Topic marking in Kusaal and selected Mabia (Gur) languages of West Africa

Linguistics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hasiyatu Abubakari
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Ivory Coast ◽  
Left Dislocation ◽  
Coding Strategy

AbstractThis article looks at topic marking strategies in Kusaal and related Mabia (Gur) languages: Dagaare, Buli, Moore, Dabgani, and Gurene, spoken in Ghana, Togo, Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast. It is generally observed that these languages use left dislocation as a topic coding strategy. They either use topic phrases or particles, which may be obligatory or optional. It is argued that the languages under discussion cannot be fully classified as subject prominent languages alongside other Niger-Congo languages. It is shown that these languages demonstrate features that put them in between subject prominent and topic prominent languages. To identify a topic constituent in these languages, three tests are suggested: the if+be test, the “aboutness test” and the use of left dislocation accompanied by a resumptive pronoun.

Burkina Faso

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marius Schneider ◽  
Vanessa Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Market Share ◽  
Ivory Coast ◽  
External Trade ◽  
Entry And Exit ◽  
Railway Line ◽  
International Airport

Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa, surrounded by six countries: Benin, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, and Togo. It has an area of 274,200 square kilometres (km) and has a population of 18.6 million inhabitants. Its capital is Ouagadougou, where the biggest airport of Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou International Airport, is found. By 2021, a new airport should be operational at Dosin, located 30 km north from the capital. Having no access to the sea, Burkina Faso relies on the ports of its neighbouring countries for its commercial exchanges. Eighty per cent of the external trade of Burkina Faso is conducted by sea. The main ports available to Burkina Faso are Cotonou, Lomé, Téma, Takoradi, and Abidjan. In practice, the autonomous port of Abidjan is the main port of maritime entry and exit into Burkina Faso, having regained its lost market share caused by the crisis in Ivory Coast in September 2002. International roads link Ouagadougou to all neighbouring ports and a railway line operates between Ouagadougou and Abidjan.

scholarly journals Visceral Leishmaniasis in West Africa: Clinical Characteristics, Vectors, and Reservoirs

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdoulaye K. Kone ◽  
Doumbo Safiatou Niaré ◽  
Martine Piarroux ◽  
Arezki Izri ◽  
Pierre Marty ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Visceral Leishmaniasis ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Ivory Coast ◽  
Clinical Characteristics ◽  
Leishmania Donovani ◽  
Grey Literature ◽  
The Gambia ◽  
Number Of Patients ◽  
Persons Living With Hiv

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is the most serious form of human leishmaniasis. VL is understudied in West Africa. The increasing number of patients at-risk, including persons living with HIV and other chronic immunosuppressive diseases, and likely underreporting of VL related to diagnostic challenges advocate for review of existing data to understand VL regional epidemiology. Our review aims to describe the clinical characteristics and epidemiology of Human VL (HVL) in West Africa. We conducted a literature search to identify peer-reviewed articles and grey literature sources using the search terms “Visceral leishmaniasis West Africa”, “Leishmania donovani West Africa”; and “Leishmania infantum West Africa”. Thirty published articles report HVL from seven countries, including The Gambia, Niger, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Togo, Burkina Faso, and Guinea Bissau. Three countries report cases of Canine Visceral Leishmaniasis (CVL), including The Gambia, Senegal, and Burkina Faso. Niger, Nigeria, and Ivory Coast report the greatest number of HVL cases. As VL is present in West Africa, active surveillance, increased diagnostic capacity, and studies of vectors and reservoirs are essential to better understand VL epidemiology in the region.

Prospects for West Africa in 2018

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Foreign Investment ◽  
Ivory Coast ◽  
Economic Recovery ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Counter Terrorism ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Terrorism Preparedness

Subject Prospects for West Africa in 2018. Significance Ruling coalitions will emphasise economic recovery (Nigeria) and foreign investment gains (Ivory Coast), while fragile transitions beckon for post-conflict states (Sierra Leone). Militant terrorist threats are plaguing countries across the region (Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Nigeria), heaping added pressure on ruling alliances to improve counter-terrorism preparedness.

