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A new dispute about the ownership of Karelian laments emerged in Finland in 2021. The severely endangered Karelian language is the closest relative of Finnish. Karelian laments were brought into new Finnish contexts during the late twentieth century by…

Igbo burial songs and rites through the framework of cultural cognition is the focus of this study. The Igbo ethnic group of South-eastern Nigeria are religious people who believe in the mutual and peaceful co-existence of dichotomous categories such a…

This paper focuses on the concept of well-being as expressed in the context of local architecture and the changes that have taken place in this area among the Bulsa in northern Ghana. Anthropologists and sociologists have argued that the essence of loc…

This paper on the Covid-19 pandemic in Nigeria. Based on sociological perspectives, the main objective of the paper is to examine and measure the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on: (i) income (ii) quality of life and (iii) standard of living in Nigeri…

This study pays attention to indigenous medicine practices and healing among the Dagaaba of North-Western Ghana. Based on Dagaaba’s theories of traditional medicine and qualitative sources of data, we confirm and further argue that the indigenous tradi…

The study examined the influence of cultural variables, namely age of entering into marriage, belief systems and sex preference on fertility behaviour among women in Nigeria. Preference theory was adopted as a framework for explaining fertility behavio…

In South Africa, skills development is the cornerstone of the government’s developmental strategy on which economic growth rests; rising unemployment and the skills shortage has added urgency to the issue. Before 1994, vocational education and training…

This study illustrates the significance of water for the Murle people of South Sudan. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork, we analyse traditional practices and metaphorical expressions in the spontaneous speech of male members of the laŋo age-set. We s…

This article examines Ryan Coogler’s film Black Panther (2018) and the critical conversations it raises, which are problematized by its perceived failure to accurately represent Black diasporic experiences, the racist vitriol against it and its concern…

In Zimbabwe, images of the female body in fiction and the media are gradually shifting from being interpreted as merely sexualized objects of male visual consumption to those of resistance to and defiance against sexist objectification, exploitation, a…

This book review focuses on Toyin Falola’s 2022 study entitled Nigerian Literary Imagination and the Nationhood Project. The review draws attention to how Falola historicises the evolution of Nigerian literature and its representation of national reali…

Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. With most existing research on party switching concentrating on the drivers of defection and the electoral performance of defectors, this research sheds light on the events that occurred after MPs switched parties but b…

Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. In the mid-2000s, Uganda’s authoritarian National Resistance Movement (NRM) regime set out to extend state control over Karamoja, a long-neglected region in the northeast of the country. This effort has involved large-s…