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Journal articles on the topic "African prose"

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Casimir, Komenan. "Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart: A Seminal Novel in African Literature." Studies in Linguistics and Literature 4, no. 3 (June 27, 2020): p55. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/sll.v4n3p55.

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Achebe’s Things Fall Apart is an influential novel in African literature for three reasons. First, it is a novel meant to promote African culture; second, it is a narrative about where things went wrong with Africans; and third, it is a prose text which contributed to Achebe’s worldwide recognition. It contains Achebe’s rejection of the degrading representation of Africans by European writers, and fosters Africa’s traditional values and humanism. The excesses of Igbo customs led the protagonist to flagrant misuse of power. The novel’s scriptural innovations bring fame to Achebe who is considered as the “Asiwaju” (Leader) of African literature, the “founding father of African fiction”, or again the “Eagle on Iroko”.

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Kotlerman, Ber. "SOUTH AFRICAN WRITINGS OF MORRIS HOFFMAN: BETWEEN YIDDISH AND HEBREW." Journal for Semitics 23, no. 2 (November 21, 2017): 569–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/1013-8471/3506.

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Morris Hoffman (1885-1940), who was born in a Latvian township and emigrated to South Africa in 1906, was a brilliant example of the Eastern European Jewish maskil writing with equal fluency in both Yiddish and Hebrew. He published poetry and prose in South African Yiddish and Hebrew periodicals. His long Yiddish poem under the title Afrikaner epopeyen (African epics) was considered to be the best Yiddish poetry written in South Africa. In 1939, a selection of his Yiddish stories under the title Unter afrikaner zun (Under the African sun) was prepared for publishing in De Aar, Cape Province (which is now in the Northern Cape Province), and published after his death in 1951 in Johannesburg. The Hebrew version of the stories was published in Israel in 1949 under the title Taá¸¥at shmey afrikah (Under the skies of Africa). The article deals with certain differences between the versions using the example of one of the bilingual stories. The comparison between the versions illuminates Hoffmanâ€™s reflections on the relations between Jews and Afrikaners with a rather new perspective which underlines their religious background

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Murray, Jeffrey. "Homer the South African." English Today 29, no. 1 (February 27, 2013): 58–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266078412000521.

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When reviewing a much-translated canonical text such as Homer's Iliad, it has become something of a topos to question the need for yet another translation of it. In the twenty-first century alone, Homer's Iliad has benefited from at least six published English translations already: Rodney Merrill (2007), Herbert Jordan (2008), Anthony Verity (2011), Stephen Mitchell (2011), Edward McCrorie (2012) and James Muirden (2012). Richard Whitaker adds his translation to the list with a slight variation on the standard Anglo-American English translations already available, presenting his readers instead with a ‘Southern African English’ version. With such a variety of Standard English prose and poetic translations already on offer, is there really a need for yet another Iliad? Will the novelty of its subtitle, as a ‘Southern African English’ Iliad, justify its publication, and what will prevent it from being judged merely as a postcolonial curiosity?

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Ufot, Bassey, and Idara E. Thomas. "The English Language and Afro Saxons: A Systemic Study of the Communicative Qualities of a Selection of African Prose Passages." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 6, no. 3 (March 21, 2016): 463. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.0603.03.

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This paper studies the discourse strategies and communicative potential of the English language in a selection of Afro Saxon prose passages. The term ‘Afro Saxons’ was first coined by Kenyan scholar, Ali Mazrui, in 1975, by analogy with ‘Anglo Saxons’, to refer to the linguistic phenomenon in which the English language is increasingly becoming the ‘first language’ functionally of a great many black and African people. This study, therefore, enlarges upon this concept and undertakes to elaborate on the ways in which the communicative and expressive possibilities of English are exemplified in a selection of some of the most lyrical and dramatic prose extracts by some African writers. Mounted upon the theoretical platforms of Mazrui, and Halliday’s systemic functional grammar (SFG) with its contextual parameters of the ideational (field), interpersonal (tenor) and textual (mode) metafunctions, the research appraises the attitudes to the increasing global status of English. Then employing two Anglo Saxon prose passages as the control, it investigates in some detail the organic configurations of discourse such as transitivity, mood, thematic structure, cohesion and coherence in passages from Armah, Achebe and Soyinka, and concludes that, based on the effective use of the figurative and expressive metafunctions of the language, these authors may indeed be referred to as Afro Saxons.

