Modernity and the Memory Artist: The Work of Imagination in Highland Sumatra, 1947–1995

2000 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 811-846 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Margaret Steedly
Keyword(s):  
Television News ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Ethnic Violence ◽  
The World

News from afar sometimes seems to bear an uncanny resemblance to one's own remembered past. This is not because of the banal redundancy of events, but because of memory's inclination to refurbish itself in contemporary designs and novel images. In 1994 I was in northern Sumatra collecting stories from Karo veterans of the Indonesian war of national independence. Every night the television news offered more horrifying pictures of ethnic violence from around the world. In central Africa, roadways were filled with thousands of starving, desperate people traveling toward unknown destinations. This made a big impression on my Karo informants. “That's exactly how it was here,” they told me over and over. “I saw it on TV last night. I told the kids, ‘We were just like that during the evacuation.' Nothing to eat. No clothes. We were living like animals.”

The Parasites of the Coffee Leaf-Miners (Leucoptera spp.) in Africa

1936 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 477-491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ch. Ferrière
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
The West ◽  
Leaf Miners ◽  
The World ◽  
Leucoptera Coffeella

The coffee leaf-miners of the genus Leucoptera, Hübner, are serious pests of coffee wherever it is cultivated and they have often caused great anxiety to planters in many parts of the world. Leucoptera coffeella, Guér., is known from the West Indies, Central and South America, Central Africa, Madagascar, Réunion and Ceylon. Another species, L. daricella, Meyr., seems to be responsible for still more damage in Africa.

scholarly journals NOTES ON EMBIDOBIINI (SCELIONIDAE: HYMENOPTERA) WITH DESCRIPTION OF A NEW GENUS

1972 ◽  
Vol 104 (4) ◽  
pp. 505-510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lubomir Masner ◽  
Paul Dessart
Keyword(s):  
New Genus ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Baltic Amber ◽  
The World ◽  
First Time ◽  
Belgian Congo

AbstractEndecascelio stipitipennis n. gen. and n. sp. is described from Central Africa (former Belgian Congo). The extent and interrelationships of the tribe Embidobiini are discussed. A diagnosis of the tribe and a key to genera of the world is given.The genus Embidobia Ashmead is for the first time reported from the Oligocene of Baltic amber.

scholarly journals Poverty and mental health in Aboriginal Australia

1999 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 364-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Laugharne
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Respiratory Diseases ◽  
Torres Strait Islander ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Aboriginal Health ◽  
Aboriginal Australians ◽  
Death Rates ◽  
The World ◽  
Torres Strait

When the Australian Governor General, Sir William Deane, referred in a speech in 1996 to the “appalling problems relating to Aboriginal health” he was not exaggerating. The Australia Bureau of Statistics report on The Health and Welfare of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples (McLennan & Madden, 1997) outlines the following statistics. The life expectancy for Aboriginal Australians is 15 to 20 years lower than for non-Aboriginal Australians, and is lower than for most countries of the world with the exception of central Africa and India. Aboriginal babies are two to three times more likely to be of lower birth weight and two to four times more likely to die at birth than non-Aboriginal babies. Hospitalisation rates are two to three times higher for Aboriginal than non-Aboriginal Australians. Death rates from infectious diseases are 15 times higher among Aboriginal Australians than non-Aboriginal Australians. Rates for heart disease, diabetes, injury and respiratory diseases are also all higher among Aboriginals – and so the list goes on. It is fair to say that Aboriginal people have higher rates for almost every type of illness for which statistics are currently recorded.

Recursive Inter-Ethnic Violence and the Failure of Development Communication in Africa

2019 ◽  
pp. 55-66
Author(s):  
Charles Chiedu Okigbo
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Communication ◽  
Ethnic Violence ◽  
Evolution Of Development ◽  
Development Communication ◽  
African Countries ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Dependency Model ◽  
Dominant Paradigm

This chapter traces the evolution of development communication and examines how it has helped or hindered peaceful coexistence in Africa. Starting with the dominant paradigm of the 1950s and 1960s, it explains the critical and dependency model of the 1970s as well as the participatory paradigm of the 1980s before concluding with the most recent iteration which is the social entrepreneurship model of McAnany (2012). These provide a backdrop for examining the place of communication in the recent developments in the six African countries which are among the 10 fastest growing economies of the world today. The final picture to emerge is one that underlines the importance of strategic communication in planned social change, especially in promoting peace and curbing inter-ethnic violence.

Multilocus phylogeography of the world populations of Elaeidobius kamerunicus (Coleoptera, Curculionidae), pollinator of the palm Elaeis guineensis

2020 ◽  
Vol 110 (5) ◽  
pp. 654-662
Author(s):  
Julien Haran ◽  
Raphael François Xavier Ndzana Abanda ◽  
Laure Benoit ◽  
Claude Bakoumé ◽  
Laurence Beaudoin-Ollivier
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Structure ◽  
Contact Zone ◽  
Elaeis Guineensis ◽  
Mitochondrial Gene ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Tropical Africa ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Tropical Regions ◽  
The World ◽  
Elaeidobius Kamerunicus

