in contemporary Senegal : A case study of Wolof kasak songs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
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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Thriving Through Motivational Intelligence: An Intervention Programme Based on Life Capital, Mindset and Vision

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, Volume 59, Issue 4, Page 2093-2118, December 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Aloneness and the terms of detachment in West African migration

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 699-716, September 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Contributions à l'histoire du Sénégal [PDF]

open access: yes, 1987
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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