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African Languages and Literature [PDF]

, 2013
exaly   +2 more sources

Reading blank space from an ecopoetic perspective in selected poems by E.E. Cummings and William Carlos Williams

Literator, 2022
Sorrow is perhaps the usual response to the disappearance of things into ‘nowhere’. The use of blank space in the poetry of E. E. Cummings and William Carlos Williams indicates an alternative response: to accept and even celebrate this.
Etienne J. Terblanche
doaj   +1 more source

Hip-hop, Identity, and Cultural Hybridity: An Exploration of Motswako as a Bicultural Phenomenon [PDF]

E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
South Africa is a linguistically and culturally diverse country. South African locals normally assimilate more than one culture, officially and unofficially.
Kgomotso Mothokhumo Ambitious Theledi, Soyiso Khetoa   +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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The Journey of Adoption and Adaptation: A Reading of The Tight Game, Sola Owonibi’s Translation of Akinwumi Isola’s Ó Le Kú

Yoruba Studies Review, 2022
Language has long defined the discourse of African literature. Africa’s colonial experience has left its enduring legacy of colonial languages which have been imbibed to the detriment of the usage of indigenous African languages. Accordingly, even in the
Gifty Akua Nyarko, Rita Ndonibi
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A Desktop Review of Linguistic Practices in Higher Education Post #FeesMustFall Protests: An Appraisal of Academy and Multilingual Citizenship [PDF]

E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Student protests nationwide in the form of #FeesMustFall in South Africa between 2015 and 2016 catalyzed a national conversation on decolonization, inclusivity and linguistic transformation in higher education.
Soyiso Khetoa
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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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The persistence of spirit

Literator, 2018
No abstract available.
Nicholas Meihuizen
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James Henry Greathead en die Londense Moltrein

Literator, 2017
Die artikel ondersoek die oorsprong en vroeë geskiedenis van die toestel genaamd die ‘Greathead Skild’, ‘n belangrike nuwigheid in Viktoriaanse ingenieurwetenskap, wat van deurslaggewende belang was in die konstruksie van die Londense Moltrein.
Laurence Wright
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African Culturalist Subversion of Western Otherizing Logic in Decolonising the Mind: Ngugi’s Indigenization Project

Miṣriqiyā, 2021
When discussing African literature, it becomes impossible to bypass the issue of language, and more importantly African native languages, which seem to be close to quasi-inexistent when it comes to writing in them.
Ahmadou Siendou Konaté
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