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Borrowed vs. Proper Words: "Àlááfíà" Is Not a Yorùbá Word and It Does Not Mean "Peace"

Loanwords are only great when you don't have "equivalents" for them in your language. When you do, and your original words are used less, and you can clearly see that in a few decades, the originals will become extinct because they are not being added to the current online dictionaries/resources, then they are not so great. - Yorùbá Lessons with Adérónkẹ́

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Feb 10, 2025

The Ibibio Concept of Peace and Its implication for Building an Egalitarian Society

ABSTRACT Conflict and violence are phenomena that are common to every human society. It would not be an overstatement to say that conflicts, war and various forms of violence are ...

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Feb 10, 2025

Indigenous knowledge of conflict resolution for transformative peace building: Amare of Jama Woreda, Amhara - Ethiopia

ABSTRACT The paper focuses on the role of indigenous knowledge system in the quest for conflict resolution and sustainable peace building. The data were collected from key informants, in-depth interview ...

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Feb 08, 2025

Kuripa Ngozi as a conflict resolution model in Shona communities of Zimbabwe: a conceptual analysis

Abstract People’s attitudes and behaviours are influenced by tradition, religion or modernity. The practice of kuripa ngozi (the customary practice of compensatory payment in inter-family disputes as well as in ...

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