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Archaeology of African plant use /

Table of Contents: “…Stevens and Mary Anne Murray -- Primate archaeobotany: the potential for revealing nonhuman primate plant-use in the African archaeological record / Michael Haslam -- Dietary diversity: our species-specific dietary adaptation / Gordon Hillman and Michèle Wollstonecroft -- Seeds at Sibudu: a glimpse of Middle Stone Age vegetation at Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa / Christine Sievers -- Understanding late and terminal Pleistocene vegetation change in the Western Cape, South Africa: the wood charcoal evidence from Elands Bay Cave / Caroline Cartwright, John Parkington and Richard Cowling -- Early millet farmers in the Lower Tilemsi Valley, Northeastern Mali / Katie Manning and Dorian Q. Fuller -- Holocene vegetation change and land use at Ounjougou, Mali / Barbara Eichhorn and Katharina Neumann -- Early agro-pastoralism in the Middle Senegal Valley: the botanical remains from Walaldé / Shawn Sabrina Murray and Alioune Déme -- Humans and the mangrove in southern Nigeria / Emuobosa Akpo Orijemie and M. …”
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Twins in African and diaspora cultures double trouble, twice blessed /

Table of Contents: “…Peek -- Twins and double beings among the Bamana and Maninka of Mali / Pascal James Imperato and Gavin H. Imperato -- Twins and intertwinement : reflections on ambiguity and ambivalence in northwestern Namibia / Steven Van Wolputte -- Sustaining the oneness in their twoness : poetics of twin figures (ère ìbejì) among the Yoruba / Babatunde Lawal -- "Son dos los jimagüas" ("the twins are two") : worship of the sacred twins in Lucumí religious culture / Ysamur Flores-Pena -- Twins, couples, and doubles and the negotiation of spirit-human identities among the Win / Susan Cooksey -- Double portraits : images of twinness in West African studio photography / C. …”
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Accountable government in Africa perspectives from public law and political studies /

Table of Contents: “…/ Neo Simutanyi -- Judicial independence and the judicialisation of electoral politics in Malawi and Uganda / Siri Gloppen & Fidelis Kanyongolo -- From parliamentary supremacy to judicial review: relations between parliament and the judiciary in Tanzania / Jwani Mwaikusa -- Judicial review of parliamentary actions in South Africa: a nuanced interpretation of the separation of powers / Hugh Corder -- Prosecutions, politics and the law: the way things are / Philip Stenning -- The civilianisation of prosecutorial services in Tanzania / Sifuni Mchome -- Accountable governance and the role of national human rights institutions: the experience of the Malawi human rights commission / Danwood Chirwa & Redson Kapindu -- Balancing independence and accountability: the role of Chapter 9 institutions in South Africa's constitutional democracy / Pierre De Vos -- Accountability compromised: floor crossing in Malawi and South Africa / Lia Nijzink -- Democracy within political parties: the state of affairs in East and southern Africa / Augustine Magolowondo -- Political parties in Malawi: an accountability analysis / Nandini Patel -- Family matters: the interplay between formal and informal incentives for accountability in Mali's local communities / Martin van Vliet -- Understanding local forms of accountability: initial findings from Ghana and Malawi / Diana Cammack -- External accountability meets accountability assistance: the case of legislative strengthening in Africa / Peter Burnell.…”
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Twins in African and diaspora cultures double trouble, twice blessed /

Table of Contents: “…Peek -- Twins and double beings among the Bamana and Maninka of Mali / Pascal James Imperato and Gavin H. Imperato -- Twins and intertwinement : reflections on ambiguity and ambivalence in northwestern Namibia / Steven Van Wolputte -- Sustaining the oneness in their twoness : poetics of twin figures (ère ìbejì) among the Yoruba / Babatunde Lawal -- "Son dos los jimagüas" ("the twins are two") : worship of the sacred twins in Lucumí religious culture / Ysamur Flores-Pena -- Twins, couples, and doubles and the negotiation of spirit-human identities among the Win / Susan Cooksey -- Double portraits : images of twinness in West African studio photography / C. …”
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Accountable government in Africa perspectives from public law and political studies /

