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AIDS is caused by invisible insects sent by sorcerers: A cognitive perspective to the AIDS-witchcraft question in sub-Saharan Africa
(David Press, 2010)
In most anthropological literature premised on witchcraft in sub-Saharan Africa cases in point being the Azande speakers of Sudan (Pritchard, 1937), beliefs in witchcraft among the ”Fang of Cameroon” (Boyer, 2001) and even ...
Biting the Conservative Bullet in Kenya! The Quagmire of Sexually Explicit and Scary Pictorial Metaphors in AIDS Posters
(2013)
AIDS as an incurable ailment is no stranger to humankind. Most healthconscious watchdogs, such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNAIDS, have lobbied for aggressive AIDS campaigns to sensitize populations within ...
Biting the Conservative Bullet in Kenya!
(Semantic Scholar, 2013)
AIDS prevention interventions (Doka 1997; Sontag 1988).This paper examines the cognitive effects of metaphors and metonymies emerging from sexually explicit images and scary pictorial representations in AIDS posters among ...
Aspects of Dholuo Coronal Harmony
(Jaramogi oginga odinga resipotory, 2016)
Coronal harmony in Dholuo refers to the co- occurrence restriction on dental and alveolar obstruents and nasals. The purpose of this paper is to describe and explain coronal harmony as it manifests in Dholuo. This involves ...
Linguistic Conceptualizations of Disease Among the Luo of Kenya
(Sage Publications, 2018)
The region inhabited by the Luo ethnic group in Kenya is disease endemic. However, disease awareness initiatives register low acceptance due to the sociocultural images of disease and illness conceptualized in the local ...