African culture
AFRICAN CULTURE IN A WORLD OF CHANGE
... Arguably, African culture, is the worst hit by the cataclysmic storm of colonialism, slavery, capitalism, modernism and the current wave of ...of African culture and value system, the trend of ...
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Does African Culture Impede Development?
... that African culture impedes development; however, this is an invalidate ...all, culture is continuously evolving according to circumstantial factors internal and external to the country, and it is ...
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Gender roles in the African culture : implications for the spread of HIV/AIDS
... of African culture and regard women as inferior, and believe that women should obey ...prevalent. African culture continues to promote patriarchy in many ways and this perpetuates the ...
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Performing global African culture and citizenship : major pan-African cultural festivals from Dakar '66 to FESTAC '77
... global African culture, identity and forms of ...role culture should play in the period after empire: rather, the festival was a site in which various actors could come together to perform their own ...
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3. Proverbial Oppression of Women in African Culture: The Case of Female Devaluation in Igbo Proverbs
... Igbo African culture have perpetuated the mainstream oppression and subjugation of women in Igbo society of ...other African cultures, proverbs help in defining moral consciousness, thought and ...of ...
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Human Rights, Gender Equality, and the Question of Justice: A Re-Examination of Male Chauvinism in African Culture
... while so-called African culture and values have positive, soul-lifting and humanistic dimensions, it also has some negative and dehumanizing aspects. Customary practices such as female genital mutilation, ...
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AFRICAN CULTURE AND VALUES IN A WORLD OF CHANGE: A PHILOSOPHICAL APPRAISAL
... African culture, with particular reference to the Ibibio people, for instance, has zero tolerance for ...in culture, it can be stated that the values of culture are what gives it uniqueness ...
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Carnaval in Brazil, samba schools and African culture: a study of samba schools through their African heritage
... that African instruments such as drums became the essential sounds of Carnaval, it was natural that the black Brazilians in Rio de Janeiro would create the Samba in 1917 as a style of music and ...
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The oral african culture and its importance for “quilombo do campinho
... J. Vansina (1981) says that a scholar who works with oral traditions must be aware of the attitude towards discourse, an attitude that is totally different from that of a group that has recorded all important messages. ...
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The Transplantation and the Preservation of the African Culture in the Americas: Evolution and Impacts
... the African-American vernacular English ...the African slaves, upon arrival to the United States, picked up English very slowly and learned it incorrectly, and that their mistakes have been passed down ...
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The African Tradition and the Nexus Between Public Sector Ethics and Culture: A Critical Analysis
... human culture, morality and other social systems which have allowed it to grow, protect and promote human life, and extend the gift of human life to all other continents of the ...2005). African ...
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Healing in Herero culture and Namibian African independent churches
... SJAHMCA and SJAFMN, however, in principle, do not have any relationship with traditional healers, diviners, sorcerers and witch doctors in Namibia. Both SJAHMCA and SJAFMN perform rituals and healing ceremonies upon the ...
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National Culture and Africa Revisited: Ethnolinguistic Group Data from 35 African Countries
... Africa is a continent of considerable cultural diversity. This diversity does not necessarily run in parallel to the national boundaries that were created in Africa in the colonial period. However, decades of nation ...
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The transculturalisation of African American gospel music : the context and culture of gospel traditions in Australian gospel music
... the African American gospel music tradition and, in addition to songs by Fred Hammond and Kirk Franklin, their 2006 debut CD Great Day featured the traditional “How I Got Over” by Clara Ward, a gospelized ...
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Unpacking rights in indigenous African societies: indigenous culture and the question of sexual and reproductive rights in Africa
... of children she had borne was considered excessive to her husband’s adult children, who also happened to have the responsibility of providing for her and her chil- dren. She was given a warning after almost ten children ...
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Glocal Nollywood: The Politics of Culture, Identity, and Migration in African Films Set on American Shores
... Though Nollywood films are mainly shot on location in Nige- rian cities and rural villages, the industry has a history of production outside Nigerian borders. One of the first Nollywood films to be shot outside of ...
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Organisational culture of the South African construction industry
... organisational culture would dominate the South African construction ...organisation culture in the South African construction industry was that of the market ...organisational culture ...
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The discursive construction of the concepts organisational communication and organisational culture in a merged South African company
... that culture changes over time and few studies have explored the impact that culture has on change (Erez & Gati, 2004: ...of culture should serve for understanding the changing work environment ...
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Ultra-Technological Refugees: Identity Construction through Consumer Culture among African Refugees in Israel
... The decision to purchase a fake brand is of interest in this context, since it underscores the importance of external signal- ing through consumer products. To Suleiman, a fake brand provides the attributes that ...
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Situating globality: African agency in the appropriation of global culture
... of African car repairs is doubly instructive, for it also shows that many forms of cultural programming (such as knowledge of transport technology, specifically of the internal combustion engine), that we would ...
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