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'Where about are you?' On the art of reading and navigating Kinshasa = 'Tu es à quelle hauteur?' De l'art de s'orienter à Kinshasa Universiteit Gent
The peri-urban fringe of Kinshasa as an in-between space Universiteit Gent
All over the world, but especially in the Global South, cities expand at a high pace with as a result an ever moving urban frontier and ever growing peri-urban zones. These dispersed peri-urban zones, only in part clustered around one or more historical cores, seem to have a life of their own. While being an integral part of the urbanization process, they cannot be understood in traditional urban terms, they seem to exist in-between the rural ...
Agency in an African city: the various trajectories through time and space of the public market of Kinshasa Universiteit Gent
Kinshasa, the former Léopoldville, developed in less than one century from a few pre-colonial settlements into a metropolis of almost ten million people. In the city, the marketplace has always been at the center of contemporary debates on public space and, therefore, its various trajectories through time and space reveal much about the origins and forces that shaped the city. Drawing on published material, archival documents from both Belgium ...
HIV seroprevalence among hospital workers in Kinshasa, Zaire; lack of association with occupational exposure Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
A study of seroprevalence of the human immunodeficiency virus involving 2384 (96%) of Mama Yemo Hospital's (Kinshasa, Zaire) 2492 personnel found 152 (6.4%) to be seropositive. Prevalence was higher among women than among men (8.1% vs 5.2%); in women peak seroprevalence (13.9%) occurred in 20- to 29-year-olds. Workers most likely to be seropositive were those who were relatively young, those who were unmarried, those reporting a blood ...
A pseudo-outbreak of pre-XDR TB in Kinshasa Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde Universiteit Antwerpen KU Leuven
Fluoroquinolones are the core drugs for management of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). Molecular drug susceptibility testing methods have considerable advantages for scaling up programmatic management and surveillance of drug-resistant TB. We describe misidentification of fluoroquinolone resistance by the GenoType®MTBDRsl (MTBDRsl, Hain Lifescience GmbH, Nehren, Germany) Line Probe Assay (LPA) encountered during a feasibility and ...
Four Ways of Not Saying Something in Digital Kinshasa. Or, On the Substance of Shadow Conversations KU Leuven
Given that online communication is very much embedded in a pragmatics of everyday life, especially the management of social relationships, and that encoding and decoding are familiar practices to many, the main argument of this chapter then is that, if we want to grasp the social bearings of online communication such as Whatsapp status updates, Facebook Stories, and Instagram publications, we need to acknowledge and analyse the online exegesis ...
Remediations of Congolese urban dance music in Kinshasa KU Leuven
Following the continued popularity of Congolese rumba music originating in the 1950s-1970s, I explore the technological spaces in which these old songs appear more than fifty years later, and study the agency of those who initiate and actively contribute to the reinsertions of the old music in and on new media formats. By redefining the ‘repurposing’ of the remediations (Bolter and Grusin 1999) as strategies steered by human intentionality and ...
Le lingála dans l’enseignement des sciences dans les écoles de Kinshasa : une approche socioterminologique Universiteit Gent
Dans plusieurs pays africains, les langues héritées de la colonisation continuent à être utilisées comme langues d’enseignement dans le système scolaire, en particulier à l’école secondaire et à l’université et surtout pour les matières scientifiques. La question de la langue d’enseignement peut être abordée sur le plan idéologique (identitaire) ou sur le plan didactique (difficulté à enseigner et à apprendre dans une langue étrangère). Quelle ...
Prospects for malaria control in urban and rural Kinshasa Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Malaria is a major cause of paediatric illness and death in Kinshasa, and all 3 million inhabitants are at risk. In view of the increasing chloroquine-resistance of Plasmodium falciparum, the early treatment of fever cases as the sole malaria control measure is no longer acceptable. The prospects for vector control are determined by the effectiveness, the acceptability and the practicability of the various methods in the local conditions of ...