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Verbal interjections and the making of Awillo Mike as a social representation of “lived lives and storied lives” in live music performance in Kenya 口头感叹词和制作Awillo Mike作为肯尼亚现场音乐表演中“真实生活和传奇生活”的社会代表

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Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-31 DOI: 10.4314/contjas.v8i2.2

E. Masese

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Collaboration between Chiefs and Local Government Actors in Combating Climate Change: Evidence from New Juaben, Ghana 酋长和地方政府行动者在应对气候变化方面的合作:来自加纳新华本的证据

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Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-31 DOI: 10.4314/contjas.v8i2.3

K. Boateng, R. Larbi

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A Sociological Perspective on Pidgin's Viability and Usefulness for Development in West Africa 从社会学角度看洋泾浜语对西非发展的可行性和有用性

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Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-31 DOI: 10.4314/contjas.v8i2.1

V. Time, Daniel K. Pryce

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George Padmore: Engaged Pan-African Activist and Theorist 乔治·帕德莫尔:泛非积极分子和理论家

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Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-31 DOI: 10.4314/contjas.v8i1.2

Rodney Worrell

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The policy or the person? A corpus-based functional analysis of manifestos of two political parties in Ghana 是政策还是人?基于语料库的加纳两党宣言功能分析

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Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-31 DOI: 10.4314/contjas.v8i2.5

Kwabena Sarfo Sarfo-Kantankah

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Raising the profile of siSwati as a national language* 提升西瓦地语作为国家语言的形象*

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Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-28 DOI: 10.1080/02589001.2021.2014423

G. B. Malambe, C. Harford

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Downstream to Kinshasa / film-documentary by Dieudonné Hamadi. Icarus Films: New York. 89 minutes / Colour. Swahili; Lingala / English subtitles. Release: 2021. Copyright: 2020 前往金沙萨的下游/ diudonn<e:1> Hamadi的电影纪录片。伊卡洛斯电影公司:纽约。89分钟/彩色。斯瓦希里语;林加拉语/英文字幕。版本:2021。版权:2020

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Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2021-11-11 DOI: 10.1080/02589001.2021.1985092

Arthur Mukenge

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EXCELGATE: how Zimbabwe’s 2018 Presidential election was stolen EXCELGATE:津巴布韦2018年总统选举是如何被窃取的

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Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2021-11-11 DOI: 10.1080/02589001.2021.1985093

Innocent Batsani-Ncube

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Between collaboration and conflict: patterns of interaction between labour and pro-democracy politics in post-colonial Eswatini, 1973–2014 合作与冲突之间:1973-2014年后殖民时期斯瓦蒂尼劳工与民主政治的互动模式

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Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2021-10-12 DOI: 10.1080/02589001.2021.1966398

Sifiso Hlandze

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Thirty years of Male Daughters, Female Husbands: revisiting Ifi Amadiume’s questions on gender, sex and political economy 三十年的男女儿，女丈夫:重新审视伊菲·阿玛迪姆关于性别、性和政治经济的问题

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Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/02589001.2021.1926442

Siphokazi Magadla, Babalwa Magoqwana, Nthabiseng Motsemme

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