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Published: 01 October 2023
Figure 1. Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain, Congo River, Belgian Congo, 1944. Courtesy of Stanford University Special Collections, Stanford, CA. More
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Published: 01 October 2022
Figure 5. Congo Square , archival pigment print, 36 × 24 in, 2018. Courtesy of Amanda Russhell Wallace. More
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Published: 01 October 2023
Figure 2. Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain, Belgian Congo, 1944. Courtesy of Stanford University Special Collections, Stanford, CA. More
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Published: 01 October 2023
Figure 3. Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain, Belgian Congo, 1944. Courtesy of Stanford University Special Collections, Stanford, CA. More
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 348–373.
Published: 01 October 2023
...Figure 1. Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain, Congo River, Belgian Congo, 1944. Courtesy of Stanford University Special Collections, Stanford, CA. ...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 436–454.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Figure 5. Congo Square , archival pigment print, 36 × 24 in, 2018. Courtesy of Amanda Russhell Wallace. ...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 231–239.
Published: 01 October 2023
... anthropologist Madeleine Comhaire-Sylvain’s complex positionality as an elite, Afro-descendant feminist critic of the U.S. occupation in Haiti who spends years working and living among the white Belgian colonizers of the Congo because of her marriage to white Belgian anthropologist Jean Comhaire. Sanders...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 291–297.
Published: 01 October 2021
..., Switzerland, Chad, Congo-Brazzaville, and Sri Lanka (Bakht 2020 : 116–22). Regional bans of the niqab or bans affecting certain sectors such as the receipt of public services or voting have been enacted in Canada, Spain, Italy, Germany, Syria, Cameroon, Tunisia, Algeria, Niger, China, and India (Bakht 2020...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 338–358.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of Angola that is separated from the rest of the country by the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda (FLEC) has sought independence from two external powers since 1963: from Portugal until 1975 and, after that, from the Luanda government after Angolan...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 157–200.
Published: 01 September 2004
... with the male protagonist Marlow's journey away from the heart of the British empire, London, to the Congo, and ends with his eventual return to the original point of his departure. In this case, Marlow's outward journey parallels his internal spiritual quest, through which he gains new perspectives on himself...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 353–381.
Published: 01 March 2017
... found her. The anger I felt toward the Portuguese drove me to join other guerrillas in Congo-Brazzaville. This was around 1971/2. My mother never returned because the police killed her after she was accused of strangling an officer she suspected shot my brother. War makes you do crazy things.is Even...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 1–13.
Published: 01 April 2024
... Indigeneity in the Americas. Submissions focused on New Zealand, Australia, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, South Africa, Indonesia, India, the Philippines, Palestine, Kashmir, Okinawa, and Ainu were especially of interest to us, as our call for submissions indicated, and we solicited...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 195–208.
Published: 01 March 2006
... Inclinations of Flora Nwapa." AfricanLiteraturTeoday 19: IOI. Campbell, Jan. 2000. ArguingwiththePhallus:FeminisQt ueerandPostcoloniaTlheory. London: Zed Books. de Boeck, Filip. 1998. "Beyond the Grave: History, Memory and Death in Postcolonial Congo/Zaire...
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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 September 2005
... it became trapped in the conflict within the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where it vied with the equally determined ruling classes of Rwanda, Uganda, and Angola over the immense wealth of that wretched country-thereby adding to the already explosive mix of unresolved national issues in Zimbabwe...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 330–352.
Published: 01 March 2017
... in Nigeria or the rape of women in war in the Congo. And the denial of rights to women is not symmetrical; it can be taken as an index to persisting problems." (2015, 18). n. Onwueme might be presenting Wazobia's pacifism as a deliberate contrast to the military exploits of powerful women rulers in Nigeria...
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): 28–51.
Published: 01 March 2001
... specialists and health agencies have flagged militarized prostitution as an increasing area for concern. 3 Furthermore, while only a few studies have addressed militarized prostitution in African countries in the past, the recent deployment ofuN peacekeeping troops in Congo and Sierra Leone has led...
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 September 2015
... feminist lawyers and activists and scholars over the years, speaks to the kind of issues that the legal instrument was designed to address, particularly contemporary issues like the abduction of young women from school by Boko Haram in Nigeria or the rape of women in war in the Congo. And the denial...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 401–426.
Published: 01 October 2020
... of the Congo’s recent past. Mbembe also sees this music as performing a hopeful function, however. He continues: “To dance in a regime of the ugly and the abject, is to rid oneself, in an instant, of the labour of the slave” (43). Mbembe gives voice here to how in the Congolese tradition music at once offers...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 158–184.
Published: 01 April 2022
... and sounds of carabiné , la mangulina , la salve , la bambula , el merengue típico , congo , gagá , and palos with hip hop, reggae, rock, jazz, and pop music (Guerrero 2011 ). 1 Her career has emerged in different waves over the last four decades. Although she found recognition for her music...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 263–294.
Published: 01 April 2024
.../710807 . Hunt Nancy Rose . 1999 . A Colonial Lexicon: Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Iwenwanne Valentine . 2019 . “ Training for Quality Delivery: Brown Button’s Drive to Improve TBAs Skills in Lagos .” Nigeria...