African Language Materials in the Boston University Libraries PDF Download

Author: Boston University. Libraries
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Category : African languages
Languages : en
Pages : 110

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Author: Girma A. Demeke
Publisher: Red Sea Press(NJ)
ISBN: 9781569023792
Category : Amharic language
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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"The first edition of this book was published first in 2009 in Addis Ababa by the French Center for Ethiopian Studies and later in the same year (with minor editing) in Germany by LINCOM Europa Academic publishers."--Preface.

Author: Harry Verhoeven
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197654215
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
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What does liberal order actually amount to outside the West, where it has been most institutionalised? Contrary to the Atlantic or Pacific, liberal hegemony is thin in the Indian Ocean World; there are no equivalents of NATO, the EU or the US-Japan defence relationship. Yet what this book calls the 'Global Indian Ocean' was the beating heart of earlier epochs of globalisation, where experiments in international order, market integration and cosmopolitanisms were pioneered. Moreover, it is in this macro-region that today's challenges will face their defining hour: climate change, pandemics, and the geopolitical contest pitting China and Pakistan against the USA and India. The Global Indian Ocean states represent the greatest range of political systems and ideologies in any region, from Hindu-nationalist India and nascent democracy in Indonesia and South Africa, to the Gulf's mixture of tribal monarchy and high modernism. These essays by leading scholars examine key aspects of political order, and their roots in the colonial and pre-colonial past, through the lenses of state-building, nationalism, international security, religious identity and economic development. The emergent lessons are of great importance for the world, as the 'global' liberal order fades and new alternatives struggle to be born.

Author: Nana Asma'u
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 794

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Nana Asma'u Bint Usman 'dan Fodiyo, a nineteenth-century Muslim scholar, lived in the region now known as northern Nigeria and was an eyewitness to battles of the largest of the West-African jihads of the era. The preparation and conduct of the jihad provide the topics for Nana Asma'u's poetry. Her work also includes treatises on history, law, mysticism, theology, and politics, and was heavily influenced by the Arabic poetic tradition. This volume contains annotated translations of works by the 19th century intellectual giant, Nana Asma'u, including 54 poems and prose texts. Asma'u rallied public opinion behind a movement devoted to the revival of Islam in West Africa, and organized a public education system for women.

Author: Hans E. Panofsky
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810822399
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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Comprises studies on the bibliographic control of various collections (e.g., films, museum materials, publications in African languages), background information on interlibrary cooperation, and an essay on improved online access to Africa-related materials in undergraduate collection. Annotation cop

Author: Laura J. Downing
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110503522
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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This volume brings together two under-investigated areas of intonation typology. While tone languages make up to 70 percent of the world’s languages, only few have been explored for intonation. And even though one third of the world’s languages are spoken in Africa, and most sub-Saharan languages are tone languages, recent collections on tone and intonation typology have almost entirely ignored African languages. This book aims to fill this gap.

Author: Ifeoma Onyefulu
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Childrens Books
ISBN: 9781845071134
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Ekinadose wants his uncle to get married - then he can go to a wedding. One day, he sees people welcomed into his grandfather's house. These visitors have come to collect their bride - and Ekinadose will be going not just to one wedding ceremony, but two! The stunning sights of a Nigerian wedding are vividly brought to life in this picture book.

Author: Arthur M. Mitchell
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501752928
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411

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Disruptions of Daily Life explores the mass media landscape of early twentieth century in order to uncover the subversive societal impact of four major Japanese authors: Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, Yokomitsu Riichi, Kawabata Yasunari, and Hirabayashi Taiko. Arthur Mitchell examines this literature against global realities through a modernist lens, studying an alternative modernism that challenges the Western European model. Through broad surveys of discussions surrounding Japanese life in the 1920s, Mitchell locates and examines flourishing divergent ideologies of the early twentieth century such as gender, ethnicity, and nationalism. He unravels how the narrative and linguistic strategies of modernist texts interrogated the innocence of this language, disrupting their hold on people's imagined relationship to daily life. These modernist works often discursively displaced the authority of their own claims by inadvertently exposing the global epistemology of East vs. West. Mitchell's reading of these formalist texts expands modernism studies into a more translational dialogue by locating subversions within the local historical culture and allowing readers to make connections to the time and place in which the texts were written. In highlighting the unbreakable link between literature and society, Disruptions of Daily Life reaffirms the value of modernist fiction and its ability to make us aware of how realities are constructed—and how those realities can be changed.

Author: Ericka A. Albaugh
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190657545
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 449

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Many disciplines study language movement and change in Africa, but they rarely interact. Here, eighteen scholars from a range of disciplines explore differing conceptions of language movement in Africa through empirical case studies.

Author: Ifeoma Onyefulu
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Bks
ISBN: 9781845079604
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Ikenna is looking forward to lots of sun when he goes to Nigeria - even though he and his mum are going during the rainy season. In Lagos, he plays with his cousins before driving to Onitsha to see other relatives. Then the rain starts! But there is still lots to do including meeting Great-Uncle Hillary, who drove the royal train across Nigeria in 1956, and going with his mum to the Osun Festival at Osogbo, where he is surrounded by the sights and sounds of age-old ceremonies and traditions. Ikenna feels sad leaving his big family behind, but he's determined to visit Nigeria again.