Guinea-Bissau
Circulating Spirits and Dead Bodies - Funerary Transnationalism among Immigrants from Guinea Bissau in Portugal
... People from Guinea Bissau strongly invest in transnational associations and there are over fifty Guinean ngos operating in Portugal. Most of them act as mutualities, and give support to the immigrants in ...
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Amílcar Cabral and the Liberation of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde
... Tony Smith’s own proposal for a ‘pericentric’ approach to that conflict, arguing that the Cold War was not just ‘pushed’ by the centre onto the periphery; the superpowers were also ‘pulled’ by outside actors who fed on ...
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Local perceptions and attitudes towards biodiversity in the Lagoas de Cufada Natural Park (LCNP), Guinea-Bissau
... for Guinea-Bissau, this unforgettable experience that has changed my life in a very positive ...this Guinea-Bissau experience with me, Joana ...
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Cashew as a high agricultural commodity in West Africa: insights towards sustainable production in Guinea-Bissau
... to Guinea-Bissau for a sustainable intensification of cashew ...in Guinea-Bissau would ultimately allow the identification of the genotypes with agronomic traits linked to nut quality and/or ...
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Living at the margins: youth and modernity in the Bijagó Islands (Guinea-Bissau)
... of Guinea-Bissau became ...in Bissau 89 ...from Bissau was at times so great that, from the local point of view, there was no State at all (Forrest 2002: ...
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Democratisation via elections in an African 'narco state'? the case of Guinea-Bissau
... and Guinea-Conacry ...via Guinea-Bissau had resumed again on an unprecedented scale, apparently unchecked by Guinean security forces ...Guineé Bissau: Tráfico de drogas voltou fortemente ao ...
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Modernity as Marginality: The making and the experience of peripherality in the Bijagó islands (Guinea-Bissau)
... Domingo Carlos da Silva was born in 1980 in Bijante, one of the largest vil- lages on the island of Bubaque, with around 400 inhabitants. It is the closest one to Praça, with only a one-kilometre trail through cashew ...
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Modernity as marginality: the making and the experience of peripherality in the Bijagó Islands (Guinea-Bissau)
... Between 2000 and 2003 I worked with a group of young men living in the small urban centre on the island of Bubaque, Praça de Bubaque. These young men, whose “will to be modern” I have described elsewhere (Bordonaro 2007, ...
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An Introduction to Hip Hop Culture in Guinea Bissau The Guinean Raperu
... Since gaining independence in 1973, Guinea-Bissau has struggled to build democratic institutions and establish a stable state. Its recent political history has seen deep social transformations. There have ...
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Giardia Duodenalis and Chronic Malnutrition in Children under Five from a Rural Area of Guinea-Bissau
... Introduction: Malnutrition and infections by intestinal parasites such as Giardia duodenalis coexist in the same geographical regions, reaching the highest prevalence in developing countries. The cycle of malnutrition ...
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Cholera epidemic in Guinea-Bissau (2008): the importance of "place".
... in Guinea- Bissau focusing on its geographical spread (country level and within the capital); and 2) a cross-sectional study to measure the prevalence of houses with at least one cholera case in the most ...
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Chromolaena odorata invasion in Guinea-Bissau (West Africa): first records and trends of expansion
... The Siam weed, Chromolaena odorata (L.) R. M. King & H. Rob. (Asteraceae), is recognized as one of the world’s worst tropical weeds. It is a perennial herb or shrub native to the neotropics that has become invasive ...
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa Beriberi epidemic within rural Muslim fishing communities in Guinea-Bissau
... burden, Guinea-Bissau remains one of the poorest countries in the world with the majority of the population relying on subsistence farming, fishing and the harvest of the valuable cashew ...from ...
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Building a Maternal and Newborn Care Training Programme for Health-Care Professionals in Guinea-Bissau
... Results: Attendees included 25 nurses, 17 midwives and 14 doctors. About two thirds had five years’ practice or less. Test median scores were higher among trainees with two to nine years of practice (54.4% to 60.9%), as ...
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Cashew cultivation in Guinea-Bissau – risks and challenges of the success of a cash
... in Guinea-Bissau’s economy, both in terms of national budget and of the livelihood of rural ...of Guinea-Bissau’s sum ex- ports (Boubacar-Sid et ...in Guinea-Bissau har- bors risks, such as ...
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(Intermittent) Poverty and Peace in Guinea-Bissau
... of Guinea-Bissau (where the military contingents were afterwards reinforced), having caused the accusation and suspension of the then Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, Ansumane Mané, for diverting ...
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From the Unbearable “Resilience” of Coupism to Ethnicisation: a Short Journey for the Armed Forces of Guinea-Bissau
... of Guinea-Bissau have, amongst other things, overthrown three elected Presidents of the Republic, provided cast iron protection to numerous supposedly transitional governments and refused to account for any ...
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Hepatitis C virus infection in Guinea-Bissau: a sexually transmitted genotype 2 with parenteral amplification?
... Sub-Saharan Africa is the continent with the highest HCV prevalence, 6.0% of adults being HCV-positive in Central Africa, 2.4% in West Africa and 1.6% in Southern/East Africa [10]. It is assumed that unsafe injections, ...
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National Integration in Guinea-Bissau since Independence
... urban origin, the colonial local elite (Lopes, 1987: 90). Some of them were influ enced by the originally European idea of nation- and statehood. In conjunction with European Marxist anti-imperialism, this ideology ...
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Traditional religion in Guinea Bissau political culture
... The third part of the article focuses on importance of the religious dimension within Guinea Bissau political culture. Data outcomes are expected to verify postulated hypothesis on the ends of religious ...
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