Mandem Poems In Pidgin English

Author : Ajagbe Ayodeji
Publisher : DailyPress PLC
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Mandem: Poems in Pidgin English by Ajagbe Ayodeji Pdf

Pidgin English na one of di main language wey plenty Naija people dey yarn. E hold our culture and way of life well well. Naija Pidgin language get plenty tins wey e sabi explain way pass oyinbo English. If you wan sabi Pidgin English well, e no just be to sabi di words and tins dem, you still need to dey inside di Afro-centric way wey we reason tins. Mandem: Poems in Pidgin English na Ayodeji Ajagbe’s way of trying make we sabi how di normal Naija man dey yarn ein own. Dis anthology na book of eleven poems wey go enjoy read and weep with lafta.

Author : Wuteh Vakunta
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9789956715596

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Majunga Tok by Wuteh Vakunta Pdf

Pidgin English is the chief medium of communication for the great majority of Cameroonians. It sustains a world view, culture and way of life. Pidgin embodies concepts that would at best be partially expressed in formal English. A critical understanding of Pidgin English requires not only a thorough grasp of the socio-cultural matrix from which the words and expressions originate but also an immersion in an Afro-centric worldview. Majunga Tok: Poems in Pidgin English is the poet's attempt at capturing these speech patterns of ordinary Cameroonians in written form. Pidgin English, also called broken English, is a lingua franca spoken not only in Cameroon but also in many West African countries, including Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone and Liberia amonst others. This poetry anthology is inspired by the poet's desire to salvage a language that has been subjected to multiple forms of denigration because it is oral. In Cameroon, for instance, Pidgin English has been the target of myriad attacks from self-styled linguistic purists who claim that Pidgin is a bastardized variant of Standard English and, therefore, should not be allowed to thrive. The controversy and denigration directed at Amos Tutuola and his Pidgin English creative genius are vivid examples. This condescending attitude of speakers of Standard English stems from the fact that Pidgin is often associated with illiteracy.

Author : Vakunta, Peter Wuteh
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9789956792238

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Poems from Abakwa in Cameroon Pidgin English by Vakunta, Peter Wuteh Pdf

"Poems from Abakwa in Cameroon Pidgin English is one patriotic rage. An anthology of sorts, this book of poems contains wisdom, inspirational reflections and witticisms for all. Through apt descriptions, illustrations, dialogues, interrogations and incisive phraseology, Peter Wuteh Vakunta creates an effective balance of colorful images that traces and documents disturbing accounts and evidences of corruption, greed, skewed values and life experiences that have assaulted his fatherland, betrayed political leaders and institutions, court judges, and parliamentarians as the police-cum-military continue to put their ambitions above the country's needs while forsaking future leaders-children. Vakunta describes how civil servants represent selfish interests and aspirations. Judges are intimidated as the nation's laws continue to be transgressed. The police and military continue to abuse the trust invested in them by civilians and misdirect their patriotism while virtually the entire nation continues to live shaky lives with a punctured integrity. Vakunta does this in popular lingos commonly used by musicians, business folks, and the common man under several labels-pidgin English, Camfranglais, Cam-tok, Camspeak, Majunga tok ..." Dr. Fidelis Achenjang, Union College, USA

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015067400377

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Chelsea by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004655997

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African Literatures in the Eighties by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gina Wisker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780333985243

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Post-Colonial and African American Women's Writing by Gina Wisker Pdf

This accessible and unusually wide-ranging book is essential reading for anyone interested in postcolonial and African American women's writing. It provides a valuable gender and culture inflected critical introduction to well established women writers: Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Margaret Atwood, Suniti Namjoshi, Bessie Head, and others from the U.S.A., India, Africa, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and introduces emergent writers from South East Asia, Cyprus and Oceania. Engaging with and clarifying contested critical areas of feminism and the postcolonial; exploring historical background and cultural context, economic, political, and psychoanalytic influences on gendered experience, it provides a cohesive discussion of key issues such as cultural and gendered identity, motherhood, mothertongue, language, relationships, women's economic constraints and sexual politics.

