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A Grammar of Lango
De Gruyter 1992; US$ 259.00Fairacre is changing, even though this downland village and Miss Read's school may still look as they did one hundred years ago. The old cottages where the community once lived are being bought by outsiders, and the new commuter lifestyle has taken children to other schools. Numbers at the Fairacre school are so low, Miss Read fears the school may... more...
Autosegmental Studies in Bantu Tone
De Gruyter 1984; US$ 126.00Autosegmental Studies in Bantu Tone more...
Dictionary of Literary Swahili
The Edwin Mellen Press 2010; US$ 199.95This dictionary is the result of over forty years of research and the collection of vocabularies from Swahili texts, poetry, prose and proverbs. more...
The Manenguba Languages (Bantu A. 15 Mbo Cluster) of Cameroon
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 69.95Published in 2004, The Manenguba Languages of Cameroon is a valuable contribution to the field of Asian Studies. more...
Reading Migration and Culture
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 85.00This book uses the uniquely positioned culture of East African Asians to reflect upon the most vexing issues in postcolonial literary studies today. By examining the local histories and discourses that underpin East African Asian literature, it opens up and reflects upon issues of alienation, modernity, migration, diaspora, memory and nationalism.... more...
Japanese Noh Plays
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 168.00Written for travellers to Japan, this concise guide explains all aspects of the Noh performance, including the layout of the theatre, music, masks and costumes, acting, dramatic themes, and appreciation of Noh theatre. Readers will gain insights into this fascinating aspect of Japanese culture and be well prepared to attend performances when visiting... more...
Manning the Nation
Weaver Press 2008; US$ 29.95Gender studies in Zimbabwe have tended to focus on women and their comparative disadvantages and under-privilege. Assuming a broader perspective is necessary at a time when society has grown used to arguments rooted in binaries: colonised and coloniser, race and class, sex and gender, poverty and wealth, patriotism and terrorism, etc. The editors of... more...
The Bafaw Language: Bantu A10
Langaa RPCIG 2010; US$ 28.95The Bafaw Language (Bantu A10) is a product of the language research programme of the Department of Linguistics of the University of Buea. It is the first serious piece of work on this highly endangered language, and aims to account generally for the data of Bafaw. The work therefore lays the foundation for more advanced work in the future. It provides... more...
Landscaping Postcoloniality
Langaa RPCIG 2009; US$ 24.95This is a foundational text on the production and dissemination of Anglophone Cameroon literature. The Republic of Cameroon is a bilingual country with English and French as the official languages. Ashuntantang shows that the pattern of production and dissemination of Anglophone Cameroon literature is not only framed by the minority status of English... more...
War and Peace in Contemporary Eritrean Poetry
Mkuki na Nyota Publishers 2009; US$ 24.95War and Peace in Contemporary Eritrean Poetry focuses on Eritrean written poetry from roughly the last three decades of the twentieth century. The poems appear in the anthology Who Needs a Story? Contemporary Eritrean Poetry in Tigrinya, Tigre and Arabic from which a selection is offered here in their original scripts of Ge'ez or Arabic, and in... more...









