Adams Bodomo
2020
Dong, Hongjie; Minli, Zhou; Che, Dewei; Bodomo, Adams
If the Coronavirus Doesn’t Scare You, the Banners Will—A Case Study of Early COVID-19 Banners Journal Article
In: pp. 19, 2020.
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Bodomo, Adams
MABIA: Its Genesis, Geographical Spread, and some Salient Genetic Features Book Chapter
In: pp. 5 - 34, 2020.
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Bodomo, Adams; Dong, Hongjie; Che, Dewei
Calculator communication in the markets of Guangzhou and beyond Journal Article
In: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, vol. Volume 30, pp. 12, 2020.
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abstract = {The presence of Africans in China has been phenomenal since the late 1990s. In recent years, there has been a dramatic uptick in people from Africa coming to the major cities of China such as Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Macau, Yiwu, Shanghai, and Beijing. They are in the process of building linguistic, cultural, and economic bridges between their source communities and their host communities. In this process, communication problems are inevitable, since Africans and Chinese do not share a common lingua franca in most cases. However, these communities have succeeded in devising some interactive strategies that turn out to be quite effective, especially in market situations, one of them being calculator communication (CM). This paper looks at these strategies in the context of contact linguistics and the emergence of some hybrid language that has elements of African languages, Chinese, and English.},
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Bodomo, Adams; Abubakari, Hasiyatu; Issah, Samuel Alhassan
Handbook of the Mabia Languages of West Africa Book
Galda-Verlag, 2020, ISBN: 9783962031176.
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Bodomo, Adams; Abubakari, Hasiyatu; Issah, Samuel Alhassan
Handbook of the Mabia Languages of West Africa Book
Galda-Verlag, 2020, ISBN: 9783962031176.
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Bodomo, Adams
Historical and contemporary perspectives on inequalities and well-being of Africans in China Journal Article
In: pp. 526-541, 2020.
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Bodomo, Adams; Liem, Andrian; Lin, Lavinia; Hall, Brian J
How African migrants in China cope with barriers to health care Journal Article
In: vol. Volume 5- Issue 4, 2020.
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2019
Hiraiwa, Ken; Akanlig-Pare, George; Atintono, Samuel; Bodomo, Adams; Essizewa, Komlan; Hudu, Fusheini
A comparative syntax of internally-headed relative clauses in Gur Journal Article
In: vol. 2, no. 1, 2019.
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Bodomo, Adams
Africa-China-Europe relations: Conditions and conditionalities Journal Article
In: Journal of International Studies , pp. 115-129, 2019.
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Bodomo, Adams; Che, Dewei
The Globalisation of Foreign Investment in Africa: In Comes the Dragon Journal Article
In: pp. 61-77, 2019, ISBN: 2662-2491.
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Bodomo, Adams; Anttila, Arto
Metrically conditioned vowel length in Dagaare Book Chapter
In: pp. 21 - 39, Language Science Press, 2019.
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2018
Bodomo, Adams; Abubakari, Hasiyatu; Che, Dewei
Nominalizing the Serial Verb in Mabia Languages Journal Article
In: Ghana Journal of Linguistics, vol. 7, no. 2, 2018.
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Ghana Journal of Linguistics 7.2 (2018) Special Issue Dedicated to Professor Florence Abena Dolphyne The Ghana Journal of Linguistics is a double-blind peer-reviewed scholarly journal appearing twice a year, published by the Linguistics Association of Ghana.
Bodomo, Adams; Che, Dewei
A Constraint-Based Analysis of the Objects of VO Compounds in Mandarin Chinese Conference
A Constraint-Based Analysis of the Objects of VO Verbal Compounds in Mandarin Chinese, CSLI Publications, 2018.
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Bodomo, Adams
Is China Colonizing Africa? Africa - China Relations in a Shifting Global Economic Governance System Book Chapter
In: Raudino, Simone; Poletti, Arlo (Ed.): Chapter Chapter - 6, pp. 122 - 135, Routledge, 2018.
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Bodomo, Adams
The bridge is not burning down: Transformation and resilience within China's African diaspora communities Journal Article
In: African Studies Quarterly, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 22, 2018.
