African Philosophic Sagacity in Selected African Languages and Proverbs 3031545249, 9783031545245

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This book explores African philosophic sagacity, or wisdom philosophy, as proposed by Odera Oruka in his “Four Trends in

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“This is the first title ever, that comprehensively illustrates the relationships between African proverbs and proverbia

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Interrogates and explores African literature in African languages today, and the continuing interfaces between works in

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Interrogates and explores African literature in African languages today, and the continuing interfaces between works in

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Most African languages are spoken by communities as one of several languages present on a daily basis. The persistence o

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Syllable weight is a crucially important concept in the fields of phonology and morphology. It impacts analyses and expl

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"We have in this book a Rosetta stone for mediating, or translating, African musical behavior and aesthetics."

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Breaking new ground in the study of a key dimension of African development, the authors explore the variations in the te

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Explores African literature in the post-colonial era, as a traumatic response to the effects of colonialism. Among other

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The first edition of the Practical Orthography of African Languages was a best-seller and this and the following volume

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