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What drives West African Diaspora students to success?
… the first and second-generation diaspora of West Africa and also examined if there were differences between the two generations. The goal was that if such differences exist, it will help plan the learning experience for students with similar backgrounds. The research used in-depth, open-ended …
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Evaluation of the West African Diet of Plant Origin
… of this study was to evaluate three indigenous West African foods--peanuts, black-eyed peas, and egusi seed—as protein supplements when added to the basic West African diet of plant origin. The protein supplements were chosen because they met the criteria of economy, availability. and …
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Feminizing the West African diaspora in France: 1974-2005
… in order to explore what it meant to be African, black and female in France, a country where citizenship has long been premised on an abstract model that is understood as white and male and in which the French are implicitly viewed as culturally superior to their former colonial subjects. …
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Characterisation of badnavirus sequences in West African yams (Dioscorea spp.)
… sequences are also integrated in the genomes of West African yam breeding lines. DNAs were extracted from Nigerian yam leaf samples (177 breeding lines, 78 landraces), using an optimised CTAB-extraction method and then screened using degenerate badnavirus-specific PCR primers targeting a 579 bp …
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SOUNDS POWERFUL West African Islamic Considerations in African American Song
… to literary discussions. It examines aspects of African American music from a West African and Islamic perspective. The introduction explains how Jungian analytical psychology is adopted as a primary research methodology. In the first chapter, Islamic elements are identified in African American …
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A systems analysis of pastoralism in the West African Sahel.
Thesis. 1975. Sc.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Civil Engineering.
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STEWARDSHIP IN WEST AFRICAN VODUN: A CASE STUDY OF OUIDAH, BENIN
… migration of pre-colonial religious canon to the Western Hemisphere has garnered ample study; however, the pioneering religion, Vodun, has received far less scholastic attention, despite Benin’s recognition of Vodun as a national religion. In this thesis, I contend that the Fon exemplify a society …
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STEWARDSHIP IN WEST AFRICAN VODUN: A CASE STUDY OF OUIDAH, BENIN
… migration of pre-colonial religious canon to the Western Hemisphere has garnered ample study; however, the pioneering religion, Vodun, has received far less scholastic attention, despite Benin’s recognition of Vodun as a national religion. In this thesis, I contend that the Fon exemplify a society …
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Inflation and economic growth relationship in the West African Monetary Zone
… interest to policymakers and researchers. In the West African Monetary Zone, the attainment of low inflation rate is considered as one of the convergence criteria for the successful implementation of monetary union in the zone. Although there has been empirical evidence that the relationship …
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Mediating identity through orality in West African films adapted from literature
… oral tradition forms as secondary orality in West African Films. The study aims to show that filmmakers mediate orality as an aesthetic source. The goal is to examine the value of the oral narrative on the screen. To study the oral qualities of the literature in the audio-visual primarily …
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Simulating the Dynamics and Influences of the West African Westerly Jet
The West African westerly jet (WAWJ) is a key rainfall producing system over West Africa. While past studies have examined the dynamics of the WAWJ and its influences on Sahelian rainfall, there is no information on how well the jet is simulated by contemporary climate models. This thesis examines …
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Moist zonally-symmetric models and their applications to West African monsoons
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 1997.
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Alternative life history strategies in the West African reed frog, Hyperolius nitidulus
Distinct juvenile behaviour differences, changes in adult sizes and reproductive capacity and a long reproductive period triggered the working hypothesis of two alternative life-cycle strategies favouring aestivation or immediate reproduction. The hypothesis for the life-cycles of Hyperolius …
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Nutrient Cycling in Microdose Fertilized West African Soils Under Indigenous Vegetable Production
… local amaranth (Amaranthus cruentus (AC)) and African eggplant (Solanum macrocarpon (SM)). A combination of chemical and spectroscopic techniques was employed in field and phytotron studies. In the field studies, farm fields from both sites were cultivated with AC and SM, the soils were treated …
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The West African Monetary Union: the economics of a dependent monetary system
The West African Monetary Union is one of the rare examples of complete monetary integration in the world today. It is a unique kind of monetary union because the reason for its creation is not to facilitate existing trading and financial relations between its members;
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The Union Government's treatment of the South-West African Mandate (1920-1944)
… depend mainly on the Ufficial Gazettes for south-West Africa, and the Official Year ..t,ooks for the I.Inion of Sou th Afr 1 ca. (ii) 1n writing this thesis r have a.ssumed that t.ne reader nas some slight kflowledge of t.he actual working of the mandates system, .its aims and achievements. · . • …
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A metallurgical study of West African iron monies from Cameroon and Liberia
… thesis is to make a contribution to the study of West African iron monies through examination and analysis of a group of these objects in the collection of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University. The selection of objects from the collection includes five distinct …
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The effects of paleoclimate on the distributions of some North West African Lizards.
… was applied to species occurrence data on northwest African lizards from Morocco, with corresponding environmental data. The aim was to identify how intraspecific divergence might be related to historical climatic events. Species distribution models (SDMs) were used to quantify a species niche …
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