Introduction: Francophone and Lusophone Literatures in Africa

Introduction to About Indigenous Literatures

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, the peer-reviewed, full-text, and open-access learned journal in the humanities and social sciences, publishes new scholarship following tenets of the discipline of comparative literature and the field of cultural studies designated as "comparative cultural studies." Publications in the journal are indexed in the Annual Bibliography of English Languag...

Generational Differences Between North African Francophone Literatures: The New Stories of Immigrants in France

: metadiscourse in introduction sections of applied linguistics and physics research articles: exploring variation in frequency and type

abstract in written mode of language, metadiscourse markers are used commonly to help writers in general and academic writers in particular to produce coherent and professional texts. the purpose of the present study was to compare introduction sections of applied linguistics and physics articles regarding their use of interactive and interactional metadiscourse markers based on the model pro...

Programme evaluation training for health professionals in francophone Africa: process, competence acquisition and use

BACKGROUND While evaluation is, in theory, a component of training programmes in health planning, training needs in this area remain significant. Improving health systems necessarily calls for having more professionals who are skilled in evaluation. Thus, the Université de Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) and the Université de Montréal (Canada) have partnered to establish, in Burkina Faso, a master's...

The interface between health systems and vertical programmes in Francophone Africa: the managers' perceptions.

OBJECTIVE To explores the interface between vertical programmes (VPs) and general health services (GHS) in sub-Saharan Africa. METHODS Using semi-structured interviews, we analysed the perceptions of a selection of experienced mid-level managers of health systems and of VP originating in francophone Africa on the nature and quality of this interface. RESULTS The respondents acknowledged tha...