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The International Studies Department created a Resource Guide for the African Philosophies of Language Conference the African Studies Center is holding from February 17-19 2021. It includes related books, articles and a list of works by the panelists all held in the vast collections of the UCLA Library.

The International Studies Department created a Resource Guide for the African Philosophies of Language Conference the African Studies Center is holding from February 17-19 2021. It includes related books, articles and a list of works by the panelists all held in the vast collections of the UCLA Library.

When you visit the link above, you can click on the various regions to learn about the languages spoken there.

General Books on Language

The Oxford Handbook of African Languages edited by Rainer Vossen and Gerrit J. Dimmendaal

The Routledge Handbook of African Linguistics edited by Augustine Agwuele and Adams Bodomo

Aspects of (Post)colonial Linguistics : Current Perspectives and New Approaches edited by Daniel Schmidt-Brücken, Susanne Schuster, Marina Wienberg.

The Handbook of Bilingualism and Multilingualism edited by Tej K. Bhatia and William C. Ritchie

Language in African Urban Contexts : A Contribution to the Study of Indirect Globalisation edited by Gudrun Miehe, Jonathan Owens, and Manfred von Roncador.

Language in Contemporary African Cultures and Societies edited by Leonard Muaka and Esther Mukewa Lisanza.

Encoding Emotions in African Languages edited by Gian Claudio Batic

Global Issues in the Teaching of Language, Literature and Linguistics edited by Francisco Javier Díaz-Pérez, María Belén Díez-Bedmar, Paula García-Ramírez & Diego Rascón-Moreno

The Linguistics of Eating and Drinking edited by John Newman

African Language Grammar Books

A Grammar of Dazaga by Josiah K. Walters.

A Grammar of Mbembe by Doris Richter genannt Kemmermann.

Sheng: Rise of a Kenyan Swahili Vernacular by Chege Githiora

A Grammar of Igala by Ochala Ejeba

The morphological-to-analytic causative continuum in Hausa: New insights and analyses in a typological perspective edited by Philip J. Jaggar

A Grammar of Nzadi : A Bantu Language of Democratic Republic of Congo by Thera Marie Crane, Larry M. Hyman, and SJ Simon Nsielanga

Grammatica elementar do Kimbundu ou lingua de Angola by Heli Chatelain

Novels, Bibles, Dictionaries & Others in African Languages

Mbembe

Nnwẹr kw'Ibinọkpaabyi by Nttọhna Ibhasẹ.

Kimbundu

Ngalamatika yá Kimbundu mu'sonekenu wá kindala by Francisco Fernandes A. Santos

Interferência do kimbundu no português falado em Lwanda by Amélia A. Mingas.

Dicionário complementar : Português--Kimbundu--Kikongo (linguas nativas do centro e norte de Angola) compiled by António da Silva Maia.

Igala

Alo etitọ k'ondu-wa kpai ajadu-wa Jisus Kraist kpẹ

Otakada Ekoce

Olufia ekeji = (Igala language dictionary) by akofe ọla ojoji-ojoji alu Igala : ọla Igala dabu 12,500 defu ñwu

Igbo

Ndụ ndị Igbo by F.C. Ogbalu

Omenala ndị dị mma by Chief Solomon Amadiume

Gikuyu

Caitaani mũtharaba-inĩ by Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo

Kesho wakati kama huu by Ngugi wa Thiong'o & Saifu D. Kiaango mfasiri

Decolonising the Mind : the Politics of Language in African Literature by Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo.

Globalectics : Theory and the Politics of Knowing by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.

Hausa

Wasannin tashe a k̳asar Hausa by Hajiya Zainab Bello

Baakii abim maganaa by hiirar, Albarka Ciibaw ; rubuutum, Isaaka Dankuusu, Abuubakar Mahamman

Bakar inuwa by Maimuna Ibrahim Yaro Yahaya.

Kiswahili

Kamusi ya sheria : Kiingereza-Kiswahili by S.A.K. Mlacha

Mzingile by Euphrase Kezilahabi.

Dhifa by E. Kezilahabi

Sheng-English Dictionary : Deciphering East Africa's Underworld Language by Ireri Mbaabu, Kipande Nzunga.

Swazi

Sinkayinkayi by Ora Sunbeam Dlamini.

Teke

Nga-ngyccnc̃, Nga-ndzala udza, Ngara ya ntsyuulu by Ngobali F. Bel, Obiri Jean-Paul, Eloali Pascal

Xhosa

Masikhumbule mandulo : yincwadi esikhumbuza imveli yomxhosa by Nomazwi Cornelia Phakane.

Yoruba

Introduction to Yoruba oral literature (Ìfáàrà sí lítíréṣọ̀ alohùn Yorùbá) by Philip Adédọ̀tun Ogúndèji.

Àkójopò àló Ìjàpá by Adébóyè Babalolá.

Tíṣà tó ṣẹ̀ṣẹ̀ dé by Tèmítọ́pẹ́ Olúmúyìwá.

Zande

Sangba ture : Zande folk-lore collected by Mrs. E. C. Gore

Zulu

UMkhize odumile (The famous Mkhize) by Sandra Land and Lungisani Kunene

Emperor Shaka the Great : a Zulu Epic by Mazisi Kunene

Books & Articles by Panelists

Andrew Apter

Harold Torrence

Olufemi Taiwo

Adélékè Adéẹ̀kọ́

Laura McPherson

Mikael Janvid

Alena Rettová

Sunday Layi

Deogratias Ngonyani

Tristan M Samuels

Charlene Wilkinson and Jeremy Peretz

Megan Eardley

S. N. Nyeck

Abimbola A Bisoye Eleshin Adelakun

James Okolie-Osemene

Chika Ezeanya-Esiobu