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Guangzhou, along with many other Chinese cities like Hong Kong and Yiwu where Africans visit, live, and engage in trading activities, is known for its ubiquitous pedestrian bridges. It is not uncommon to see many hawkers illegally displaying temporary stalls on these pedestrian bridges where they sell goods to mainly Africans and other foreign traders. From around 2012, the city security personnel, which has previously mostly turned a blind eye to these structures and activities, suddenly started clamping down on Africans on a regular basis as they became a prominent group of customers on these bridges in downtown Guangzhou—resulting in the sudden disappearance of Africans on these city center bridges and other prominent open door markets. This has led to some journalistic reports claiming that Africans were leaving China in large numbers. But if these Africans have all but disappeared from the pedestrian footbridges where are they now? Are they leaving China “in droves” or are they regrouping elsewhere in Guangzhou and other parts of China? How many Africans are in China and from which African countries do they come? What do they do in China? How are Africans responding to this and other unfavorable policy transformations such as an increasingly heavy-handed clamp down on illegal immigration? How resilient are African communities in China? This paper is built around, first, addressing these and other empirical questions towards an understanding of various categories of actors within China’s African diaspora communities before turning to examine the theoretical implications of seeing these African diaspora communities as bridge communities for strengthening Africa-China linguistic, cultural, and trade relations.
Bodomo, Adams; Agwuele, Augustine
The Routledge Handbook of African Linguistics Book
Routledge, 2018, ISBN: 9781315392981.
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Established and emerging scholars of African languages who are active and current in their fields are brought together, each making use of data from a linguistic group in Africa to explicate a chosen theme within their area of expertise, and illustrate the practice of the discipline in the continent.
Established and emerging scholars of African languages who are active and current in their fields are brought together, each making use of data from a linguistic group in Africa to explicate a chosen theme within their area of expertise, and illustrate the practice of the discipline in the continent.
Bodomo, Adams
Tense and time-depth in the Mabia languages of West Africa: Testing the philosophy of linguistic relativity Book Chapter
In: Agwuele, Augustine; Bodomo, Adams (Ed.): no. 438 - 449, pp. 12, Routledge, 1st Edition, 2018, ISBN: 9781315392981.
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Bodomo, Adams
Africans in China: Social and Cultural Studies and Their Impact on Africa – China Relations Book
Social Science Academic Press China SSAP (Social Science Academic Press), 2018, ISBN: 978-7-5201-2260-3.
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abstract = {Series Title: African Studies Series Pages: 196 ISBN: 978-7-5201-2260-3 Keywords: Africans | Community | Immigration | Bridge Immigration Community Theory Format: 16 Binding: Paperback Content Introduction With the rapid development of China-Africa relations With the development, the two-way immigration between China and Africa is increasing. It is particularly important to strengthen mutual understanding between the citizens of both sides. Through field visits and on-site interviews, this book has an impact on the immigration purposes, survival methods, organizational structure, social life and daily treatment of Africans in Guangzhou, Yiwu, Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong and Macau, as well as their impact on Chinese cities and local citizens. Conducted research. The author believes that we must pay attention to issues related to immigration, especially how to face this situation and the role of cultural understanding and exchange in Sino-foreign relations. About the author Bo Aiden is a professor at the Center for African Studies, University of Vienna, Austria. Li Anshan, PhD from the University of Toronto, Professor of the School of International Relations at Peking University, Director of the Center for African Studies. Tian