The phrase "african methods" is correct in terms of grammar but may require capitalization for proper nouns, making it "African methods." You can use it when discussing techniques, practices, or approaches that originate from or are associated with Africa.
Example: "The researchers focused on African methods of agriculture to improve sustainability in farming."
Alternatives: "African techniques" or "African practices."
In this paper, we examine how much pVAC is retained in cassava after drying, storage, and cooking by traditional West African methods.
Cassava roots can be boiled or steamed for consumption, but are usually processed into flour by oven drying or more laborious traditional West African methods.
Partanen [ 22] suggests that 80-90% of total alcohol consumed in Kenya comes from 'small-scale production within the informal sector, licit or illicit, using traditional African methods of brewing and local skills of distilling'.
The poisoning of masters and other hated individuals was a particularly African method of coping with evil.
A southern African method utilizes a ring of poles that is inserted into the ground, brought together in a crest, and expertly thatched.
Cotton Mather's "pretty Intelligent Fellow" Onesimus taught his owner an African method of smallpox inoculation, but disappears from the record once Mather, complaining that he "grows useless, Froward and Immorigerous," let him buy his freedom.
Daya Oluyemi-Kusa Expert in conflict prevention and resolution in Abuja "The African method of raising children should be returned to: 'It takes one person to give birth to a child, but it takes a village to raise a child.' Programmes should be put in place for socialisation of children and youths to return to family values.
As Abiola Irele has rightly remarked: "Senghor's theory of the African method of knowledge and his aesthetic theory" are not just "intimately related [but] even coincide" (Irele 1990, 75).
We first genotyped polymorphisms in genes involved in the NER (ie, ERCC1 (N118N and C8092A) and XPD (K751Q)) or BER (ie, XRCC1 (R399Q and R194W) and PARP1 (V762A)) pathways in patients with melanoma (n=165) and compared the allele frequency of these SNPs to a cohort of healthy individuals (n=150 Caucasians and n=159 African Americans; methods included in ref. 26).
The government is seeking to purge Darfur of black Africans, using methods as cruel as they are effective.
It's a tradition that combines African and Cuban methods and ideologies.
