Search results for "History of Africa"
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Análisis de la relación entre nuevas tecnologías y chino como segunda lengua: aplicaciones para teléfonos inteligentes y juegos
2017
Se ofrece un estudio sistemático y el análisis de la documentación más destacada y actual sobre la relación entre aprendizaje y enseñanza de una segunda lengua (L2), aplicada a la lengua china (CSL, chino como segunda lengua). Luego de repasar la trayectoria de los avances tecnológicos, en particular de las aplicaciones (apps) de telefonía celular y el diseño u oferta de juegos y simuladores para la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de CSL, se hace referencia a artículos e investigaciones especializados publicados en revistas internacionales, tanto sobre la lengua china como de lingüística y filología comparadas.
Kinyarwanda and Kirundi: On Colonial Divisions, Discourses of National Belonging, and Language Boundaries
2019
The development of the Bantu languages Kinyarwanda and Kirundi is entangled within the colonial histories of Rwanda and Burundi, first under German and then Belgian rule. From the turn of the twentieth century on, missionaries compiled grammars and dictionaries of the two mutually intelligible languages, contributing to the development and instrumentalisation of two prestigious varieties out of a larger dialect continuum. In this contribution, I trace the missionary and colonial activities of corpus planning and textualisation and summarise how Kinyarwanda and Kirundi turned into official languages with distinct linguistic boundaries. The central research question is how speakers of Kinyarw…
Introduction: Continuities, Dislocations and Transformations: 50 Years of Independence in Africa
2010
Many sub-Saharan African countries celebrated 50 years of political independence in 2010. This presented an opportunity for scholars, politicians and journalists, both within and outside of Africa, to take stock. The situation on the African continent has changed fundamentally since 1960. Brief general analyses and reviews can scarcely do justice to the complexity of this development process. The processes of consolidation, differentiation and transformation that have caused African societies today to become significantly more complex than they were at the time of independence are simply too multifaceted. Most of the journalistic attempts to take stock of these developments in recent years …
A “participação africana” num desporto olímpico: Lutas espaciais e questões de nacionalidade
2016
Cet article analyse les stratégies de reconnaissance d’une discipline olympique : le canoë de slalom. Il interroge en particulier les processus de diffusion de ce sport en Afrique en étudiant précisément sa place en tant que discipline au sein du mouvement olympique. Mais comment la diffusion d’un sport parmi les pays africains peut-elle cristalliser des enjeux nationaux ? Pour comprendre la complexité de cet objet, le remaniement des aires culturelles issues du joug des empires coloniaux est interrogé. Il s’agit d’inscrire les perceptions de la participation olympique dans les rivalités où elles s’inscrivent depuis les Indépendances. L’enquête restitue l’apport de la nationalité comme crit…
What characterizes Norwegian nursing students’ reflective journals during clinical placement in an African country?
2015
Abstract Introduction An increasing number of Norwegian nursing students take part in exchange programmes in African countries. Reflective journals are often used to enhance clinical placements learning outcomes. Aim To identify the features that characterized students' experiences reported in their reflective journals during clinical placements in an African country in light of cultural competence. Methods Qualitative text analysis of 350 reflective journals written by 197 students taking part in an exchange programme in one of three African countries. Results The reflective journals were characterized by the students' personal emotions, judgements of others and comparisons between what th…
Tourisme Sportif et Identités : Les pratiquants de canoë en Zambie
2013
Cet article repose sur une enquête sur les usages sociaux du canoë en Zambie. Il a pour objectif de décrire les caractéristiques des relations sociales qui se nouent entre étrangers et « populations locales ». Si l’organisation de l’activité recouvre une visée touristique pour nombre de pays africains, touristes et habitants entrent peu en interaction en dehors de la pratique des loisirs. Pour étudier l’identité, il s’agit de caractériser la genèse du tour en canoë afin de saisir l’émergence de modes d’appréhension de l’Autre dans le cadre du loisir en Zambie. La singularité des relations sociales entre populations occidentales et africaines pose la question de la différence culturelle, au …
Pacted transition to democracy : The case of Mozambique
2016
The findings of “third wave” studies on democratic transitions in Southern Europe and Latin America from the 1970s suggested that a democratic outcome is most likely when contending parties are relatively equal and elites make a pact to navigate the transition process. However, later studies of post-communist transitions do not support this inference. This paper analyses the transition process in Mozambique, a former “Afro-communist” regime, during the early 1990s. The findings show that – contrary to the conclusions drawn from the “third wave” studies – in Mozambique the pact concluded in the context of the peace accord of 1992, which ended a sixteenyear civil war, had contradictory result…
Antônio Etíope e Benedito, o mouro: o escravinho Santo e o preto eremita
2009
This article discusses the process of canonization of two African slaves, Benedict and Anthony, who were taken to Sicily through a combination of privacy wars, the slave trade and conflicts between Christian states and the Ottoman Empire in the context of modern-era Mediterranean. Along with other "servants of God" with exemplary lives, they both joined the Franciscan Order and were elevated to the altar after their deaths, while enslaved Christians in African territory "took the turban" with some even became local Muslim authorities. Sicily, a Spanish vice-kingdom near the northern African coast, was a cultural crossroad and for at the same time a privileged laboratory for the activity of …