Across eighteen lively chapters, Cécile Leguy, Professor of Linguistic Anthropology at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University (France) and former President of ISOLA, takes her readers to Mali, among the Bwa people, where she has conducted long-term fieldwork. Through a sequence of concise autobiographical anecdotes, told in simple and lucid prose, she recounts her experiences as a...
Special issue / Numéro spécial Tydskrif vir Letterkunde: a journal for African literature Guest editors: Hermelind Le Doeuff, Cécile Leguy, Daniela Merolla We are happy to announce that a special issue of Tydskrif vir Letterkunde: a journal for African literature, Mbuyu 2, has been published. The articles in this issue originated as conference papers at the 13th...
The International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures (FILLM) proudly invites scholars, educators, and practitioners from around the world to the 30th FILLM Congress, hosted at Victoria University (Melbourne) in Narrm, Australia. The conference theme is Talking Country. Talking Country is a theme that speaks against taking country for granted. Countries are vessels for languages and...
This open access special issue presents 16 classics from the History of the African Humanities, featuring authors from both sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa. A glimpse of the introduction: This theme section brings together introductions to some of the seminal texts by African authors that have shaped the African humanities from at least the twelfth...
Special issue: Mbuyu 1 (research articles from the 13th conference of the International Society for the Oral Literatures of Africa)
En 1982, au moment de la réédition de son livre cisungu, Audrey Richards expliquait que le rituel qu’elle avait observé en 1931 avait disparu. Néanmoins, le rituel existait toujours de 1989 à 1998 et s’était adapté à l’évolution brutale de la société. Après une description de ce que fut la culture traditionnelle du Nord de la Zambie, région où cette initiation de filles existait depuis fort longtemps, les trois rituels seront mis en parallèle afin de montrer certaines évolutions. Ensuite, le niveau d’imprégnation du concept d’initiation sera analysé à propos de l’instauration d’une nouvelle religion et de la présence du VIH dans la région.
This book delivers an admirably comprehensive and rigorous analysis of African oral literatures and performance.
It is a common notion that Africa has, and indeed ought to have, learned much from the west. This is not wrong; all cultures rightly learn from each other. But less is said of what there is to learn from Africa: from her stories, myths, music, proverbs, insights – and more. Here an acclaimed African...
Storytelling plays an important part in the vibrant cultural life of Zambia and in many other communities across Africa. innovative book provides a collection and analysis of oral narrative traditions as practiced by five Bemba-speaking ethnic groups in Zambia.
The book uses an innovative prism of interorality that powerfully reevaluates Caribbean orality and innovatively casts light on its overlooked and fundamental epistemological contribution into the formation of Caribbean philosophy.