Table of Contents: “…/ Neo Simutanyi -- Judicial independence and the judicialisation of electoral politics in Malawi and Uganda / Siri Gloppen & Fidelis Kanyongolo -- From parliamentary supremacy to judicial review: relations between parliament and the judiciary in Tanzania / Jwani Mwaikusa -- Judicial review of parliamentary actions in South Africa: a nuanced interpretation of the separation of powers / Hugh Corder -- Prosecutions, politics and the law: the way things are / Philip Stenning -- The civilianisation of prosecutorial services in Tanzania / Sifuni Mchome -- Accountable governance and the role of national human rights institutions: the experience of the Malawi human rights commission / Danwood Chirwa & Redson Kapindu -- Balancing independence and accountability: the role of Chapter 9 institutions in South Africa's constitutional democracy / Pierre De Vos -- Accountability compromised: floor crossing in Malawi and South Africa / Lia Nijzink -- Democracy within political parties: the state of affairs in East and southern Africa / Augustine Magolowondo -- Political parties in Malawi: an accountability analysis / Nandini Patel -- Family matters: the interplay between formal and informal incentives for accountability in Mali's local communities / Martin van Vliet -- Understanding local forms of accountability: initial findings from Ghana and Malawi / Diana Cammack -- External accountability meets accountability assistance: the case of legislative strengthening in Africa / Peter Burnell.…”
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Improvisation and Social Aesthetics /

Table of Contents: “…After relational aesthetics : improvised music, the social, and (re)theorizing the aesthetic / Georgina Born -- Scripting social interaction : improvisation, performance, and Western "art" music / Nicholas Cook -- From the American civil rights movement to Mali : reflections on social aesthetics and improvisation / Ingrid Monson -- From network bands to ubiquitous computing : Rich Gold and the social aesthetics of interactivity / George E. …”
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Improvisation and Social Aesthetics /

Table of Contents: “…After relational aesthetics : improvised music, the social, and (re)theorizing the aesthetic / Georgina Born -- Scripting social interaction : improvisation, performance, and Western "art" music / Nicholas Cook -- From the American civil rights movement to Mali : reflections on social aesthetics and improvisation / Ingrid Monson -- From network bands to ubiquitous computing : Rich Gold and the social aesthetics of interactivity / George E. …”
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Water governance--challenges in Africa hydro-optimism or hydro-pessimism? /

Table of Contents: “…Lopes --Part 2: Water governance and institutional issues -- Theoretical reflections on the analysis of water governance in coupled social-ecological systems / Mathias Polak and Stefan Liehr -- Between a rock and a hard place: decentralization and struggles for water in Mali / Signe Marie Cold-Ravnkilde -- Social learning and water-resource management in southern Africa: can interactive learning trigger changes in water management? …”
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Water governance--challenges in Africa hydro-optimism or hydro-pessimism? /

Table of Contents: “…Lopes --Part 2: Water governance and institutional issues -- Theoretical reflections on the analysis of water governance in coupled social-ecological systems / Mathias Polak and Stefan Liehr -- Between a rock and a hard place: decentralization and struggles for water in Mali / Signe Marie Cold-Ravnkilde -- Social learning and water-resource management in southern Africa: can interactive learning trigger changes in water management? …”
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Renewing Local Planning to Face Climate Change in the Tropics

Table of Contents: “…The case of the West Arsi Woreda in Ethiopia -- Visualize and communicate extreme weather risk to improve urban resilience -- Climate change adaptation and resilience in Mali -- Building resilience to drought in the Sahel by early risk identification and advices -- Risk analysis and evaluation to improve climate adaptation planning in Western Niger -- A simplified hydrological method for flood risk assessment at sub-basin level in Niger -- Socio-technical transitions and resilient infrastructure: analyzing changes in access to water following infrastructure upgrade in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania -- Monitoring and evaluating advocacy and mainstreaming of climate change adaptation in Haiti -- Knowledge for transformational adaptation planning: comparing the potential of forecasting and back casting methods for assessing people vulnerability -- Possible impact of pelletized crop residues use as a fuel for cooking in Niger -- An effective Mainstreaming DRR and Resilience approach in La Paz (Mexico) and San Jose (Costa-Rica) -- Climate vulnerability reduction credits: measuring results of adaptation; potential applicability for sub-Saharan communities -- Review of pilot projects on index-based insurance in Africa: insights and lessons Learned -- A new perspective for integrating climate change in local development plans.…”
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Renewing Local Planning to Face Climate Change in the Tropics

