Search results for " Nigeria"
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Early warning climate indices for malaria and meningitis in tropical ecological zones
2020
AbstractThis study aims at assessing the impacts of climate indices on the spatiotemporal distribution of malaria and meningitis in Nigeria. The primary focus of the research is to develop an Early Warning System (EWS) for assessing climate variability implications on malaria and meningitis spread in the study area. Both climate and health data were used in the study to determine the relationship between climate variability and the occurrence of malaria and meningitis. The assessment was based on variations in different ecological zones in Nigeria. Two specific sample locations were randomly selected in each ecological zone for the analysis. The climatic data used in this study are dekadal …
Prefazione al romanzo di Jumoke Verissimo, Memoria e desiderio
2021
A well established and renowned poet residing in Canada, Jumoke Verissimo debuted with her first novel, A Small Silence, in 2019. The Preface to the Italian edition elucidates how in Verissimo's fictional account of a dissident intellectual released from prison after the end of Abacha's dictatorship, and in his friendship with a young woman studying at the local University, we find a portrait of today's Nigeria trying to survive its post-independence, post-colonial, post-dictatorship era.
Lo scrittore e la capra
2011
Traduzione di un racconto dello scrittore nigeriano Chris Abani (titolo originale: The Writer and the Goat)
Durbi Takusheyi: a high-status burial site in the western Centralbilād al-sūdān
2012
Durbi Takusheyi is a burial site composed of at least eight mounds located between the modern towns of Katsina and Daura in northern Nigeria. Parts of the mounds were first excavated in 1907 by Herbert Richmond Palmer in cooperation with the Emir of Katsina and later again in 1992 in the course of a German research project under the lead of Dierk Lange, Bayreuth. After the 1992 excavation, the retained blocks were stored in the Jos Museum, Nigeria, for further analyses. In 2007 the Romisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum (RGZM) and the National Commission for Museums and Monuments in Nigeria (NCMM) started a project with the objective of completely restoring and analyzing the excavated artefacts…
Motherhood in the Context of Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation
2020
This book discusses motherhood of Nigerian and Romanian women in Italy and Romania, who are human trafficking victims for sexual purposes. It provides a broad gender approach to emerge on the phenomenon of human trafficking with an analytic perspective of all the social, cultural, legal and economic components that play an important role during all phases of motherhood. The book compares the motherhood of these two nationalities within a context of an illegal/legal status in the European territory. It reflects on the used terms of vulnerability, sexual exploitation, victim, resistance and resilience. This book enlightens scholars and students with a broad perspective on this complex phenome…
La letteratura nigeriana in lingua inglese
2020
La tradizione letteraria nigeriana, appropriatasi della lingua del colonizzatore, travalica i confini nazionali, nonché quelli dei cosiddetti studi postcoloniali, percorrendo temi che vanno dalla cosmogonia mitologica all’impatto coloniale, dall’indipendenza alle migrazioni contemporanee. Nonostante sia ampiamente tradotta, in Italia questa produzione letteraria, che pure si è affermata come una delle più ricche del mondo delle lettere in lingua inglese, non è mai stata sistematizzata all’interno di uno studio specifico che ne sottolinei l’aspetto nazionale insieme a quello transnazionale. Questo volume si propone di colmare questo vuoto, contestualizzandola storicamente e culturalmente, sp…
La terapia delle parole. Conversazione con Wole Soyinka
2012
Intervista con Wole Soyinka, Premio Nobel per la Letteratura (1986), riguardo la sua produzione teatrale e letteraria e l'attività politica
Prefazione a Migrations / Migrazioni
2016
Preface to the poetry collection Migrations/Migrazioni explaining the project, and poetry and photograph selection
Migrations: An Afro-Italian Nights of the Poets / Migrazioni: La notte dei poeti afro-italiana
2012
Poesie commissionate a 16 poeti italiani e 16 poeti nigeriani in occasione del Lagos Black Heritage Festival del 2012, tenutosi a Lagos, Nigeria, dedicato ai rapporti tra Africa e Italia. Tra i poeti nigeriani Soyinka, J.P. Clark, O. Ofeimun, C. Abani, J. Verissimo; tra i poeti italiani Dario Fo, Valerio Magrelli, Stefano Benni, Jolanda Insana, Gezim Hajdari, Ascanio Celestini.
Compagno di strada
2012
Introduzione alla figura e all'opera del primo Premio Nobel per la Letteratura africano, Wole Soyinka, autore prolifico e attivista nigeriano, e alla sua ricezione in Italia