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xx, 490 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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Foreword / Elias Bongmba -- Being and becoming African : insights from Chinua Achebe's and related usage of proverbs / Francis B. Nyamnjoh and Hassan M. Yosimbom -- Proverbial cultures : being, becoming and belonging in African proverbs. Being and becoming African as a permanent work in progress : inspiration from Chinua Achebe's proverbs / Francis B. Nyamnjoh -- The community, belonging and agency in Akan proverb / Edmond Agyeman -- The place of proverbs amongst the Otukpo of north central Nigeria / Lemuel Ekedegwa Odeh -- An encounter with a proverb-hunter and the beingness of Igbo proverbs / G.M.T. Emezue and Nefertiti N. Emezue -- The materiality of proverbs : performing morality, spirituality, politics and wisdom in and through African proverbs. Wax and gold : wisdom, spirituality and moral discourse in Ethiopian proverbs / Tekletsadik Belachew -- Proverbs and the celebration of the Igbo tradition of politics in Chinua Achebe's novels / Patrick Nwosu -- Poetry as a vehicle for communication and orientation in contemporary Igbo politics / Ichie P.A. Ezikeojiaku -- African wisdom in proverbs : the Yorůbá example / Christopher látú`bsún móléwu -- Celebrating the proverbial genre : the interconnections and interdependencies between African proverbs and creativity. Paremiological poetics : the poetic dimensions of Igbo proverbs / Onyebuchi Nwosu -- The pleasure(s) of proverb discourse in contemporary popular Ghanian music : the case of Obrafour's hiplife songs / Joseph Oduro-Frimpong -- Malinkelisation of French in Ahmadou Kourouma's Les soleils des indépendances / Peter Wuteh Vakunta -- Drinking from the bottomless 'Eagle on Iroko' proverbial gourd : Africanising and globalising Chinua Achebe's Igbo (narrative) proverbs / Hassan Mbiydzenyuy Yosimbom -- African epistemologies : indigenous knowledge systems, conceptualisations and pedagogical values of proverbs. 'Drinking from the cosmic gourd' and the fallacy of completeness by way of African proverbs / Jude Fokwang -- Intellectual virtues of indigenous African wisdom : the perspectives of Akan proverbs / Husein Inusah and Michael Segbefia -- Epistemological and moral aspects of selected Shona proverbial lore : implications for health and safety in the face of Covid-19 and other such pandemics / Munyaradze Mawere -- Epistemology and politics in proverbial names in the pre-colonial Great Lakes region / Murindwa Rutanga and Vincent Kanyonza -- If you want to understand Africa's politico-epistemological world, look at the chameleon / Samuel Ntewusu -- The Kola nuts of ideas / African proverbs and epistemic emancipation / Divine Fuh -- Afterword / Grace V. Musila. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"This book is a timely addition to debates and explorations on the epistemological relevance of African proverbs, especially with growing calls for the decolonisation of African curricula. The editors and contributors have chosen to reflect on the diverse ways of being and becoming African as a permanent work in progress by drawing inspiration from Chinua Achebe's harnessing of the effectualness of oratory, especially his use of proverbs in his works. The book recognizes and celebrates the fact that Achebe's proverbial Igbo imaginations of being and becoming African are compelling because they are instructive about the lives, stories, struggles and aspirations of the rainbow of people that make up Africa as a veritable global arena of productive circulations, entanglements and compositeness of being. The contributions foray into how claims to and practices of being and becoming African are steeped in histories of mobilities and a myriad of encounters shaped by and inspiring of the competing and complementary logics of personhood and power that Africans have sought and seek to capture in their repertoires of proverbs. The task of documenting African proverbs and rendering them accessible in the form of a common hard currency with fascinating epistemological possibilities remains a challenge yearning for financial, scholarly, social and political attention. The book is an important contribution to John Mbiti's clarion call for an active and sustained interest in African proverbs."--Provided by publisher |
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Proverbs, Igbo -- History and criticism.
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Proverbs, African -- History and criticism.
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Achebe, Chinua -- Quotations.
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Achebe, Chinua. (OCoLC)fst00037402 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJbGW3cXbgFby79YGm3mh3
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Proverbs, African. (OCoLC)fst01080220
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Proverbs, Igbo. (OCoLC)fst01080395
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Quotations. (OCoLC)fst01423792
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| Added Author |
Nyamnjoh, Francis B., 1961- editor.
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Nwosu, Patrick U., editor.
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Yosimbom, Hassan M., editor.
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| ISBN |
9789956551477 (paperback) |
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9956551473 (paperback) |
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9789956551835 (electronic book) |
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995655183X (electronic book) |
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9789956551958 (electronic book) |
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9956551953 (electronic book) |
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