The thinking of these three figures, seen as the founding fathers of the Dakar School, continues to exert a degree of influence over the currents and tendencies found in contemporary African scholarship. Each of them constitutes a major intellectual pole, and their legacy has lost none of its ...
The women indicated to the men that they were women. The Europeans misunderstood and thought the women were referring to a geographic area; the subsequently used the word "Guinea" to describe coastal West Africa. The French claimed the coast of present-day Guinea in 1890 and named it French...
The North shore of the Gulf of Guinea forms the coastline of Liberia, the Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Dahomey, Nigeria, and the Cameroons (Fig. 1). The westernmost point of the coastal region to be discussed here is Cape Palmas (long 8° W) on the border between Liberia and the ...
3.Hybridising Medicine: Illness Healing and the Dynamics of Reciprocal Exchange on the Upper Guinea Coast (West Africa) 机译:杂种医学:上几内亚海岸(西非)的疾病康复和相互交换的动力学 作者:Philip J. Havik 期刊名称:《Medical History》|2016年第2期 ...
Debout et al 1979): the Upper-Guinean domain (comprising forests of West Africa), the Lower-Guinean domain (the Atlantic Central Africa, from Nigeria to Congo) and the Con- golian domain (comprising the whole Congo basin until the Albertine Rift in the East of the Democratic Congo Republic...
Bernhard Hagen's 1899 Unter den Papua's: Beobachtungen und Studien über Land und Leute, Thier- und Pflanzenwelt in Kaiser-Wilhelmsland is one of many pre-1914 memoirs and scientific works focusing on the German protectorate and later colony of German New Guinea. A recurring theme in many of...
c) the Hong Kong Museum of Art and the Hong Kong Museum of History have also loaned a number of artifacts for display at the Hong Kong Maritime Museum. legco.gov.hk c) 香港藝術館和香港歷史博物館也借出 不少文物,在 香港海事博物館展出。 legco.gov.hk The "known dangerous dogs" category...
a former French federation in W Africa, including Dahomey (now Benin), French Guinea, French Sudan (now Mali), Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, and Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso). Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997...
A significant portion of the population is bilingual and often competent in several indigenous languages as well as English. Those in the regions bordering Ivory Coast and Guinea are often conversational in French. The English spoken in most common, informal settings is "Liberian English," a ...
regulates the currency. The members that use the West African CFA France consist of the West African Economic and Monetary Union and include Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal, and Togo. Together, these countries have aspending powerthat exceeds over 78 billio...