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African Literature, Animism and Politicsby Caroline Rooney
Routledge 2001; US$ 39.95This book marks an important contribution to colonial and postcolonial studies in its clarification of a certain Africanist discourse and its far-reaching analyses of a literature of animism. more...
Encyclopedia of African Literatureby Simon Gikandi
Routledge 2002; US$ 59.95The most comprehensive reference work on African literature to date, this book contains over 600 entries that cover criticism and theory, its development as a field of scholarship, and studies of established and lesser-known writers. more...
Sunjataby Gordon Innes
Taylor & Francis 1975; US$ 41.95The three texts in this book are by three of The Gambia?s leading bards, Bamba Suso, Banna Kanute and Dembo Kanute. A brief biographical note on each of these three bards will be found before the text which each has provided. The texts by Bamba Suso and Banna Kanute are included here as illustrative of the differences of both style and content which can occur between two performances of the ?same? epic. Dembo Kanute?s text is an example of a narration which draws upon the Sunjata epic, but where the focus of interest is not Sunjata himself, but one of his generals. more...
Voice and Powerby B. W Andrzejewski; R J Hayward; M Lewis
Routledge 1996; US$ 90.00This text is devoted to studies of the languages and cultures of the Cushitic-speaking peoples of the Horn of Africa. It is concerned with linguistics in a technical sense, and analyzes the oral literature of the people of the area. more...
Colloquial Swahiliby Donovan McGrath; Lutz Marten
Routledge 2002; US$ 29.95Colloquial Swahili is the ideal introduction to the major language of East Africa. Written by experienced teachers, the course provides a step-by-step approach to Swahili. No previous knowledge of the language is required. more...
Politics Of (m)otheringby Obioma Nnaemeka
Routledge 1996; US$ 39.95This collection is a study of African literature framed by the central, and multi-faceted, idea of 'mother' - motherland, mothertongue, motherwit, motherhood, mothering - looking at the paradoxical location of (m)other as both central and marginal. more...
Some Problems Of Transitivity In Swahiliby W. H. Whiteley
Taylor & Francis 2004; US$ 36.95During the past two years work has been started on the preparation of a new Swahili dictionary, and while the work is still at an early stage of development it is clear that two particularly difficult problems concern the extent to which lexical material can be systematized, and the manner in which this can best achieved. more...