A RE-EXAMINATION OF INDIGENOUS VALUES AS PANACEA FOR LEADERSHIP CHALLENGES IN NIGERIA by CHIAKOR ALFRED, EUGENE ALIEGBA, RUTH CALEB LUKA

“…Using the political economy framework of analysis, the write up provides the historical foundations and relationship between leadership within Nigeria’s pre-colonial societies, and has compared same to the leadership question in modern democratic practice. …”
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Devociones católicas, prácticas religiosas, y cofradías- hermandades en Colombia (siglos XVI-XIX): una aproximación bibliográfica by Jerson Fidel Jaimes Rodríguez, Santiago Mendieta Afanador

“…Este artículo hace una aproximación bibliográfica a los trabajos académicos realizados en torno al hecho religioso y cuyas temáticas en específico han sido: i) las devociones católicas; ii) las prácticas religiosas; y iii) las cofradías-hermandades en Colombia, desde el periodo colonial hasta el siglo XIX. Metodológicamente se ha partido de una búsqueda exhaustiva de bibliografía relacionada con las temáticas de trabajo, principalmente en bibliotecas, repositorios digitales y en las diferentes bases de datos de las revistas especializadas. …”
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Maps and Memory, Rights and Relationships by Sian Sullivan

“…First, I highlight the significance of historical colonial and apartheid contexts generating mapped reorganisations of land and human populations for memories of access and use that exceed these reorganisations. …”
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Jews, Rights, and Belonging in Tunisia: Léon Elmilik, 1861-1881 by Jessica M. Marglin

“…Rights were central to the construction of belonging; by examining the various guarantors of rights to which Jews appealed, we can glimpse the multiple levels of belonging that Jews – and to some extent Muslims – cultivated in the pre-colonial Maghrib.…”
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Animal Objects: Memory, Desire and Mourning by Julia Courtney

“…Hunting trophies, taxidermic mounts and domestic objects made from preserved dismembered parts, allowed retired colonial ‘Nimrods’ and intrepid ‘Dianas’ to relive the vivid experiences of big game hunting. …”
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Territorial Trajectories within a New Centre for the Globalised Mining Industry: the Andes of Northern Argentina by Marie Forget

“…Latin America’s renewed focus on primary industries involving the extraction and export of unprocessed natural resources can be viewed as a step back to colonial-style exploitation. As such, it raises questions about North–South relations and the development of mountain territories, which are often peripheral, poor and sparsely populated. …”
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Médiations autour du patrimoine de l’esclavage à l’Écomusée municipal d’Approuague-Kaw (Guyane) : enjeux, état des lieux et perspectives by Damien Hanriot

“…It recently focused on the colonial and slavery period of the Lower-Approuague where the artifacts and features of this forgotten past can still be found today. …”
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Afroturismo nos sítios dos patrimônios mundiais brasileiros: desafios e oportunidades com ênfase em uma narrativa decolonial by Ana Maria Vieira Fernandes, Gabrielle Cifelli

“…Considerando a redução narrativa existente nos discursos de patrimonialização, que frequentemente destacam o patrimônio colonial hegemônico, essa pesquisa busca esclarecer como esses Patrimônios Brasileiros estão sendo revelados por meio do Afroturismo, a partir de uma narrativa decolonial, e até que ponto a comunidade local desempenha um papel central no desafiador processo de revelação da memória afro-brasileira e de seus bens culturais materiais e imateriais.…”
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Representaciones del Demonio: miedos sociales vislumbrados en tres escritos conventuales neogranadinos by Esther Cristina Cabrera Lema

“…El proyecto ordenador de la Iglesia Católica estructuró el cuerpo social colonial a partir de los modelos de comportamiento ideales de sujetos ejemplares, adicionalmente se utilizaron discursos referentes al Demonio, lo que permitió trasladar los miedos basados en conceptos religiosos a miedos sociales del contexto neogranadino. …”
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Le parc national de l’Ichkeul (Tunisie) : une zone humide rétrolittorale aux paysages vulnérabilisés by Nathalie Carcaud

“…The documentary sources selected are colonial documentary films, small-scale maps and written documents from the region, large-scale topographic maps, postcards and oblique aerial photographs. …”
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MANDATO DE LA BLANQUIDAD: RACISMO Y PRIVILEGIO RACIAL EN CALI by Gustavo A. Santana-Perlaza

