Word: yorubas
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...language is misplaced for two reasons. First of all, while language sheds light on culture, fundamentally it is just a communication tool. One semester in African political systems or African history will provide a much more broad and profound knowledge of Africa than learning basic grammar and vocabulary in Yoruba. It is far more important for the vast majority who know very little about Africa to learn about its particularities, and quickly, which is most easily done in one’s own language...
...broad enough,” he says. “But at the same time, you offer as many language courses as are needed by Harvard for academic reasons.” The list was pared down to three, and today, undergraduates are encouraged to choose from among Swahili, Yoruba, and Twi. That said, if you demonstrate a need to take another language, Mugane will find you a tutor...
...such as diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and bipolar disorder. Harvard researchers from the Broad Institute joined a team of 200 researchers in six nations to complete the $138 million project. Findings from the HapMap, compiled by analyzing genetic data from four ethnic groups—Europeans, Japanese, Chinese, and the Yoruba of Nigeria—were published in last week’s edition of the journal Nature. Researchers found over three million common variants in the three-billion-unit human genome. Researchers are now planning to use the HapMap data to search for links between common variants and genetically-based...
...first book, “Sex and the Empire That Is No More: Gender and the Politics of Metaphor in Oyo Yoruba Religion,” Matory posits ideas that challenge many of the popularly-held Western conceptions of gender. For instance, he shows that the Yoruba women of southwest Nigeria are simultaneously wives and husbands...
Matory began to cultivate his anthropological views early on at Harvard, when he studied social anthropology as an undergraduate, writing a thesis comparing the social structure of certain Yoruba worshippers in Nigeria and Brazil...