The UNHCR and the Management of Liberian Refugees in Nigeria, 1990-2007 by Olusesi Adewunmi OSUNKOYA

“…Nigeria was major host country of Liberian refugees in West Africa in particular and Africa in general during this period of study. …”
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Ramas, familles, réseaux. Les supports sociaux de la diffusion de la santería cubaine (Cuba-Mexique) by Kali Argyriadis

“…Cuban santería is following a global trend towards transnationalisation, like all of the other so-called Afro-American religions, currently found in West Africa, Europe and across the American continent. …”
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Des pratiques pastorales plurimillénaires expliquées à la lumière des découvertes récentes sur les hormones by Anne-Marie Brisebarre

“…I will provide a few examples of these manipulations of the animals’ bodies during birth or milking, observed in France, Morocco and West Africa, before discussing specialised publications from recent decades that shed light on the physiological mechanisms at play, particularly the role of oxytocin, “the attachment hormone”, whose liberation these practices encourage.…”
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The Ivory Saltcellars: A contribution to the history of Islamic expansion in Greater Senegambia during the 16th and 17th centuries by Thiago H. Mota

“…This article aims to discuss Islamic expansion in West Africa during the 16th and 17th centuries along with carved ivory production. …”
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Le timide reboisement des paysans ghanéens by Stefano Boni

“…The paper describes the ongoing attempts towards reforestation on farmland in the forest belt of Ghana, West Africa. After a century of predatory exploitation of the environment which has seen the forest cover almost completely disappear, in the last decade the NGOs and the Ghanaian government have intensified their attempts to regenerate a forest cover in the southern half of Ghana. …”
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An Archaeological Study of Early Farming Settlements on Iresi Hills by Olusegun Akanni Opadeji

“…Tis paper reports the occupation in Iresi, in southwest Nigeria with a view to fill the gap in the chronology and to interrogate the evidence for Late Stone Age in terms of the culture that existed in between 12000YBP of Iwo Eleru and 2000YBP of Itaakpa and the influence of a change in environment of southwest Nigeria and West Africa in general.   …”
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Un grin de jeunesse ? by Anna Dessertine

“…Based on an ethnographic study in a Malinké village in north-east Guinea, this article considers the question of what constitutes youth in the context of rural West Africa. It examines gatherings of young men for tea, grins, to show how youth is above all relational, and that it develops in specific practices according to the interactions of individuals of one same age set (kari) with individuals of a different generation, in the village or while migrating, particularly in the region’s artisanal gold mines. …”
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Behavioural Risk for HIV, Hepatitis B, and Hepatitis C Infections among a Population of Drug Users and Injectors across Four Regions in Ghana by Chris Guure, Sharren Margaret Obiri-Yeboah Laryea, Samuel Dery, Carlota Baptista da Silva, Comfort Asamoah-Adu, Stephen Ayisi-Addo, Maria-Goretti Loglo, Adamu Mohammed, Kwasi Torpey

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Youth as actors and mediators in Tuareg theater and social life (Urban Niger and Mali) by Susan Rasmussen

“…In northern Niger and Mali, West Africa, droughts, settling of some nomads in towns, return of labor migrants, marginal employment, and recurrent armed conflicts have prompted different generations of Tuareg (also known as Kel Tamajaq, or “people who speak Tamajaq”)—traditionally semi-nomadic, stratified, and predominantly Muslim—to reflect on dangers and opportunities for the different generations in these upheavals. …”
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Events and Happenings: Uncommon Meals and the Atlantic Trade at 18th century Juffure (The Gambia) by Liza Gijanto

“…The arrival of the Portuguese on the West African coast in the mid-15th century reoriented the centre of trade relative to the European market in West Africa. In the Senegambia this was manifested as a shift in the concentration of wealth from polities connected to the interior Saharan markets to the newly emerging commercial centres on the coast oriented towards the Atlantic. …”
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Critical Examination of International Law Theories by Adama Aloysious Gross

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Dynamical System Analysis and Optimal Control Measures of Lassa Fever Disease Model by Ifeanyi Sunday Onah, Obiora Cornelius Collins, Praise-God Uchechukwu Madueme, Godwin Christopher Ezike Mbah

“…This disease is endemic in parts of West Africa including Benin, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria. …”
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Arguing sovereignty in Songhay by Bruce S. Hall

“…Nonetheless, the historiography of pre-colonial states in Sahelian West Africa, and of Islam’s role in these political formations, retains an attachment to a particular model of statehood derived from Arabic geographies and chronicles. …”
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Étudiants, sitters, nouchi et bakoroman by Muriel Champy

“…Firstly, this contribution offers successive accounts of three ethnographies concerning “young people”, in Burkina Faso (Jacinthe Mozzocchetti, 2008, Être étudiant à Ouagadougou : itinérances, imaginaire et précarité), in Gambia (Paolo Gaibazzi, 2015, Bush Bound: Young Men and Rural Permanence in Migrant West Africa) and in the Ivory Coast (Sasha Newell, 2012, The Modernity Bluff: Crime, Consumption and Citizenship in Côte d’Ivoire). …”
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Type II Acute Macular Neuroretinopathy Secondary to Malaria by Alastair David Bezzina, Jeremy Spiteri Bailey, Isaac Bertuello

“…To the best of our knowledge, we present the first case of type II acute macular neuroretinopathy (AMN) exhibiting in a patient suffering from malarial retinopathy concomitant with cerebral malaria acquired after travelling to West Africa without taking the necessary antimalarial prophylaxis. …”
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Insights into Fertility Variability in Africa: A Path Toward Achieving the SDGs by Nelson Doe Dzivor, Alice C. Mensah, Edith Mensah, Moses Odamtten

“…Results: The results of the study show that there are significant differences in the TFR across Africa’s regional blocks (North, West, East, Central, and Southern Africa), with Central and West Africa showing the highest rates and North Africa having the lowest. …”
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Frontline Leadership in Communicating Organizational Policies and its Mediating Influence on Employee Commitment in Nonprofit Organizations in Monrovia, Liberia by Frank O. Bannor, Derrick O. Deya, Josephine Ganu

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APOPTOSIS IN CITY SYSTEMS: A BIOMIMETIC APPROACH TO CITY REGENERATION by Stephen Ajadi

“…The biomimetic approach to the study of city mutations is tailored to provide a design and management platform that attempts to predict and/or manage unanticipated shifts of settlements within city systems at various levels of urban and architectural schemes in West Africa, especially Nigeria. …”
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Constructions territoriales et dynamiques patrimoniales dans le périurbain de Porto-Novo (Bénin) by Cédric Tafuri

“…The Porto-Novo region in West Africa is part of a growing conurbation in South-Eastern Benin. …”
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Who Owns the Central Mosque? Ethnic Identity and the Struggle for Spiritual Space in Epe, Southwest Nigeria by Moruff Mudasiru

“… Religion and ethnicity are core attributes of identity in West Africa, and the majority of the population defines itself in relation to these values. …”
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