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A Genetic Perspective on African Prehistory [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The various genetic systems (mitochondrial DNA, the Y chromosome and the genome-wide autosomes) indicate that Africa is the most genetically diverse continent in the world and the most likely place of origin for anatomically modern humans. However, where
Pereira, Luísa   +3 more
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Anthropometric characteristics of female smallholder farmers of Uganda – Toward design of labor-saving tools

open access: yesApplied Ergonomics, 2016
Sub-Saharan African women on small-acreage farms carry a disproportionately higher labor burden, which is one of the main reasons they are unable to produce for both home and the market and realize higher incomes.
Dana J. Mugisa   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Intervening fish post‐harvest losses to narrow the gap between demand and supply: A review on magnitude of fish post‐harvest losses in some Sub‐Saharan African countries

open access: yesAquaculture, 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
wiley   +1 more source

Mündü language and culture: the current state of research [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The article outlines the ethnography and the socio-linguistic situation of the Mündü with focus on the sociolinguistic situation and on the endangerment of their language.
Pasch, Helma
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Building Text and Speech Benchmark Datasets and Models for Low‐Resourced East African Languages: Experiences and Lessons

open access: yesApplied 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
wiley   +1 more source

Affix Not Clitic‐Based Vowel Shortening in Modern Arabic Varieties

open access: yesTransactions 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
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating Crafted Landscape

open access: yes
Religious Studies Review, Volume 51, Issue 2, Page 393-396, June 2025.
Nomi Schneck
wiley   +1 more source

'Stalking the stalker': a Chwezi initiation into spirit possession and experiential structure [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Among Sukuma (Tanzania) the Chwezi spirit society operates in the shadow of, and in tension with, the lineage cults domesticating the dead. As this ethnography describes, Chwezi candidates are initiated into spirit possession by 'stalking the stalker ...
Stroeken, Koenraad
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Case report: Amputation for a puff adder (Bitis arietans) envenomation in a child - 1954

open access: yesSouth 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
doaj  

Revolutionary Mahdism and resistance to early colonial rule in Northern Nigeria and Niger [PDF]

open access: yes, 1979
African Studies Seminar series. Paper presented May, 1979In early 1906 the French, Germans and British faced a series of challenges to their continued subjugation of the Sokoto Caliphate.
Hogendorn, J. S., Lovejoy, Paul E.
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