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20th Century Developments in Swahili Prose, 1900-1950
(1984-07-13) Rollins, Jack D.
A Bibliography of Africana in the Lilly Library
(African Studies Program, Indiana University, 1977) Sweetland, James compiler; Gosebrink, Jean E. Meeh ed.
Bibliography of Africana materials in the Lilly Library at Indiana University. The Lilly Library contains rare books, special collections, and manuscripts. Of particular interest to students of Africa are examples of early African cartography, texts on exploration and travel, manuscripts, volumes on the slave trade, etc. The majority of material in this bibliography pertains to voyages, exploration, and scientific expeditions.
A Comparison of Reduplication in Limonese Creole and Akan
(Battlebridge Publications, 2003) Winkler, Elizabeth Grace; Obeng, Samuel Gyasi
A Grammar of Genre: Ethnic Identity and the Boundaries of Swahili Literature
(1982-12) Rollins, Jack D.
A phonetic description of some repair sequences in Akan conversation.
(Mouton de Gruyter, 1992) Obeng, Samuel Gyasi
Natural human conversations are hardly 'error-free', due to the properties of interaction. Repair is therefor a concomitant part of any natural conversation. Phonetic (and sometimes Morpho-syntactic) cues are deployed to signal repair in conversation. Evidence is provided from natural interactions to show that such phonetic cues as pauses; prolongation of phonic or syllabic elements; loudness and pitch may be deployed singly or conjointly to signal repair. The paper also demonstrates that a detailed knowledge about repair provides a considerable insight into turn-regulation.
A Snapshot of Happiness: Photo Albums, Respectability, and Economic Uncertainty in Muslim Senegal
(Cambridge University Press, 2014-02) Buggenhagen, Beth
Young women who live in the improvised urban spaces on the outskirts of Senegal's capital city, Dakar, extemporize their respectability in a time of fiscal uncertainty through personal photography. The neighbourhood of Khar Yalla is an improvised, interconnected and multilayered space settled by families removed from the city centre during clean-up campaigns from the 1960s to the 1970s, by families escaping conflict in Casamance and Guinea-Bissau, and by recent rural migrants. As much as Khar Yalla is an improvised neighbourhood, it is also a space of improvisation. When women pose for, display, and pass around portraits of themselves at key moments in their social life, whether in the medium of social networking sites or photo albums, they reveal as much as they conceal the elements of individual and social life. They index their social networks and constitute their urban space not as peripheral, but as central to the lives and imaginations of their siblings and spouses who live abroad. Photographs actively shape and construct urban spaces, which are often loud, unruly and fraught spaces with vast inequalities and incommensurabilities. How women deal with economic and social disparity, within their own families, communities, and globally, is the subject of this article.
Access and Availability of Scholarly Information in Malawi, 1964-2007
(2009) Kenyon, Jeremy
African Borderland Sculpture
(UCLA James S. Coleman African Studies Center, 1987) McNaughton, Patrick
African Immigrant Families' Views on English as a Second Language (ESL) Classes Held for Newly Arrived Immigrant Children in the United States Elementary and Middle Schools: A Study in Ethnography
(Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006) Obeng, Samuel; Obeng, Cecilia
Twenty immigrant families from different Anglophone, Francophone, and Lusophone African countries were interviewed about their views on English as a Second Language (ESL) classes offered by the school systems in the United States to newly arrived immigrant children. Whereas nine families (mostly from Francophone and Lusophone Africa) found the ESL classes useful, eleven families (mostly from Anglophone Africa) found them to be useless because they did not help to improve their children's English. Some respondents were frustrated because ofthe criterion used in selecting students to participate in the program, and also because their children were kept in the program long after their English proficiency had improved. Most respondents saw inclusion within the mainstream classes, instead of separate ESL classes, as a better way to increase students' English competency.
African Literature
(Indiana University Press, 1995) Julien, Eileen
African Literature in Comparative Perspective
(Department of Comparative Literature, Indiana University Bloomington, 1995) Julien, Eileen
Africana Librarianship in the 21st Century: Treasuring the Past and Building the Future: proceedings of the 40th anniversary conference of the Africana Librarians Council
(African Studies Program, Indiana University, 1998) Schmidt, Nancy
Akan Death-Prevention Names: A Pragmatic and Structural Analysis
(Maney Publishing, 1998) Obeng, Samuel Gyasi
This paper discusses the content and types of Akan death-prevention names. It provides a structural linguistic analysis of the morphology of these names and presents a socio- and ethnolinguistic account of the death-prevention names as they function within Akan communication. The paper also classifies the names according to their structures. Death-prevention names are shown to be meaningful and to refer to the lives of both their bearers and the name-givers.
Are Births Just “Women’s Business?” Gift Exchange, Value, and Global Volatility in Muslim Senegal
(American Anthropological Association, 2011-11) Buggenhagen, Beth
Through global circuits of wage labor and capital, the Murid way has become an economic force in the Senegalese postcolony amid conditions of protracted global volatility. In this article, I analyze women's actions within these global circuits. Women create value by giving gifts during the celebration of births and marriages, gifts that are the product of and the motivating force behind Murid global trade. Female ritual activities, on which male honor rests, draw women into conflict with the Murid clergy, which views women's actions as customary and not part of its modern, austere, and global vision of Islam in Senegal.
Artists' Depictions of Senegalese Signares: insights concerning French racist and sexist attitudes in the nineteenth century.
(Institut universitaire d'études du développement (IUED) & Société suisse d'études africaines (SSEA), 1980) Brooks, George E.
Asante Queen Mothers: Precolonial Authority in a Postcolonial Society
(Institute of African Studies of the University of Ghana, Legon, 2003) Stoeltje, Beverly J.
While the Asantehene and Asantehemmaa are well known figures in Ghana, less familiar are the many queen mothers who function in parallel roles to chiefs in every Asante town and paramountcy. Ignored by the British and generally bypassed by modern Ghanaian leaders, queen mothers have nevertheless continued to serve their constituencies faithfully. More recently, however, globalization has discovered them, and external sources are beginning to seek them out for local projects. Yet, queen mothers continue to face serious obstacles as a precolonial female authority in a postcolonial society.
Aspects of International Relations in Africa
(African Studies Program, Indiana University, 1979) DeLancey, Mark W. ed.
Edited volume which includes: Mark DeLancey, "The Study of African International Relations" Timothy M. Shaw and M. Catherine Newbury, "Dependence or Interdependence: Africa in the Global Political Economy" Ken W. Grundy, "Regional Relations in Southern Africa and the Global Political Economy" J. Gus Liebenow, "The Quest for East African Unity" J. Barron Boyd, Jr., "The Origins of Boundary Conflict in Africa" Patrick J. McGowan and Thomas H. Johnson, "The AFRICA Project and the Comparative Study of African Foreign Policy"
Asymmetric coordination in Lega
(Kölner Institut für Afrikanistik, Köln, Germany, 1998) Botne, Robert; Tak, Jin Young
Avatars of the Feminine in Senghor, Laye and Diop
(Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1987) Julien, Eileen
Bamana Blacksmiths
(UCLA James S. Coleman African Studies Center, 1979) McNaughton, Patrick

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