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Why are University Teachers in Northeastern China Lost? An Analysis based on the Survey of Teachers’ Intention to Leave African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Yannan Yang, Zhengyu Ma, Xia Xue
In recent years, universities in northeastern China have been losing teachers. This paper uses the survey results of university teachers in Northeastern China to analyze the factors that cause the loss of teachers in universities in Northeastern China. Based on the findings of this study, the factors that affect the flow tendency of teachers at worklife include promotion and development, university
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Africa’s International Relations and the Legend of ‘Common Positions’ African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Odilile Ayodele
IR scholars and analysts often view the African Union’s apparent deference to common positions with a collectivist lens. However, in this article, I argue that the legend of common African positions (CAPs) has not yet been animated, as African leaders do not always work collectively for structural and political reasons. Two significant factors complicate analysing Africa’s IR in Africa: first, Africa
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Bureaucratic Acquiescence as an Institutional Strategy in the African Union African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Lynda Chinenye Iroulo, Oheneba A. Boateng
The paper conceptualizes acquiescence as a strategy bureaucrats adopt to deal with contestation between themselves and political leaders. The literature on bureaucratic politics argues that policy outcomes result from a game of bargaining between bureaucrats and political leaders. These actors employ diverse strategies like bargaining for more authority, exploiting loopholes, challenging the political
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Group Hegemonic Leadership as an Analytical Framework for Understanding Regional Hegemony in Africa African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Christopher Isike, Maxi Schoeman
This paper revisits the literature on regional power-hood and its application to Africa with a view to answering two key questions: one, whether we can talk of regional hegemons in the continent in real terms, and two, whether group hegemonic leadership better explains regional hegemonic behavior in Africa. It uses Sandra Destradi conceptual framework and Miriam Prys’ typology of regional power-hood
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Hybrid Regionalism in Africa: Towards a Theory of African Union Interventions African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Niklas Krösche
Since its establishment, the African Union (AU) takes on an active role in regional security matters through different types of interventions. These interventions, however, remain undertheorized. This paper argues that African hybrid regionalism, which combines problem-solving and regime-serving logics of cooperation, shapes the AU’s intervention practice in specific ways. To this end, I first theorize
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The Illusion of Neoliberalism: A Construct of African Development Gap African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Michael Akin Popoola
It is a well-known fact that Africa continent is grappling with developmental challenges. The main objectives of this paper therefore are to examine the impact of neoliberalism on these developmental challenges and to encourage African leaders to take a bold and radical departure from the norm in order to chart a new course of development which will take the continent out of the woods of economic retardation
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Shame, Exasperation and Institutional Design: The African Union as an Emotional Security Community African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 John J. Hogan
The establishment of the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) marked a fundamental reassessment of the African Union’s (AU) approach to security management. Many studies, however, view APSA through the lens of Eurocentric theories that neglect the agency of African actors. In contrast, this article examines how APSA’s design was influenced by collectively-held emotions – defined as moral
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Determinants of Job Satisfaction among Doctorate Holders: Focusing on the Relationship between Over-Education and Job Satisfaction in South Korea African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2022-10-24 Kihong Park
This study aims to analyze the determinants of job satisfaction among doctorate holders in South Korea, with a particular focus on the relationship between over-education and job satisfaction. Unlike most previous studies, this paper considers overall job satisfaction as well as six different domains of job satisfaction (promotion opportunities, intellectual challenge, level of responsibility, level
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Looking at Anxiety from the Eyes of Domestic Workers: The Covid-19 Pandemic of 2020 Experience in Istanbul African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2022-08-05 Simel Parlak, Çiğdem Demir Çelebi, Neslihan Yaman
In this phenomenological study, it was attempted to carry out an in-depth investigation of the anxiety experiences of domestic workers, who were working as housekeepers but could not continue their work life during the COVID-19 outbreak. Through this, it was aimed to reveal their experiences regarding the anxiety they experienced during the pandemic process. In this study, in which the criterion sampling
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Cargoes In Motion: Materiality And Connectivity Across The Indian Ocean, edited by Burkhard Schnepel and Julia Verne African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2022-03-31 Augustine Adu Frimpong
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Home-Based Work And Home-Based Workers, 1800–2021, edited by Malin Nilsson, Indrani Mazumdar, and Silke Neunsinger African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2022-03-29 Augustine Adu Frimpong
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The Criminal Law Regulation of Surrogacy Accessory Crime African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2022-03-24 Yidan Zhai
