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Keeping culture clean: ‘nested redistribution’ as a path to moral redemption in Kampala (Uganda) 保持文化清洁：坎帕拉（乌干达）的“嵌套再分配”道德救赎之路

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Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-19 DOI: 10.1080/02589001.2023.2175800

Anna Baral

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Understanding the 2021 eSwatini school protests: theoretical reflections of an educator 理解2021斯威士兰学校抗议活动：一位教育家的理论思考

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Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-08 DOI: 10.1080/02589001.2022.2160076

N. Motsa

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The middle class and suburbia: desegregation towards non-racialism in South Africa? 中产阶级和郊区:南非废除种族隔离走向非种族主义?

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Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/02589001.2022.2083589

R. Southall

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African middle classness, politics and protest: on the context of this issue 非洲中产阶级，政治和抗议:关于这个问题的背景

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Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/02589001.2023.2199248

Antje Daniel, H. Melber, F. Stoll

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Playing for oman Ghana: Women’s Football and Gendered Nationalism 为阿曼加纳踢球:女足和性别民族主义

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Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-30 DOI: 10.4314/contjas.v9i2.1

Anima Adjepong

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Verb-Noun Collocations In Newspaper Editorials In Ghana: A Corpus-Based Analysis 加纳报纸社论中的动名词搭配:基于语料库的分析

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Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-30 DOI: 10.4314/contjas.v9i2.4

M. Quarcoo, Hamidu Alhassan, A. Addae

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Knowledge, activism and institutions for Africa’s transformation: Key strands in Takyiwaa Manuh’s feminist scholarship 非洲转型的知识、行动主义和制度:塔基瓦·马努女权主义研究的主要内容

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Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-30 DOI: 10.4314/contjas.v9i2.2

C. Pereira

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The cultural adaptation of quantity judgment tasks in Ghanaian English and Akan 加纳英语和阿坎语数量判断任务的文化适应

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Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-30 DOI: 10.4314/contjas.v9i2.5

S. Mohr, D. Agyepong

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Satisfaction With The Status Quo: Why has Religious Terrorism not yet Gained Ground In Chad? 对现状的满意:为什么宗教恐怖主义还没有在乍得生根?

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Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-30 DOI: 10.4314/contjas.v9i2.6

H. Dickow

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Delineating The Image Of Woman Through Akan And Dàgàrà Proverbial Expressions 通过Akan和Dàgàrà谚语表达描绘女性形象

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Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-30 DOI: 10.4314/contjas.v9i2.3

Martin Kyiileyang, Bliss Acheampong

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