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“I Gats to Belong”: Decolonial Moments and the Politics of Belonging in Nollywood Campus Films "我渴望归属诺莱坞校园电影中的非殖民时刻和归属政治

IF 1 2区社会学

Journal of African Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/13696815.2023.2237910

Omotola Okunlola

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There Was a Campus: Nostalgia, Memory and the Formation of University of Nigeria “Campus Kids” Online Communities 曾经有一个校园怀旧、记忆与尼日利亚大学 "校园儿童 "网络社区的形成

IF 1 2区社会学

Journal of African Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/13696815.2023.2237929

L. Egbunike

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“Shot-putting” and Other Dirty Secrets: Nigerian Students’ Everyday Struggles "射击 "和其他肮脏的秘密：尼日利亚学生的日常奋斗

IF 1 2区社会学

Journal of African Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/13696815.2023.2237926

Kolawole Charles Omotayo

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The Ethnography of Surrogate Speech in a Foreign Language: The Case of the Timpani Drum Language among the Dagomba of Ghana 外语代孕言语的民族志研究——以加纳达贡巴人的提姆帕尼鼓语为例

IF 1 2区社会学

Journal of African Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/13696815.2023.2186379

Fusheini Angulu Hudu

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Yeset Lij’s Tribute to the Praxis of Collective Mothering: Childhood in Derg’s Ethiopia Yeset Lij对集体母亲实践的致敬：Derg埃塞俄比亚的童年

IF 1 2区社会学

Journal of African Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/13696815.2023.2186378

Serawit B. Debele

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The World around the Mother as a Gift in African Folktales and Fountain of Radical Joy 非洲民间故事中母亲周围的世界作为礼物和激进快乐的源泉

IF 1 2区社会学

Journal of African Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/13696815.2023.2186381

D. Dipio

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Pentecostal Christianity and Traditional Religion in Nigerian Video Films by Edo-Language Filmmakers 尼日利亚视频电影中的五旬节基督教与传统宗教

IF 1 2区社会学

Journal of African Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/13696815.2023.2200923

Edorodion Agbon Osa

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Kutuma Salamu on Public Service Radio and the Performance of Popular Culture: Voice of Kenya from the 1960s to the 1980s 公共服务电台的库图玛·萨拉姆与大众文化的表现：20世纪60年代至80年代的肯尼亚之声

IF 1 2区社会学

Journal of African Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/13696815.2023.2201419

Maureen Amimo, S. Waliaula

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Desiring Queer Motherhood and Mothering Ourselves 渴望酷儿母亲和我们自己的母亲

IF 1 2区社会学

Journal of African Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/13696815.2023.2186380

S. Dankwa

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Rethinking Motherhood through Afrofeminism: Reading Jennifer Makumbi's The First Woman 通过非洲女权主义重新思考母性:阅读詹妮弗·马昆比的《第一个女人》

IF 1 2区社会学

Journal of African Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/13696815.2023.2186376

Dina Ligaga

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