A Single Bangle Does Not Jingle: The Twinning Imperative of Ubuntu by Nokuthula Hlabangane

“…The paper taps into the lived ethos of abantu to argue that decolonisation as a reflection of the lifeways central to the cosmic rhythm is not far off even within the patriarchal, western-centric, colonial Africa. In this way, the ubiquity of the capitalist, instrumentalist, rational reason is routinely undermined as higher ideals are lived, heralding beauty in the desert.…”
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Agroindústria canavieira e formação territorial paulista: do engenho escravista à usina de açúcar e álcool (1530-1930) by Rodolfo A. M. Pelegrin

“…This article discusses the development of the sugar cane agroindustry and its relations with the territorial formation of São Paulo state, from the installation of the Portuguese colonial company to the constitution of the mill model that characterizes the sector in the 20th century. …”
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Tutti i colori del verde. Il ruolo del verde urbano nei processi di cittadinanza nella città di Bolzano by Roberta Raffaetà

“…This article analyses how the perception and the practices related to urban green in the city of Bolzano (north-Italy) are implicated in processes of citizenship and ethnic identity, with special reference to colonial invasion of the area since the end of first world war. …”
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Studies on quality of butter consumed in elazığ by Bahri Patır, Abamüslüm Güven, Sürewa Saltan

“…The average values were, total viable aerob colony 9.1x10⁵/g coliforms 4.1010⁴/g, enterococcus 9.1x10⁴/g., proteolytlc 4 1x10⁵/g, lipolytic 7.4x10⁵/g, psychrophillc 3.9x10⁵/g. yeasts and molds 9.0x10⁵/g. …”
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The Pattern of Social Changes in the Samin Community and Its Influencing Factors by Muhamad Arif, Abdul Ghofur, Dhanang Respati Puguh

“…First, there is a regressive pattern of social change in the Samin community during the colonial period, with the Dutch colonialists taking over teak forests in 1890, forcing the Samin community to leave the forest, becoming a closed society, and developing a unique tradition. …”
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A business attribute correlation multi-path routing algorithm based on SDN architecture by Xiang YU, Mingmin YI, Lu YANG

“…Currently,most of the routing algorithms support only one QoS parameter,and do not consider the fairness of system scheduling service.Obviously,multi-parameters constrains problem is NP hard problem,it is impossible to solve this kind of problem by traditional routing algorithms.The routing thought from ant colony algorithm（ACO）was introduced.On the basis of the ACO,and combined with the business attributes of traffic flow,a new algorithm was put forward which introduced the delay and packet loss into the ACO,as a dependence of routing.In new algorithm,which according to the real-time status of network,the suitable routing was chosen for different types traffic and forward by multi-path base on the classification of traffic flows.The experiment shows that this algorithm can decrease the delay and packet loss effectively.…”
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Migrer et réveiller les Églises : Diversification des cultes chrétiens en Tunisie by Katia Boissevain

“…In this Muslim country where the history of the Churches is embedded in colonial history, playing host to African Christians contributes to complicate identity and religious affiliations. …”
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Shifting Fatherhood and Gender: Negotiating Power and Sexuality in Yoruba by Oluwasola Daniels

“…Thus, with specific focus on Àkókó, this paper discusses gender in pre-colonial marital practices. It argues that while some of these practices made fatherhood fluid and accrued uncommon agency to women, others framed women in taboo and sexuality. …”
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Il y a un siècle, le mouvement pour le suffrage des femmes en Irlande by Máire Cross

“…It explains the reasons for the invisibility of the suffrage question even though many women took part in Irish social and political campaigns north and south in Ireland at a critical time in the relationship with her neighbour and colonial power, Great Britain. National questions shaped the struggle, the outcome of gender relations in partitioned Ireland and overshadowed the writing of history.…”
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Contra los «vicios y corruptelas» del foro tradicional, el funcionario militar by Alina Castellanos Rubio

