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Item The 1993 Celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in Bloomington, Indiana: Tradition, Interpretation, and Conflicts of Identity(Hoosier Folklore Society, Deptartment of English, Indiana State University, 1996) Reed, Daniel B.Item 20th Century Developments in Swahili Prose, 1900-1950(1984-07-13) Rollins, Jack D.Item Access and Availability of Scholarly Information in Malawi, 1964-2007(2009) Kenyon, JeremyItem African Borderland Sculpture(UCLA James S. Coleman African Studies Center, 1987) McNaughton, PatrickItem 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, CeciliaTwenty 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.Item African Literature(Indiana University Press, 1995) Julien, EileenItem African Literature in Comparative Perspective(Department of Comparative Literature, Indiana University Bloomington, 1995) Julien, EileenItem 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, NancyItem Akan Death-Prevention Names: A Pragmatic and Structural Analysis(Maney Publishing, 1998) Obeng, Samuel GyasiThis 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.Item The Akan Trickster Cycle: Myth or Folktale?(African Studies Program, Indiana University, 1983) Yankah, KwesiItem Are Births Just “Women’s Business?” Gift Exchange, Value, and Global Volatility in Muslim Senegal(American Anthropological Association, 2011-11) Buggenhagen, BethThrough 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.Item 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.Item 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.Item 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"Item Asymmetric coordination in Lega(Kölner Institut für Afrikanistik, Köln, Germany, 1998) Botne, Robert; Tak, Jin YoungItem Avatars of the Feminine in Senghor, Laye and Diop(Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1987) Julien, EileenItem Bamana Blacksmiths(UCLA James S. Coleman African Studies Center, 1979) McNaughton, PatrickItem Banishing the resource curse: What Ghana needs for its new petroleum sector(The African Studies Program, Indiana University, Bloomington and the Indiana Consortium for International Programs, 2013-03-22) Panford, KwaminaItem Between agreement and case marking in Lamnso(Indiana University Linguistics Club, 2002) Botne, Robert; McGarrity, Laura W.Lamnso, a language in the Grassfields branch of Southern Bantoid, has a system of noun classes marked by (C)V affixes that attach to the stem. Noun modifiers agree with the noun by attaching a comparable affix that matches the class. This type of NP-level concord is typical of Bantu languages. At the clausal level, (C)V markers that are identical in form to those appearing at the NP-level appear as enclitics on virtually all nouns in a sentence. Though these markers are identical, it is argued that they serve separate functions, marking agreement on subject nouns before the verb and case on oblique object nouns after the verb. Direct objects and nouns in locative expressions are not marked. Typological evidence in the form of a grammatical relations hierarchy is discussed in support of these claims.Item 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.