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« Literatures of Inculturation: Achebe, Jumbam and Adichie »
André KaboréMost African writers have been brought up as Christians. But some of them publicly rebelled against Christianity by dropping their Christian names: Chinua Achebe (formerly Albert C. Achebe), Kofi Awoonor of Ghana (formerly George Awoonor-Williams), Ama Ata Aidoo of Ghana (formerly Christiana...
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« Theorizing Ecclesial Ecocriticism: Pathetic Fallacy in Ecclesial Literature on Climate Change »
André KaboréThe objective of this paper is to show the Catholic Church’s concern with ecology in its literature, its use of literary devices to enhance an effective response to the call for nature’s protection and to show to what extent one can hypothesize ecclesial ecocriticism as a theory different...
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« Recycling in Literature: A Case Study of Cathleen Ni Houlihan »
André KaboréThe objective of this paper is to show how recycling functions or operates in literature through the interference of media and illustrate it with the example of Cathleen Ni Houlihan. Two methodologies are used: new historicism and orature.
New historicism gives equal weight to literary and...
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« Reading Aloud as Interface between Written and Oral Literatures in Britain, Ireland and Kenya »
André KaboréLiterary criticism, especially in Europe, has not sufficiently shown and acknowledged the reciprocal interaction between oral and written traditions. Though it is easy to believe, with the theory of new historicism, that early written literature
took over material from oral literature, the...
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Process Manages and Hygienic Practices of Local Beverages Producers and Sellers in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
G. Bsadjo Tchamba, I.H. Bawa, T.S. Bagré, C. Mbainadjiel, E. Bako, A. Konate, C. Zongo, M.K. Somda, A. Savadogo, A.S. Traoré, N. BarroThe trade of local beverages and ice has become popular in many developing countries including Burkina Faso. This study was performed to determine the local beverages safety knowledge of producers and sellers in Ouagadougou. Face-to-face interviews of 233 producers and sellers were conducted....
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Evaluation de l'efficacité d'un modèle pluie/débit a simuler les écoulements dans un contexte de variabilité climatique : cas du bassin versant du Sourou au Burkina Faso
KARAMBIRI Bienvenue Lawankilea Chantal Noumpoa, DIPAMA Jean-Marie, VISSIN Expédit W.Les ressources en eau font face à l’effet de la variabilité climatique. L’Afrique de L’Ouest est caractérisée par l'insuffisance des pluies et leur mauvaise répartition dans le temps et dans l’espace. Cette insuffisance pluviométrique entraîne une fluctuation des écoulements soit...
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Prévalence de la schistosomose et des géohelminthiases chez des élèves de l’école primaire au Burkina Faso
Bagayan Mohamed, Zongo Dramane, Ouéda Adama, Sorgho Hermann, Savadogo Boubacar, Drabo François, Ouédraogo Amado, Poda Jean Noel, Kabré Boureima Gustave, et Zhang YaobiCette étude a été menée avec pour objectif de déterminer la situation actuelle de la schistosomose et des géohelminthiases chez des élèves de l’école primaire après 10 ans de traitement de masse. Des enquêtes parasitologiques ont été conduites en 2013 dans 22 écoles primaires...
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« Etat des connaissances sur la tradition de l’hypogée au Burkina Faso »
COULIBALY Pon Jean-BaptisteCet article est un prolongement de notre mémoire de maîtrise sur les pratiques funéraires en pays tusian. Au lieu de s’intéresser aux techniques sépulcrales en générale, il s’attèle faire un bilan des connaissances sur la pratique de l’hypogée au Burkina Faso. Son principal...
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« Critères d’identification et organisation spatiale des vestiges métallurgiques en pays toussian»
COULIBALY Pon Jean-BaptisteCet article montre la diversité des vestiges de la réduction du minerai de fer et leur organisation sur les sites paléo métallurgiques chez les forgerons tusian de l’espace Numu. Comme dans les autres provinces métallurgiques, ces vestiges se composent essentiellement de fourneaux ou...
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Qualité physico-chimique et nutritionnelle des œufs de poule locale et de race améliorée consommés à Ouagadougou au Burkina Faso
Serge SAMANDOULOUGOU, André Jules ILBOUDO, Gisèle SANON/OUEDRAOGO, Touwendsida Serge BAGRE, Fidèle W. TAPSOBA, Hamidou COMPAORE, Aboubacar DAO, Assétou ZOUNGRANA, Aly SAVADOGO et Alfred S. TRAOREL’évaluation de la qualité physico-chimique et nutritionnelle des oeufs issus de poule locale et de race améliorée consommés à Ouagadougou au Burkina Faso a porté sur deux cent oeufs répartis en deux lots respectifs de 100 oeufs de race locale et 100 oeufs de race améliorée. Les...
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Factors associated with delayed screening of contacts of tuberculosis cases in the Somme, France
P.K. Yanogo, J.L. Schmit b, A.S. Fresse, C. Andrejak, S. Castelain, C. Adjodah , O. GanryAim. – To analyze the factors associated with the time to initiating tuberculosis contact investigations in the Somme department, France.
Methods. – All reported tuberculosis cases and all their contacts screened between 2007 and 2011 were retrospectively included. Univariate
and...
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Healthy or unhealthy migrants? Identifying internal migration effects on mortality in Africa using health and demographic surveillance systems of the INDEPTH network
B. SOURAMigration has been hypothesised to be selective on health but this healthy migrant hypothesis has generally been tested at destinations, and for only one type of flow, from deprived to better-off areas. The circulatory nature of migration is rarely accounted for. This study examines the...
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Assessment of schistosomiasis and intestinal helminths following mass drug administration in the Centre and Plateau Central regions of Burkina Faso
Dramane Zongo, Mohamed Bagayan, Simon Tiendrébeogo, François Drabo, Hamado Ouedraogo, Boubacar Savadogo, Issouf Bamba, Fanny Yago-Vienne, Yaobi Zhang et Jean Noel PodaSchistosomiasis is the most important waterborne disease in Sub-Saharan Africa. Transmission is
governed by the spatial distribution of specific freshwater snails that act as intermediate hosts and human water
contact patterns. In developing countries, such as Burkina Faso it remains a serious...
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First reports of Cotton leaf curl Gezira virus and Okra yellow crinkle virus associated with okra leaf curl disease in Cote d'Ivoire.
K. Séka, A. Ouattara, K.P. Assiri, K.D. Kra, M. Hoareau, P. Lefeuvre, H. Atta Diallo, J.M. LettOkra leaf curl disease (OLCD) is commonly observed in okra (Abelmoschus esculentus) crops in several African countries. Affected plants are severely stunted with apical leaf curl (upward or downward), distortion and thickening of the veins. In Africa, OLCD is associated with a complex of...
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Controllability of nonlinear degenerate parabolic cascade systems
Mamadou BIRBA, Oumar TRAOREThis article studies of null controllability property of nonlinear coupled one dimensional degenerate parabolic equations. These equations form a cascade system, that is, the solution of the first equation acts as a control in the second equation and the control function acts only directly on...