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Bayesian Estimation of True Prevalence and Associated Risk Factors for Leptospira spp. Among Slaughterhouse Workers and Slaughtered Cattle in the Bahr El Ghazal Region of South Sudan [PDF]

Zoonoses and Public Health, Volume 73, Issue 3, Page 181-190, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Introduction Leptospirosis is a major but under‐reported zoonotic disease, and epidemiological data from South Sudan remain limited. This study estimated the true prevalence of Leptospira spp. exposure and identified associated risk factors among slaughterhouse workers and slaughtered cattle in Western Bahr El Ghazal. Methods A cross‐sectional
David Onafruo, Jörn Klein, Polychronis Kostoulas, Joseph Erume, Ikwap Kokas, Ambrose Jubara, Javier Sánchez Romano, Terence Odoch, Estella Kitale, Peter Marin, Esther Sabbath, Clovice Kankya   +11 more
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Cultural Threads: An Afrocentric Paradigm for Integrating Social Justice Principles in the Practice of Family Therapy in Africa [PDF]

Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, Volume 52, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT Family therapy has been slowly but steadily growing on the African continent. Considering Africa's rich yet complex economic, political, and sociocultural history, it is essential for family therapy practitioners to integrate social justice (SJ) principles into their research, training, and practice of family therapy.
Ronald Asiimwe, Doneila L. McIntosh, Rehema Gathumbi Nyambura, Rosco Kasujja   +3 more
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Cultural, economic, and settlement shifts over the last 9,000 years at Kakapel Rockshelter, Western Kenya. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
The spread of food production in sub-Saharan Africa involved multi-directional dispersals of domesticated plant and animal species, often associated with major migrations.
Steven T Goldstein, Natalie G Mueller, Emma Finestone, Elizabeth A Sawchuk, Sara Juengst, Anthony Odera Otwani, Jennifer M Miller, Michelle C Langley, Ricardo Fernandes, Axel Steinhof, Victor Iminjili, Christine Chepkorir, Anneke Janzen, Christine Ogola, Emmanuel Ndiema, Michael Petraglia, Nicole Boivin   +16 more
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History and genetic diversity of African sheep: Contrasting phenotypic and genomic diversity [PDF]

Animal Genetics, Volume 56, Issue 1, February 2025.
Abstract Domesticated sheep have adapted to contrasting and extreme environments and continue to play important roles in local community‐based economies throughout Africa. Here we review the Neolithic migrations of thin‐tailed sheep and the later introductions of fat‐tailed sheep into eastern Africa.
Anne Da Silva, Abulgasim Ahbara, Imen Baazaoui, Slim Ben Jemaa, Yinhong Cao, Elena Ciani, Edgar Farai Dzomba, Linda Evans, Elisha Gootwine, Olivier Hanotte, Laura Harris, Meng‐Hua Li, Salvatore Mastrangelo, Ayao Missohou, Annelin Molotsi, Farai C. Muchadeyi, Joram M. Mwacharo, Gaëlle Tallet, Pascal Vernus, Stephen J. G. Hall, Johannes A. Lenstra   +20 more
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Molecular and serological prevalence of Leptospira spp. among slaughtered cattle and associated risk factors in the Bahr El Ghazal region of South Sudan [PDF]

BMC Veterinary Research
Introduction Leptospirosis is a neglected emerging and zoonotic disease reported worldwide. This study sought to determine the molecular and serological prevalence of Leptospira spp.
David Onafruo, Jörn Klein, Joseph Erume, Clovice Kankya, Ambrose Jubara, Ikwap Kokas, Terence Odoch, Musso Munyeme, Lordrick Alinaitwe, Estella Kitale, Peter Marin, Esther Sabbath, Anou Dreyfus   +12 more
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Morpological stratification in Dinka

Studies in African Linguistics, 1992
Dinka is a Western Nilotic language with three contrastive degrees of vowel length, two contrastive voice qualities in vowels, and three contrastive tones. Although to a large extent a monosyllabic language, Dinka has an elaborate morphology.
Torben Andersen
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Genomic ancestry of North Africans supports back-to-Africa migrations. [PDF]

PLoS Genetics, 2012
North African populations are distinct from sub-Saharan Africans based on cultural, linguistic, and phenotypic attributes; however, the time and the extent of genetic divergence between populations north and south of the Sahara remain poorly understood ...
Brenna M Henn, Laura R Botigué, Simon Gravel, Wei Wang, Abra Brisbin, Jake K Byrnes, Karima Fadhlaoui-Zid, Pierre A Zalloua, Andres Moreno-Estrada, Jaume Bertranpetit, Carlos D Bustamante, David Comas   +11 more
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Investigating the voice quality dimension in Western Nilotic vowel harmony [PDF]

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1984
It has been suggested at least since 1936 (Tucker, 2nd International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Cambridge) that the vowel harmony system in Western Nilotic languages includes a dimension of voice quality contrast. X-ray studies of Dho-Luo and Ateso have shown that there are generally differences in the superalaryngeal regions (e.g., in tongue ...
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Population movement, settlement and the construction of society to the east of Lake Victoria in precolonial times: the western Kenyan case

Les Cahiers d’Afrique de l’Est, 2019
The communities’ in Nyanza and Western Kenya situated to the east of Lake Victoria have come from various directions to their present day settlements. They encompass two linguistic families the Bantu and the Nilotic. These communities came from different
Mildred A.J. Ndeda
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Cohort profile: a community‐based prospective cohort study of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Alzheimer's &Dementia: Behavior &Socioeconomics of Aging, Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2026.
Abstract INTRODUCTION The Étude du Vieillissement Cognitif et de Démence en République Démocratique du Congo (EVCD‐RDC) launched in 2024 to investigate socio‐environmental and biological determinants of dementia in Kinshasa. METHODS The study recruited 1000 adults aged ≥65 years across four diagnostic groups – cognitively unimpaired (CU), mild ...
Jean Ikanga, Caterina Obenauf, Saranya Sundaram Patel, Megan Schwinne, Guy Gikelekele, Emmanuel Epenge, Japhet Magolu Potshi, Topina Tomadia, Julie Kazadi, Immaculee Kavugho, Giovanni Luamba Santolini, Aristote Nkosi, Francine Manyonga Sabowa, Brenda Matungu Musewu, Elipsis Mawisa, Joseph Phuati Tsangu, Francis Muena Kondo Beya, Samuel Mampunza, Lelo Mananga, Justine Bukabau, Charlotte E. Teunissen, Thomas Karikari, Alden L. Gross, Julio C. Rojas, Alvaro Alonso   +24 more
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