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Public administration in Benin is notoriously inefficient. The consequences are wasted time, lack of a basis for decision-making, undocumented repetition of previous studies or actions, lack of historical and institutional memory, compromised execution of development projects, and so on. One of the main dysfunctions is linked to the lack of control over administrative information, even though this information itself is produced. The inadequate skills of the archivist employed by the administration are one of the causes of this situation. This article presents the archivist's new skills and responsibilities following a revision of the archival training offered at the University of Abomey-Calavi in the Republic of Benin, skills that enable them to be an agent of change for the efficiency of public administration.
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SUMMARYIncreasing lifespan and the improved central of acute diseases have underlined the importance of chronic disorders and their long-term impact on health. Member States in both the developing and the developed areas of the world are gathering data for the quantitative assessment of disability in the community. Internationally accepted instruments such as the International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities and Handicaps will facilitate standardised data collection and analysis, as well as the calculation of indicators, such as Healthy Life Expectancy, combining traditional survival measurements based on mortality with elements related to the quality of survival. The article lists the main conditions required for the calculation of this type of indicators, together with the main countries or areas where these conditions are likely to be met.
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This article examines the definition of the status of Historiae Canadensis (1664) by Father François DuCreux, SJ, a work written in Latin based on texts in the vernacular. The“translation-adaptation“ process performed by the author poses three key questionsrelative to his poetics. The first concerns a description of the text's relations toits sources using two types of possible intervention. The first touches on thecontent and its organization: the composition of the textual substratum (orhypotext) and the arrangement of the constituent elements of the hypotext in thework. The other deals with interventions related to the shape of the text. Thisfirst question, which supposes a broad reflection on the intertext, then leads toconsideration of a second, which deals with the choice of Latin for writingHistoriae Canadensis and, finally, athird, which invites a look at the readership targeted by the publication of thistext, at once historic and inspiring.
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This article deals with the dictatorial and colonial past in Portugal. It relies on an ethnographic survey conducted in Portugal and Angola on private and public memoirs of returnee families (“retornados”), some of whose members have recently returned to Angola. It analyses the role played by different types of memory narratives in the break with a hegemonic historical narrative and with the emergence of a plurality of social memories in a post-colonial context.
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AbstractBased on a Nigerian case-study, this article aims at understanding the complexity and the limits of an African diaspora in the making. It reviews the various historical phases that contributed to shape exile identities. The objective is to analyse the trans-national links with the homeland from a global and empirical perspective. Hence the paper focuses first on the trade slave and the making of a black diaspora in the classical meaning of the word. After colonisation and independence, it then appraises the political and economical factors that explain a modern emigration. As compared to the trauma and the deportation of the slave trade, the article raises the issue of the coercive dimension of contemporary dispersion. Today's Nigerian migrant communities are based on ethnic identities and not so much on a common national suffering ; yet they keep very much in touch with their homeland, to which they often remit money on a regular basis.
Keywords: Pérouse de Montclos, migrations internationales, déplacements forcés, diaspora, Nigeria, Pérouse de Montclos, international migrations, forced displacements, diaspora, Nigeria, Pérouse de Montclos, migraciones transnacionales, traslados forzados, diáspora, Nigeria
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