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Lexikos at eighteen: an analysis [PDF]
, 2009 At eighteen, Lexikos became a major player in the field of linguistics, by being awarded an Impact Factor. This article presents a double analysis of the foundation that led to this success. On the one hand a thorough statistical study is undertaken with
de Schryver, Gilles-Maurice
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Speaking Their Language: Language Inclusion and YouTube Agricultural Content Engagement in Africa
THE ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, Volume 92, Issue 2, March 2026.ABSTRACT Efficiently educating farmers in effective agricultural practices is critical in resource‐limited developing countries. YouTube, with its broad accessibility and built‐in viewership tracking, presents a potential scalable platform for agricultural education.
N. Peter Reeves +6 more
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Past and Presentism: the "pre-colonial" and the foreshortening of African history [PDF]
, 2011 This article considers the marginalization of precolonial history from mainstream Africanist scholarship in recent decades, and argues that this can be understood in the context of a scholarly culture that attributes an exaggerated significance to the ...
Anderson +10 more
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Applying Anthropology to Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 195-205, March 2026.ABSTRACT In this article, we review how anthropologies from various subdisciplines, from social to evolutionary anthropology, are contributing to our understanding of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C). We focus on four key questions: What are the origins of FGM/C? What functions and meanings are linked to FGM/C?
Hannelore Van Bavel, Mhairi A. Gibson
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Devouring the Invaders: The Racial‐Ecological Politics of the Chinese Crayfish Trade in Kenya
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 183-194, March 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines entanglements of ecology, race, and foodways at Lake Naivasha in Kenya. Nonnative Louisiana red swamp crayfish (Procambarus clarkii), first introduced to Kenya in the 1960s, were once viewed as invasive but are now sought after as a delicacy among Kenya's Chinese community.
Amanda Kaminsky
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Educational Publishing in African Languages, With a Focus on Swahili in Kenya
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2002 This paper argues the case for more educational publications in Swahili as a good medium educational and national development. It acknowledges that education is not only a capital investment in the development of human resources but it also immensely ...
Nathan Oyori Ogechi, Emily Bosire-Ogechi
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On how 'middle' plus 'associative/reciprocal' became 'passive' in the Bantu A70 languages [PDF]
, 2010 In this paper we show that the Bantu A70 languages did not preserve the passive morpheme inherited from Proto-Bantu (PB), but developed a new suffix. It is a morpheme that is compound in origin, consisting of two verbal derivation suffixes which still ...
Bostoen, Koen, Nzang-Bie, Yolande
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No Difference in Face Scanning Patterns Between Monolingual and Bilingual Infants at 5 Months of Age
Developmental Science, Volume 29, Issue 2, March 2026.ABSTRACT It has been suggested that bilinguals take greater advantage of visual speech cues than monolinguals. Therefore, in a sample of 474 (47.3% females) monolingual and 101 (48.5% females) bilingual infants at 5 months of age, we examined the tendency to look at the eyes versus the mouth of dynamic faces, as well as the latency and ratio of looking
Charlotte Viktorsson +1 more
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Swahili lexicography in Poland: its history and immediate future
Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2012 The interest in Swahili lexicography at the University of Warsaw has a long tradition and was initiated by the first lecturer of Swahili – prof. Rajmund Ohly.
Beata Wójtowicz, Piotr Bański
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Maternal &Child Nutrition, Volume 22, Issue 1, March 2026.ABSTRACT Commercially processed complementary foods (CPCFs) are consumed in Kenya, but little is known about caregiver perceptions and reasons for their consumption. We explored caregiver perceptions, motivations and reasons for purchasing CPCFs. This cross‐sectional mixed‐methods study was conducted in Nairobi among caregivers of children aged 6–23 ...
Antonina N. Mutoro +5 more
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