Kaifang was named an associate researcher by Peking University in 1997. Since 1998, she has served as human resources manager and human resources director in a Danish company. In 2015, translated the book "American Public Opinion: The Constitution of American People's Political Topics after the War (1952～2004)". Li Lisha, associate professor, leader of business English major in Tourism Management Department of Hunan Radio and Television University. Table of Contents / 2 Table of Contents / 5 Photo List / 8 Preface / 1 Foreword / 1 Acknowledgement / 1 Chapter 1 Introduction of Africans in China / 1 Chapter 2 Africans in Guangzhou / 14 Chapter 3 Africans in Yiwu / 45 Chapter 4 Africans in Shanghai / 74 Chapter 5 Africans in Beijing / 96 Chapter 6 Africans in Hong Kong: A case study of a Ghanaian community / 110 Chapter 7 Africans in Macau / 134 Chapter 8 Africans in Beijing China and other countries/145 Chapter 9 Impact on Africa-China Relations/153 Chapter 10 Conclusion/169 Appendix A Overview of Portuguese-speaking African Community Association/174 Appendix B Author’s Fieldwork Log: Macau, July 5, 2010 Day/177 Appendix C Example of Internet search results: Massi’s post/179 References/181 Index/186 Figure Table of Contents Figure 1-1 Immigrants from Africa, Asia and the "West" / 7 Figure 2-1 Age of Respondents Duan (Guangzhou) / 19 Figure 2-2 The gender of the respondent (Guangzhou) / 19 Figure 2-3},
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Series Title: African Studies Series Pages: 196 ISBN: 978-7-5201-2260-3 Keywords: Africans | Community | Immigration | Bridge Immigration Community Theory Format: 16 Binding: Paperback Content Introduction With the rapid development of China-Africa relations With the development, the two-way immigration between China and Africa is increasing. It is particularly important to strengthen mutual understanding between the citizens of both sides. Through field visits and on-site interviews, this book has an impact on the immigration purposes, survival methods, organizational structure, social life and daily treatment of Africans in Guangzhou, Yiwu, Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong and Macau, as well as their impact on Chinese cities and local citizens. Conducted research. The author believes that we must pay attention to issues related to immigration, especially how to face this situation and the role of cultural understanding and exchange in Sino-foreign relations. About the author Bo Aiden is a professor at the Center for African Studies, University of Vienna, Austria. Li Anshan, PhD from the University of Toronto, Professor of the School of International Relations at Peking University, Director of the Center for African Studies. Tian Kaifang was named an associate researcher by Peking University in 1997. Since 1998, she has served as human resources manager and human resources director in a Danish company. In 2015, translated the book "American Public Opinion: The Constitution of American People's Political Topics after the War (1952～2004)". Li Lisha, associate professor, leader of business English major in Tourism Management Department of Hunan Radio and Television University. Table of Contents / 2 Table of Contents / 5 Photo List / 8 Preface / 1 Foreword / 1 Acknowledgement / 1 Chapter 1 Introduction of Africans in China / 1 Chapter 2 Africans in Guangzhou / 14 Chapter 3 Africans in Yiwu / 45 Chapter 4 Africans in Shanghai / 74 Chapter 5 Africans in Beijing / 96 Chapter 6 Africans in Hong Kong: A case study of a Ghanaian community / 110 Chapter 7 Africans in Macau / 134 Chapter 8 Africans in Beijing China and other countries/145 Chapter 9 Impact on Africa-China Relations/153 Chapter 10 Conclusion/169 Appendix A Overview of Portuguese-speaking African Community Association/174 Appendix B Author’s Fieldwork Log: Macau, July 5, 2010 Day/177 Appendix C Example of Internet search results: Massi’s post/179 References/181 Index/186 Figure Table of Contents Figure 1-1 Immigrants from Africa, Asia and the "West" / 7 Figure 2-1 Age of Respondents Duan (Guangzhou) / 19 Figure 2-2 The gender of the respondent (Guangzhou) / 19 Figure 2-3
2017
Bodomo, Adams; Abubakari, Hasiyatu
Towards the Harmonization of a Writing System for the Mabia Languages of West Africa Book Chapter
In: vol. 120, pp. 159 - 181, Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS), 2017, ISBN: 978-1-920294-12-0.
