African Poetry And Idioms

Author : Ehizojie Sadoh
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1722366281

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African Poetry and Idioms by Ehizojie Sadoh Pdf

The poems included in this book form the author's private collection of poetry, titled Memories of a black lineage'. It is a collection which deals with Africa's past and present life and experiences and also reflects on her cultural heritage, history (with regards to pre - colonial, colonial and post colonial times) religion, social life, tradition and the western interference. The author, under this collection gives honour to everything African and renounces any hypocritical attitude or claim of superiority by any foreigner. The idioms reflect on the African norms and wisdom as handed down from generation to generation. Students are bound to come across some African idioms that may look very strange to them or seem complex for them to interpret as they study this book. Such unfamiliar idioms are often very tedious to understand when compared to the ones they usually meet in English Language text books. The purpose of including such idioms in a book like this, specially written and designed for a secondary school course is to arouse students' interest on African idioms which are common features of African prose and poetry and secondly, it will also ease students understanding of similar idioms whenever they are used in literature. They will also enable students to understand the fact that the use of idioms has always been a part and parcel of them as same are as old as the thousands of languages that are spoken all over the world. Memories of a black lineage are a title of collection of poems which has to do with the negritudian philosophy and the cradle of black civilization.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004489943

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Defining New Idioms and Alternative Forms of Expression by Anonim Pdf

This first volume of ASNEL Papers gathers together a broad range of reflections on, and presentations of, the social and expressive underpinnings of post-colonial literary cultures, concentrating on aspects of orality, social structure and hybridity, the role of women in cultural production, performative and media representations (theatre, film, advertising) and their institutional forms, and the linguistic basis of literature (including questions of multilingualism, pidgins and creoles, and translation). Some of the present studies adopt a diachronic approach, as in essays devoted to European colonial influences on African literatures, the populist colonial roots of Australian drama, and the intersection of exogenous and autochthonous languages in the cultural development and identity formation of Cameroon, Tanzania and the Swahili-speaking regions of Africa. Broadly synchronic perspectives (which nevertheless take cognizance of developmental determinants) range over dominant genres — poetry, short fiction and the novel, children's literature, theatre, film - and cover indigene literatures (Australian Aboriginal, Maori, First Nations) and regional creativity in West, East and South Africa, the Caribbean, India and the South-East Asian diaspora, and the settler colonies of Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Authors treated within broader frameworks include Chinua Achebe, 'Biyi Bandele-Thomas, Bole Butake, Shashi Deshpande, Louis Esson, Lorna Goodison, Patricia Grace, Bland Holt, Keri Hulme, Witi Ihimaera, Kazuo Ishiguro, Rita Kleinhart, Hanif Kureishi, Werewere Liking, Timothy Mo, V.S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, and Ruby Slipperjack. There are self-testimonies from the writers Geoff Goodfellow, Darrelyn Gunzburg and Don Mattera, poems by David Dabydeen, Geoff Goodfellow and Olive Senior. Of particular value to this collection are the perspectives offered by African, Caribbean and Eastern European contributors.

Author : Cash Onadele
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781467017190

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Diaspora of Thoughts by Cash Onadele Pdf

This book was born out of a passion for literature and the need to establish a cultural legacy for our next generation dispersed all over the World. A Diaspora of Thoughts fittingly the dispersal of thoughts. Like many, I have always wondered how to communicate the African wise sayings, poems and prose we learned from our grandparents to our children- the next generation. Many children of our time fill their times with new computer games since we have failed to challenge them to recite and learn our culture through sayings, poems and prose, this has been the greatest reason to do this work. What you are about to read is a combination of wise sayings and poems mostly from early life in an African village, of course subsequent life experiences as well as comments from observing the life of others who have lived significant lives. Some poems cover views on matters that concern the oppressed peoples of the world and especially the colored race . It expresses a sense of community enough for us to care about ourneighbor. Some of theserecitals deal with the excessiveness of the rich and the abjectness or lack in the poor and the responsibilities of both parties. Thiscollection of poems & proseis for the individual or teacher interested in leisure reading and general literature as a whole. It is more about African and American sociologicalheritage wrapped in poetry & prose.

Author : Emmanuel Ngara
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : African poetry
ISBN : UCSC:32106016435882

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Ideology & Form in African Poetry by Emmanuel Ngara Pdf

Emmanuel Ngara explores the relationship between the social vision of poets and their styles, and evaluates the ability of poets to communicate with their readers.

Author : Simon Gikandi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134582235

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Encyclopedia of African Literature by Simon Gikandi Pdf

The most comprehensive reference work on African literature to date, this book covers all the key historical and cultural issues in the field. The Encyclopedia contains over 600 entries covering criticism and theory, African literature's development as a field of scholarship, and studies of established and lesser-known writers and their texts. While the greatest proportion of literary work in Africa has been a product of the twentieth century, the Encyclopedia also covers the literature back to the earliest eras of story-telling and oral transmission, making this a unique and valuable resource for those studying social sciences as well as humanities. This work includes cross-references, suggestions for further reading, and a comprehensive index.

Author : Robert Fraser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1986-09-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 052131223X

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West African Poetry by Robert Fraser Pdf

Previous studies of African poetry have tended to concentrate either on its political content or on its relationship to various European schools. This book examines West African poetry in English and French against the background of oral poetry in the vernacular. Do the roots of such poetry lie in Africa or in Europe? In committing their work to writing, do poets lose more than they gain? Can the immediacy of oral performance ever be recovered? Robert Fraser's account of two centuries of West African verse examines its subjugation to a succession of international styles: from the heroic couplet to the austerity of experimental Modernism. Successive chapters take us through the Négritude movement and the emergence of anglophone free verse in the 1950s to the rediscovery in recent years of the neglected springs of orality, which is the subject of the concluding chapter.

Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher : Farrar Straus & Giroux
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0809077477

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Poems of Black Africa by Wole Soyinka Pdf

Organizes thematically selected poems by more than seventy twentieth-century African poets, surveying the experiences of Black Africa as structured and expressed in the idioms of Black Africa

Author : Akinloye Ojo,Mobolanle Sotunsa,Karim Traore
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443896450

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Expressions of Indigenous and Local Knowledge in Africa and its Diaspora by Akinloye Ojo,Mobolanle Sotunsa,Karim Traore Pdf

Expressions of Indigenous and Local Knowledge in Africa and its Diaspora provides critical discourses on Africa and the various configurations of its reflections in folklore, literature, music, languages, and philosophy. The collection, through its selected works, focuses on the African continent in terms of preserving the unique identity of African Indigenous and Local Knowledge. In reality, this preservation effort is confronted by a number of challenges within today’s increasingly globalized and westernized world. This book documents ongoing scholarly discussion on the paradoxical dynamics of preserving this identity and consequently enhancing the relevance of African Indigenous and Local Knowledge. This volume articulates the representation of knowledge and values lodged in the diverse knowledge systems in Africa and its diaspora, and which are constantly expressed in local and global spaces. It highlights the prejudicial assessment of African Indigenous knowledge systems that has ensured that Western epistemological systems are internationally recognized and supported while African epistemological systems are denigrated, discouraged or simply ignored, even on the African continent. Given that the term expressions entails making something known or manifest, this edited collection is assembled to make known some of the elements of indigenous and local knowledge, as well as the practices that these elements necessitate both historically and contemporarily in the African situation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004655997

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African Literatures in the Eighties by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nathan Irvin Huggins
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0195093607

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Voices from the Harlem Renaissance by Nathan Irvin Huggins Pdf

Nathan Irvin Huggins showcases more than 120 selections from the political writings and arts of the Harlem Renaissance. Featuring works by such greats as Langston Hughes, Aaron Douglas, and Gwendolyn Bennett, here is an extraordinary look at the remarkable outpouring of African-American literature and art during the 1920s.

Author : Emmanuel Ngara
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015021513422

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Ideology & Form in African Poetry by Emmanuel Ngara Pdf

Emmanuel Ngara evaluates the ability of poets to communicate with their readers. His two studies of style and ideology in novels from Africa have made a considerable impact. He has now used the same technique to help students come to terms with the demanding question of poetic style. -- From back cover

Author : Alamin M. Mazrui,Alamin Mazrui,Ibrahim Noor Shariff
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015017433494

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The Swahili by Alamin M. Mazrui,Alamin Mazrui,Ibrahim Noor Shariff Pdf

An indepth look at Swahili culture, language and the people

Author : Mark A. Sanders
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820320501

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Afro-modernist Aesthetics & the Poetry of Sterling A. Brown by Mark A. Sanders Pdf

Sterling A. Brown’s poetry and aesthetics are central to a proper understanding of African American art and politics of the early twentieth century. This study redefines the relationship between modernism and the New Negro era in light of Brown’s uniquely hybrid poetry and vision of a heterodox, pluralist modernism. Brown, also a folklorist and critic, saw the Harlem Renaissance and modernism as interactive rather than mutually exclusive and perceived the New Negro era as the dawning of African American modernity. Reading Brown’s three collections of poetry in light of their respective historical contexts, Sanders examines the ways in which Brown reconfigured black being and created alternative conceptual space for African Americans amid the prevailing racial discourses of American culture. Brown’s poetics call for revised conceptions of the Harlem Renaissance, black identity, artistic expression, and modernity that recognize the range, depth, and complexity of African American life.

Author : Ndaba Sibanda
Publisher : Kelsay Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1639803599

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We Are Not an Error But the Idioms of Our Era by Ndaba Sibanda Pdf

Sibanda is a Bulawayo-born poet, novelist, and nonfiction writer who has a passion for themes and topics around conservation, nature, development and justice. He believes that he is a poet in prose, and hence he has never looked back since building and marching into the very first poetry pharmacy in the world, where poetry ... and poetry and poetics are the most tonic threesome prescriptions! Sibanda has received the following nominations: the National Arts Merit Awards (NAMA), the Mary Ballard Poetry Chapbook Prize, the Best of the Net Prose and the Pushcart Prize. Sibanda`s book Notes, Themes, Things And Other Things: Confronting Controversies, Contradictions And Indoctrinations was considered for The 2019 Restless Book Prize for New Immigrant Writing in Nonfiction. Ndaba`s book titled Cabinet Meetings: Of Big And Small Preys was considered for The Graywolf Press Africa Prize 2018. Sibanda is a three-time Pushcart nominee. He can be spotted landscaping, lurking, lounging and even lost on various and many media networks.

Author : Gloria Monica T. Emezue
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789783603417

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Comparative Studies in African Dirge Poetry by Gloria Monica T. Emezue Pdf

Comparative Studies in African Dirge Poetry is an important contribution to research in African literature by Nigerian scholar GMT Emezue. Emezue sets out to portray the role and function of African dirge. Moving from the general (African milieu) to the specific (Igbo heritage) she explores written and oral modes of poetic expressions. Emezue also posits a theory of the African dirge with features comparatively distinctive from the formalised structures of western art. GMT Emezue's interest in traditional African dirge songs and modern poetry is borne from her conviction that nowhere in the corpus of oral poetry have there been more works of heightened creativity than the dirge forms.