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AIDS and STDs in Africa: Bridging the Gap between Traditional Healing and Modern Medicine

Book by Edward C. Green; Westview Press, 1994

Subjects:

Aids (Disease)--Africa, Sexually Transmitted Diseases--Africa, Traditional Medicine--Africa

Collections: Entire Library

...STDs: The Domain of Traditional African Medicine , 13...Developing Roles for South African Traditional Healers in HIV/AIDS Prevention...Second Generation" of South African Traditional Healers Trained in HIV/AIDS...
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African Traditional Religion in South Africa: An Annotated Bibliography

Book by David Chidester, Chirevo Kwenda, Robert Petty, Judy Tobler, Darrel Wratten; Greenwood Press, 1997

Subjects:

Blacks--South Africa--Religion--Bibliography, South Africa--Religion--Bibliography

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

In a changing South Africa, recovering the meaning and power of African tradition is a matter of crucial importance. This work participates in that recovery by providing a comprehensive guide to research on the indigenous religious heritage of this dynamic country. Detailed reviews of over 600 ...
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In a changing South Africa, recovering the meaning and power of African tradition is a matter of crucial importance. This work participates in that recovery by providing a comprehensive guide to research on the indigenous religious heritage of this dynamic country. Detailed reviews of over 600 books, articles, and theses are offered along with introductory essays and detailed annotations that define the field of study. This work plus two forthcoming volumes, Christianity in South Africa: An Annotated Bibliography and Islam, Hinduism, and Judaism in South Africa: An Annotated Bibliography will become the standard reference work on South African religions. Scholars and students in Religious Studies, Social Anthropology, History, and African Studies will find this set particularly useful.
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African Philosophy, Culture, and Traditional Medicine

Book by M. Akin Makinde; Ohio University Center for International Studies, 1988

Subjects:

Africa, Sub-Saharan--Civilization, Philosophy, African, Traditional Medicine--Africa, Sub-Saharan

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...5. AFRICAN TRADITIONAL MEDICINE: PRINCIPLES...REMARKS 109 APPENDIX. African Traditional Practice Among the Yoruba...theoretical foundations of traditional African medicine, especially among...
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Imagining Africa: Landscape in H. Rider Haggard's African Romances

Book by Lindy Stiebel; Greenwood Press, 2001

Subjects:

Africa--In Literature, English Literature--African Influences, Haggard, H. Rider--(Henry Rider)--1856-1925--Knowledge--Africa, Landscape In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...awareness of the gendering of Africa as woman, and the colonial subject and...Haggards map is a bodyscape of Africa as woman (as I shall later discuss), the...particularly inflamed description of Africa-as-woman in Winwood Reades Savage Africa...
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Africa in the United Nations System

Book by Wellington W. Nyangoni; Associated University Presses, 1985

Subjects:

Africa--Foreign Relations--1960-, Africa--Politics And Government--1960-, Organization Of African Unity, United Nations--Africa

Collections: History, Entire Library

Africa in the United Nations System Africa in the United Nations System Wellington W. Nyangoni Rutherford...Cataloging in Publication Data Nyangoni, Wellington Winter. Africa in the United Nations system. Bibliography: p. Includes index...

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Traditional Medicine, Biomedicine and Christianity in Modern Zambia

Journal article by Kaori Sugishita; Africa, Vol. 79, 2009

Subjects:

Developing countries--Health aspects, Occultism--Health aspects, Traditional African medicine--Research

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...chimuntu, African (black mans...so that traditional medicine...a young woman consulted...rationalization, African traditional healers do...patient to try African medicine...dreams. The woman, therefore...problems tried traditional medicine...
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Woman-to-Woman Marriage: Practices and Benefits in Sub-Saharan Africa

Journal article by R. Jean Cadigan; Journal of Comparative Family Studies, Vol. 29, 1998

Subjects:

Same-sex marriage--Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa--Social aspects, Women, Black--Family

Collections: Entire Library

...OCCURRENCE OF WOMAN-TO-WOMAN MARRIAGE Barrenness...Given that in many African societies a womans traditional social obligation...indeed this may traditionally be true of wives in woman-to-woman marriages throughout Africa. Certainly among...
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Mode, Melody, and Harmony in Traditional Afro-Cuban Music: From Africa to Cuba

Journal article by Peter Manuel, Orlando Fiol; Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 27, 2007

Subjects:

Afro-Cubanism--Social aspects, Folk music--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...various places in Africa, of harmonizing...practices were traditional in his youth...in which the woman singing in parallel...side, but on the African side as well...the realm of traditional Yoruba music...of Afro-Cuban traditional music. What was...transmitted intact from Africa? What are the...
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Socio-economic Differentiation in the Trade of Wildlife Species for Traditional Medicines in the Lowveld, South Africa: Implications for Resource Management Initiatives

Journal article by Jenny Botha, Ed T. F Witkowski, Charlie M. Shackleton, Dean H. K Fairbanks; International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology, Vol. 11, 2004

Collections: Entire Library

...their husbands; the remainder were traditional healers. Men often acquire business...horizons, although in parts of South Africa this is changing (Preston-Whyte and Nene 1984). In this study, only one woman travelled to Mozambique to purchase...
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Jesus and the Samaritan Woman (Jn 4:1-42) in Africa

Journal article by Teresa Okure; Theological Studies, Vol. 70, 2009

Subjects:

Bible. N.T. John (Sacred work)--Criticism and interpretation, Christian theology--Analysis, Jesus Christ--Portrayals, Samaritans--Portrayals

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...intertextual. I will first situate Jesus and the woman in their context and then examine their encounter in Samaria before taking them to Africa where they will feel very much at home...Nazareth of Galilee" directly challenges the traditional view that prophets do not arise from Galilee...

