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Open research questions in African history and culture analysis

27 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 1,433 African history and culture analysis papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

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  • interpret and practice The concept of Lived Christianity emphasises the everyday enactment of faith, highlighting how individuals religious teachings in their ordinary lives. Rather than focusing solely on theological doctrines or church structures, this perspective examines how believers negotiate activities, through relationships, and practical decisions (McGuire, 2008). Within this framework, religious practices are intertwined with cultural norms, personal experiences, and community expectations. daily faith Applying the Lived Christianity framework allows for a deeper understanding of why some Christians embrace or reject cultural healing practices in specific contexts. Practices such as herbal remedies, prayers for healing, protective rituals, and magical interventions can be seen as meaningful ways through which believers address physical, social, and spiritual needs. Rather than dismissing these practices as superstition, the perspective recognises them as culturally and spiritually significant.

    Practices and Perceptions of Magic and Traditional Medicine among the Rayya Community of Alamata District, Northern Ethiopia · 2026 · DOI

  • The research activities of graduate students of social work at Addis Ababa University (AAU) have not been documented and analyzed in a way that it could be published.

    Graduate Research Through the Rebirth of Social Work Education in Ethiopia · 2024 · DOI

  • Based on the findings of this study, the following recommendations are derived. 1. Most KUE graduates were found to be poor in fundamental computer and related technology skills. KUE has to empower its students to be familiar with fundamental computer and related technology abilities. This shows that KUE has to empower its students to be familiar with fundamental computer skills and related technology abilities, by giving them fundamental courses along with adequate facilities and making conducive environments in which pre-service teachers are motivated to utilize ICT throughout their stay there as a trainer. Hence, an instructor in the twenty-first century not only should but must be a computerized educator. 2. English language communicative skill was identified as one of the critical problems of KUE diploma graduates. Therefore, English language and the English Language Improvement Center (ELIC) of the University should take the initiative in offering continuous remedial tutorial classes of “Basic English language skills Training Programs” to its students. 3. Action research skills were also identified as a great problem with KUE diploma graduates in the world of work, therefore, the University needs to work on how to integrate adequate and competency-based action research methodology courses in the curriculum and training on how they conduct the action research to solve instructional problems should be designed in order to make them skilful with action research methodology before graduation. Besides that, to solve action research related problems, the graduates should be encouraged to improve their action research skills through in-service training could help to internalize the action research skills. 4. The University may create proper opportunities for sharing good practices among colleges, each college has success stories and challenges which could be shared to expand and strengthen promising practices and innovative ideas throughout the University programs. REFERENCES 1. Abebe, W. Woldehanna, T. (2013). Teacher Training and Development in Improving Education Quality by Developing Teacher Skills, Attitudes and Work Conditions. London: Young Lives. 2. Assessment Assurance Authority (2019). Addis Ababa city Administration Education and Training Quality Professional competency. Unpublished document 3. Bassey M. (1999). Case study research in educational settings. Buckingham, UK: Open University Press. Journal for Educators, Teachers and Trainers JETT, Vol. 15 (1); ISSN: 1989-9572 29 4. Baxter, G. P., Elder, A. D., & Glaser, R. ( 1996). Knowledge-based cognition and performance assessment in the science classroom. Educational Psychologist, 31, 133-140. 5. Bogdan, R., C., & Biklen, S., K. (2007). Qualitative research for education.

    Teachers’ Practice Status in Addis Ababa: Tracer Study about Graduates of Kotebe University of Education · 2024 · DOI

  • The study only tried to see a tracer study on teachers‟ competencies and teachers‟ education quality in the Diploma program, hence; other variables which could be included in the tracer study were not included. Furthermore, the tracer study focused on KUE diploma-level graduates. Thus, graduates from any other educational institutions and those degree-level graduates from KUE were not considered in this study. Therefore, the results may not be generalized for all teachers working in the schools of the city administration of Addis Ababa.

    Teachers’ Practice Status in Addis Ababa: Tracer Study about Graduates of Kotebe University of Education · 2024 · DOI

  • This version of the SYL constitution is part of the SYL's history in Ethiopia, as well as the group's changing and poorly understood relationships with the Addis Abäba government and Ethiopia's security forces headquarters in Jijjiga and Harär.

    The Somali Youth League constitution: a handwritten Arabic copy (c. 1947?) from the Ethiopian Security Forces Archives in Harär · 2010 · DOI

  • Although the contribution of camels to the national economy is not fully quantified, Schwartz (1992) estimated that 20,000 tonnes of camel meat and 174,000 metric tons of camel milk were produced annually in the country.

    Camel Husbandry Practices in Eastern Ethiopia: The Case of Jijiga and Shinile Zones <sup/> · 2002 · DOI

  • Even though Ethiopia possesses a large number of camels, little is known about camel husbandry practices or the productive and reproductive performance of camels (Teka 1991; Tekel 1989; Wilson 1989b).