AbstractWith the continuous improvement of artificial reproduction technology, in vitro fertilization (IVF) or embryo transfer technology has developed rapidly. At the same time, the proportion of crimes related to surrogacy is also increasing. Surrogacy has different problems in judicial practice, laws and regulations, and theory. Specifically, it can be subdivided into: due to the lack of surrogacy
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General Acheampong: The Life and Times of Ghana’s Head of State, written by Baffour Agyeman-Duah Working With Rawlings, written by Kwamena Ahwoi African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2022-02-23 Yvette M. Alex
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The Ghettos of Pan-Africanism, written by Ademola Araoye African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2022-02-10 Damien Ejigiri,Ucheoma Nwagbara
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Walt Whitman and His Caribbean Interlocutors: Josee Marti, C.L.R. James, and Pedro Mir, written by Rafael Bernabe Afropolitan Projects: Redefining Blackness, Sexualities, and Culture from Houston to Accra, written by Anima Adjepong African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2022-01-24 Stephen Agyepong
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The Right To Development In Africa: Issues, Constraints and Prospects, written by Serges Djoyou Kamga African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2022-01-21 Stephen Agyepong
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Black Land: Imperial Ethiopianism and African America, written by Nadia Nurhussein African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2022-01-21 Youngjin Kang
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Peacebuilding in Africa: The Post- Conflict State and Its Multidimensional Crises, written by Kelechi A. Kalu & George Klay Kieh, Jr. African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2022-01-20 Damien Ejigiri,Augustine Adu Frimpong
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Community Policing in Malawi: Citizen Involvement, Satisfaction and Challenges African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2022-01-19 Joseph Fredrick Mutupha,Yapeng Zhu
AbstractThe concept of community policing was adopted by the Malawi government as a vehicle to facilitate police and the public engagement in fighting crimes. Considering that community policing has existed for over a decade in Malawi, this study was carried out to holistically uncover challenges associated with public involvement in community policing activities with the purpose to provide empirically
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The Black President: Hope And Fury In The Age of Obama, written by Clegg III, Claude A. African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2022-01-17 Dorothy V. Smith,Augustine Adu Frimpong
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Understanding Modern Nigeria: Ethnicity, Democracy, and Development, written by Toyin Falola African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2021-12-17 Olufemi Vaughan
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The Connotation, Characteristics, Composition and Significance of Subject Matter Knowledge (SMK) of Mathematics Teachers in China African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Baozhen Li
AbstractThe connotation of SMK of mathematics teachers is the intelligent result of dynamic construction about different types of mathematical knowledge in the process of their learning, teaching and research. The SMK of mathematics teachers is characterized by the individuality of cognitive construction of teachers, generation of the interaction among learning, teaching and research, continuity of
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COVID-19 and the Decline of the Social State in Nigeria’s Federal Democracy African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Christopher Isike,Martin Ihembe
AbstractThe impact of the COVID-19 pandemic cuts across all spheres of human life, and it has exposed fundamental weaknesses in political values, governance systems, public health and social life in different parts of the world. In Africa, although with relatively less death rates than initially predicted, the pandemic has also exposed weaknesses in the continent’s political and public health systems
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West African Women in the Diaspora: Narratives of Other Spaces, Other Selves, written by Rose A. Sackeyfio African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Dorothy V. Smith
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The Scholar And The Struggle: Lawrence Reddick’s Crusade for Black History and Black Power, written by David A. Varel African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2021-11-25 Yvette M. Alex,Kwadwo S. Assensoh
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Akinola Lasekan: Cartooning, Art and Nationalism at the Dawn of a New Nigeria, edited by Dele Jegede (dele jegede) and Aderonke A. Adesanya African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2021-11-25 Dorothy Smith
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The Scholar and the Struggle. Lawrence Reddick’s Crusade for Black History and Black Power, written by David A. Varel African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2021-11-25 C. J. Wiltz
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Privileged Conversations: Adventures of An African Diplomat, written by Ambassador D.K. Osei and with a Foreword by H.E. John Agyekum Kufuor African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2021-11-19 Augustine Adu Frimpong,Noah Kwarteng Kankam
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Access to Information in Africa: Law, Culture and Practice, edited by Fatima Diallo & Richard Calland African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2021-11-19 Y.M. Alex,Kwadwo S. Assensoh
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Citizens of Two Kingdoms: Civil Society and Christian Religion in Greater China, written by Shun-hing Chan and Jonathan W. Johnson African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2021-11-19 Augustine Adu Frimpong
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United States and Africa Relations, 1400 to the Present, written by Toyin Falola and Raphael Njoku African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2021-11-19 Waliu A. Ismaila
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New Asian Approaches to Africa: Rivalries and Collaborations, edited by Takuo Iwata African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2021-11-19 Seifudein Adem
