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Journal of African Cultural Studies
(previously African Languages and Cultures)

VOLUME 12  Number 2  December 1999

Special Issue: Literature and history

Literature and History: Introduction
Nana Wilson-Tagoe & Kwadwo Osei-Nyame 117

Social history, literary history, and historical fiction in South Africa
Michael Green 121

Pan-Africanist ideology and the African historical novel of self-discovery: the examples of Kobina Sekyi and J. E. Casely Hayford
Kwadwo Osei-Nyame 137

Narrative, history, novel: intertextuality in the historical novels of Ayi Kwei Armah and Yvonne Vera
Nana Wilson-Tagoe 155

The politics of Black Identity: Slave Ship and Woza Albert!
Francis Ngaboh-Smart
167

Linkages of history in the narrative of Close Sesame
Raymond Ntalindwa 187

‘Traduttore Traditore’? Alexis Kagame’s transposition of Kinyarwanda poetry into French
Anthère Nzabatsinda 203


Journal of African Cultural Studies
(previously African Languages and Cultures)

VOLUME 12 Number 1 June 1999

Dangerous crossroads: liminality and contested meaning in Krobo
(Ghana) dipo girls’ initiation
Joseph K. Adjaye 5

Youth culture, bandiri, and the continuing legitimacy debate in Sokoto Town
Malami Buba and Graham Furniss 27

H. E. Lambert (1893–1967): Swahili scholar of eminence (being a short
biography together with a bibliography of his published work)
P. J. L. Frankl 47

Imbongi and griot: toward a comparative analysis of oral poetics in
Southern and West Africa
Russell H. Kaschula 55

Migrant literature and political commitment: puzzles and parables in the
novels of Biyi Bandele-Thomas
Girma Negash 77

‘We’re on the run’: ideas of progress among adolescents in rural Kenya
Miroslava Prazak 93

Journal of African Cultural Studies
(previously African Languages and Cultures)

VOLUME 11 Number 2 December 1998

An historical–anthropological approach to Islam in Ethiopia: issues of
identity and politics
Jon Abbink 109

111 Somali ideophones
Cabdulqaadir Salaad Dhoorre and Mauro Tosco 125

Towards a Hausa verbal aesthetic: aspects of language about using
language
Linda Hunter and Chaibou Elhadji Oumarou 157

Izibongo – the political art of praising: poetical socio-regulative
discourse in Zulu society
Kai Kresse 171

Code-switching: Amharic–English
Zelealem Leyew 197

Kenneth Hubert Crosby (1904–1998): a pioneer scholar of the Mende
language
Konrad Tuchscherer 217


Journal of African Cultural Studies
(previously African Languages and Cultures)

VOLUME 11 Number 1 June 1998

Saved by a song: patriarchy and women's experience in Chamba
tellings of "The girl who wanted an unblemished husband"
Raymond Boyd & Richard Fardon 5

Towards a comprehensive catalogue of Eve drum mnemonics
Robert Kwami 27

Beyond frontiers: a review of analytical paradigms in folklore
studies
Patrick Kagbeni Muana 39

Usishike shauri la mwanamke: Irony in Kiswahili folktales
Hamza Mustafa Njozi 59

An anthropolinguistic study of Igbo market-day anthroponyms
M. C. Onukawa 73

Expressing power and status through aesthetics in Mijikenda
society
Elizabeth Orchardson-Mazrui 85


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