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Antwi, Emmanuel. "AFRICA'S DIRGE: THE ILLUSION OF SOLUTIONS TO THE NATIONS?" JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN HUMANITIES 4, no. 2 (December 9, 2016): 431–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.24297/jah.v4i2.1299.

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Over the centuries, the theatrical and pretentious activities of African Political leaders have culminated in the evolution of a thick skin of carelessness and indifference guided by fuzzy and visionless eyes that stare hopelessly into the future. It is certainly difficult now to determine what could stair her to realize her precarious situation and act. Time and again African nations have proven unable to solve petty problems, thoughtless of managing weightier matters of the current century, while her keen and expectant citizens behold, distressed with disillusion and frustration. Employing a constructivist paradigm the studyfocuses onthe works of artists whose works reference issues of the continent of Africa, as means to lambast satirize and chastise her to wake up. The work is organised on the basis of Stream - Write,a qualitative method of research through art that share qualities of prose, poetry and drama to benefits from the expressive qualities available in same, and to allow for the liberty needed in exploring the domain of the intuitive, creative and sometimes illogical writing impulse. From all historical indications I submit in conclusion that indeed Africa is gleefully willing and hopeful to embrace an end far worse than her most dreadful past.

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Oripeloye, Henri. "Postmodernist Mythic Sexual Narratives in Zakes Mda’s The Whale Caller." Matatu 48, no. 1 (2016): 49–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-04801005.

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Zakes Mda’s The Whale Caller is easily identifiable as a narrative that projects the newness of South Africa in terms of literary transition. The radical shift in this novel resides in its preoccupation with the excessive passion a man has for a whale and this interest creates an unusual space for this work in contemporary African fiction; its mapping of perverted sexuality clearly sets it outside the mainstream of African prose narrative. In the universe of this socio-cultural text, the actions, characters, and signifiers are constructed to reflect a stasis of frustration or disjunction in the apprehension of psycho-social forces that favour the dismantling of cultural expectations that sexuality be recognized as sacrosanct. This essay focuses on postmodernist mythical expression in The Whale Caller, which is used to valorize the process of cultural rupture. With intense self-reflexivity, Mda sends signals about the cultural and ecological stultification characterizing the new South Africa. The Whale Caller underpins two realms of readability; its tragic tones point, on the one hand, to the neglect of ecological concerns. In the other realms of meaning, the Whale Caller as a defamiliarizing object becomes a metaphorization of cultural transformation.

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Yetunde, Pamela Ayo. "Audre Lorde’s Hopelessness and Hopefulness: Cultivating a Womanist Nondualism for Psycho-Spiritual Wholeness." Feminist Theology 27, no. 2 (January 2019): 176–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0966735018814692.

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The late black American feminist lesbian poet Audre Lorde (1934–1992) was known in feminist communities in the United States, Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, and elsewhere for her poetry and prose about how to survive various forms of oppression. Though Lorde authored many political and spiritual poems and essays (including psychological topics) in her adulthood, little has been written about Lorde’s early psycho-spiritual spiritual journey from Catholicism to I Ching, which informed her adult integrated African spirituality, which in turn informed her political and social consciousness. Lorde’s poems to God, written during puberty and post-puberty, and her embrace of I Ching nondualism, provides insight into how Lorde understood the psycho-spiritual challenges of surviving through hopelessness and despair, and into confidence and hopefulness.

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Moore, Jeania Ree V. "African American Quilting and the Art of Being Human: Theological Aesthetics and Womanist Theological Anthropology." Anglican Theological Review 98, no. 3 (June 2016): 457–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000332861609800302.

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In her collection In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983), Alice Walker explores how African American women preserved and passed down a heritage of creativity and beauty in spite of brutality. I argue in this essay that African American quilting forms a revelatory subject for the womanist project taken up by theologians. As both symbol for and implementation of the creative practice Walker heralds, quilting unearths aesthetics as vital to being human. Theologically rendered, quilting unfolds theological aesthetics for and with womanist theological anthropology. Theologically engaging historical, literary, and personal narrative, I show how womanism and quilting enrich theological conceptions of aesthetics and personhood.

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Syed, Amir. "Poetics of Praise: Love and Authority in al-ḤājjʿUmar Tāl’s Safīnat al-saʿāda li-ahl ḍuʿf wa-l-najāda." Islamic Africa 7, no. 2 (November 2, 2016): 210–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/21540993-00702004.