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Art and the Power of Goodness: A Collection of John Agyekum Kufuor, written by Ivor Agyeman-Duah African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2021-11-19 Y.M. Alex,Kwadwo S. Assensoh
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From Achinakrom to Pro-Vice Chancellor, written by Florence Abena Dolphyne African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2021-11-19 Hassan Wahab
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Living With Nkrumahism: Nation, State, and Pan-Africanism in Ghana, written by Jeffrey S. Ahlman African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2021-11-19 Damien Ejigiri,Augustine Adu Frimpong
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How Beautiful We Were, written by Imbolo Mbue African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2021-05-14 Noah Kwarteng Kankam
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Thomas Sankara: A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa, written by Brian J. Peterson African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2021-05-14 Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh,Kwadwo S. Assensoh
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All Politics Are God’s Politics: Moroccan Islamism And The Sacralization of Democracy, written by Ahmed Khanani Holding Fast To Dreams: Empowering Youth from the Civil Rights Crusade to STEM Achievement, written by Freeman A. Hrabowski III African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2021-05-14 Kwadwo Stephen A. Assensoh
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Transnational Korean Television: Cultural Storytelling and Digital Audiences, written by Hyejung Ju African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2021-05-14 Augustine Adu Frimpong
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Gendering Globalization, Globalizing Gender: Postcolonial Perspectives, edited by Gul Caliskan African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2021-05-14 Kwadwo S. Assensoh,Livingston Alex Kwabena Assensoh
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432 Centuries of Recorded Science and Technology in Black Africa African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2021-04-27 Chinweizu
AbstractDuring the 1970s and 1980s, American and European investigators discovered evidence of such African scientific achievements as the following: (1) the domestication of assorted plants in The Egyptian Nile Valley ca. 18000 BP; and domesticated cattle in the Kenyan Highlands, ca, 15000 BP. These were achieved thousands of years before plant and animal domestication in South west Asia, the hitherto
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Editor’s Note on This Special Issue African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2021-04-27 Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo
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Chinweizu’s Assumptions of Women’s Power in Anatomy of Female Power: A Critique African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2021-04-27 Emily Oghale God’spresence
AbstractCulturally speaking, the African woman is saddled with onerous responsibilities that perpetually put her at a disadvantage over her male counterpart. Ranging from the kitchen to child bearing, care giving and child rearing to the farm and market and many more, the African woman spends her life playing the motherly role with its numerous sacrifices attached. Meanwhile, she is acquired by her
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Fiction vs. Evidence: A Critical Review of Ataa Ayi Kwei Armah’s Wat Nt Shemsw and the Eurasian Rhetorical Ethic African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2021-04-27 Ọbádélé Bakari Kambon,Lwanga Songsore
AbstractAt the 2018 Outstanding African Thinkers Conference on Nna Chinweizu, attendees – the first author included – took a pledge that “In all branches of our lives, we must be capable of criticizing and of accepting criticism. But criticism, proof of the willingness of others to help us or of our willingness to help others, must be complemented by self-criticism – proof of our own willingness to
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Addressing the Challenge of Epistemicide and African Self-Understanding through a Study of Chinweizu’s Ubuntology: Groundwork for the Intellectual Autonomy of the Black Race African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2021-04-27 Lawrence Ogbo Ugwuanyi
AbstractIn this article, I explore the forms of knowledge available among contemporary African intellectuals to identify their possible outcomes. I examine Chinweizu’s concerted effort in Ubuntology: Groundwork for the Intellectual Autonomy of the Black Race (2004). Through a critical review of this monograph, I suggest other ways to address the challenge of knowledge creation and consumption in Africa
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Power Lies in the Barrel of a Gun: Diplomacy Without Strategic Military Capability Is Futile African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2021-04-27 Moorosi Leshoele
AbstractThe United States of America invests heavily on their military capability and it is estimated that it spends, alone, approximately 40 per cent of what the whole world spends on military. Four of the other super powers that make up the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (UN-SC) also spend a significant percentage of their national budgets on military. Chinweizu has
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Chinweizu and Woman’s Place: A Response to Anatomy of Female Power African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2021-04-27 Chinwe R. Ezeifeka
AbstractThis article examines the reality or illusion of the perceived ‘paradises’ of ‘female power’, the purported façade of patriarchy and the claimed pervasiveness of matriarchy in Chinweizu’s Anatomy of Female Power. By deconstructing the extreme essentialist perspectives of AFP, and in line with womanism, the article interrogates the perceived covert matriarchal power sites of the masculinist
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Power-with and Power-to and Building Asian Studies in Africa: Insights from the Field African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2021-04-27 Lloyd G. Adu Amoah,Nelson Quame
