scholarly journals The Economic Origins of 20th Century Decolonisation in West Africa

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes W. Fedderke ◽  
Nicola Viegi ◽  
Julius Agbor
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
20Th Century

Language Change and Movement as Seen by Historical Linguistics

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek Nurse
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Language Change ◽  
Historical Linguistics ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
Comparative Linguistics ◽  
Language Boundaries ◽  
Over Time

The focus of this chapter is on how languages move and change over time and space. The perceptions of historical linguists have been shaped by what they were observing. During the flowering of comparative linguistics, from the late 19th into the 20th century, the dominant view was that in earlier times when people moved, their languages moved with them, often over long distances, sometimes fast, and that language change was largely internal. That changed in the second half of the 20th century. We now recognize that in recent centuries and millennia, most movements of communities and individuals have been local and shorter. Constant contact between communities resulted in features flowing across language boundaries, especially in crowded and long-settled locations such as most of Central and West Africa. Although communities did mix and people did cross borders, it became clear that language and linguistic features could also move without communities moving.

scholarly journals COVID-19 in missiological and historical perspective

2020 ◽  
pp. 009182962097238
Author(s):  
Robert A Danielson ◽  
Benjamin L Hartley ◽  
James R Krabill
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Influenza Pandemic ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Christian Mission ◽  
Christian Endeavor ◽  
Christian Leaders

COVID-19 is affecting Christian mission in many different ways. Doubtless it is inspiring some people to initiate new mission efforts, while in other contexts it is causing thriving mission to change radically or cease altogether. In this forum article, three missiologists write essays about how mission was affected during the influenza pandemic of 1918–1919, the event most frequently compared to COVID-19 for its similarly worldwide scope. James Krabill’s essay describes how the earlier influenza pandemic led to renewed spiritual vigor in Nigeria and the establishment of several new denominations in West Africa, which remain influential today. Robert Danielson’s essay examines how a ministry to sailors in the early 20th century, known as the Floating Christian Endeavor, was negatively impacted by the influenza pandemic. This article concludes with Benjamin Hartley’s story of how the life of John R Mott, perhaps the most famous world Christian statesman in 1918, was also affected by the influenza’s scourge. These historical essays provide both inspiration and consolation for contemporary mission initiatives as missiologists and other Christian leaders seek to respond to the crises of their own day.

Changes in seasonal descriptors of precipitation in Burkina Faso associated with late 20th century drought and recovery in West Africa

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 96-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiganadaba Lodoun ◽  
Alessandra Giannini ◽  
Pierre Sibiry Traoré ◽  
Léopold Somé ◽  
Moussa Sanon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Burkina Faso ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Late 20Th Century

scholarly journals Beginning of the end of Onchocerciasis in the Americas

2013 ◽  
pp. 132-133
Author(s):  
Gloria Ines Palma ◽  
Sofía Duque Bernal ◽  
Ruben Santiago Nicholls
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Onchocerca Volvulus ◽  
Parasitic Disease ◽  
Black Flies ◽  
River Blindness ◽  
Vector Borne ◽  
Single Focus ◽  
Transmission Foci

Onchocerciasis, also known as River Blindness, is a parasitic disease caused by the nematode Onchocerca volvulus and transmitted by black flies of the genus Simulium. It is endemic in Africa, where an estimated 37 million people are infected. It is almost certain that the slave trade in the 17th and 18th centuries brought onchocerciasis from West Africa to the Americas (1), where transmission foci where established in six countries: Mexico, Guatemala, Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador and Colombia. Since the beginning of the 20th century it was suspected that this vector borne disease was present in Colombia but the first confirmed case was not reported until 1965. The exact location of the single focus in the country was confirmed almost thirty years later in the locality of Naicioná, on the stream that bears the same name

scholarly journals Did the ancient Egyptians migrate to ancient Nigeria?

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jock M. Agai
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Ancient Egypt ◽  
West African ◽  
Samuel Johnson ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
African History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject

Literatures concerning the history of West African peoples published from 1900 to 1970 debate�the possible migrations of the Egyptians into West Africa. Writers like Samuel Johnson and�Lucas Olumide believe that the ancient Egyptians penetrated through ancient Nigeria but Leo�Frobenius and Geoffrey Parrinder frowned at this opinion. Using the works of these early�20th century writers of West African history together with a Yoruba legend which teaches�about the origin of their earliest ancestor(s), this researcher investigates the theories that the�ancient Egyptians had contact with the ancient Nigerians and particularly with the Yorubas.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: There is an existing ideology�amongst the Yorubas and other writers of Yoruba history that the original ancestors of�the Yorubas originated in ancient Egypt hence there was migration between Egypt and�Yorubaland. This researcher contends that even if there was migration between Egypt and�Nigeria, such migration did not take place during the predynastic and dynastic period as�speculated by some scholars. The subject is open for further research.

scholarly journals Spatial variability of rainfall regions in West Africa during the 20th century

2008 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zéphirin Yepdo Djomou ◽  
David Monkam ◽  
André Lenouo
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Spatial Variability ◽  
20Th Century

scholarly journals THE EVOLUTION OF ARABIC LOANWORDS IN THE LANGUAGES OF EAST AND WEST AFRICA

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 12-18
Author(s):  
Nelli V. Gromova ◽  
◽  
Yulia G. Suetina ◽  
Aida R. Fattakhova ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
West Africa ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
Semantic Relations ◽  
Semantic Structure ◽  
African Languages ◽  
The Past ◽  
Part Of Speech

The article deals with the evolution of words borrowed from the Arabic language in two major African languages – Swahili and Hausa, from the mid-20th century to the present day. We used S. Baldi’s dictionary A First Ethnolinguistic Comparison of Arabic Loanwords Common to Hausa and Swahili as a basis for comparative analysis. The analysis allowed us to identify the peculiarities of the functioning of Arabic loanwords in the Swahili and Hausa languages at the contemporary stage of their development. These are code-switching at the phonological level, lexical and semantic variations of linguistic borrowings introduction (semantic broadening or narrowing, acquisition of a new meaning different from the original one), grammar transformation (change of the part of speech, derivational activity). When adapting Arabic loanwords, the Swahili and Hausa languages adhere to certain strategies, which are generally common to both languages. The paper is mainly focused on the study of the lexical and semantic relations between the prototype and the correlative borrowing in the modern Swahili and Hausa languages, the identification of changes in the original semantic structure of a word in the recipient language or its conservation with the motivational feature being preserved. There are distinguished thematic groups of Arabic loanwords, with words related to religion and trade constituting the largest groups in number. Many Arabic loanwords have disappeared from active use in the past 70 years, especially in the Hausa language that has a lesser period of contacts with the Arabic language.

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