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In this article, I provide one example of how a careful engagement with poetry can enrich our understanding of West African history. In 1852, al-ḤājjʿUmar Fūtī Tāl (d.1864) completed his panegyric of the Prophet Muḥammad—Safīnat al-saʿāda li-ahl ḍuʿf wa-l-najāda or The Vessel of Happiness and Assistance for the Weak. Through an analysis of Safīnat al-saʿāda, I explain Tāl’s creative use of two older poems that were widespread in West Africa—al-ʿIshrīniyyāt—The Twenties—of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Fāzāzī (d. 1230), and its takhmīs (pentastich) by Abū Bakr ibn Muhīb (n.d.). Though Safīnat al-saʿāda was primarily meant for devotion, it also reflected Tāl’s scholarly prestige and claims he made about his religious authority. In the long prose introduction to the poem, Tāl claimed that he was a vicegerent of the Prophet, and therefore had authority to guide and lead the Muslims of West Africa. His composition of Safīnat al-saʿāda was partly meant to prove this point.

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Reddy, Vanita. "Femme Migritude." Minnesota review 2020, no. 94 (May 1, 2020): 67–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00265667-8128421.

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This article examines the queer feminist Afro-Asian poetics and politics of spoken word and performance artist Shailja Patel’s 2006 onewoman show and 2010 prose poem, both titled Migritude. Patel’s migritude poetics resonates with and departs from much contemporary migritude writing, particularly with respect to the genre’s focus on a global-North-based, black Atlantic African diaspora. The article draws attention to a “brown Atlantic,” in which Africa is the site both of diaspora and of homeland. More important, it shows that Patel’s queer femininity unsettles a diasporic logic of racial exceptionalism. This logic aids and abets a (black) native/(South Asian) migrant divide in colonial and postcolonial Kenya. Patel’s femme migritude, as I call it, draws on nonequivalent histories of black and Asian racialized dispossession to construct a mode of global-South, cross-racial political relationality.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "African prose"

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Zimbler, Jarad Jon. "J.M. Coetzee's bare prose and the South African literary field, 1962-1986." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.608903.

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Rice, Alan J. "The structures and meanings of Toni Morrison's jazz prose style." Thesis, Keele University, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.362163.

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Mtuze, Peter Tshobiso. "A feminist critique of the image of woman in the prose works of selected Xhosa writers (1909 - 1980)." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/23636.

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The study examines, from a feminist point of view, the stereotypic image of woman in Xhosa prose fiction from pre-literate times to the era of written literature (1909 - 1980). Attaching feminist critical theory to conventional literary characterisation gives this pioneering study a human dime,n sion that is bound to rejuvenate traditional critical appredation and highlight the tremendous power of art to reflect or parallel real-life experiences. Consequently, the study transcends the confines of traditional literary criticism. It throws interdisciplinary light on the African feminist dilemma over the past 70 years while focusing on gender stereotyping as a characterisation technique. Chapter 1 clearly demarcates the scope of study and the critical position adopted, while chapter 2 traces stereotypes back to Xhosa folk-tales. In this way, an interesting link or parallel in stereotyping between oral and written literature is highlighted. It is worth pointing out that Chapter 3 is significant in that no women writers' works produced in the first and the second decades have survived. The male writers of the period describe women in strict stereotypic fashion, without fear of contradiction, from Woman as Eve to Woman as Witch, among other archetypal images. The female stereotypic image in the third and the fourth decades, the role of the first two female novelists and the early seeds of female. resistance to male domination, are discussed. in Chapter 4 while Chapter 5 highlights the depiction of female characters by male and female prose writers in the Fifties, culminating in Mzamane's exposure of glaring anti-female social norms and practices. In Chapter 6 the spotlight is cast on the woman of the Sixties and the rise of active resistance to male dominance. Some contemporary women, as pointed out in Chapter 7, have crossed the Rubicon in diverse ways. They are assertive, independent, proactive and relentlessly opposed to male dominance. Chapter 8 sums up the main points in relation to the Xhosa woman's attitude towards Western feminism: while many Xhosa women feel justifiably unhappy about male dominance, they refuse to let their frustrations affect their unity with men in the greater struggle against racism. Although the study concludes on an anti-climactic note for Western feminists, it focuses on this crucial and unique distinction between Western and black feminism.

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Segooa, Maite Stella. "The role of Chiefs as characters in Matsepe's novels : An appraisal." Thesis, University of Limpopo, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/2073.

