The Story of Swahili
The Story of Swahili

Author: John M. Mugane

Publisher: Ohio University Press

Published: 2015-07-15

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0896804895

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Swahili was once an obscure dialect of an East African Bantu language. Today more than one hundred million people use it: Swahili is to eastern and central Africa what English is to the world. From its embrace in the 1960s by the black freedom movement in the United States to its adoption in 2004 as the African Union’s official language, Swahili has become a truly international language. How this came about and why, of all African languages, it happened only to Swahili is the story that John M. Mugane sets out to explore. The remarkable adaptability of Swahili has allowed Africans and others to tailor the language to their needs, extending its influence far beyond its place of origin. Its symbolic as well as its practical power has evolved from its status as a language of contact among diverse cultures, even as it embodies the history of communities in eastern and central Africa and throughout the Indian Ocean world. The Story of Swahili calls for a reevaluation of the widespread assumption that cultural superiority, military conquest, and economic dominance determine a language’s prosperity. This sweeping history gives a vibrant, living language its due, highlighting its nimbleness from its beginnings to its place today in the fast-changing world of global communication.

Postcoloniality, Translation, and the Bible in Africa
Postcoloniality, Translation, and the Bible in Africa

Author: Musa W. Dube

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2017-07-14

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1498295142

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This book is critically important for Bible translation theorists, postcolonial scholars, church leaders, and the general public interested in the history, politics, and nature of Bible translation work in Africa. It is also useful to students of gender studies, political science, biblical studies, and history-of-colonization studies. The book catalogs the major work that has been undertaken by African scholars. This work critiques and contests colonial Bible translation narratives by privileging the importance African oral vitality in rewriting the meaning of biblical texts in the African sociopolitical, political, and cultural contexts.

Satch nu Rekh-Ikhet: The Scholar’s Libation
Satch nu Rekh-Ikhet: The Scholar’s Libation

Author: Ambakisye Dukuzumurenyi

Publisher: Ambakisye Dukuzumurenyi

Published: 2021-10-24

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13:

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Satch nu Rekh-Ikhet: The Scholar’s Libation is a Libation Ritual and Meditation text designed for the Revolutionary Afrikan Warrior Scholar and Afrikan Students. It’s intention is to inspire them with the Spirit of the Ancestors daily as they prepare to engage in the life processes of surviving, thriving, rebuilding and protecting the Global Afrikan community. As the Revolutionary Afrikan Warrior Scholars and Afrikan students engage in the process of revolutionary learning they must do so while commemorating and celebrating the glorious Ancestors. The acts of Revolutionary Afrikan Warrior Scholars and Afrikan Students also lay the foundation, prepare the way and set the example for the Beautyful Ones Not Yet Born. All this being carried out while they also arm themselves to avenge, ie, set right the injustices that the Ancestors suffered, restoring Maat and bringing balance to Global Afrikan life. This small book contains words of inspiration culled from a selection of esteemed Pan-Afrikan ancestors followed a Libation ritual to the Creator. Next, there is a Libation ritual to the esteemed ancestors followed by musical Libations to the Creator and the ancestors. The book also contains a Prayer of Afrikan people, followed by a Revolutionary Afrikan Warrior Scholar Oath and Revolutionary Afrikan Student Oath. The text is rounded out with a statement on the duties and obligations of Revolutionary Afrikan Warrior Scholars and Students to each other and to the Afrikan community followed by meditation selections drawn from Classical Kemet and the traditions of the Swahili and Hausa.

Linguistic Evidence
Linguistic Evidence

Author: Stephan Kepser

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 593

ISBN-13: 3110183129

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Review text: "A volume which has indeed presented a rich picture of the role of linguistic evidence in the contemporary, especially generative, study of language."Gerard Steen in: Functions of Language 1/2007.