AbstractTaking seriously Chinweizu’s (2004) call for Asian Studies in Africa this article examines the ways in which African Asianist scholars with their partners elsewhere decided to take counterhegemonic action, and how their approach differs from the status quo as a prefigurative politics of power-with society they seek. This work explores the establishment of Centres for Asian Studies in Africa
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Interpretation of the Japanese Great White Tower Novel from the Perspective of Cognitive Poetics African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2021-04-20 Tingting Xu
AbstractAs the representative of postwar Japanese female writers, Yamazaki Toyoko expressed the theme from her unique perspective, sharp language and realistic techniques, revealing the contradictions and conflicts in Japanese society. Yamazaki constructs the conceptual metaphor of “the system is the white tower” running through the novel, so that readers could gradually change their cognition and
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Evolution and Development Strategy of Collaborative Innovation Network among Cities in the Yangtze River Delta-Based on Urban Innovation Index Data African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2021-03-25 Yan Li,Mingque Ye
AbstractThe gravity model is applied to construct a collaborative innovation network between cities in the Yangtze River Delta, analyzes its structural characteristics and evolution from a network perspective, and proposes development strategies. This will help optimize the network structure of collaborative innovation among cities in the Yangtze River Delta, improve the efficiency of collaborative
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Human Rights In Nigeria’s External Relations: Building The Record of A Moral Superpower, written by Philip C. Aka Examining Human Rights Issues And Democracy Project In Sub-Sahara Africa: A Theoretical Critique And Prospects for Progress in The Millennium, written by E. Ike Udogu African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2021-01-08 Augustine Adu Frimpong,Noah Kankam Kwarteng
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Analysis on the Supply Willingness of Mortgage Loan of Farmland Management Right under the Government-Led Mode in China Western’s Region African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2020-12-17 Rong Niu,Xiao Yan
AbstractIn this paper, the Probit model was established based on the survey data of 105 loan officers in China’s Western Region, and the factors influencing the willingness of mortgage loan supply of farmland management rights under the government-led model were investigated from the perspective of financial supply. The research shows that farmers’ income, farmers’ policy awareness, farmland scale
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Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor, written by Saad, Layla F. Stories from the front of the Room: How Higher Education Faculty of Colour Overcome Challenges and Thrive in The Academy, written by Harris, Michelle, Sherril L. Sellers, Orly Clerge, and Frederick W. Gooding Jr. Diversity Regimes: Why Talk is Not Enough to Fix Racial Inequality at Universities African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Kwadwo S. Alex Assensoh
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Empirical Analysis of Demand for Real Money Balances in Africa: Panel Evidence from Nigeria and Ghana African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Chigozie Nelson Nkalu
AbstractThis study investigates demand for real money balances in Africa using panel time-series data from Nigeria and Ghana between 1970 and 2014. The study employs Levin, Lin, Chu common unit root process and Pedroni Residual Cointegration Test which the results reveal that all the variables in the model are stationary and cointegrated respectively. Data sourced from the World Development Indicators
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Global Perspectives on Violence against Women and Girls, written by Tamsin Bradley African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Doyin Coker-Kolo
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Does Terrorism Scare Tourism Away from South Asia and Africa? African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Bilal Mehmood,Saddam Ilyas,Muhammad Aleem
AbstractDuring times when terrorism is eroding almost all industries of victim economies, tourism industry is thought to be much prone to it. This paper investigates the long run relationship between terrorism and tourism for South Asian and African countries separately, allowing us to compare the results of the two regions. Long run relationship is analyzed via dynamic panel techniques (PMG, MG and
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Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa, written by Franklin Obeng-Odoom African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Samuel K. Andoh
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Cattle Droppings Litter Our City Roads: Herders’ Encroachments, Risk Factors and Roadmap for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Victor Chidubem Iwuoha
AbstractHerders-farmers violent conflicts and flare-ups have spread throughout central and southern communities in Nigeria, but exclude the urban areas. I examine ‘herders – urban residents’ conflicts. Herders roam their cattle from outskirts to city roads, disrupting traffic and leaving behind trails of excrement and offensive smells causing dangerous nuisance. I argue that the new practice of cattle
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Assessing Barack Obama’s African Policy: Suggestions For Him And African Leaders, written by Abdul Karim Bangura African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2020-12-07 Damien Ejigiri,Augustine Adu Frimpong
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Traditional Attenuation of Inequality: Neutral Meaning of Body Size among the Yorùbá of Southwestern Nigeria African and Asian Studies (IF 0.25) Pub Date : 2020-10-08 Fausat M. Ibrahim,Ayodele S. Jegede
AbstractBody size is a profound ground of inequality in modern global society. Moreover, constructions of body size are racially polarized, with blacks being reputed for venerating large body. Proceeding with a triangulation of qualitative methods, this phenomenological study featured forty-two in-depth interviews, eight focus group discussions and eighteen key informant interviews among men and women