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Thesis (M.A. (African languages)) --University of Limpopo, 2004.
In this research an attempt has been made to assess, evaluate and examine the role of chiefs as characters in Matsepe's novels. The need for this study was found to be necessary because no in-depth study of the role of chiefs in Matsepe's novels has as yet been undertaken. This study demonstrates how Matsepe portrays chiefs as characters in his novels, what their duties are and how they help in developing his themes.

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Wamitila, Kyallo Wadi. "A philosophical labyrinth: tracing two critical motifs in Kezilahabi´s prose works." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-93522.

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This study aims at studying one of the most important contemporary Kiswahili writers: Euphrase Kezilahabi. In a way this paper can be seen as a continuation of my earlier articles on the same writer. It is definitely different from the other ones though a certain thread links them: the interest in Kezilahabi`s philosophy. In this paper my interest is with two main motifs namely contemptus mundi and carpe diem. Contemptus mundi is a Latin expression for contemptible world, world as a bad place and one that is perceived contemptuously. I intend to explore the said motifs in Kezilahabi\'s prose works: Rosa Mistika, Kichwamaji, Gamba la Nyoka, Dunia Uwanja wa Fujo, Nagana and Mzingile. The latter two works are slightly short, lacking the novel length of the other four works. I do not, however, want to entangle myself in the polemics of genre as to what a novel or novella is. I will, however, regard the two as novellas at least by the virtue of their length.

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Demmler, Monika [Verfasser], and Hubert [Akademischer Betreuer] Zapf. "Biophilia and the Aesthetics of Blues, Jazz, and Hip-Hop Music in African-American Prose Fiction / Monika Demmler. Betreuer: Hubert Zapf." Augsburg : Universität Augsburg, 2015. http://d-nb.info/108077291X/34.

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Diarrassouba, Abiba. "La perception et la communication de l'objet valeur : l'oralité dans la prose romanesque de Amadou Koné." Thesis, Limoges, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015LIMO0004/document.

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Notre étude se veut une analyse qui traverse la sémiotique du sensible et la littérature africaine d’expression française. L’étude part, en effet, des sources orales épiques pour aboutir à l’analyse du sujet tensif par la circulation de l’objet valeur. C'est dire que notre analyse révèle la manière dont les valeurs associées aux pratiques et aux genres de l'oralité interfèrent dans les processus de communication et de perception des objets valeurs, et infléchissent leur réception et leur interprétation.Notre approche part de l’hypothèse que les formes de communications traditionnelles relèvent du sensible. L'analyse sémiotique s’attache à montrer la perception du sensible par la circulation de la valeur que manifeste l’oralité traditionnelle, en prenant en compte les données sémio-linguistiques, mais d’une manière englobant et articulée, quelques éléments de la phénoménologie, concourant à la construction de la signification. En fait, l'étude part d’un renouvellement esthétique qui caractérise l’écriture africaine comme étant liée au sens conféré par l’intégration de l’oralité. Ce qui revient à dire que, dans la prose romanesque africaine, une saisie du sensible s’est avérée possible grâce à l’innovation littéraire, à la présence énonciative et corporelle apte à manifester le sens, sur trois points de vue complémentaires : i) une appréhension de la valeur, à travers le sensible autour du corps, formée par les notions de perception, d’émotion-passions et de langage entendue comme « processus de pensée », ii) sur des parcours sémiotiques de l’énonciation permettant de décrire des états thymiques, comme si, l’analyse du discours en acte du sujet-locuteur, suscite l’affect de la chair et iii) sur ces états affectifs, comme processus des dispositions passionnelles relevant par le dynamisme d’un déploiement passionnelle (des dispositions modaux et tensifs), qui met en évidence des étants. Par voie de conséquence, ces phénomènes passionnels ont autorisé à atteindre une stratégie argumentative manifestée comme une passion intégrée dans la culture orale africaine, comme forme de vie
Our research is an analysis that crosses the semiotics of the sensible and the african french-speaking literature. The study by, in fact, epic oral sources to achieve the analysis of the tensive subject by the flow of value.This means that our analysis shows how the values associated with the practices and genres of oral interfere in the processes of communication and perception of values object and inflect their reception and their interpretation.Our thesis assumes that the forms of traditional communications fall within the sensitive. The study attempts to show the perception of the sensitive circulation of value that manifests the traditional orality, taking into account the semiotic - linguistic data, but in a way encompassing and articulated some elements of phenomenology, contributing to the construction of the meaning. The study from an aesthetic renewal that characterizes the African writing as being related to the meaning given by the integration of orality. That is to say that in African fiction prose seizure sensitive proved possible with the literary innovation, indicative and bodily presence able to express the meaning, on three complementary views : i) apprehension of value, through the sensitive around the body, formed by notions of perception , emotion-passions and language understood as “thought process”, ii) on semiotic course the saying to describe states of mood , as if the analysis of the speech act of the subject - speaker raises the affect of the flesh.iii) these emotional states, such as process passionate provisions within the dynamism of a passionate deployment ( disposition modals and tensifs ), which highlights beings. Consequently, these phenomena have passion allowed to reach an argumentative strategy manifested as an integrated passion in african oral culture, as a form of life

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Avila, Alex. "THE BRONX COCKED BACK AND SMOKING MULTIFARIOUS PROSE PERFORMANCE." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/394.