Prospects for West Africa in 2019

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Ivory Coast ◽  
Content Type

Subject Prospects for West Africa in 2019. Significance Insecurity is weighing on the region’s most significant poll in Nigeria, while new terrorist fronts are testing government popularity in Burkina Faso. The conclusion of an IMF programme will raise profligacy fears in Ghana, while rivals will vie to replace ill or outgoing leaders in Gabon and Ivory Coast.

Climate Change and Water Resources in West Africa: A Case Study of Ivory Coast, Benin, Burkina Faso, and Senegal

2021 ◽  
pp. 55-86
Author(s):  
P. Sagna ◽  
J. M. Dipama ◽  
E. W. Vissin ◽  
B. I. Diomandé ◽  
C. Diop ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Ivory Coast

Al-Qaida to dominate jihadi landscape in Sahara-Sahel

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Ivory Coast ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Organisational Structure ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
The Past

Subject AQIM assessment. Significance Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has garnered media attention over the past year with a string of 'spectacular' attacks against Westerners in West Africa: with attacks in Bamako, Mali in late 2015, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, in January 2016, and Grand Bassam in the Ivory Coast in March. Its increasing range of operations raises questions about the group's organisational structure and its strategy. Impacts More terrorist attacks in North and West Africa will adversely affect tourism in those regions. This would particularly affect Tunisia, Ivory Coast, Senegal and Egypt. The resurgence of AQIM could also mean that it increasingly entrenches itself in Libya too.

Mali

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marius Schneider ◽  
Vanessa Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Ivory Coast ◽  
Southern Region ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Sahara Desert ◽  
Chronic Instability ◽  
The North

Mali is a landlocked country found in West Africa. Mali borders Algeria, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Niger, and Senegal. It is the eighth largest country in Africa with a population of nearly 18 million people as recorded in 2016. Only 10 per cent of the population live in the north, which represents nearly two-thirds of the country. While rich in minerals and oil, the north of Mali is desertified and suffers from chronic instability. The vast majority of people in Mali live in the southern region close to the Niger and Senegal rivers and far from the Sahara Desert. Rural areas account for 59 per cent of the population. The capital city is Bamako which is the only town in Mali with more than 1 million inhabitants and is the main commercial and industrial centre in the country. The second biggest city in terms of population is Sikasso with approximately 130,000 inhabitants.

West African coastal states will fear jihadist threat

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Ivory Coast ◽  
National Park ◽  
West African ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Sahel Region ◽  
Security Crises ◽  
Regional Governments

Subject Jihadists' coastal threat. Significance Deteriorating security and widening jihadist control in eastern Burkina Faso, combined with the wider security crisis in the Sahel region as a whole, have raised credible fears that jihadist violence and other security crises could spread into coastal West African countries (Benin, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Togo). Sporadic terrorism has occurred in some of those countries in recent years, notably the attack on an Ivorian resort in March 2016 and a kidnapping in Benin’s Pendjari National Park in May 2019. Yet there is still more reason for caution than alarm when it comes to predicting the spread of jihadism in West Africa, given the Malian and Burkinabe insurgencies took years to unfold. Impacts Regional governments may look to increase assistance to President Marc Christian Roch Kabore’s administration ahead of the 2020 polls. Joint security efforts involving Burkina Faso and its coastal neighbours will prove piecemeal given their sporadic, underdeveloped nature. A 2018 joint security initiative and resulting arrests suggest Benin and Togo may be the more vulnerable to new jihadist infiltration.

Colonial Policy, Chieftaincy and Land Politics in Ghana: The Case Study of Gyaman

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 27-50
Author(s):  
Kwame ADUM–KYEREMEH ◽  
Joseph Kwadwo AGYEMAN
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Ivory Coast ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Colonial Policy ◽  
Land Politics ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Impact

The partition of Africa in the late nineteenth century destabilized some societies in Africa. In West Africa, the imaginary territorial boundaries divided the Nzema between Ivory Coast and Ghana, the Dagaaba between Burkina Faso and Ghana, and the Ewe between Togo and Ghana. The partition exercise also caused protracted disputes and neglect of existing ethnic groupings. Using information from oral, archival and secondary sources, this article examines the impact of the partition of Africa on Gyaman, a traditional ethnic setting in modern Ghana in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The paper blames current Gyaman problems on the Partition exercise.

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