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A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Selected African- American Women Proverbs

آداب الكوفة, 2021
The status of women has witnessed remarkable shifts in European and American history. These changes did not take one form or similar directions, but rather they differed from one place to another and from one civilization to another.
Qasim Al-Azzawi, Afaf Salih
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Gender and African Proverbs

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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Conceptualising quality early childhood education: Learning from young children in Brazil and South Africa through creative and play‐based methods

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright, Irene Rizzini, Malibongwe Gwele, Lynn McNair, Cristina Laclette Porto, Marsha Orgill, E. Kay M. Tisdall, Malcolm Bush, Linda Biersteker   +8 more
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Being and becoming African as a permanent work in progress: inspiration from Chinua Achebe’s proverbs

Acta Academica, 2021
This lecture explores what we could learn about being and becoming African as a permanent work in progress from how Chinua Achebe adopts and adapts Igbo proverbs in his writing.
Francis B. Nyamnjoh
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"The Horse on which Words Ride": Proverbial Narrative in Toyin Falola's A Mouth Sweeter than Salt

Yoruba Studies Review, 2021
Literature and oral tradition share a symbiotic relationship. Toyin Faiola the author of A Mouth Sweeter than Salt has produced a highly engaging memoir. The text is set in Ibadan, Ode Aje and Ilorin. We find a rich and knowledgeable exploitation of oral
Felicia Ohwovoriole
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Fon-Sprichwörter aus Benin über Weiße. Ein Forschungsbericht [PDF]

Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław
Beyond the fact that oral literature is poetry, it is the reflection of the society from which it comes or in which it originates. It is place-based and reflects, among other things, the psychology and mentality of its place of origin. In collecting West
Sewanou Jupiter Martial Lanmadousselo
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Proverbs and Patriarchy: Analysis of Linguistic Prejudice and Representation of Women in Traditional Akan Communities of Ghana

Social Sciences, 2020
Discourses govern the phenomenological interpretation of our everyday existence and influence both our way of thinking and our relationship with one another in the world.
Charles Gyan, Eunice Abbey, Michael Baffoe   +2 more
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The loudness of the “Unsaid”: Proverbs in selected African drama

Legon Journal of the Humanities, 2019
The paper reflects on the use of proverbs as communicative constituents of African drama, how they are used by playwrights to establish themes, build context, enrich dialogue and develop characterisation.
Gbemisola Adeoti
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Discourse Markers in Hausa Proverbs: Exploring Intellectual Wise Saying from African Wisdom and Culture

REiLA, 2021
This paper aims to explore some intellectual wise saying from African wisdom and culture from one of the three major languages in the northern part of Nigeria.
Haruna Alkasim Kiyawa
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A CROSS ANTHROPOLOGICO-LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF SELECTED AFRICAN PROVERBS AS EVIDENCE OF A CULTURE OF VIOLENCE

Ayika, 2023
Proverbs are short, pithy sayings that contain the treasures of traditional wisdom which are passed down from one generation to another. In some concrete way, they are the bedrock upon which societies build their civilization.
Feyi Ademola-Adeoye
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