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Zenobia’s story: how a victim of abuse uses isiXhosa to account for her actions
Literator, 2008 This article explores the theoretical work in articulating the motivations and conditions for account-giving in isiXhosa in relation to image restoration.
M. Dlali, S. Mokapela
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Ìgbélárugẹ Èdè: Akinwumi Isola’s Model for Promoting African Languages
Yoruba Studies Review, 2021 The ever-popular discussion in African literary circles is critically about language choices that African writers make in their creative endeavors. This is part of this write-up’s focus plus the plight of African languages with attention to the benefit ...
Akinloye Ojo
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Mystery in Sepedi detective stories
Literator, 2007 The aim of this article is to illustrate the importance of the concept “mystery” in the classification of Sepedi detective stories. Mystery is therefore first defined, and then some rules governing how mystery is created and sustained in a narrative are ...
M.J. Mojalefa, N.I. Magapa
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, 2017 Linguists and archaeologists offer complementary viewpoints on human behaviour and culture in past African communities. While historical-comparative linguistics commonly deals with the immaterial traces of the past in Africa’s present-day languages ...
Bostoen, Koen
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A philosophical interpretation of the significance of oral forms in I. Mabasa’s novel Mapenzi (1999)
Literator, 2008 The article critically analyses the use of Shona oral art forms in I. Mabasa’s novel “Mapenzi” (“Mad people”/“Foolish people”). It departs from the realisation that the writer identifies with Shona people’s oral experiences in the form of songs, “bembera”
D.E. Mutasa, I. Mutawi
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A multimodal analysis of Piggyvest’s animated advertisement videos
Language and Semiotic Studies, 2023 This study examines the persuasive strategies in selected animated advertisement videos by Piggyvest, the first and one of the fastest-growing online savings platforms in Nigeria, whose modus operandi is quite different from those of the conventional ...
Odedeyi Toluwani Deborah +1 more
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Code switching in contemporary isiZulu performance poetry
Literator, 2021 Recent developments in isiZulu poetry have been marked by an emergence of performance poets whose poems have gained popularity with younger audiences.
Bongephiwe Dlamini Myeni +1 more
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African Languages and African Literature
UJAH: Unizik Journal of Arts and Humanities, 2011 In the 1960s, much diatribe was exchanged by African literary artists within their caucus, and outside with different scholars interested in African literature. Wali demonstrates this disagreement. He comments, “… until these writers and their western midwives accept the fact that true African literature must be written in African ...
Eme, CA, Mbagwu, DU
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Literator, 2010 This article examines the array of macro and micro historical factors that stirred historical agency in the 1970s war against colonial settlerism as depicted in selected liberation war fiction.
I. Muwati, D.E. Mutasa, M.L. Bopape
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Competing scripts: the introduction of the Roman alphabet in Africa [PDF]
, 2008 The introduction of the Roman script since the turn of the 20th century was the first attempt of mass alphabetization in Africa, and it has become the most important writing system. It was, however, not the first script on the continent. In Old Egypt and
Pasch, Helma
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