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The African Proverbs Project and After
Lexikos, 2011 <p>Abstract: The Pew Charitable Trusts financed the African Proverbs Project with Dr Stan Nussbaum as co-ordinator, for three years (1993?1996). He assembled a number of scholars who had collected and studied proverbs.
John S. Mbiti
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The decolonising of theology through African proverbs
In die Skriflig, 2023 The decolonisation of theology has been a subject in academia for almost 60 years. In this article, although referring to African proverbs as a way of decolonising theology all the proverbs are in the Setswana language, which the author is knowledgeable ...
Kelebogile T. Resane
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Proverbs and African Modernity: Defining an Ethics of Becoming
Yoruba Studies Review, 2021 African proverbs have, for good reason, attracted considerable attention from scholars, both African and non-African. One notable testimony to such attention is the international conference in South Africa from which came a monumental collection of ...
Oyekan Owomoyela
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Narrative Proverbs in the African Novel [PDF]
Oral Tradition, 1992 "The situation in modern Africa amply illustrates the point about the merging of the worlds of orality and literacy. The superimposition of alphabetic writing upon the oral cultures of Africa in the nineteenth century did not extinguish the oral traditions upon which African cultures and literatures had long been established.
Emmanuel Obiechina
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A Pragma-Stylistic Approach to Analysing Proverbs: A Review of Some Selected Proverbs in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God [PDF]
E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, 2021 African artworks, to be specific, literature has for quite a long time now demonstrated African tradition and culture. One major African literary tool that has maintained its efficacy in the African cultural heritage is the use of proverbs.
Jonathan Essuman +2 more
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“Proverbs are the Wisdom of the Streets”: A Pragma-Stylistic Analysis of Proverbs in Kemi Adetiba’s King of Boys Movie Franchise [PDF]
E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, 2022 Various genres of literature within the African context have over the years portrayed and highlighted African cultures and traditions. One effective tool that has been used in the full realization of this has been the use of proverbs.
Philomena Ama Okyeso Yeboah +2 more
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Acta Theologica, 2021 This article deals with the transformation of theology and society through biblical wisdom. The first section explores the realms of wisdom and the relevance of king Solomon for the wisdom tradition.
S. Fischer
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“Komai Nisan Dare, Akwai Wani Online”: Social Media and the Emergence of Hausa Neoproverbs
Humanities, 2023 This paper interrogates the changing paradigm in the evolution of traditional African proverbs in the postcolonial setting in which Hausa youth create proverbs centered around the power of both social media and their technologies.
Abdalla Uba Adamu
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Studies of Tribes and Tribals, 2016 This paper emanates from an ongoing study. The preliminary literature review shows that some proverbs have gender connotations.
Juliet Kamwendo, Hassan O. Kaya
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Verbum et Ecclesia, 2018 In varying Jewish and African contexts (cf. the Yorùbá and Sotho in the present essay), the ‘ēšet hayil is regarded as a historical figure who should serve as a model for women both young and old.
Madipoane Masenya
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