Author : Joshua Effiong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798583105694

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Autopsy of Things Left Unnamed by Joshua Effiong Pdf

A journey through moulded metaphors, insightful imageries and sinking similes, soothing sights in all is how I would describe Autopsy of Things Left Unnamed. Each piece seems to take one into its space and yet, find a way to flow into another, creating this ocean of peace, tranquility, depth and beauty of trying to read, see and understand life through another's eyes. A masterpiece befitting for the soul." -Solomon Osuji

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004363397

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Creolization and Pidginization in Contexts of Postcolonial Diversity by Anonim Pdf

Creolization and pidginization are conceptualized and investigated as specific social processes in the course of which new common languages, socio-cultural practices and identifications are developed in contexts of postcolonial diversity shaped by distinct social, historical and local conditions.

Author : Jan Svartvik,Geoffrey Leech
Publisher : Springer
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780230596160

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English – One Tongue, Many Voices by Jan Svartvik,Geoffrey Leech Pdf

This is the fully revised and expanded second edition of English - One Tongue, Many Voices, a book by three internationally distinguished English language scholars who tell the fascinating, improbable saga of English in time and space. Chapters trace the history of the language from its obscure beginnings over 1500 years ago as a collection of dialects spoken by marauding, illiterate tribes. They show how the geographical spread of the language in its increasing diversity has made English into an international language of unprecedented range and variety. The authors examine the present state of English as a global language and the problems, pressures and uncertainties of its future, online and offline. They argue that, in spite of the amazing variety and plurality of English, it remains a single language.

Author : Pieter C. Muysken,Norval Smith
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110343977

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Surviving the Middle Passage by Pieter C. Muysken,Norval Smith Pdf

This book is about the close historical and linguistic relationship between the languages of Surinam and Benin, a relationship which can be viewed in terms of a Trans Atlantic Sprachbund or linguistic area. It consists of a detailed analysis of various possible substrate and adstrate effects in a number of components of the grammar, in the Surinam Creole languages, primarily from the Gbe languages of Benin but also from Kikongo.

Author : Andy Wainwright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017324083

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Border Lines by Andy Wainwright Pdf

Author : Roger M. Keesing
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0804714509

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Melanesian Pidgin and the Oceanic Substrate by Roger M. Keesing Pdf

Topics in this volume include: interlingual contact in the Pacific to the mid-19th century; the Sandalwood period; the Tok Pisin language; oceanic Austronesian languages; structures and sources of pidgin syntax; the pidgin pronominal system; and calquing - pidgin and Solomons languages.

Author : Frederic G. Cassidy,Robert Brock Le Page
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9766401276

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Dictionary of Jamaican English by Frederic G. Cassidy,Robert Brock Le Page Pdf

The method and plan of this dictionary of Jamaican English are basically the same as those of the Oxford English Dictionary, but oral sources have been extensively tapped in addition to detailed coverage of literature published in or about Jamaica since 1655. It contains information about the Caribbean and its dialects, and about Creole languages and general linguistic processes. Entries give the pronounciation, part-of-speach and usage of labels, spelling variants, etymologies and dated citations, as well as definitions. Systematic indexing indicates the extent to which the lexis is shared with other Caribbean countries.

Author : R. A. Blust
Publisher : Pacific Linguistics Research School of Pacific and Asian Stu
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132779526

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The Austronesian Languages by R. A. Blust Pdf

Author : Rajeev S. Patke
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191538384

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Postcolonial Poetry in English by Rajeev S. Patke Pdf

The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series (general editor: Elleke Boehmer) offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English. Postcolonial Poetry in English provides a comprehensive introduction to the development of English poetry in all the regions that were once part of the British Empire. The idea of postcolonial poetry is held together by three factors: the global community constituted by English; the creative possibilities accessible through English; and patterns of literary development common to regions with a history of recent decolonization. In showing how diverse poetic traditions in English evolved from dependency to varying degrees of cultural self-confidence, the book answers two broad questions: how is postcolonial studies relevant to the interpretation of poetry, and how does poetry contribute to our idea of postcolonial writing? The book is divided into three parts: the first works out a method of analysis based on recent publications of outstanding interest; the second narrates the development of poetic traditions in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean, and the settler colonies of Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand; the third analyses key motifs, such as the struggle for minority self-representation; the cultural politics of gender, modernism, and postmodernity; and the experience of migration and self-exile in contemporary Anglophone societies. Postcolonial Poetry in English provides a succinct and wide-ranging introduction to some of the most exciting poetic writing of the twentieth century. It is ideally suited for readers interested in world writing in English, contemporary literature, postcolonial writing, cultural studies, and postmodern culture.