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Abstract In a bit to advance a harmonized writing technological system for the Mabia languages of West Africa, this paper discusses the typological relationships between five of these Mabia languages and shows that these languages exhibit strong ties in most aspects of linguistics, be it phonology, morphology, syntax, or semantics. The close relationship between these languages, seen more as a continuum of close linguistic varieties, provides reasons for us to rather consider them as more or less dialects of a single mega language instead of different languages on their own, for most practical purposes, though not all of these language varieties are mutually intelligible. Based on the consonantal and vocalic systems of the language varieties studied, along with other linguistic affinities, we propose a set of uniform graphemes that could be adopted by researchers working on these language varieties for the sake of uniformity, coherence, and consistency. The set of proposed graphemes serves as basis for a future project on developing a harmonized, common language keyboard and other kinds of writing technologies for the Mabia languages. Kyɛngmááó Te nang bóᴐ́rᴐ ká té ngmaa sɛ́goo tɛknólógyi bónyéni ko a Mabíá kᴐkᴐ́rɛ́ɛ́ náng bé a Áfíríka loorí sɛ́ng zuíng, a áátékel nyɛ̌ mánné lá a taapólóógyi yítáá yɛ́lɛ́ náng bé a Mabíá kᴐkᴐ́rɛ́ɛ́ anúú miné póᴐ́, a wuli séng ká a kᴐkᴐ́rɛ́ɛ́ nyɛ́ sorong yí lá táá yága a fonólógyi, mᴐᴐfólógyi, séntákse, ané sɛmántékse zû póᴐ́. A yítáá zuíng ná éng póᴐ́ lá ká té paa boᴐrᴐ ká te yeli ka a kᴐkᴐ́rɛ́ɛ́ nyɛ́ láng lá táá sóng a e kᴐkᴐ́yéni, hále gba ka tenéé’ńg bá tóᴐ wonó a kᴐkᴐ́rɛ́ɛ́ nyɛ́ yɛ́lɛ́ zaá. Te náng wa kaa a kᴐkᴐ́rɛ́ɛ́ nyɛ́ kónsónánteré ané a vááwelé yɛ́lɛ́ bááre, te nyɛ́ɛ́ lá ká te na bᴐ́ng vɛ́ng lá ka a kᴐkᴐ́rɛ́ɛ́ nyɛ́ taá gráfiim páré bónyéni ka kannekánmá máng tóᴐ dé tonᴐ́ né ba tómá. A gráfiim ámɛ te nang mánne na bᴐ́ng é lá bómá te náng na dê ngmaa né kᴐmpúúta kííbᴐ́ᴐ́de ko a Mabíá kᴐkᴐ́rɛ́ɛ́ nyɛ́.
Bodomo, Adams
The Globalization of Foreign Investment in Africa: The Role of Europe, China, and India Book
Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017, ISBN: 978-1-78743-358-8.
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The 21st century era of globalization has opened up many investment alternatives for Africa. There is now a rush by governments and private companies to expand in the rapidly growing region, to the extent that we can begin to talk of a process of world-wide investment. Both traditionally powerful economies in the West and emerging powers such as China and India have contributed to a vast proliferation of investment, raising questions of what intense competition will mean for Africa’s economic development. The Globalization of Foreign Investment in Africa: The Role of Europe, China, and India compares the differing approaches between Asian and European players in Africa, with a particular focus on the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the socio-economic, socio-political, and socio-cultural development of the region. First documenting the historical context of Western dominance from European colonial powers, the book follows the paradigm shift that occurred with China’s 21st century foray into Africa in search of oil and other raw materials to fuel its own rapidly rising economy. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the author proposes that Africa will only get maximum benefits from high-level investment activities if it succeeds in evolving an Africa-driven foreign investment policy. This strategy presents the best scenario for an African economic renaissance in the 21st century. An important contribution to research on contemporary Afro-Asian dynamics, this book will be of interest to students and academics of African Studies, Asian Studies, globalization, and economics, as well as potential investors and investing agencies.
Bodomo, Adams; Yu, So-sum; Che, Dewei
Verb-Object Compounds and Idioms in Chinese Proceeding
International Conference on Computational and Corpus-Based Phraseology Springer International Publishing, 2017, ISBN: 978-3-319-69804-5.
