La législation en faveur de l’enseignement des Langues et Cultures Nationales au Cameroun : mesure d’audience dans l’Adamaoua et implications glottopolitiques by Gilbert Daouaga Samari

“…The ban of National Languages and Cultures from schools during the colonial period has been maintained even after 1960, the year of Independence of Cameroon. …”
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Geopolítica do etanol: soberania energética e projeção internacional do Brasil (1930-2015) by Elisa Pinheiro de Freitas, Antonio Marcos Roseira, Mateus de Almeida Prado Sampaio

“…Alcohol production is based on Brazil's primary exporting history during the colonial, imperial and republican eras. The economic and scientific-technological development of this energy matrix in the twentieth century is intertwined with the establishment of a geopolitical rationality and the definition of the main Brazilian strategic interests. …”
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Could the Mexica toztli have been a sun parakeet? Connecting Mexica featherwork to South America by Louise Deglin

“…The thorough study of two manuscripts written under the direction of Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, the Primeros Memoriales and the Florentine Codex, has revealed an inconsistency between the way the toztli, or “yellow parrot,” has been described and depicted in the colonial sources, and its current identification as the Amazona oratrix. …”
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MISSIONARY STRATEGIES AND INDIGENOUS RESPONSE: THE INTRODUCTION OF CHRISTIANITY TO THE BISENI CLAN by JOHN OLUWABUKUNMI OLUWAJANA, OLAITAN OYEDELA, OLAOBA

“…Through an analysis of internal and external factors shaping indigenous responses, including social, political, and colonial influences, this paper sheds light on the nuanced and diverse ways in which the Biseni people engaged with the Christian message and its implications for their cultural identity. …”
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Les danses « orientales » en France du xixe siècle à nos jours : histoire d’images, regards d’histoire by Anne-Laure Garrec

“…How may have the dissolution of the European colonial system conditioned the radically different ways of looking at these two forms of danced expression?…”
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L’ayant droit : un droit de cité et d’être cité dans la vie villageoise en Kabylie by Hadibi Mohand Akli

“…The article attempts to answer questions around the notion of “entitled person” or “beneficiary”, a term frequently used in the legal literature of colonial ethnology. The analysis is based on public events that took place in a village of Kabylie Soummam, from 1993 to the present day, which enable us to study the social reconfigurations within the group. …”
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Prehispanic Settlement and Mobility in the Sama Valley, Tacna by Sarah I. Baitzel, Arturo F. Rivera Infante

“…Nestled between archaeological hotspots in southern Peru and northern Chile, the Sama Valley has only recently become the focus of intensive archaeological research, providing valuable context for the regional culture history and elucidating diachronic processes dating from the Archaic to the colonial period. This article synthesizes current research by the Proyecto de Investigación Arqueológica Valle de Sama in relation to earlier research conducted in the valley, highlighting the importance of complementary analytical scales and methodologies. …”
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Analysis of the Rural-Urban Migration flow in Algeria Using the model of Harris Todaro by KHALED SENATOR, Imadeddine LACHEB

“…However, it is important to take into consideration the historical background during the colonial period and the 10 years the political instability during the 1990s that have had accelerated the movement of the population. …”
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Définir ce qu’est être Tunisien. Litiges autour de la nationalité de Nessim Scemama (1873-1881) by Fatma Ben Slimane

“…The study raises the question of the concrete definition of nationality as a legal notion within pre-colonial Tunisia. What characterized Tunisianness? …”
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Pourquoi (re)penser la communication de solidarité internationale ? by Florine Garlot

“…On the other hand, the relationship of international solidarity seems to be embedded in a philanthropic dimension (Freyss, 2004; Laville, 2010), itself specific to colonial and universalist thinking (Glissant, 1997; Quijano, 1994). …”
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I manoscritti etiopici della Biblioteca Statale di Montevergine a Mercogliano, Avellino by Alessandro Bausi

“…The first manuscript was apparently taken from the field tent of Rās Mangašā after the Battle of Saganayti, on 15 January 1895, and eventually donated on 27 November 1900 by Daǧāzmāč Mikāʾel to the Italian colonial officer Ilario Capomazza. …”
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Era Francia y no Italia. Conexiones, redes e influencias en la construcción del modelo turístico español (1880-1936) by Ana Moreno Garrido