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The Bronx Cocked Back And Smoking is a collection of multifarious prose performances recounting the historical, personal, social, political and cultural constructs of a city birthed by violence. This body of work is accompanied by video, audio, photography, and theatre performance texts. St. Mary’s Housing project, in the Bronx, is the foundation where most of this literary work takes place. The modern day Griot (storyteller) is a Poet, guiding his audience through the social inequalities and disparities that plague St. Mary’s community. The Poet shares personal traumatic insights while simultaneously utilizing writing as a form of survival to the conditions of the Bronx. This multi-platform performance highlights the metaphorical and physical concerns with the cycle of violence. This question is answered through the Poet’s choice by selecting the pen over the gun.

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Wolff, H. Ekkehard. "Afrikanische Sprachminiaturen: Zur formalen Ästhetik von Kleinformen afrikanischer Sprachkunst unter besonderer Berücksichtigung ihrer Tonalität." Universität Leipzig, 1998. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A32903.

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Tonalität ist eines der herausragenden prosodischen Mittel, das traditionell in der Poesie afrikanischer Tonsprachen eingesetzt wird, und Sprachminiaturen (z.B. Sprichwörter und Rätsel) gehören nicht zuletzt ausweislich ihrer weit verbreiteten tonalen Reimcharakteristik viel eher zur afrikanischen Poesie als etwa zur Prosa, wie es bislang herrschende Meinung war.

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Traoré, Flavia Aiello. "Investigating topics and style in Vuta N`Kuvute by Shafi Adam Shafi." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-91363.

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In the last decades many literary critics have appraised the works of Zanzibarian writers; referring to the prose of Mohamed Suleiman Mohamed, Said Ahmed Mohamed and Shafi Adam Shafi, M M. Mulokozi wrote in 1985: \"The most significant, and certainly most spectacular, development in the Swahili fiction of the Seventies and Eighties has been the emergence of Zanzibar as the producer of the best Swahili fiction to date, and the apparent torch bearer for the Kiswahili novel of the near future\" (Arnold 1985: 174). The same enthusiasm was shared by R. Ohly who, confronting the novels written by Zanzibarian writers and those by Tanzanian and Kenyan writers in a time span going from 1975 to 1981, has defined the Zanzibarian prose a challenge to the artistic competence of other Swahili writers (cf. Ohly 1990). Although I found the comparative pattern used by Ohly debatable, having concentrated for the up-country literary production only on popular short novels - to be better evaluated not following negative, contrastive cliches but within the context of that particular trend -, obscuring moreover other talented writers like Euphrase Kezilahabi or Claude Mung`ong`o, his criticism has nevertheless the merit of having highlighted the main qualities of Zanzibarian novels, namely a deep interest for historical and social matters, along with an extremely rich and colourful language and a serious concern for stylistic features. These attributes of Zanzibarian literary style fit very well to the last novel by Shafi Adam Shafi, Vuta n`kuvute, published in 1999; in the following pages my aim is to explore the way the author of this work artistically manipulates themes, literary suggestions and stylistic devices, re-elaborating thus the experience of Kiswahili and Zanzibarian prose in a creative way.

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Books on the topic "African prose"

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Fred, Doris. Nneoma Nwaoma: An African prose. Lagos, Nigeria: Doris Fred Communications, 2003.

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Hasty, Irene H. Libby's prose and verses. Jacksonville, Fla: Libby's Prose and Verses, Inc., 1997.

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Hickman, Craig. Rituals: Poetry and prose. Cambridge, Mass: Parfait de Cocoa Press, 1994.

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Hemphill, Essex. Ceremonies: Prose and poetry. New York: Plume, 1992.

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Tangyie, Peter Suh-Nfor. Prose and poetry: Appreciation handbook. [S.l: s.n., 1993.

