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- Bjarnesen, Jesper
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Social Branding in Urban Burkina Faso
- 2014
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of African Studies. - 1235-4481 .- 1459-9465. ; 23:2, s. 83-99
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the past decade Diaspo youths – second generation immigrants in Côte d’Ivoire who were forced to migrate to their parents’ country of origin, Burkina Faso, during the Ivorian civil war– have become a visible presence in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso’s second largest city. By consciously displaying their Ivorian origins, they have provoked both the admiration and resentment of local youths, whose ambivalence towards the outspoken and colourful newcomers stems from Côte d’Ivoire’s central role as a destination for Burkinabé labour migrants since the colonial period. Regardless of this animosity, Diaspo youth culture has made its mark on the city.This paper explores the response of Diaspo youths to their social stigmatisation and argues that their claims to recognition and access may be understood as a process of social branding. It may be seen as a self-aware performance of otherness, intended to evoke a collective identity that is mediated through a specific set of aesthetics to a well-defined audience.
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- Bloom Ström, Eva-Marie, 1967
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The word order in Swahili adnominal constructions with locative demonstratives
- 2015
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of African Studies. - 1235-4481 .- 1459-9465. ; 24:2, s. 118-145
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper analyses the demonstratives of noun classes 16–18, the locative demonstratives, in Swahili. The main focus of the paper is the word order of these demonstratives in adnominal constructions. Corpus research presented in this study shows that the locative demonstratives precede the locative noun that they determine much more frequently than follow, contrary to what is claimed in the literature. In this paper I will demonstrate that the locative demonstrative following the locative noun is the marked word order and I hypothesize that this is the natural focus position of the locative demonstrative. The demonstrative is consequently defocused in the position preceding the noun. This defocus gives a reduction of the demonstrative function in favour of a more prepositional one. It is suggested that this is an on-going grammaticalization process. The article starts with an overview of the form, meaning, function and grammatical distribution of the locative demonstratives, as the information on these specific demonstratives is often sketchy in descriptions of Swahili.
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- Kilje, Bim
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"Making it Bit by Bit, then You Rise"? : Social Mobility and Vocational Training as Moral Education in Urban Sierra Leone
- 2023
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of African Studies. - : Nordic Africa Research Network. - 1235-4481 .- 1459-9465. ; 32:2, s. 109-129
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study investigates the experiences of those learning tailoring and trading in urban Sierra Leone, examining why they engage in training, what is basically taught, and the training outcomes. It includes ethnographic fieldwork on vocational training schools and apprenticeships in workplaces, and also investigates less articulated on-the-job learning processes, which have been little studied in previous research. I find that learners undertake their training with the primary aim of achieving social mobility; however, neither of these forms of training generally leads to a sufficient and reliable enough income to realize this aim to the desired extent, due to the lack of remunerated employment opportunities and the fact that access to paid work is largely contingent on an individual’s pre-existing social and economic capital. Instead, I suggest, the different forms of training serve more fundamentally as a form of moral education. I argue that they help to develop certain personal moral traits and to alleviate society’s concerns about ‘immoral’ idle youth.
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- Käihkö, Ilmari
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On Liberian secret societies and conflict resolution
- 2019
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of African Studies. - 1235-4481 .- 1459-9465. ; 28:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Recent times have witnessed a rising interest in micro-level conflict resolution mechanisms in the form of religious and traditional leaders due to their perceived legitimacy central to peace. Based on 15 months of ethnographic fieldwork, this article updates the decades old literature on Liberian secret societies to post-conflict realities, focusing especially on these leaders’ peacebuilding potential. While states remain the main instrument for upholding domestic order, the weak Liberian state continues to rely on societies for legitimacy in conflict resolution and governance alike. The article offers a contemporary look at the Liberian societies, and especially their uneasy relationship with the state: the two are so entwined that it is difficult to separate the two. Yet this also poses problems for the societies, as the proximity threatens their ultimately local legitimacy. While peacemakers and statebuilders alike are tempted to co-opt societies to gain legitimacy, the article questions whether this is always desirable or possible.
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- Petzell, Malin, 1972, et al.