“…Various examples, both normative and institutional, are mobilised to analyse the relationship between the two institutional imaginaries – the traditional and the liberal – in both the peninsula and the colonial Caribbean.…”
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La maison de la Harpiste et son décor à Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône) : nouvelles données sur l’occupation tardo-républicaine d’Arelate by Marie-Pierre Rothé, Julien Boislève, Sébastien Barberan

“…Since 2013 the excavations carried out on the site of La Verrerie, situated on the right bank of the river Rhône, completely changed the issue concerning the urban plan and about the transition from the Protohistoric town to the Roman ruled colony set up in 46 or 45 BC, but also the question raised by the import of Italic know-how in Gaul, detected through the plan, architecture and decoration of a house dated to the first half of the 1st c. …”
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Rum, Gin and Maize: Deities and Ritual Change in the Gold Coast during the Atlantic Era (16th century to 1850) by Emmanuel Akyeampong, Samuel A. Ntewusu

“…This paper examines the incorporation of rum and gin as powerful spiritual drinks in pre-colonial Gold Coast, particularly in the context of state formation and warfare, and the growing importance of maize, side by side with the indigenous yam, as the food of gods. …”
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Development of the Understanding of Development: Critical Book Review of “Imagining the Post-Development Era” by Mehdi Hajamini, Mohammad Ali Aboutorabi

“…Meanwhile, perspectives of Dependency and Post-development regard other perspectives as a set of pessimistic, homological, and colonial theories, and called them “Theories of Western Development” and rejected them. …”
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Fifty years that changed the international status of the Portuguese language by Margarita Correia

“…To fulfil this objective, the paper presents significant factors that I consider to have been crucial to this dramatic change in the status of the Portuguese language: geopolitical changes, the post-colonial geolinguistic panorama, the growth of education and literacy, the use of Portuguese in international organisations, and economic growth. …”
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History, propaganda, and glory in the early Dominican chronicles of the Philippines by Jorge Mojarro

“…Without exception, all missionary orders engaged in producing these complex texts, which formed part of the typical literary genres of colonial literature. The historical nature of ecclesiastical chronicles fluctuated between furnishing exact information and omitting specific facts while displaying certain narrative strategies that served the ultimate goal of the Dominican friars. …”
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¿Materia de España ? Imaginarios nacionales y persistencia del estereotipo español en la cultura francesa (1898-1936) by Ferran Archilés Cardona

“…Between 1898 and 1936 (that is to say between the colonial disaster of the War of Cuba and the beginning of the Civil War) in French culture a stereotype of the Spanish was maintained, whose origins lie in the construction of the romantic myth in the 19th century. …”
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Et si la Grande Guerre commençait en 1911 ? L’entrée en guerre vue d’Alexandrie by Elena Chiti

“…In fact, the weakening of the Ottoman Empire was seen with anxiety, not only since 1914, but after the Italian invasion of Tripoli in 1911. This colonial occupation of an Ottoman province seems to be the real turning point. …”
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Evaluation of Cereals and Pseudocereals Suitability for the Development of New Probiotic Foods by Monika Kocková, Monika Dilongová, Eva Hybenová, L’ubomír Valík

“…A mixture of each cereal and pseudocereal samples with water (10% w/v) was inoculated after sterilization with coequal number of Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG, to obtain approximately 5-6 log colony form units per gram of suspensions. Fermentation was led at 37°C during 10 hours. …”
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Disputed Translations from The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros (2015) Reconsidered: Some Notes on Gǝʿǝz Philology by Michael Kleiner

“… The present article was prompted by Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes’s ‘Colonial Rewriting of African History: Misinterpretations and Distortions in Belcher and Kleiner’s Life and Struggles of Walatta Petros’ as published in a special issue of the Journal of Afroasiatic Languages, History and Culture in the fall of 2020. …”
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Le corps au cœur de la prison coloniale au Dahomey (1894-1945) by Bénédicte Brunet-La Ruche

“…With the conquest of West Africa in the late 19th century, the prison became the main penalty as much as a colonial management tool, far from metropolitan penitentiary principles. …”
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