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This paper addresses central issues about the nature of a construction in the Chinese language that is referred to as Verb-Object Compounds (VOCs). It has long been noted that the relationship between the two or more morphemes of VOCs is partly morphological and partly syntactic in the sense that, on the one hand, they do combine to form a ‘word-like unit’, but on the other hand, some degree of separation is possible between the two parts [4, 8, 9, 10, 12, 16, 17, 22, among others]. The VOC has triggered intense interest and rigorous research on the issue of wordhood in Chinese due to its disharmonious behaviour shown in the two separate modules of syntax and morphology. However, these previous discussions mainly focus on the criteria that can identify a word in Chinese. This paper, rather than belabouring the issue of refining these criteria or proposing new ones, centres on the fact that this type of compound exhibits properties in syntax, as well as lexical features in morphology and semantics. The description and analysis of the syntactic and morphological characteristics of VOCs then provide a foundation for a generalized account of the representation of VOCs and Verb-Object (VO) idioms within the grammatical framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG).
Bodomo, Adams
Parallel text: a theoretical and methodological strategy for promoting African language literature in the twenty-first century Journal Article
In: Translation: A Transdisciplinary Journal, pp. 36-52, 2017, ISBN: 9788885622043.
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2016
Bodomo, Adams
Afriphone Literature as a Prototypical form of African Literature: Insights from Prototype Theory Journal Article
In: Advances in Language and Literary Studies, vol. 7, no. 5, 2016.
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abstract = {What is the most prototypical form of African literature? Shouldn’t we be using African languages to produce African literary texts, shouldn’t we produce more Afriphone African literature compared to Europhone African literature or Afro-Europhone literature? This issue underlies the reality that the vast majority of African writers presumably think in one language and express themselves (speak, enchant, or write) in another. This problematic, crystalized in major debates between Ngugi wa Thiongo and others, on the one hand, and Chinua Achebe and others, on the other hand, has resulted in great challenges as to how we can define or even conceptualize the discipline of African literature. Is it literature written by Africans in African languages for Africans or is it literature written by anybody including non-Africans in non-African languages? Or is it somewhere in-between these two extremes? The paper discusses several positions on this major question in African literature before advancing a novel proposal based on insights and evidence from proto-type theory within Linguistics and the Cognitive Sciences. This proposal leads to a somewhat provocative conclusion about the gradation of African literatures, where African language literatures or Afrophone literatures, comprise the core, proto-typical category in a 21st Century African literature constellation, whereas foreign language and diasporic literatures such as Afro-European literatures, Afro-American literatures, and Afro-Chinese literatures are the hybrid and thus more recessive, peripheral types of African literature. Keywords: Afriphone literature, African language literature, African literature, proto-type theory, linguistics, Cognitive Science},
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What is the most prototypical form of African literature? Shouldn’t we be using African languages to produce African literary texts, shouldn’t we produce more Afriphone African literature compared to Europhone African literature or Afro-Europhone literature? This issue underlies the reality that the vast majority of African writers presumably think in one language and express themselves (speak, enchant, or write) in another. This problematic, crystalized in major debates between Ngugi wa Thiongo and others, on the one hand, and Chinua Achebe and others, on the other hand, has resulted in great challenges as to how we can define or even conceptualize the discipline of African literature. Is it literature written by Africans in African languages for Africans or is it literature written by anybody including non-Africans in non-African languages? Or is it somewhere in-between these two extremes? The paper discusses several positions on this major question in African literature before advancing a novel proposal based on insights and evidence from proto-type theory within Linguistics and the Cognitive Sciences. This proposal leads to a somewhat provocative conclusion about the gradation of African literatures, where African language literatures or Afrophone literatures, comprise the core, proto-typical category in a 21st Century African literature constellation, whereas foreign language and diasporic literatures such as Afro-European literatures, Afro-American literatures, and Afro-Chinese literatures are the hybrid and thus more recessive, peripheral types of African literature. Keywords: Afriphone literature, African language literature, African literature, proto-type theory, linguistics, Cognitive Science
Bodomo, Adams
Against the hypothesis of a China - EU collaboration in Africa Journal Article
In: pp. 40-45, 2016.
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Bodomo, Adams; e Silva, Roberval Teixeira
Language Matters: The Role of Linguistic Identity in the Establishment of the Lusophone African Community in Macau Journal Article
In: African Studies, vol. 71, no. 1, pp. 71-90, 2016.
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Bodomo, Adams
Africans in China: Guangdong and Beyond Book
Diasporic Africa, 2016, ISBN: 139781937306403.