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Grammatical and Lexical Comparison of the Greater Ruvu Bantu Languages
- 2013
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of African Studies. - 1235-4481 .- 1459-9465. ; 22:3, s. 129-157
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article discusses lexical and grammatical comparison and sub-grouping in a set of closely related Bantu language varieties in the Morogoro region, Tanzania. The Greater Ruvu Bantu language varieties include Kagulu [G12], Zigua [G31], Kwere [G32], Zalamo [G33], Nguu [G34], Luguru [G35], Kami [G36] and Kutu [G37]. The comparison is based on 27 morphophonological and morphosyntactic parameters, a lexicon of 500 items and the speakers’ self-assessment of linguistic similarity. In order to determine the relationships and boundaries between the varieties, grammatical phenomena constitute a valuable complement to counting the number of identical words or cognates. We have used automated cognate judgment methods, as well as manual cognate judgments based on older sources, in order to compare lexical data. Finally, we have included speaker attitudes (i.e. self- assessment) in an attempt to map whether the languages that are perceived by speakers as being linguistically similar really are closely related.
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- Rodéhn, Cecilia, 1977-
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Displaying Anglophile Whiteness : A Case-Study of a South African Exhibition
- 2011
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of African Studies. - 1235-4481 .- 1459-9465. ; 20:4, s. 276-299
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- After the fall of apartheid, white South African heritage came to acquire negative connotations, mostly because of the role that white, especially Afrikaner heritage, played during apartheid. This was mostly due to the fact that for black South Africans, whites and whiteness was regarded as homogenous, with few exceptions. Afrikaner heritage has been subject to considerable research and self-criticism, but anglophile heritage has been overlooked. I seek to make a contribution in that regard by exploring the shifting attitude to anglophile whiteness as exemplified in the exhibition The History Hall at the KwaZulu-Natal Museum (Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa). The research will pair large scale heritage negotiations with local ones, and will explore how anglophile whiteness was constructed in the museum as well as how it has changed. The research is based on qualitative methodology, and draws on participant observation and qualitative interviews, visual analysis, and archive materials.
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- Trovalla, Ulrika, 1972-, et al.
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Movement as Mediation : Envisioning a Divided Nigerian City
- 2014
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of African Studies. - Helsinki : Nordic Association of African Studies. - 1235-4481 .- 1459-9465. ; 23:2, s. 66-82
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Since its establishment in the beginning of the twentieth century, the inhabitants of the ethnically and religiously diverse Nigerian city of Jos have inhabited very different places and travelled along opposite trails – patterns that in recent years, with an escalation of violence, have gained new dimensions. By bringing people’s movements into focus, this article highlights how movement comes in different ways to mediate between people and a city in flux. Brought to light is how movement in several different modalities – fast, slow, in total arrest; clothed in Christian or Muslim attires; by car, on foot, or on horseback; assertive or explorative, in triumph as well as in fear – by mediating between people and the city, brings forth a metaphysical landscape that otherwise is hard to get hold of. In this vein, movement as a medium has become a form of ‘social envisioning’ – a tool for understanding and foretelling the city.
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- Trovalla, Ulrika, 1972-
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The Necessity of Suspicion : Treading with Caution through a Nigerian Medical Landscape
- 2022
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of African Studies. - : Nordic Africa Research Network. - 1235-4481 .- 1459-9465. ; 31:3, s. 187-206
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Covid-19 pandemic came to magnify issues that were already an intrinsic part of the Nigerian medical landscape. Growing out of historical processes, uncertainty, ambiguity, doubt, vigilance, and suspicion have become intensely manifest characteristics of everyday engage-ments in Nigeria. In their search for cures, protection, and health, people have learnt to always keep open a critical and sceptical eye – to never assume that things are what they appear to be – to continuously presume that ulterior and less benevolent motives might be in play. Suspicion – as a vigilant and sceptical mode of interacting with the world – has become intrinsic to the pursuit of safe ways forward. By entering the Nigerian medical landscape in the wake of the coronavirus, this article unravels how suspicion through historical processes has become an inherent and necessary, as well as sound, aspect of navigating the emergent Nigerian medical landscape.
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