scholarly journals How dangerous is Africa’s explosive Lake Kivu?

Nature ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 597 (7877) ◽  
pp. 466-469
Author(s):  
Nicola Jones
Keyword(s):  
Lake Kivu

Questioning territories and identities in the precolonial (nineteenth-century) Lake Kivu region

Africa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 91 (3) ◽  
pp. 493-515
Author(s):  
Gillian Mathys
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Lake Kivu ◽  
Territorial Claims ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

AbstractThroughout Africa, contemporary boundaries are deemed ‘artificial’ because they were external impositions breaking apart supposedly homogeneous ethnic units. This article argues that the problem with the colonial borders was not only that they arbitrarily dissected African societies with European interests in mind, but also that they profoundly changed the way in which territoriality and authority functioned in this region, and therefore they affected identity. The presumption that territories could be constructed in which ‘culture’ and ‘political power’ neatly coincided was influenced by European ideas about space and identity, and privileged the perceptions and territorial claims of those ruling the most powerful centres in the nineteenth century. Thus, this article questions assumptions that continue to influence contemporary views of the Lake Kivu region. It shows that local understandings of the relationship between space and identity differed fundamentally from state-centred perspectives, whether in precolonial centralized states or colonial states.

Kings and Clans: Ijwi Island and the Lake Kivu Rift, 1780-1840

1993 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 640
Author(s):  
Edward I. Steinhart ◽  
David Newbury
Keyword(s):  
Lake Kivu

Origin of methane in Lake Kivu (East-Central Africa)

1988 ◽  
Vol 71 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 257-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Schoell ◽  
K. Tietze ◽  
S.M. Schoberth
Keyword(s):  
Central Africa ◽  
East Central ◽  
Lake Kivu

Nutrient Cycling in Lake Kivu

Lake Kivu ◽  
2012 ◽  
pp. 31-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natacha Pasche ◽  
Fabrice A. Muvundja ◽  
Martin Schmid ◽  
Alfred Wüest ◽  
Beat Müller
Keyword(s):  
Nutrient Cycling ◽  
Lake Kivu

scholarly journals Drainage Basin of Lake Kivu in the Western Rift of East Africa and Hazards Potential

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Kakonkwe ◽  
D. E. Rwabuhungu ◽  
M. Biryabarema
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Drainage Basin ◽  
Landslide Hazard ◽  
Mass Wasting ◽  
Landslide Hazards ◽  
Digital Elevation ◽  
Lake Kivu ◽  
Elevation Data ◽  
Digital Elevation Data ◽  
Land Sliding

A series of ArcGIS-generated maps were applied in analysing the potential for flooding and landslide hazards within the Lake Kivu drainage basin. This study was carried out using digital elevation data of the basin. The Kivu drainage basin encompasses an area of 7,382 km2. Sediment and water supply to Lake Kivu originate mostly from its eastern hinterland. The distribution of land sliding potentiality in the drainage basin shows that the northern and the southern portions of the basin are the ones with relatively low risk of land sliding, whereas the rift shoulders are most prone to land sliding. Mass wasting on slopes has the potential to grade downstream into debris and mudflows, promoting in turn further erosion and flooding. Keywords: drainage, Kivu, Africa, flooding, landslide, hazard

scholarly journals Water and gas chemistry at Lake Kivu (DRC): Geochemical evidence of vertical and horizontal heterogeneities in a multibasin structure

2009 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. n/a-n/a ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Tassi ◽  
O. Vaselli ◽  
D. Tedesco ◽  
G. Montegrossi ◽  
T. Darrah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Geochemical Evidence ◽  
Gas Chemistry ◽  
Lake Kivu
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