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IN THE SHADE OF HAILSTONES: Life‐Forming Realities among the Luo of Kano, Kenya
Cultural Anthropology, Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 323-347, August 2024.ABSTRACT In the area of Kano in western Kenya, Luo rice farmers perform a ritual of “digging” indigenous medicine (chwoyo yath) in the rice fields to “arrest” hailstones. The practice is not only rationalized in the image of regulating the spate of climate–accelerated hailstones but also of forming life, expressed through the state of how that life is ...
KENNEDY OPANDE +1 more
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Basin Research, Volume 36, Issue 4, July–August 2024.Spatiotemporal evolution of the Nile delta during the Pliocene‐Quaternary. This study provide the first well record of the 100 s‐m‐thick Plio‐Quaternary deep Levant Basin section. This paper shows that Sand–shale ratio inferred from Gamma Ray logs illustrates changes in terrigenous supply into the Levant basin.
Ido Sirota +2 more
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Aquaculture, Fish and Fisheries, Volume 4, Issue 2, April 2024.In SSA, the values of fisheries are estimated at 24 billion USD, 1.26% of the GDP of all African countries and 6% of agriculture GDP. Fish post‐harvest losses amounts an economic losses of 2‐5 billion USD in SSA countries. Abstract This review was aimed to summarize the extent and causes of fish post‐harvest losses (FPHLs) in Sub‐Saharan African (SSA ...
Alemu Lema Abelti, Tilahun A. Teka
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Applied AI Letters, Volume 5, Issue 2, April 2024.This paper discusses the process taken to create, curate and annotate text and speech corpus for low‐resourced languages in East Africa. ABSTRACT Africa has over 2000 languages; however, those languages are not well represented in the existing natural language processing ecosystem.
Joyce Nakatumba‐Nabende +10 more
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Affix Not Clitic‐Based Vowel Shortening in Modern Arabic Varieties
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 122, Issue 1, Page 1-20, March 2024.Abstract Word formation in most languages is inextricably linked to a distinction between clitics and affixes. Although famous for its templatic morphological structure, Arabic also contains concatenative formatives some of whose status as clitics or affixes is controversial.
Emily Lindsay‐Smith
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KronosThe decolonial departure point of this article is that every human being is born into a valid and legitimate knowledge system. This means that African people had their own valid and legitimate indigenous systems of education prior to colonisation ...
Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
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Religious Studies Review, Volume 51, Issue 2, Page 393-396, June 2025.
Nomi Schneck
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Case report: Amputation for a puff adder (Bitis arietans) envenomation in a child - 1954
South Sudan Medical Journal, 2014 Diaries spanning three decades (1943-1964) have been discovered that tell the story of the life of missionary nurses, doctors and surgeons working at the Lui and Leer Hospitals in South Sudan (then known as Southern Sudan).
Charles T West +2 more
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Voicing the Voiceless: Developing a Dholuo Parallel Corpus for Natural Language Processing
Journal of Linguistics, Literary and Communication StudiesDespite the exponential growth of Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies worldwide, African indigenous languages remain severely underrepresented in digital language resources.
Quin Elizabeth Awuor
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Reviews in the Issue 40 (2006)
Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2006 Graham Furniss, Malami Buba, William Burgess, Bibliography of Hausa Popular Fiction (1987-2002), Köln, Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2004, 179 pp. (Stanislaw Pilaszewicz) 67 Marteen Kossmann, Berber Loanwords in Hausa, “Berber Studies”, 13, Köln, Rüdiger ...
Stanisław Piłaszewicz +2 more
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