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Collier, Eugenia W., and Long Richard A. Afro-American writing: An anthology of prose and poetry. 2nd ed. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1985.

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Essays: Including biographies and miscellaneous pieces, in prose and poetry. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

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Jaycox, Faith. Ebony angels: A collection of African-American poetry and prose. New York: Crown Trade Paperbacks, 1996.

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Osundare, Niyi. Style and literary communication in African prose fiction in English. Ibadan, Nigeria: Hope Publications, 2008.

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Osundare, Niyi. Style and literary communication in African prose fiction in English. Ibadan, Nigeria: Hope Publications, 2008.

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Book chapters on the topic "African prose"

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Clark, Priscilla P. "West African prose fiction." In Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, 118–30. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1986. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/chlel.vi.12cla.

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Le Roux, K., and H. A. C. Meintjes. "The methodology used to prove the clay reserves at Maguga Dam, Swaziland." In Geotechnics for Developing Africa, 623–32. London: CRC Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781003211174-86.

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Smith, R. E., B. W. van Wilgen, G. G. Forsyth, and D. M. Richardson. "Coexistence of Seeders and Sprouters in a Fire-Prone Environment: the Role of Ecophysiology and Soil Moisture." In Fire in South African Mountain Fynbos, 108–22. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76174-4_6.

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Isaacs-Martin, Wendy. "The Limitations of Peace Negotiations and Identity Constructs in Conflict-Prone Countries in Africa: A Focus on the Central African Republic (CAR)." In The Development of Africa, 155–71. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66242-8_9.

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Le Maitre, D. C. "The Relative Advantages of Seeding and Sprouting in Fire-Prone Environments: a Comparison of Life Histories of Protea neriifolia and Protea nitida." In Fire in South African Mountain Fynbos, 123–44. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76174-4_7.

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Jean-Baptiste, Nathalie, Sigrun Kabisch, and Christian Kuhlicke. "Urban Vulnerability Assessment in Flood-Prone Areas in West and East Africa." In Urban Environment, 203–15. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7756-9_17.

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Owusu, Kwadwo, and Peter Bilson Obour. "Urban Flooding, Adaptation Strategies, and Resilience: Case Study of Accra, Ghana." In African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation, 2387–403. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45106-6_249.

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AbstractDespite massive flood controlling investments, perennial flooding continues to be a major challenge in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Assembly in Ghana. Previous studies have mostly considered the vulnerability of Accra to flooding induced by urbanization and climate change. This chapter examined the impacts of and adaptation strategies to flooding in two flood-prone residential areas in Accra. A survey was conducted among 320 household heads to ascertain local impacts of floods and community adaptation strategies. To obtain a broader picture of government interventions and challenges, key stakeholders such as personnel from ministries, departments, and agencies who are involved in city planning, and private urban planning consultants were interviewed. The study found that a notable driver of floods in Accra is blocked waterways, and flawed and ad hoc engineering works. About three-quarters of the households interviewed have suffered flood-related losses over the past decade such as housing damage, income, and even a death of a relative. Key flood control interventions included dredging prior to start of rains and sporadic demolition of unauthorized buildings on or near waterways to allow free flow of water. However, these interventions only seem to be ephemeral due to the rapid rate of littering and re-siltation of the waterways after few rain events. The study highlights the need for more pragmatic and robust engineering solutions to build resilience of Accra to floods.

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Adebajo, Adekeye. "The Dog That Did Not Bark: Why Has Sierra Leone Not Returned to War After Peacekeepers Left?" In The State of Peacebuilding in Africa, 343–61. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46636-7_19.

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Abstract This chapter sets out to solve the mystery of why Sierra Leone has remained relatively stable 14 years after peacekeepers left the country in 2006, and 18 years after the end of a devastating 11-year civil war in which an estimated 70,000 people died. In doing so, Sierra Leone has defied the fate of so many fragile and conflict-prone states: it has not returned to war, as do more than half of all countries within only five years of a peace settlement. This despite myriad socio-economic challenges, of the kind that often leads to a recurrence of violence and unrest. In investigating this mystery, the chapter highlights how domestic, subregional, and external actors muddled through and improvised one of the rare peacebuilding success stories in Africa.

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Etongo, Daniel, Vincent Amelie, Angelique Pouponneau, and Walter Leal Filho. "Identifying and Overcoming Barriers to Climate Change Adaptation in the Seychelles." In African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation, 2675–92. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45106-6_136.

