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