Rescuing, Interpreting, and, Eventually, Digitizing Regional Postcolonial Archives: Endangered Archives and Research in Pointe-Noire, Republic of Congo

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 143-165
Author(s):  
Alexander Keese ◽  
Brice I. Owabira
Keyword(s):  
Pragmatic Approach ◽  
Republic Of Congo ◽  
Pointe Noire ◽  
The Republic

Abstract:This is a study of research and conservation activities into a newly rediscovered and opened regional archive in the Préfecture of Pointe-Noire in the Republic of Congo. The study illustrates the constraints attaching to complicated post-independence materials and the need for flexibility in approaching them. Begun as an initially well-defined project targeting a vanished colonial territorial archive, the work turned instead into the finding and reorganizing of an extremely valuable but dispersed post-independence archive. The article discusses the implications of such conditions for priorities in preservation measures and questions of digitization; it makes the case for a pragmatic approach.

scholarly journals A new genus of soft coral (Cnidaria, Octocorallia) from the Republic of Congo (Pointe-Noire Region)

ZooKeys ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 462 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Leen van Ofwegen ◽  
Didier Aurelle ◽  
Stéphane Sartoretto
Keyword(s):  
New Genus ◽  
Soft Coral ◽  
Republic Of Congo ◽  
Pointe Noire ◽  
The Republic

scholarly journals Analysis of the Determinants of the Use of the Water Supply Service in the Republic of Congo: Case of the Commune of Pointe-Noire

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 1913-1928
Author(s):  
Edouard Sukami ◽  
Hardy Zabatantou Louyindoula ◽  
Jacqueline Offele Okopoué
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Republic Of Congo ◽  
Pointe Noire ◽  
The Republic

Ebola response in the Republic of Congo

Waterlines ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 22-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Visser
Keyword(s):  
Republic Of Congo ◽  
The Republic

Suspected acute haemorrhagic fever syndrome in the Republic of Congo

2002 ◽  
Vol 6 (25) ◽  
Author(s):  
A C de Benoist
Keyword(s):  
Gold Mining ◽  
Haemorrhagic Fever ◽  
Ministry Of Health ◽  
Republic Of Congo ◽  
The Republic

On 12 June 2002, the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Congo reported six suspected cases, including five deaths, of acute haemorrhagic fever syndrome in Mbomo district, near the Gabonese border (1). The first cases occurred in a group of people who had been working in a gold mining camp in a forest south of Oloba. It seems that they may have been exposed to the same source, a chimpanzee found dead in the forest.

scholarly journals Presidential Tenure and Constitutional Provisions: Recent Evidence from Central Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 272-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Dawson ◽  
Daniel J. Young
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic Of Congo ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Term Limits ◽  
Republic Of Congo ◽  
Term Limit ◽  
Developing Democracies ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Constitutional Factor

Constitutions around Africa have been repeatedly tested on the issue of presidential term limits. We explore the four most recent cases of African presidents facing the end of their constitutionally mandated limit, all of which developed in Central Africa. Burundi, Rwanda, the Republic of Congo, and the Democratic Republic of Congo all adopted constitutions limiting presidential tenure to two terms; yet, in 2015, when these limits were approaching, none of the sitting presidents simply stood down. Our analysis focuses on the constitutional provisions meant to protect the two-term limit, the strategies employed by each of the four presidents, and the difficulty they faced in pursuing extended tenure. We find that constitutional provisions do constrain, but not always to the expected degree. Our analysis adds a consideration of a foundational constitutional factor to the growing literature on term limits in Africa, with implications for other regions of newly developing democracies.

scholarly journals The Life History of Learning Subsistence Skills among Hadza and BaYaka Foragers from Tanzania and the Republic of Congo

Human Nature ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheina Lew-Levy ◽  
Erik J. Ringen ◽  
Alyssa N. Crittenden ◽  
Ibrahim A. Mabulla ◽  
Tanya Broesch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Task Difficulty ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Age Of Acquisition ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Variation ◽  
Republic Of Congo ◽  
Cross Cultural Differences ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Republic

AbstractAspects of human life history and cognition, such as our long childhoods and extensive use of teaching, theoretically evolved to facilitate the acquisition of complex tasks. The present paper empirically examines the relationship between subsistence task difficulty and age of acquisition, rates of teaching, and rates of oblique transmission among Hadza and BaYaka foragers from Tanzania and the Republic of Congo. We further examine cross-cultural variation in how and from whom learning occurred. Learning patterns and community perceptions of task difficulty were assessed through interviews. We found no relationship between task difficulty, age of acquisition, and oblique transmission, and a weak but positive relationship between task difficulty and rates of teaching. While same-sex transmission was normative in both societies, tasks ranked as more difficult were more likely to be transmitted by men among the BaYaka, but not among the Hadza, potentially reflecting cross-cultural differences in the sexual division of subsistence and teaching labor. Further, the BaYaka were more likely to report learning via teaching, and less likely to report learning via observation, than the Hadza, possibly owing to differences in socialization practices.

Diversity of cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) cultivars and its management in the department of Bouenza in the Republic of Congo

2012 ◽  
Vol 59 (8) ◽  
pp. 1789-1803 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. R. Kombo ◽  
A. Dansi ◽  
L. Y. Loko ◽  
G. C. Orkwor ◽  
R. Vodouhè ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Manihot Esculenta ◽  
Manihot Esculenta Crantz ◽  
Republic Of Congo ◽  
The Republic

scholarly journals Cultural comparisons for healing and exorcism narratives in Matthew’s Gospel

2010 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig S. Keener
Keyword(s):  
The West ◽  
Republic Of Congo ◽  
Majority World ◽  
Cultural Comparisons ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Gospel Narratives

Majority World readings of Matthew (and the Gospels generally) often help us to appreciate the very sorts of stories that seem most alien to readers in the West: stories of unusual cures and exorcisms of hostile spirits. Rather than simply allegorising these narratives, many Majority World readers treat them as models for experiencing healing and deliverance. Accounts of these experiences appear in a wide variety of cultures; in addition to a range of published sources, the article includes some material based on the author’s interviews with people claiming first-hand experiences of this nature in the Republic of Congo. Such readings invite a more sympathetic hearing of some Gospel narratives than they often receive in the West.

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