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The Committee and the Uncommitted: Material Assistance to Members in Need at a Pentecostal Church in Western Kenya 委员会和未委身者:向肯尼亚西部一个五旬节教会有需要的成员提供物质援助
Africa Today Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.15495/EPUB_UBT_00005888
Y. Gez, L. Kroeker
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On Tradition, Symbolism, and (South) Afrikanness in Fashion Design: A Conversation with Laduma Ngxokolo 论服装设计中的传统、象征与（南非）非裔性——与拉杜玛·恩克索科洛的对话
Africa Today Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.2979/africatoday.69.1_2.12
Bruce Cadle
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Entangled Paths through Different Times: Refugees in and from the African Horn 不同时代的纠缠路径:非洲之角的难民
Africa Today Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.2979/africatoday.69.1_2.04
Magnus Treiber
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A Different Class of Refugee: University Scholarships and Developmentalism in Late 1960s Africa 不同的难民阶层:60年代末非洲的大学奖学金与发展主义
Africa Today Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.2979/africatoday.69.1_2.07
Marcia C. Schenck
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Kakuma Refugee Camp: Pseudopermanence in Permanent Transience Kakuma难民营：永久过渡中的伪永久性
Africa Today Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.2979/africatoday.69.1_2.08
Gerawork Teferra
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引用次数: 1
Intra-Salafi Power Struggles: Politicization of Purity and Fragmentation of Authority in Ghana 萨拉菲内部的权力斗争：加纳纯粹的政治化和权力的碎片化
Africa Today Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.2979/at.2022.a857191
Y. Dumbe
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Conceptualizing the After-Crisis through Ethnographies of Postcrisis Situations in Africa 通过非洲危机后情况的民族志概念化危机后
Africa Today Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.2979/africatoday.68.4.01
Maarten Bedert, A. Bochow, Rijk van Dijk
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A Crisis after the Crisis: Postconflict Stigmatization of Boko Haram’s Sexual-Violence Victims in Northeastern Nigeria 一场又一场危机：尼日利亚东北部博科圣地性暴力受害者冲突后的耻辱
Africa Today Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.2979/africatoday.68.4.03
Medinat Abdulazeez Malefakis
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The Crisis Multiple: Divergent Experiences of Disruption and Continuity among HIV (Self-)Support Groups in Northeastern Tanzania 危机多重:坦桑尼亚东北部艾滋病毒(自我)支持团体的中断和连续性的不同经验
Africa Today Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.2979/africatoday.68.4.04
D. Mattes
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Darfur Peacekeepers: The African Union Peacekeeping Mission in Darfur (AMIS) from the Perspective of a Hungarian Military Advisor by János Besenyő (review) 达尔富尔维和人员:从匈牙利军事顾问的角度看非洲联盟驻达尔富尔维和特派团(非盟特派团)作者:János
Africa Today Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.2979/at.2022.a857194
Nina Käsehage
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