AbstractElaeidobius kamerunicus Faust (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) is one of the specific pollinators on inflorescences of the African oil palm Elaeis guineensis Jacquin. This derelomine weevil is native to tropical Africa. During the late 20th century, it was introduced into all tropical regions where E. guineensis is grown, in order to improve its pollination and fruit set. Despite an overall success, a decline in pollination efficiency has been documented in several regions. In this study, we reconstructed a multilocus phylogeography of the world populations of E. kamerunicus, in order to explore its genetic diversity in its native and introduced ranges. Our results showed that African populations of E. kamerunicus are forming two differentiated mitochondrial clusters in West and central Africa, forming a contact zone along the Cameroon Volcanic Line. The existence of this sharp contact zone along this weak altitudinal barrier suggests that other parameters, such as climate, may be driving the distribution of populations. A differential genetic structure between mitochondrial and nuclear genes, and the strong level of genetic structure of the mitochondrial gene, also suggest sex-biased dispersal in this species, with males dispersing more than females. The genetic structure inferred from Asian and South American populations suggests that they originate from populations of both western and central tropical Africa and that a bottleneck has probably been experienced by these populations.

scholarly journals How television news disguises its racist representations: The case of Romanian Antena 1 reporting on the Roma

Ethnicities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 823-843
Author(s):  
Petre Breazu ◽  
David Machin
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Television News ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Sound Effects ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
Eu Project

Research shows that news media around the world tend to represent ethnic minorities in ways which nurture distorted views and invite negative attitudes. Scholars have also emphasised that, in contemporary societies, a political climate has emerged which has made overt racism unacceptable and social taboos leading to racist statements are increasingly being managed and disguised in order to avoid direct accusations. In this paper we use Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis (MCDA) to carry out an in-depth analysis of a Romanian television news report—selected from a larger corpus—which addressed the situation of the Roma migrants in Norway. We show how this medium, with editing techniques, voice-overs, sound effects and captions, has its own subtleties for communicating racism in ways that are less obvious at a casual viewing. The case we analyse reports on a Norwegian/EU project to build a factory in Romania, so that Roma migrants can return home to work rather than live and beg on the streets of Oslo.

If I had Known that 35 Years Ago: Contextualizing the Copper Mines of Central Africa

1999 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 449-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Fetter
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Academic Careers ◽  
Copper Industry ◽  
New Approach ◽  
European Economic ◽  
The World ◽  
Copper Mines ◽  
Primary Materials

The process of normal scholarship leads young historians to focus on their fields of research with an intensity that is unparalleled during their academic careers. It is no wonder that after a certain interval many change directions, if only to escape the tyranny of the overly familiar. Occasionally, however, we encounter a new approach to our old questions, which forcibly brings us back to our original topic, not with the initial ardor but with the nostalgia of suddenly coming across the photograph of a teenager's crush.Such was my response to discovering Christopher Schmitz's, “The Changing Structure of the World Copper Market, 1870-1939,” in a recent number of the Journal of European Economic History. I wondered just how I would have approached my study of the Central African mines if, between 1963 and 1983, I had had access to this account of the copper industry in its global setting. Mind you, my thirty-one years' experience with undergraduates and master's candidates suggests that it might have made no difference to me at all. So intense is the concentration of our apprentice-historians on their primary materials that it is often difficult to get them to consider contexts beyond those inherent in the sources they use.What was new about Schmitz's synthesis? That is difficult to isolate. He has, indeed, written a series of studies of the copper industry. The article under discussion offers generalizations about the industry as a whole between 1870 and 1939 and the role of various producers and consumers in it for the same period. For the sake of Africanist readers, let me summarize them.

Operational Aspects of Locust Control

1966 ◽  
Vol 70 (672) ◽  
pp. 1077-1081
Author(s):  
D. Yeo
Keyword(s):  
Schistocerca Gregaria ◽  
Locusta Migratoria ◽  
Broad Band ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Nomadacris Septemfasciata ◽  
Red Locust ◽  
Migratory Locust ◽  
Locusta Migratoria Migratorioides ◽  
The World ◽  
Locust Control

The crops of every continent of the world have been devastated from time to time by locusts or grasshoppers. To mention three major locust species, the Desert Locust (Schistocerca gregaria Forsk.) has caused havoc in a broad band of the world stretching from East Pakistan to Senegal and from the Mediterranean to Central Africa, the Red Locust (Nomadacris septemfasciata Serv.) has infested East, Central and Southern Africa, and the African Migratory Locust (Locusta migratoria migratorioides Rch. and Frm.) has plagued most of Africa south of the Sahara.What happens in one part of a plague area can significantly affect the situation in others and locust control is therefore an international problem, requiring international co-operation. Many of the threatened areas are countries where standards of living are not high and local agriculture is a mainstay of the economy; the regions are often inhospitable and lack modern roads, aerodromes and lines of communication.

Angola and Congo yellow fever outbreak to be contained

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Yellow Fever ◽  
Vaccination Campaign ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Inadequate Response ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Care Infrastructure ◽  
Limited Health

Significance A rapid and effective vaccination campaign is vital to halting the proliferation of yellow fever in central Africa. Health authorities are particularly concerned about stopping the outbreak at the source to prevent new cycles of transmission in other regions of the world. Impacts Limited health care infrastructure in Angola and DRC will hinder long-term solutions to yellow fever outbreaks. Entry into affected countries could face stricter checks for vaccination records. An inadequate response in Kinshasa could alienate voters ahead of elections scheduled for November. Should the yellow fever outbreak spread, international bodies may advise against travel and trade with affected areas.

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