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The Witches of Gambaga: Belief in Witchcraft Is Still Widespread in Africa, and Being Accused of Its Practice Can Be a Death Sentence. and with Traditional Gender Roles Being Challenged, Such Accusations Are Becoming Increasingly Common. Simon De Trey-White Visits a Camp in Ghana That Has Housed 'Convicted' Witches for More Than 200 Years

Magazine article by Simon De Trey-White; Geographical, Vol. 78, August 2006

Subjects:

Africa--Domestic policy, Africa--Social aspects, Ghana--Domestic policy, Ghana--Social aspects, Rural women--Crimes against, Witchcraft--Myths and legends

Collections: Entire Library

...Death Sentence. and with Traditional Gender Roles Being Challenged...is widespread across Africa, thriving in regions...she didnt relent." The woman died of her illness...their attitudes towards traditional gender roles. Mamprusi...confident and cheerful woman in her 50s. She had...
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First Black Woman Consul General in South Africa

Magazine article by D. Michael Cheers; Ebony, Vol. 51, January 1996

Subjects:

African American women--Biography, Bridgewater, Pamela--Foreign relations, Diplomats--Foreign relations, South Africa--Relations with the United States, United States--Relations with South Africa

Collections: Entire Library

...November are guests at her residence for a traditional Thanksgiving feast with turkey and all...Christmas she took ethnic dolls donated by an African-American businesswoman to terminally...named her the first African-American woman to be appointed to the consulate. During...
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White Teachers/black Schools: Stories from Apartheid South Africa

Magazine article by Alan Wieder; Multicultural Education, Vol. 8, Summer 2001

Subjects:

Activism, Apartheid, Cohen, Jeff, Educators, Hicks, Pam, Jackson, Rose, Liknaitzky, Barry, McLagan, Beth, Oral history, Race, South Africa, Teaching

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...tells her story of being a black woman in South Africa and relates her journey as a teacher...a very different year in South Africa because there were intense student...Girls High School, a middle class traditional white school. There is some irony...
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China in Africa: Why the West Is Worried

Magazine article; New African, March 2008

Subjects:

Africa--Economic aspects, China--Economic aspects, Intergovernmental relations--Economic aspects, Intergovernmental relations--History

Collections: Entire Library

...opposed to those emanating from Africas traditional European and American partners. For example...to double its development assistance to Africa by 2009; put in place a $5bn loan and...attractive again, just like a pretty young woman being assiduously courted by many admirers...
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The China-Africa Partnership: Working for Whom?

Magazine article by Chris Rowan; Contemporary Review, Vol. 291, Spring 2009

Subjects:

Africa--Economic aspects, Africa--International relations, China--Economic aspects, China--International relations, International relations

Collections: Entire Library

...acting in concert to protect the sea lanes off the coast of Africa. China has recently become involved. On December 26th, The...ships and the motives behind the Chinese navy leaving its traditional role. Some see the Chinese as taking part in a worldwide effort...

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THE SCOTS QUEEN OF AFRICA; Strong Spirit: Mary Slessor, above Was Determined to Do Things Her Own Way, Far from the Traditional Image of Missionaries in Nigeria, Left

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 1, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Far from the Traditional Image of Missionaries...River in West Africa, theenormity...is the only woman to appear on...people in West Africa remember her as the woman who took on...West Coast of Africa, who told of...a Christian woman at the timeto...
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AIDS Work Takes Woman from South Eugene to South Africa

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), November 29, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

AIDS Work Takes Woman from South Eugene to South Africa. Byline: Jeff Wright The Register-Guard For virtually...system of migrant labor, Reynolds says. But South Africas traditional patriarchy, leaving women with little power to defend themselves...
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BEWARE! MADONNA; When She'rescued'a Baby Boy from Malawi, Madonna Said He Would Have a Better Life Here. Read the Deeply Moving Story of a Woman Also Adopted from Africa and Raised in Britain - and Decide If the Star Is Right

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 17, 2006

Subjects:

Comedians

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...amazing. We sat down to a lunch of traditional African food - jerk chicken. Each mouthful...Why didnt they just leave me in Africa when I was better? Or had they...sort of life would I have led in Africa? Im 36, but being born into Nigeria...
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CAGED IN THE HUMAN ZOO; Millions Came to Gawp at him.Ayoung Pygmy Warrior, Snatched from Africa and Put on Show in a Monkey House. the Shocking Story of History's Most Shameful Tourist Attraction - and How It Fuelled Hitler's Twisted Belief in Racial Supremacy

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 31, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...adult man, preferably his son. One adult woman, the wife of the last or daughter of the...Duly detailed, Verner set off for deepest Africa. He knew that this operation could be...were made to build native houses, perform traditional dance ceremonies, live partially naked...
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Bush 'At Home' with Allies in Africa; Wraps Up Tour with Stop in Liberia

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 22, 2008

Subjects:

Bush, Laura

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...leader, who was elected in 2005 and is the first woman to govern an African nation, share a warm relationship. Mr. Bush "feels...surprises at all." President Bush was greeted by traditional dancers before a lunch in Monrovia, Liberia. The...

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Liberia

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...challenge of the vote. Sirleaf became the first woman to be elected president of an African nation. At the same time a new national legislature...Liberia (2 vol., 1947); P. J. Staudenraus, The African Colonization Movement, 1816 1865 (1961); C...
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France

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...trying to hide from the police, nighttime riots by persons of African and Arab descent occurred in suburbs of Paris, spread to other...Socialists had earlier nominated Segolene Royal , the first woman to be a major party candidate for the office. Sarkozy led the...
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United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...as his running mate; she was the first woman to gain a major partys vice presidential...including Sandra Day OConnor , the first woman to serve on the high court. Bush, Clinton...and politically. The severe decline of traditional manufacturing which began in the 1970s...

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