Bibliographic record
Abstract
Sojourners from Black Britain ¨The 1990s under the Sani Abacha dictatorship became grim years.Wole Soyinka, realizing that his life was threatened-there would indeed be a number of political murders-escaped by canoe across the river to neighboring Benin.He then spent years in exile, connected to American universities, and in transcontinental diplomatic/oppositional shuttle traffi c.What the times were like in Nigeria can be glimpsed in Chigozie Obioma's well-received fi rst novel The Fishermen (2015), about four young Igbo brothers in Akure, in Yorubaland-thus already somewhat diasporic.Early in the book, their father, a bank employee, reads his newspaper and exclaims, "If there is any justice in this world, Abacha should soon be mourned by his witch of a wife."Perhaps somewhat bordering on myth, the tale offers a scenery of civilian-soldier, North-South tensions sometimes turning into violence, fragmented memories of war, expatriate preachers both mobile and resident, a diffi cult family life (the bank has just transferred the father to its Yola offi ce, far to the northeast of the country, so he would have to become a long-distance commuter), and a local madman.The brothers get into trouble; fi nally, one of them may or may not make it to Canada, with a family friend who has already moved there.Ken Saro-Wiwa, author of Sozaboy (see chapter 15), remained in Nigeria, and became a victim of the country's history and its geography.He belonged to the Ogoni, a small group of about half a million people in the Niger Delta.When the area was part of the Eastern Region, and then initially of Biafra, the Ogoni were ill-treated by the majority Igbo.When the federal order of Nigeria continued to split into more states, they were in Rivers State.The Ijaw people, dominant in that state, did not do much for the Ogoni either.Worst of all, they were in oil country, and the activities of the Shell Company were devastating for the Ogoni habitat.This chapter is from Afropolitan Horizons by Ulf Hannerz https://
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.057 | 0.008 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".