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Homecomings: Mythologies of the (M) Otherland in Three Novels by André Brink
2004
International audience
Cartographies génériques, spatiales et identitaires en Afrique du Sud : Margie Orford, Lauren Beukes, Henrietta Rose-Innes
2015
This article examines how three South African novelists, Margie Orford, Lauren Beukes and Henrietta Rose-Innes, use crime fiction to write their country. After a brief survey of the rapid development of crime fiction in South Africa and of the critical response it received, the article proposes a reading of Like Clockwork, Zoo City and Nineveh, whereby their respective contribution to crime fiction displays three major features : first, Orford’s novel chimes in with generic conventions ; second, Beukes’s novel combines features borrowed from both crime fiction and science fiction ; and last, Rose-Innes’s novel displaces the detective story narrative into a context where « murder » is invest…
Para uma cooperação da escuta e do movimento: Estudo intercultural sobre a percepção dos ritmos tradicionais do Xangô (Olinda, PE)
2010
Combining musical cognition and ethnomusicological approaches, this article seeks to verify if the capacity of recognizing and actually doing the appropriate beat of musical rhythms after listening to musical excerpts is influenced by the movements of the body. We would like to show to what extent variables like "musical competence" ("musicians" and "non-musicians") and "cultural origin" ("Brazilians" and "French") do influence such capacity. We try to answer these questions by applying an experimental protocol designed for that end. The musical rhythms used in the experiment are drawn from the musical and religious traditions of the xangô african-brazilian cult, as they are practiced in Ol…
Approche de deux théories sur l’origine des conflits et démocratie au regard de la sapientielle africaine
2020
National audience
Les enfants abandonnés en Afrique subsaharienne : hors des normes familiales
2022
Être un enfant sans famille en Afrique constitue une situation paradoxale qui vient bousculer les représentations véhiculées autour de l'inclusion de tout enfant dans un ensemble élargi. Cet ensemble est une enveloppe familiale tellement conséquente du point de vue de sa dimension humaine qu'il ne peut être pensé, qu'un enfant même abandonné par ses géniteurs ne puisse trouver des bras accueillants dans les quatre coins de l'étendue familiale. La réalité de l'existence d'enfants abandonnés vient contredire ce tableau social fortement désirable et laisse émerger des interrogations sur les dynamiques actuelles de la famille africaine.
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…
Political and sociodemographic challenges of child malnutrition in African Sahelian countries and Corn of Africa
2017
Continuous food and nutrition insecurity that affect lives of 155 millions of children in the world including about 59 million in African countries mostly in the Sahel and horn of Africa represent a critical public health and underdevelopment problem which creates a deep worldwide collective moral issue within the new global transformative agenda for the universal prosperity (no one is left behind) and child rights for survival, development and protection.Under five child malnutrition characterized by stunting, underweight or wasting increase the risk of child morbidity and mortality, handicap readiness of learning and professional skills and impact on economic development of the country re…
Reproduction behaviors : permanencies and changes : for a contextual and dynamic approach of the fertility
2015
Current levels of African fertility are, for most observers, the expression of a continuation of traditional values of ancestral essence. For those observers, the traditional values continue to determine reproductive behavior, despite the economic, political and social changes. Based on the case of the Republic of Congo, dynamic and contextual analysis of these behaviors, reveal that these are rather clear break from the current level of fertility; they suggest significant unmet need for birth control. It is possible that a Malthusian reflex develops gradually, which does not exclude the need for children, contrary to some theories. These behaviors are characterized by profound changes resu…
From abugida to alphabet in Konso, Ethiopia
2019
Abstract This study examines the interplay between phonological awareness and orthography in Konso, a Cushitic language in Southwest Ethiopia. Thirty-two adults reading the Konso abugida but with minimal exposure to alphabetic literacy completed an orally administered phoneme deletion task. The responses were then examined using the minimal edit distance hypothesis (Wali, Sproat, Padakannaya & Bhuvaneshwari, 2009) as a framework for the analysis. The results suggest that the difficulty of a deletion was related to the way the phoneme was represented in the Konso abugida. Content-based error analysis of the incorrect responses gave indications of how Konso abugida readers’ processing of …