“…Secondly, the geographical proximity that enabled all learning processes to take place in a fluid and natural throughout the three shared tourist borders: the Atlantic, the Mediterranean and the colonial. And finally, the quantitative importance of their tourists. …”
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Intersectional discrimination, exclusion and the socio-political economy of global mental health: A systematic scoping review of the literature by Rochelle A. Burgess, Sorcha Ní Chobhthaigh, Bijayalaxmi Biswal, Diana Ceccolini, Babatunde Fadipe, Denaneer Khan, Neena Aggarwal, Ishrat Pabla, Camila Solis, Ramya Pillutla, Piyali Sarkar, Eric Frasco, Valentina lemmi, Soumitra Pathare, Crick Lund

“…We screened 27,003 records with 118 papers meeting inclusion criteria.We found no papers exploring caste-based discrimination in relation to the factors in our framework and very few exploring discrimination linked to indigeneity, colonialism, religious institutions, and language. The majority of studies focused on racism and its intersections with sexuality, gender and working conditions. …”
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Antibacterial Effect of Luma apiculata (DC.) Burret Extracts in Clinically Important Bacteria by Tiare Araya-Contreras, Rhonda Veas, Carlos A. Escobar, Pamela Machuca, Mauricio Bittner

“…The growth curve and the colonies count suggest a bacteriostatic activity of the L. apiculata leaves extract against Staphylococcus aureus.…”
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A relação entre caipiras e o processo de urbanização na música sertaneja entre as décadas de 1920 e 1980 by Jóyce Oliveira Leitão

“…Although the Caipira culture may seem strange to capitalist society, it is a result of a historical exclusion of land propriety that reached traditional communities from the period of colonial Brazil until the last decades of the 20th century. …”
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Co-Formations : des spatialités de résistance décoloniales chez les lesbiennes « of color » en France by Paola Bacchetta

“…This article argues that lesbians “of color” in France are creating new decolonial subjectivities and resistant practices, yet these remain unintelligible in the dominant grid of intelligibility because the grid can not account for the inseparability of gender, sexuality, “race”-racism, class, slavery and postslavery, colonialism and postcoloniality.  Part one reviews contributions and limitations of current feminist and queer theorizing, and proposes the concepts of co-formations and co-productions to keep these invisibilized inseparabilities under consideration. …”
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Foodways of Enslaved Laborers on French West Indian Plantations (18th-19th century) by Kenneth G. Kelly, Diane Wallman

“…The ability of the enslaved plantation workers to do this is a testament to their creativity, and the cuisine they developed lives on today in the creole foods of the former slave colonies. The foods, the methods of their procurement, the methods of preparation, and the artifacts used in that preparation consist of a blend of African, European, and American influences reflecting environment, cultural heritage, and economics. …”
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“An atheistic American is a contradiction in terms”: Religion, Civic Belonging and Collective Identity in the United States by Amandine Barb

“…Through the analysis of the status and perception of atheists in American history, from the colonial times to the beginning of the 21st century, this article explores the importance of religion in the structuring of Americans’ national and civic imaginaries. …”
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Queeritude décoloniale : quels enjeux, quelles possibilités ? by Sandeep Bakshi

“…Suturing decolonial thinking to transnational queer narratives, this essay aims to problematise accounts of coloniality/modernity that emplace eurocentred thinking in a dialectical relation to other formations of knowledge. …”
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La « Montagne raciale » : et après ? Parcours identitaires dans deux romans ghanéens contemporains by Marie-Jeanne Gauffre

“…Afro-American poet Langston’s Hughes’s challenge to the "Negro artist" in 1926—to run away from "the race towards whiteness" and climb the "racial mountain" in order to "discover himself and his people" reverberated throughout the colonial and later postcolonial world. Echoes of his plea have long been found in West African literary works concerned with restoring a positive image of the black self, but other "mountains" to be conquered have more recently come into view, especially in women’s writings. …”
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