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The founding of Kanem by Assyrian refugees ca. 600 BCE: documentary, linguistic, and archaeological evidence
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Dierk, Lange. - : Boston University, African Studies Center, 2011
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African Studies Center Working Paper No. 265 ; The history of Kanem-Bornu has received relatively little attention for a number of decades, but recent archaeological research in West Africa has renewed interest in the topic. The unexpectedly early date of the emergence of proto-urban settlements south of Lake Chad in the middle of the first millennium BCE is particularly striking.1 In the Western Sudan the emergence of the city of Jenne-Jeno along the eastern arm of the Inner Niger Delta in the third century BCE has given rise to the idea that Ghana, supposedly the oldest state in West Africa, was founded at the same period.2 If we assume a connection between urbanism and state-building, the foundation of Kanem in the region of Lake Chad (the early nucleus of the Kanem-Bornu Empire) may likewise have been much earlier than hitherto supposed. Members of the German culture historical school were convinced that states in West Africa originated in pre-Roman times as a result of Near Eastern or Mediterranean influences. They noted surprising similarities between the institutions of surviving traditional states all over Africa and therefore believed in a vast movement of diffusion. However, their historical considerations were highly unsatisfactory in that they referred to northern or eastern origins and vague, undated streams and waves of culture.3 As a consequence of the independence of African peoples in the 1960s, the decolonization of African history put a stop to speculation concerning unspecified cultural influences having reached sub-Saharan Africa from the north or the northeast. Instead, the focus of attention for finding an origin for state development shifted to the Nile valley, where the Egyptian civilization survived in its southern outpost Meroe until the fourth century CE. From here, pastoral migrants—reinforced. [TRUNCATED]
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African history; Anthropology; Archeology; Assyrians; Kanem-Bornu Empire; Linguistics; Migration; Neo-Assyrian Empire; West Africa
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URL: https://hdl.handle.net/2144/38764
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The Hausa Lexicographic Tradition
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In: Lexikos; Vol. 11 (2001) ; 2224-0039 (2011)
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Lenguas de Guinea Ecuatorial: de la documentación a la implementación ...
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The "Right" to be Trafficked
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In: Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies (2011)
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The Levirate Custom of Inheriting Widows among the Supyire People of Mali: Theological pointers for Christian marriage
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The Hausa Lexicographic Tradition
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In: Lexikos, Vol 11 (2011) (2011)
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Ajami in West Africa
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In: ISSN: 1860-7462 ; Afrikanistik Online ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01376253 ; Afrikanistik Online, University of Cologne, 2010, 2010, pp.urn:nbn:de:0009-10-29579 ; https://www.afrikanistik-aegyptologie-online.de/archiv/2010/2957 (2010)
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Ajami in West Africa
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In: ISSN: 1860-7462 ; Afrikanistik Online ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01376253 ; Afrikanistik Online, University of Cologne, 2010, 2010, pp.urn:nbn:de:0009-10-29579 ; https://www.afrikanistik-aegyptologie-online.de/archiv/2010/2957 (2010)
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A developmental history for early West African agriculture
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In: In: Allsworth-Jones, P, (ed.) West African archaeology. New developments, new perspectives. (43 - 52). (2010) (2010)
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La littératie sans l'école : à la recherche des effets intellectuels de l'écriture
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In: Langage et société, n 133, 3, 2010-09-20, pp.25-44 (2010)
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When languages meet : language contact and change in West Africa
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Negation patterns in West African languages and beyond
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The verb and related areal features in West Africa : continuity and discountinuity within and across Sprachbound Frontiers
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Acculturation et dénomination des langues africaines
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Halaoui, Nazam. - : Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 2009. : Érudit, 2009
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Du discours proverbial à la communicabilité des implicites. Un parcours en anthropologie linguistique
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In: https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01890678 ; Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie. Université Paris Descartes (Paris 5), 2008 (2008)
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