“…Por tanto, desde una perspectiva autoetnográfica sobre mi experiencia como no-blanco, desplazado y víctima del conflicto en Cali, propongo una lectura crítica sobre los privilegios raciales que agencia el racismo y sus repercusiones en los cuerpos racializados, cosificados, dando origen a lo que denominaré el mandato de blanquidad, para analizar el régimen normativo de los privilegios y sus manifestaciones como marco de sociabilidad inscrito en la estructura social del proyecto moderno/colonial de la blanquidad.…”
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Wole Soyinka’s Ori Olokun Emprise and Autobiography by Adetayo Alabi

“…The paper argues that what operates at the background of Soyinka’s group’s project of repatriating Orí Olókun from Brazil to Nigeria is the communal spirit of Yoruba and African nationalism that cuts across colonial geographical boundaries.  The paper considers the role of Soyinka, Yai, Isola, and Abimbola in the attempt to repatriate Orí Olókun back to Nigeria.  …”
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John Locke, Abolitionism, and the Reactionary Enlightenment by Brian Smith

“…Abolitionists centralized the anti-slavery elements inherent to his social contract theory – natural liberty, self-ownership, and the necessity of express consent – while pro-slavery apologists foregrounded his entanglements in colonial politics, specifically his role in composing the Carolina constitution. …”
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Three thousand years of oyster fisheries: a view from Southeast Queensland, Australia by Tam Smith

“…Historical accounts provide insights into observed collection practices in the early colonial period, as well as the persistence of First Nations oystering and other marine resource exploitation in the mid-late 19th century in response to participation in the wider economy of early Brisbane. …”
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Narraciones poscoloniales. La escritura autobiográfica de Edward Said y Stuart Hall by Damián Gálvez González

“…El texto coloca especial énfasis en el ejercicio narrativo autobiográfico de Said, previo a su exilio del mundo árabe a Estados Unidos, y en la doble condición diaspórica de Hall, jamaiquino en un contexto colonial británico, como un recurso metodológico de máximo valor para el adecuado estudio de sus obras más relevantes.…”
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Role Of Political Parties In Resolving The Challenges Confronting Nigeriafrom 1960-1966 by Mas’ud Bello, Sani Ibrahim

“… Shortly after Nigeria attained its independence on the 1st October, 1960 it experienced numerous challenges of Nation-building, this is because, the conquest and imposition of colonial rule with its divide and rule tactics and other attendant consequences has set different ethnic groups in Nigeria at logger beads, mistrust has gained ground in the body polity of the Nation, couple with devastated economy, poor infrastructural facilitates. …”
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Iconografía musical: nuevas luces y perspectivas sobre el arte de la escuela cusqueña de los siglos XVII y XVIII by Bertrand Wilfredo Valenzuela Rocha

“…A través del estudio de las fuentes iconográficas musicales en las pinturas de la llamada escuela cusqueña de los siglos xvii y xviii, la presente investigación expone las diversas correspondencias entre la pintura y las prácticas reales de las capillas musicales del virreinato peruano, así como las vinculaciones del arte de esta escuela con la realidad circundante, el pensamiento y la sensibilidad de la sociedad colonial, más allá de estereotipos y formulismos derivados del arte europeo. …”
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Nyege Nyege Music Festival in Uganda: A Growing Leisure Activity with a Moral Dilemma by Amos, Ochieng, Brenda, Bonabaana, Francis Akena, Adyanga

“…We argue that unregulated embracement of festivals expose society to foreign cultural influences of the so-called progressive contemporary neoliberal post-colonial leisure economy. This paper contributes to the body of knowledge on leisure and tourism with implications for unraveling its potential for diversification of tourism products in Uganda and the moral dilemmas that come with it.…”
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Genetic Diversity of Melipona mandacaia SMITH 1863 (Hymenoptera, Apidae), an Endemic Bee Species from Brazilian Caatinga, Using ISSR by Elder Assis Miranda, Henrique Batalha-Filho, Priscila Santos Oliveira, Rogério Marcos Oliveira Alves, Lucio Antonio Oliveira Campos, Ana Maria Waldschmidt

“…In order to evaluate the genetic diversity and structure of Melipona mandacaia, we analyzed 104 colonies collected in 12 localities in Bahia state, northeastern Brazil, using ISSR-PCR. …”
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Los bordes de Buenos Aires durante el primer Proyecto de Capitalización de 1826 by Fernando Aliata, Horacio Caride Bartrons

“…Pretendemos revisar este antecedente fundamental y demostrar su importancia, en la medida en que se trató de la verdadera ruptura con el sistema colonial, para dar ingreso a las formas jurisdiccionales y administrativas del “nuevo régimen”. …”
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