Everyday life encapsulated? Two photographs concerning women and the Basel Mission in West Africa, c.1900

The beginnings of a vernacular literature in languages spoken in British West Africa go back for more than a century. As early as 1815 the gospel of St. Matthew was published in Bulom; in 1816 part of St. Matthew in Susu (Soso), 1829 Genesis and part of Matthew in Mampua, a dialect of Bulom. A translation of the whole Bible appeared in the Ga language in 1866, in Twi in 1871, in Efik in 1868, and in Yoruba in 1880. Since that time there has been a constant increase in the number of languages into which parts of the Bible or the whole Bible and other religious books such as catechisms, hymn-books and prayer-books have been translated. Other books for use in schools and for general reading have also been produced, but only to a very limited extent; the great majority are books written by missionaries for immediate missionary purposes. I know of only two cases in which a complete set of school-books in native languages for a curriculum of about eight or ten years has been published and is in use. These are produced by the Basel Mission on the Gold Coast (Twi and Ga) and the North German Mission in Togoland and on the Gold Coast (Ewe).

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Early sculptural traditions in West Africa: new evidence from the Chad Basin of north-eastern Nigeria

Antiquity ◽

10.1017/s0003598x00096915 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 82 (316) ◽

pp. 423-437 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Peter Breunig ◽

Gabriele Franke ◽

Michael Nüsse

Keyword(s):

West Africa ◽

Everyday Life ◽

Human Occupation ◽

Chad Basin ◽

North Eastern ◽

History Of ◽

First Millennium ◽

First Millennium Bc ◽

New Evidence

Thanks to a number of well-stratified sequences, the authors can offer a new history of clay image-making in West Africa. From the first known human occupation in the second millennium BC, the shaped clay figurines remain remarkably conservative, suggesting their use as offerings, toys or in games or some role rooted in domestic everyday life. Only in the late first millennium BC and in one area (Walasa) does a more formal art emerge in north-eastern Nigeria, a development contemporary with the famous Nok culture further south.

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The United States and West Africa

10.1017/upo9781580467513 ◽

2009 ◽

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

West Africa ◽

The United States

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Thriving in Academia: Understanding and Managing the Complexities of Faculty Work

Perspectives on Issues in Higher Education ◽

10.1044/ihe15.2.77 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

pp. 77-84 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Ketevan Mamiseishvili

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Education Research ◽

Community Engagement ◽

Everyday Life ◽

Work Setting ◽

Higher Education Research ◽

Faculty Work ◽

College And University ◽

Teaching Research ◽

University Settings

In this paper, I will illustrate the changing nature and complexity of faculty employment in college and university settings. I will use existing higher education research to describe changes in faculty demographics, the escalating demands placed on faculty in the work setting, and challenges that confront professors seeking tenure or administrative advancement. Boyer’s (1990) framework for bringing traditionally marginalized and neglected functions of teaching, service, and community engagement into scholarship is examined as a model for balancing not only teaching, research, and service, but also work with everyday life.

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