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Mali: how bad can it get? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
From dusk till late evening, you can find small groups of young people sitting on street corners, in front of houses, or in courtyards across West Africa. There will inevitably be a little radio, playing music and broadcasting news.
Lecocq, Baz, Mann, Gregory
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Decolonization and the politics of display: A case study from the National Museum of Qatar

open access: yesMuseum Anthropology, Volume 48, Issue 2, Fall 2025.
Abstract The exhibition “On the Move: Reframing Nomadic Pastoralism” was the flagship exhibition organized by the National Museum of Qatar for the World Cup 2022 period. The exhibition aimed to contextualize the nomadic past of Qatar within a broader, global cultural frame, as well as to create an ethnographic exhibition that would be appealing to a ...
Alexandra Bounia
wiley   +1 more source

Climate Change, Migration, and Conflict in Northwest Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Examines how climate change affects the number of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa traveling through Nigeria, Niger, Algeria, and Morocco; increased security risks in the region; how these factors exacerbate one another; and intercontinental ...
Laura Conley, Michael Werz
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The Origins of Africa's Upper Mantle Discontinuities

open access: yesGeochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Volume 26, Issue 7, July 2025.
Abstract Enigmatic discontinuities in the upper mantle beneath Africa, such as the mid‐lithosphere and X‐discontinuities, have prompted various theories regarding their causes. However, most studies rely on S‐to‐P receiver functions, raising concerns about resolution.
Jean‐Joel Legre, Tolulope Olugboji
wiley   +1 more source

À propos d’une géométrie vernaculaire : pratiques d’orientation en pays touareg

open access: yesAfriques, 2011
What practical knowledge do the Tuareg, who have neither maps nor compasses, develop to orient and mentally situate themselves in space? This know-how is no different from what we use everyday. Our day-by-day spatial orientation has little to do with the
Dominique Casajus
doaj   +1 more source

Reorganization of Northern Peri-Gondwanan Terranes at Cambrian–Ordovician Times: Insights from the Detrital Zircon Record of the Ossa-Morena Zone (SW Iberian Massif)

open access: yesLithosphere, 2022
The Ossa-Morena Zone constitutes a fringe Gondwana-related terrane all along the Paleozoic. This continental block has been classically interpreted as being attached to a portion of the northern Gondwanan margin located close to the West African Craton ...
Cristina Accotto   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Time poetics and ageing in the Ik mountains: seeing time disappear Poétique du temps et vieillissement dans les montagnes des Iks : voir le temps disparaître

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue S1, Page 73-90, April 2025.
In the Ik mountains in Uganda, only few old people still have the skills to ‘see time’ with sundials. Common ways of knowing time and age now include phones and ID cards in digital registers. I follow the elder seer Komol to explore how changing the measures of time influences the experience of time and age. How do being a ‘time being’ and ideas about ‘
Lotte Meinert
wiley   +1 more source

Tourism and gender identities in Agadez, Niger

open access: yesVia@, 2017
The Agadez region, Niger, experienced an important tourism development between the 1970’s and 1990’s. Then, it was suddendly interrupted by the two successive Tuareg rebellions and the spread of islamist threat.
Ouassa Tiekoura
doaj   +1 more source

Request for Review of the GSP Status of the Republic of Niger for Violations of Worker Rights [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The ILRF submitted this petition to request a review of the Republic of Niger’s designation as a least-developed beneficiary developing country under the Trade Act of 1974, Generalized System of Preferences (GSP).
International Labor Rights Forum
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Still here: age and generational time Encore là : âge et temps générationnel

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue S1, Page 145-160, April 2025.
The passage of generational time may be one of the most fundamental ways of experiencing ageing; we age in relation to others with whom our lives are intertwined – by becoming a grandmother or losing a father. Those of the oldest generation weaken and pass away, but in that process, they persist – for a while – with the younger generations.
Susan Reynolds Whyte
wiley   +1 more source

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