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Bodomo, Adams; Wandl-Vogt, Eveline; Mörth, Karlheinz
Technical and social Infrastructures for the Humanities: The Example of the Dagaare - English - Cantonese Dictionary. Conference
DHd2016: Modellierung, Vernetzung, Visualisierung, 2016.
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10.03.2016.
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2015
Bodomo, Adams
African soft power in China Journal Article
In: African East-Asian Affairs, vol. 0, no. 1-2, pp. 76-97, 2015.
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African Students in China Presentation
01.07.2015.
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Overcoming Barriers to Health Care Access: A Qualitative Study among African Migrants in Guangzhou, China. Journal Article
In: pp. 1135-1147, 2015.
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Hu, Yuxiu; Bodomo, Adams
Are the Most Interactive Learners on Web‐based Learning Systems the Best Output Performers? Journal Article
In: Journal of Information Technology and Application in Education, vol. 4, no. 0, pp. 8, 2015.
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Bodomo, Adams
African Languages, Linguistics, and Literatures: Exploring Global Interdisciplinary Research Trends in the Humanities Journal Article
In: vol. 1, pp. 50, 2015, ISBN: 978-3-941267-86-2.
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Bodomo, Adams; Pajancic, Caroline
Counting Beans: Some Empirical and Methodological Problems for Calibrating the African Presence in Greater China Journal Article
In: Pan African Studies, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 126-143, 2015.
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Bodomo, Adams
African traders in Guangzhou: A bridge community for Africa-China relations Book Chapter
In: Chapter 7, pp. 133-166, Edward Elgar PublishingEditors: Carla Freeman, 2015, ISBN: 9781782544203.
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Special Issue Papers Africans In China Journal Article
In: Special Issue of The Journal of Pan African Studies (JPAS), vol. 7, no. 10, 2015.
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Ebola Outbreak: From the Perspective of African Migrants in China Journal Article
In: 2015.
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We strongly support Rothstein's statement that ethical principles of public health emergency response require coordinated individual and collective actions.(1) In response, we offer a motivating example from China of how stigma toward migrant populations can affect efficacious Ebola response. (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print March 19, 2015: e1. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2015.302649).
2014
Bodomo, Adams; Chabal, Eun-Sook
Africa - Asia Relations through the Prism of Television Drama: How Africans in Hong Kong Conceptualize Korean Culture Journal Article
In: African and Asian Studies, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 504–529, 2014.
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Even though many African and Asian countries share a common history of European colonialism and thus a model of economic development shaped within the aegis of center-periphery analysis, many Asian countries have been able to ride through the burden of center-periphery economics and built more successful political economies than most African countries. This state of affairs has often led many African analysts to point to Asian success stories like China and South Korea for comparative analysis and often see these Asian countries as models of socio-economic and socio-cultural success to emulate. In particular, Africans in the Diaspora, especially Africans in China, tend to compare very frequently the socio-economic and socio-cultural conditions of their host countries with those of their source countries. This paper outlines and discusses how a group of Africans living in Hong Kong and other parts of Asia see Korea and Korean culture through the prism of Korean television dramas, which constitute a popular cultural phenomenon among Hong Kong/Asian youths. Through qualitative and quantitative survey methods, participant-observation, and questionnaire surveys, the paper reports on how African community members of Hong Kong and others think of Koreans. We show that Africans draw a lot of comparisons between Korean and African ways of conceptualizing the world. http://www.bandungspirit.org/IMG/pdf/bodomo-chabal-halyu_brill.pdf Keywords Africa, Asia, Korean wave, Hallyu, African diaspora in Asia, Hong Kong
Lin, Lavinia; Brown, Katherine B; Yu, Fan; Yang, Jingqi; Wang, Jason; Schrock, Joshua M; Bodomo, Adams; Yang, Ligang; Yang, Bin; Nehl, Eric J; Tucker, Joseph D; Wong, Frank Y
In: Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 2014.
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The African Traveller and the Chinese Customs Official: Ethnic Minority Profiling at Border Check Points in Hong Kong and China? Journal Article
In: Journal of African American Studies, vol. 19, 2014.