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AbstractAs a Small Island Developing State (SIDS), Seychelles is quite vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, and adaptation is considered a national priority. Despite efforts to enhance its adaptive capacity, a number of barriers still hamper the adaptation process such as fragile institutions and inadequate governance to climate change, financial and human resource capacity constraints, and limited scientific knowledge and understanding of how climate change affects the country. A key barrier to climate change adaptation in the Seychelles is called “remote” or “legacy” barriers – linked to land use decisions made five decades ago during which wetlands were reclaimed for property development. Therefore, 80% of Seychelles’ critical infrastructures are located on the coastline and are exposed to floods, erosion, and sea level rise. Additionally, the pros and cons of hard and soft adaptation interventions in the Seychelles ranging from rock armoring, retaining wall, groynes to ecosystem-based adaptation actions such as timber piling, beach nourishment, dune management, rainwater harvesting, and mangrove and coral restoration are assessed with recommendations on the way forward. In other words, this chapter provides some examples of actions and strategies that may assist the island nations to improve on adaptation actions. An example that addresses partly the financial constrain is the Seychelles’ Conservation and Climate Adaptation Trust (SeyCCAT) that provide funding for medium- and large-scale project in the Seychelles since 2015.

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Oladapo, Olukunle Olaonipekun, Leonard Kofitse Amekudzi, Olatunde Micheal Oni, Abraham Adewale Aremu, and Marian Amoakowaah Osei. "Climate Change Impact on Soil Moisture Variability: Health Effects of Radon Flux Density Within Ogbomoso, Nigeria." In African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation, 437–52. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45106-6_201.

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AbstractClimate affects the quantity of soil moisture within the surface of the earth and this is obtained by affecting the amount of radon flux density escaping from the land surface. This chapter contains the evaluation of climate change conditions as it affects the variability of soil water for the purpose of estimating the health effects of radon flux density within Ogbomoso metropolis. The simulated soil moisture content around Ogbomoso was done for a period of 34 years using the hydrological model, Soil Water Assessment Tool (SWAT). The calibration and validation of the SWAT model was done using the daily observed soil moisture content. The simulated daily soil moisture within Ogbomoso showed good performance when calibrated and validated. A 20 years prediction of the daily soil moisture content was done using the SWAT model. The estimation of the radon flux density for the study area was obtained using the simulated soil temperature and soil moisture from the SWAT model. In this chapter, the UNSCEAR radon flux formula was used for the radon flux estimate. The result showed that the UNSCEAR radon flux formula performed well in estimating the radon flux density in the study area. The mean value of the radon flux density of 15.09 mBqm−2 s−1 falls below the estimated world average of 33 mBqm−2 s−1 by UNSCEAR stipulated for land surface. The results showed that Ogbomoso region is not prone to high risk of radon exposure to the public. The estimation of the radon flux density value suggested that there is no radiological health hazard such as lung cancer or any other respiratory tract diseases to the inhabitant of Ogbomoso, Nigeria.

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Conference papers on the topic "African prose"

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Stopforth, Riaan, Shaniel Davrajh, and Kaspar Althoefer. "Low cost soft endoscope robotic probe." In 2017 IEEE AFRICON. IEEE, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/afrcon.2017.8095689.

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Dainese, Elisa. "Le Corbusier’s Proposal for the Capital of Ethiopia: Fascism and Coercive Design of Imperial Identities." In LC2015 - Le Corbusier, 50 years later. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/lc2015.2015.838.

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Abstract: In 1936, immediately after the Italian conquest of the Ethiopian territories, the Fascist government initiated a competition to prepare the plan of Addis Ababa. Shortly, the new capital of the Italian empire in East Africa became the center of the Fascist debate on colonial planning and the core of the architectural discussion on the design for the control of African people. Taking into consideration the proposal for Addis Ababa designed by Le Corbusier, this paper reveals his perception of Europe’s role of supremacy in the colonial history of the 1930s. Le Corbusier admired the achievements of European colonialism in North Africa, especially the work of Prost and Lyautey, and appreciated the results of French domination in the continent. As architect and planner, he shared the Eurocentric assumption that considered overseas colonies as natural extension of European countries, and believed that the separation of indigenous and European quarters led to a more efficient control of the colonial city. In Addis Ababa he worked within the limit of the Italian colonial framework and, in the urgencies of the construction of the Fascist colonial empire, he participated in the coercive construction of imperial identities. Keywords: Le Corbusier; Addis Ababa; colonial city; Fascist architecture; racial separation; Eurocentrism. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/LC2015.2015.838

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Moorcroft, Ronald, Michael Grobler, and Ronald Moorcroft. "Self referred capillary probe fabry-perot refractometer." In 2017 IEEE AFRICON. IEEE, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/afrcon.2017.8095702.