Table of Contents: “…The case of the West Arsi Woreda in Ethiopia -- Visualize and communicate extreme weather risk to improve urban resilience -- Climate change adaptation and resilience in Mali -- Building resilience to drought in the Sahel by early risk identification and advices -- Risk analysis and evaluation to improve climate adaptation planning in Western Niger -- A simplified hydrological method for flood risk assessment at sub-basin level in Niger -- Socio-technical transitions and resilient infrastructure: analyzing changes in access to water following infrastructure upgrade in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania -- Monitoring and evaluating advocacy and mainstreaming of climate change adaptation in Haiti -- Knowledge for transformational adaptation planning: comparing the potential of forecasting and back casting methods for assessing people vulnerability -- Possible impact of pelletized crop residues use as a fuel for cooking in Niger -- An effective Mainstreaming DRR and Resilience approach in La Paz (Mexico) and San Jose (Costa-Rica) -- Climate vulnerability reduction credits: measuring results of adaptation; potential applicability for sub-Saharan communities -- Review of pilot projects on index-based insurance in Africa: insights and lessons Learned -- A new perspective for integrating climate change in local development plans.…”
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Citizenship Law in Africa: 3rd Edition / by Manby, Bronwyn

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Citizenship Law in Africa: 3rd Edition / by Manby, Bronwyn

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Yes Africa can success stories from a dynamic continent /

Table of Contents: “…/ Vivek Srivastava and Marco Larizza -- A state is born: transport infrastructure and democracy in Somaliland / Jean-Paul Azam -- Growing Mali's mango exports: linking farmers to markets through innovations in the value chain / Yéyandé Sangho, Patrick Labaste, and Christophe Ravry -- Economic liberalization in Rwanda's coffee sector: a better brew for success / Karol Boudreaux -- Cocoa in Ghana: shaping the success of an economy / Shashi Kolavalli and Marcella Vigneri -- Apparel exports in Lesotho: the state's role in building critical mass for competitiveness / Malika Shakya -- The success of tourism in Rwanda: gorillas and more / Hannah Nielsen and Anna Spenceley -- Moneymaker pumps: creating wealth in sub-Saharan Africa / I. …”
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Yes Africa can success stories from a dynamic continent /

Table of Contents: “…/ Vivek Srivastava and Marco Larizza -- A state is born: transport infrastructure and democracy in Somaliland / Jean-Paul Azam -- Growing Mali's mango exports: linking farmers to markets through innovations in the value chain / Yéyandé Sangho, Patrick Labaste, and Christophe Ravry -- Economic liberalization in Rwanda's coffee sector: a better brew for success / Karol Boudreaux -- Cocoa in Ghana: shaping the success of an economy / Shashi Kolavalli and Marcella Vigneri -- Apparel exports in Lesotho: the state's role in building critical mass for competitiveness / Malika Shakya -- The success of tourism in Rwanda: gorillas and more / Hannah Nielsen and Anna Spenceley -- Moneymaker pumps: creating wealth in sub-Saharan Africa / I. …”
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Microfinance and public policy outreach, performance and efficiency /