    Camel Husbandry Practices in Eastern Ethiopia: The Case of Jijiga and Shinile Zones <sup/> · 2002 · DOI

  • What remains to be done? A great deal, certainly, in all spheres. As far as sociology is concerned, much remains to be accomplished, first in the sphere of detailed studies of the economics of Somali pastoralism and trade, and secondly in the detailed characteristics of nomadic family life, including specialist studies of child-rearing, topics which Somali research workers would be likely to elucidate most fully.

    RECENT PROGRESS IN SOMALI STUDIES · 1964 · DOI

  • ABSTRACT Indigenous conflict resolution mechanisms (ICRMs) in Africa demonstrate the efficacy of restorative, community‐based approaches, yet they remain understudied, particularly in Ethiopia, where ethnic tensions and governance failures perpetuate instability.

    Cultural Pathways to Reconciliation and Harmony: Indigenous Conflict Resolution Mechanisms and Peace Formation Practices Among the Dawuro Ethnic Group of Southwest Ethiopia · 2025 · DOI

  • While there is increasing academic attention on the origins, causes, and nature of this threat, the role of the incitement of public officials in the commission of the killings and/or genocide in the region remains understudied.

    The Impact of Incitement by Public Officials in the Commission of GenocideThe Case of Ethnic Amharas in the Oromia Region · 2024 · DOI

  • In this article, we bring to the foreground an understudied dimension of working children’s lives in the Global South: their access to money and the consumption this facilitates.

    Monetised childhoods: Money and consumption among young weavers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia · 2019 · DOI

  • As the Horn of Africa is an under-researched geographic area for the study of both domestic and external slave trades, the plurality of these first-person slave narratives has much to teach the reader about the sensitive topic of African domestic slavery.

    Children of Hope: The Odyssey of the Oromo Slaves from Ethiopia to South Africa, by Sandra Rowoldt Shell. Ohio University Press, 2018, 352 pages. ISBN: 978-0-8214-2318-9. Hardcover price: $49.95. · 2019 · DOI

  • Undoubtedly the largest Rastafari organization both in terms of membership and international expansion, the Twelve Tribes of Israel remains little known in public and academic circles.

    The Return to Ethiopia of the Twelve Tribes of Israel · 2016 · DOI

  • This gap in knowledge is counterproductive, because scholars and policy-makers will have trouble assessing the Ethiopian migrant population's perspective through interview material alone.

    Bole to Harlem via Tel Aviv: networks of Ethiopia's musical diaspora · 2015 · DOI

  • However, the effects of cultural change on intergenerational continuity and change in less technologically developed societies have not been documented adequately.

    Intergenerational Continuity and Change in Conceptualization of the “Child” Among Guji People of Ethiopia · 2015 · DOI

  • The connection between the political violence in Abyei and eruption of the two civil wars in Sudan is sparsely documented, but this history reveals the character of the Abyei problem.

    Political violence and the emergence of the dispute over Abyei, Sudan, 1950–1983 · 2014 · DOI

  • Ethiopia's recent political record thus shows mixed results, with positive elements but also an increasingly authoritarian governance model recalling the features of the country's traditional hierarchical and autocratic political culture.

    Ethnic-based federalism and ethnicity in Ethiopia: reassessing the experiment after 20 years · 2011 · DOI

  • This emerging corpus of humour, which is still not fully established, seems to stand in opposition to the current body of humorous Ethiopian stories, and deserves a future study.

    The Floor Falling Away: Dislocated Space and Body in the Humour of Ethiopian Immigrants in Israel · 2011 · DOI

  • Abstract While there is little doubt that highly skilled workers in many Least Developed Countries (LDCs) are scarce, it is also true that many highly trained professionals have left LDCs to go and work in the developed world.

    Causes, Challenges and Prospects of Brain Drain: The Case of Eritrea · 2009 · DOI

  • 3 Estimates vary widely as to the present-day strength of the LRA, from a few hundred to several thousand.

    Why Uganda Has Failed to Defeat the Lord's Resistance Army · 2008 · DOI

  • For many other languages, reshaping has been limited to the selection of an orthography, accompanied by the introduction of the local language in the first years of the school curriculum and the production of primers or dictionaries.

    “Ex Uno Plura”: the uneasy road of Ethiopian languages toward standardization · 2008 · DOI

  • The article concludes that the Eritrean boundaries of identity and borders of territory are still in the making, and what they will eventually embrace and contain remains to be seen.

    Borders of violence - boundaries of identity: demarcating the Eritrean nation-state · 1999 · DOI

  • The Lubavitch school program is relatively small, limited to a girls' pri- mary and secondary school and a small yeshiva with a special workshop to train shohtim and scribes of Mezuzot and Tefilim.

    Jewish Education in Morocco · 1973 · DOI

  • com/afraf/article-abstract/68/271/110/51553 by guest on 06 March 2018 120 AFRICAN AFFAIRS political system is scarcely at issue.

    IMPERIAL LEADERSHIP IN ETHIOPIA · 1969 · DOI

  • Little is known of their early history before the mid-nineteenth century, when chief Munyigumba of Ng'uluhe extended his rule over the other chiefdoms of the Usungwa highlands and central plateau of Uhehe.

    Mkwawa and the Hehe Wars · 1968 · DOI

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