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Resituating ‘African-language’ literatures in African literature: The case of BW Vilakazi

open access: yesSouth African Journal of African Languages, 2021
In this article, a concern is expressed about the marginal place of African literatures written in African languages in the field of African literary studies. The first fictional novel to be published in isiZulu by one of the most notable writers in South Africa, BW Vilakazi’s Noma Nini, is looked at.
Sithole, Nkosinathi
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Journal of African Languages and Literatures, No 4 (2023): Journal of African Languages and Literatures

2023
On the semantics of Tarifiyt verbs of seeing...1-27 A history of Gurara Berber (Taznatit)...104-119 Nico Nassenstein, Swahili Proverbs from the Democratic Republic of the Congo...120-125 Front matter...i-ii Wh-question formation in Lokạạ...28-49 Paul Newman, A History of the Hausa Language.
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The Language of African Literature

Harvard Educational Review, 1964
Talking enthusiastically about her visit to Europe, a leading African woman in South Africa said to a group of listeners a few years ago, "The role of the woman in Europe fascinated me so much that I wanted to write more about it to you folks at home. I wished I could write with all my ten fingers." The last phrase was an invention, unlike the number ...
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Journal of African Languages and Literatures, N. 3 (2022): Journal of African Languages and Literatures

2022
Revisiting the English-Swahili debate on Tanzania’s medium of instruction policy at secondary and post-secondary levels of education...1-21 Soldiers, coffee and markets: On Baldi’s Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa...120-132 Modal auxiliary verb constructions in East African Bantu languages...22-85 Front matter..
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Journal of African Languages and Literatures, N. 2 (2021): Journal of African Languages and Literatures

2021
Emenyonu and the language of Igbo literature: A review...138-145 Front matter...i-ii Epenthetic glides in Taqbaylit...1-29 Negation in Kabyle (Berber)...30-79 Discourse organization in Gorwaa narratives: An exploratory overview...80-113 Sign language research in Ghana: An overview of indigenous and foreign-based sign languages...114 ...
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Literatures in African languages

Journal of African Cultural Studies, 2015
For decades, African literary studies have been grounded in an epistemological distinction between Europhone literatures and Afrophone literatures.
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Journal of African Languages and Literatures, N. 1 (2020): Journal of African Languages and Literatures

2020
Synchronic and diachronic strategies of mora preservation in Gújjolaay Eegimaa...1-25 Front matter...i-ii What grammar for Bamileke languages? A common grammar or a ‘library’ of grammars?...26-61 Outlier stock and Northern Nigeria’s convergence zones...62-88 Promoting women empowerment through songs: Barmani Choge and her performances...89-109 Crafting
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Literatures in West African Languages

1976
As suggested in Chapter 1, the choice of a script has always been somehow linked with the broader problems of cultural, ideological and religious affinities in Black Africa, as elsewhere. It appears, however, highly probable that these affinities operate to some extent in one direction only; whereas the choice of the script is always linked to the ...
Vladimír Klíma   +2 more
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African Literature in European Languages

Journal of Black Studies, 2001
The above postulate raises critical questions about postindependence African literature in European languages. Two schools of thought have emerged out of debates on this issue. There are those who consider the use of European languages in African literary expressions from a pragmatic standpoint.
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African-Language Literature; Or, Postcolonial Theory’s Unconscious

Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 2012
According to Garnier, neither the sociohistorical grounding of postcolonial studies nor the more explicitly linguistic and cultural one of francophone studies helps direct a satisfactory critical reading of literature in African languages. The ambition of this essay is to show the potential for theoretical renewal African-language literature is likely ...
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