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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"African cultures"”.
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Tango Mulatto: The Untold Afro-Argentine History of Tango, 1800s-1900s
… identity that rejected nonwhite and particularly African cultures. Tango is likely a synthesis of candombe, a dance developed from the African nations in the River Plate region and from milonga which stemmed from the payada traditions of the gauchos. However, because of the insistence on erasing …
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Exploring the role of family on the career development of Xhosa-speaking graduates
… on family. The Xhosa culture, like other African cultures, endorses cultural values of deference and strong familial connections with extended family. Data from fourteen semi-structured in-depth interviews were analysed using thematic analysis. The key themes that emerged were (1) cultural …
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Translating and interpreting South Africa’s cultures: art, song and dance in Mda’s selected novels
… the translation and interpretation of South African cultures through art, song, and dance in Zakes Mda's following novels: Ways of Dying (1995), She Plays with the Darkness (1995), The Heart of Redness (2000), and The Sculptors of Mapungubwe (2013). The study employs post-colonial theories …
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"""This Country Is Worth the Trouble of Going to War to Keep It"": Cultures of Violence in the American Southeast to 1740"
… of the narrative, and focuses on the various cultures of violence that collided with one another in the Southeast. The peoples of the Southeast interpreted and deployed violence in a variety of ways. Prolonged contact and conflict between cultures changed cultures of violence for everyone …
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Constructing equality: developing an intersectionality analysis to achieve equality rights for the girl child subject to South African customary law
… cultural diversity that is a feature of South African society. The Constitution nevertheless, encourages such diversity, and goes even further to give equal recognition to the coexisting systems of common and customary law that are rooted in Western and post-colonial African cultures, …
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Teaching and Learning about Diverse Cultures in Africa
… third grade teachers are teaching about diverse cultures in Africa, and how students in Upstate New York have learned about these diverse cultures. The study was conducted in two phases. Phase One included lesson activities taught to a classroom of fourth grade students. Phase Two included seven …
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The transformative journey of Ukuthwasa: Exploring the process of Ukuthwasa and its impact on the lives, identities and careers of young women
Ukuthwasa is a profound journey rooted in African cultures and represents a deeply rooted cultural and spiritual practice for people called to be traditional healers. This ethnographic study explored the experiences of young women who have undergone ukuthwasa and how they navigate their ancestral …
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The transformative journey of ukuthwasa: Exploring the process of ukuthwasa and its impact on the lives, identities and careers of young women
Ukuthwasa is a profound journey rooted in African cultures and represents a deeply rooted cultural and spiritual practice for people called to be traditional healers. This ethnographic study explored the experiences of young women who have undergone ukuthwasa and how they navigate their ancestral …
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Christian virtue in a West African context : a study of the interaction and synthesis of the methodist and Fanti moral traditions as a model for the contextualisation of Christian Ethics
… traditions they encountered in the different cultures where the Christian faith was established. This study focuses on the interaction of the Methodist moral tradition with that of the Fanti people of Ghana. The argument begins with the contention that morality in African cultures may be …
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Hieroglyphic, Oral, and Performative: (Re)Evaluating Resistance to Colonialism in the Works of Melville
… for their unique depictions of Polynesian and African cultures. In this paper I focus on the depictions of oral and performative literacy by those African and Polynesia cultures in three key texts by Melville—Typee (1846), Moby-Dick (1851), and “Benito Cereno” (1855). By focusing on his …
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Tero Buro: Feature film script
… and public consumption of creative work wherein African queerness is liberally expressed is rarely explored from the perspective of the African queer creative. This paper examines how South African queer creatives interpret and understand the often-tumultuous reception that exhibitions of …
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África seja aqui: as casas do Benin, Angola e Nigéria na cidade do Salvador e suas representações de culturas africanas
The present research investigates the three African Cultural Houses constituted in the historical center of the city of Salvador, one being public – Benin Cultural House (1988), managed by the Gregorio de Mattos City Hall Cultural Foundation - and two private ones - Angola Cultural House (1999) and …
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Ankh, Ujda, Seneb (Life, Strength, Health): “Let Food Be Thy Medicine,” An Epistemic Examination on the Genealogy of the Africana Holistic Health Tradition, with Preliminary Considerations in the City of Philadelphia, 1967 to the Present
… transmission of knowledge evident in African expressions of culture, these olden naturalistic health techniques, throughout time, have continuously been used as therapeutic modalities by posterior African cultures—both continental and Diasporic. Due to its tripartite approach to …
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Regional Economic Communities in Africa as a Conflict Mitigation Mechanism: The Case of the Economic Community of West African States
<p>The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is the regional institution mandated to develop economic and political integration between its 15 member states. ECOWAS expanded its mandate in the 1990s to include conflict prevention and mitigation. The Council of the Wise, a group of …
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Anthropomorphism and social issues in selected Namibian children’s literature
… and secondary sources on the Namibian and African cultures. The study is qualitative literary research and employed thematic analysis of the selected short stories. From the analysis, it was revealed that social issues such as discrimination, environmental destruction, crime, corruption, …
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Le discours cinématographique dans Afrique Je te plumerai de Téno et Guelwaar de Sembene: histoire, symbolisme, négritude et panafricanisme
… stemming from Western cinematic depiction of the African cultures have exacerbated the issue of Western hegemony over African countries. The first representations of Africa were of the exotic genre and failed to portray the socio-political history and culture of the indigenous people. Much of …
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Agro-pastoral Landuse Transformation: Implications and Perspectives in the Northwest Region of Cameroon
… food insecurity, disruption of indigenous African cultures, poverty, unemployment, gender related issues, farmer-herder conflicts, inter-tribal wars, malnutrition, water and hunger related crises, and human displacement for survival. These negative implications threaten rural livelihood and …
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Women's experiences and coping strategies towards domestic violence: Analysis of cases from female survivors in Windhoek, Namibia
… violence occurs. It was found that pervasive cultures of male dominance and patriarchy were the structural cause of domestic violence, as the power vested in men by societal tradition influenced them to physically abuse their partners. Most African cultures prohibit women from ‘back-chatting’ …
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The Meaning of Grief after Perinatal Loss to Nigerian Women
… the lives of families all over the world. In all cultures it is recognized as a traumatic life event to women and their families. In its broadest definition, perinatal loss is a loss of pregnancy or a baby from conception to six weeks post-delivery. This includes miscarriage, intrauterine fetal …
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A missional approach to the traditional social associations of the NSO’ people of Cameroon
This research deals with Christian missions and African cultures. It focuses on the traditional social associations of the Nso’ people of Cameroon. The main problem the research addresses is that missionaries who came to Nso’ mostly imposed their culture on the Nso’ and by extension Africa in the …
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