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.
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
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
- Beyond words : discourse and critical agency in Africa
- On African Origins: Creolization and Connaissance in Haitian Vodou
Harold Torrence
- Africa's endangered languages: documentary and theoretical approaches edited by Jason Kandybowicz and Harold Torrence
- Free Relative Clauses in Two Mixtec Languages
Olufemi Taiwo
- Africa Must be Modern : the Modern Imperative in Contemporary Africa: a Manifesto
- Civility as Self-Determination
Adélékè Adéẹ̀kọ́
- Arts of Being Yorùbá : Divination, Allegory, Tragedy, Proverb, Panegyric
- “Writing” and “Reference” in Ifá Divination Chants
Laura McPherson
- Encoding Emotions in African Languages edited by Gian Claudio Batic ; with contributions by Maduabuchi Agbo, Gladys Nyarko Ansah, Sergio Baldi, Gian Claudio Batic, Olivier Bondéelle, Kathryn M. De Luna, Elisa Fiorio, Laura McPherson, Akin Odebunmi, Kirill Prokhorov
- The Talking Balafon of the Sambla: Grammatical Principles and Documentary Implications
Mikael Janvid
Alena Rettová
- Zimbabwean Transitions : Essays on Zimbabwean Literature in English, Ndebele and Shona
- Swahili and Swahili Poetry in Lubumbashi: The Language and Lyrics of Sando Marteau
Sunday Layi
Deogratias Ngonyani
Tristan M Samuels
Charlene Wilkinson and Jeremy Peretz
Megan Eardley
S. N. Nyeck
- Sexual diversity in Africa : Politics, Theory, and Citizenship edited by S.N. Nyeck and Marc Epprecht
- Women, Gender and Government Outsourcing In Comparative Perspectives