Table of Contents: “…-- Positive mechanisms -- Negative mechanisms -- A capability perspective -- Achieving poverty outreach, impact and sustainability: managing trade-offs in microfinance / Anton Simanowitz -- Introduction: Combining social and financial objectives -- Trade-offs -- Managing trade-offs -- Conclusions -- Smart subsidies / Jonathan Morduch -- Introduction Subsidies and microfinance -- Valuing subsidies -- "Crowding in" and "crowding out" -- Conclusions -- Empirical analysis -- Efficiency in microfinance institutions: an application of data envelopment analysis to MFIs in Peru / Yves Flickiger, Anatoli Vassiliev -- Introduction -- Previous research on MFIs' performance evaluation -- Performance analysis methodology -- Data sources and variable construction -- Efficiency analysis with the DEA model -- Conclusions -- Efficiency in financial intermediation: theory and empirical measurement / Thorsten Beck -- Introduction -- Interest spreads and credit rationing: theory -- Interest spreads and credit rationing: cross-country evidence -- Decomposing spreads -- Explaining spreads -- Conclusions and policy lessons -- Efficiency drivers and constraints: Empirical findings / Yousra Hamed -- Introduction -- Methodology -- The data -- MFI clusters -- Performance drivers and constraints -- Conclusions -- Measuring the performance of MFIs: an application of factor analysis / Giovanni Ferro Luzzii and Sylvain Weber -- Introduction -- The data -- Factor analysis: theory and practice -- Cluster analysis -- Assessing what determines performance -- Conclusions -- Selected country studies -- Contextual factors determining poverty outreach and financial performance: the case of Mali / Renata Serra, Fabrizio Botti, and Milasoa Cherel-Robson-- Introduction -- Domestic contextual factors: institutions, state and markets -- External factors: the implications of subsidy withdrawal -- Conclusion -- Contextual factors determining poverty outreach and financial performance: the case of Morocco / Said Filali Meknassi -- Introduction -- Institutional context -- Support by banks -- Subsidies -- Conclusion -- Contextual factors determining poverty outreach and financial performance: the case of Central and Eastern Europe / Jusyna Pytkovwsa -- Introduction -- Access to resources -- Financial performance -- Social performance -- Auctioning subsidies: Chile's "Access to Credit Program" / Vito Sciaraffia Merino -- Introduction -- Micro-enterprises in Chile -- Has the PAC achieved its goals? …”
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Microfinance and public policy outreach, performance and efficiency /

Table of Contents: “…-- Positive mechanisms -- Negative mechanisms -- A capability perspective -- Achieving poverty outreach, impact and sustainability: managing trade-offs in microfinance / Anton Simanowitz -- Introduction: Combining social and financial objectives -- Trade-offs -- Managing trade-offs -- Conclusions -- Smart subsidies / Jonathan Morduch -- Introduction Subsidies and microfinance -- Valuing subsidies -- "Crowding in" and "crowding out" -- Conclusions -- Empirical analysis -- Efficiency in microfinance institutions: an application of data envelopment analysis to MFIs in Peru / Yves Flickiger, Anatoli Vassiliev -- Introduction -- Previous research on MFIs' performance evaluation -- Performance analysis methodology -- Data sources and variable construction -- Efficiency analysis with the DEA model -- Conclusions -- Efficiency in financial intermediation: theory and empirical measurement / Thorsten Beck -- Introduction -- Interest spreads and credit rationing: theory -- Interest spreads and credit rationing: cross-country evidence -- Decomposing spreads -- Explaining spreads -- Conclusions and policy lessons -- Efficiency drivers and constraints: Empirical findings / Yousra Hamed -- Introduction -- Methodology -- The data -- MFI clusters -- Performance drivers and constraints -- Conclusions -- Measuring the performance of MFIs: an application of factor analysis / Giovanni Ferro Luzzii and Sylvain Weber -- Introduction -- The data -- Factor analysis: theory and practice -- Cluster analysis -- Assessing what determines performance -- Conclusions -- Selected country studies -- Contextual factors determining poverty outreach and financial performance: the case of Mali / Renata Serra, Fabrizio Botti, and Milasoa Cherel-Robson-- Introduction -- Domestic contextual factors: institutions, state and markets -- External factors: the implications of subsidy withdrawal -- Conclusion -- Contextual factors determining poverty outreach and financial performance: the case of Morocco / Said Filali Meknassi -- Introduction -- Institutional context -- Support by banks -- Subsidies -- Conclusion -- Contextual factors determining poverty outreach and financial performance: the case of Central and Eastern Europe / Jusyna Pytkovwsa -- Introduction -- Access to resources -- Financial performance -- Social performance -- Auctioning subsidies: Chile's "Access to Credit Program" / Vito Sciaraffia Merino -- Introduction -- Micro-enterprises in Chile -- Has the PAC achieved its goals? …”
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Le mariage en Afrique : Pluralité des formes et des modèles matrimoniaux /

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Usages et appropriation des technologies �ducatives en Afrique : quelques pistes de r�flexion /

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