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Bestbier, Andre, and Pieter R. Fourie. "Development of a vital signs monitoring wireless ear probe." In 2018 3rd Biennial South African Biomedical Engineering Conference (SAIBMEC). IEEE, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/saibmec.2018.8363196.

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Ayodele, Emmanuel, Oshogwe Akpogomeh, Freda Amuah, and Gloria Maduabuchi. "African Continental Free Trade Agreement: the Pros and Cons on the Oil and Gas Industry in Nigeria." In SPE Nigeria Annual International Conference and Exhibition. SPE, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/207164-ms.

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Abstract Nigeria has oil and gas as her major source of revenue, accounting for more than 80% of her foreign exchange, with the AfCFTA, that has been signed and ratified not just by Nigeria but by other African countries taking away tariffs on goods and services produced across the continent irrespective of the market where it's been sold. The AfCFTA being the second largest free trade agreement in the history of World Trade Organization is aimed at uniting African markets. This paper aims to review the framework of the continental free trade agreement, it pros and cons, its grey area, and its impact on the Oil and Gas Industry in Nigeria. The impact of the agreement on the local industries servicing the oil and gas industry is considered as well. The paper reviews the possible advantage of the AfCFTA on the Nigerian oil and gas market. The possible threats to nationalization in the oil and gas industry due to the availability of cheap labour and technical expertise across the continent in the country is analyzed. Solutions to protect the oil and gas industry in Nigeria is recommended as well.

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Tarrant, Justine, and Sergio Colafrancesco. "Using Gravitational Wave Observations to Probe Quantum Gravity." In 5th Annual Conference on High Energy Astrophysics in Southern Africa. Trieste, Italy: Sissa Medialab, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.22323/1.319.0027.

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Yallup, C., and D. Hay. "Screening for Oil-prone Deepwater Mesozoic Clastic Plays in the Sub-Saharan African Offshore." In 79th EAGE Conference and Exhibition 2017. Netherlands: EAGE Publications BV, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.201700927.

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Sabrina da sIlva Santos, Alexcia, Rayane Karolliny Porciúncula Duarte, and Maria Juciely Barbosa Calado. "Literatura africana de língua portuguesa: relato de experiência sobre a oficina “a morte como apagamento identitário na prosa lusófona africana”." In Simpósio FBJ 2019. Belo Jardim, Pernambuco: Even3, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.29327/simpfbj2019.226240.

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Lilian, Simiyu E., Mburu Esther, and Rukunga Allan. "Drill Cuttings and Fluid Disposal; A Kenyan Case Study." In SPE/AAPG Africa Energy and Technology Conference. SPE, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/afrc-2580389-ms.

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ABSTRACT The objective of this research paper was to explore the health, safety, sustainability and social responsibility during disposal of cutting and drilling fluids in Kenya in regard to what affects the choice of method of disposal, the Kenyan government's regulatory requirements on disposal of the drilling wastes, methods of addressing drilling wastes, ways of reducing the volume of wastes, hierarchy of drilling wastes and the pros and cons of various methods of addressing drilling wastes. A comprehensive case study of the approach taken in Kenya with regard to handling of drilling wastes was done. Description for each approach used is provided as obtained through interviews, internet and questionnaires and statistics. Complete tables and graphs are provided and the methods are described in detail to permit readers to understand all results. The choice of method of disposal is determined and affected largely by the government policy and also by economic, technical and operation conditions and barriers. Methods of disposal included injection, thermal treatment, bioremediation, land application. This paper gives the best ways of disposal. A comprehensive description of the Kenyan government regulations is given as indicated in the Kenya Gazette, NEMA and UNEP. This paper gives insight to the acceptable drilling wastes disposal practices in Kenya and are also generally largely applicable other nations. In conclusion, it was found that Kenya would benefit from passing its own laws to regulate disposal in the coming days.

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Aurora, Rebeca, Iara Thaís da Silva Cavalcanti, and JOÃO JOSÉ BATISTA FILHO. "Estudo da poesia e prosa africanas para alunos do 3° ano do ensino médio." In II SEMINÁRIO INSTITUCIONAL ACADÊMICO-CIENTÍFICO DO Pibid/FBJ. Belo Jardim, Pernambuco: Even3, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.29327/seminariopibidfbj.137037.

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