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Stronger government-to-government relations between Africa and China in the first two decades of the twenty-first century have led to an increasing presence of African travellers at Chinese border check points. This is a novel situation involving cross-linguistic and cross-cultural communication dynamics that we need to understand from different research perspectives: linguistic, socio-economic, and legal, among others. Academic studies are already detailing some misunderstandings between Chinese customs, immigration and public security officials and African travellers and immigrants, who are clearly a visible minority group, both at border check points and in the wider Chinese communities (Bodomo 2010; Bodomo and Ma 2010; Bodomo 2012). A number of questions may be asked towards understanding the cross-cultural dynamics involved in this novel situation. What are Chinese immigration and customs officials’ experiences with African travellers and how do they see and handle this visible minority ethnic group? What are, in turn, African experiences with Chinese immigration, customs, and public security, officials both at border check points and in the wider Chinese communities in places like mainland China and Hong Kong? To answer these questions, a profile of the most frequent African visitors to Hong Kong and China is constructed, based on research among Africans in China, particularly Guangzhou. An outline is then made of what Africans think of Chinese customs and immigration officials as a whole, what kind of treatment they expect on arrival in China and how they prepare for it. It is then claimed that the most fundamental issue that causes friction, unhappiness and sometimes lack of cooperation from African travellers at immigration and customs check points in Hong Kong and other places in China is not so much due to linguistic and cultural misunderstanding as it is due to stereotyping and, in extreme cases, (un)conscious racial profiling. Finally, it is proposed that the best way for Hong Kong and other Chinese customs personnel to serve African immigrants is to apply immigration rules using systematically fair, just and colour-blind strategies.
2013
Bodomo, Adams
African diaspora remittances are better than foreign aid funds: diaspora-driven development in the 21st Century Journal Article
In: World Economics Journal, vol. 14, 2013.
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Bodomo, Adams
Wyatt Don. The Blacks of Premodern China. Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Press Journal Article
In: African Studies Review, vol. 56, pp. 244-246, 2013.
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Bodomo, Adams
Review of Don Wyatt's 'The Blacks of Premodern China' Journal Article
In: African Studies Review, vol. 56, 2013.
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Bodomo, Adams
Africa – China Cooperation: A note on the role of Diaspora Africans and Diaspora Chinese Invited Paper for the FOCAC Seminar on Governance and Development Experience of African Countries and China Institute for International Strategic Studies Journal Article
In: 2013.
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Bodomo, Adams
The First Tagged Corpus of Cantonese Ideophones Journal Article
In: 2013.
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Bodomo, Adams; Hu, Yuxiu
Ubiquitous Conversations: A case study of interactivity enhancement in web-based learning Journal Article
In: Ubiquitous Learning: An International Journal, vol. 5, pp. 1-14, 2013.
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Bodomo, Adams
The Blacks of Premodern China by Don Wyatt (review) Miscellaneous
2013.
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2012
Bodomo, Adams; Teixeira-E-Silva, Roberval
Language Matters: The Role of Linguistic Identity in the Establishment of the Lusophone African Community in Macau Journal Article
In: pp. 90, 2012.
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In this article we present results of a qualitative study of Africans in Macau, as part of the general phenomenon of African migration into China in the 21st century. We focus on the African community from Portuguese-speaking countries in Macau, outlining its internal organisation, memberships, objectives, and activities. The results of this study indicate that this African community is the most established and the best organised African community in China. We argue that the common linguistic identity between members of this community and with other Portuguese speakers is a major factor in its relative success. This argumentation is anchored in our cross-cultural theory of community identity building, where factors such as commonality of language, food, and music play important roles in community bonding and community identity building among migrant groupings in cross-linguistic and cross-cultural settings.
Bodomo, Adams; Ma, Enyu
We Are What We Eat: Food in the Process of Community Formation and Identity Shaping among African Traders in Guangzhou and Yiwu Journal Article
In: vol. Volume 5- Issue 1, pp. 26, 2012.
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Bodomo, Adams
Africans in China: A Sociocultural Study and its Implications for Africa - China Relations Book
Cambria, 2012, ISBN: 1604977906.
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