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(2015, p. 465), “African ruling coalitions are surprisingly large and that political power is allocated proportionally to population shares across ethnic groups,” then individual leaders’ effects might actually be more modest than previously identified in the literature. The findings herein add to...
Due to the lack of Ebola outbreak early warning alert, preparedness, surveillance and response systems, the most deadly, complex and largest ever seen Ebola war has been devastating West African communities. The unparalleled Ebola tsunami has prompted interrogations into, and uncertainties about, the ...
Unlike other ethnic groups, say Jews or Armenians, who have built communal solidarity in the wake of oppression at the hands of others, many African ethnic groups remain fragmented to this day because of the insidious nature of slavery. I asked Wantchekon whether his approach to West African ...
Mohammed Haj Ibrahim, director-general of the Department of Asian and African Affairs under the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that China has made constructive contributions to the fight against terrorism and extremism. International cooperation on counter-terrorism should be strengthened, ...
These differences in the Nigerian groups also indicate that the stratification of this component follows an ethnic pattern and not a geographical organization, in opposition to what was observed for the female component. In fact, when expanding the analyses to other African populations, and in ...
The use of immature seeds as vegetable was not reported in Benin conversely to what is observed in Eastern African countries and other parts of the world [37,38,39]. Besides home consumption, commercialization was the second major purpose for growing pigeonpea in all the surveyed villages. ...
Liberia forms part of the West African Shield, a rock formation 2.7 to 3.4 billion years old, composed of granite, schist, and gneiss. In Liberia the shield has been intensely folded and faulted and is interspersed with iron-bearing formations known as itabirites. Along the coast lie beds ...
Guinea-Bissau’s population is dominated by more than 20 African ethnicities, including the Balante, one of the largest ethnic groups in the country, the numerous Fulani and their many subgroups, the Diola, the Nalu, the Bijagó, the Landuma, the Papel (Pepel), and the Malinke. There is...
Malinke, a West African people occupying parts of Guinea, Ivory Coast, Mali, Senegal, The Gambia, and Guinea-Bissau. They speak a Mandekan language of the Mande branch of the Niger-Congo family. The Malinke are divided into numerous independent groups do