99 Zulu Proverbs and Sayings
99 Zulu Proverbs and Sayings

Author: Desaray Wilson-Mnyandu

Publisher: Zulunomics

Published: 2023-04-27

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1736525263

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99 Zulu Proverbs and Sayings is a collection of classic and modern-day wisdoms from the Zulu people of South Africa. These sayings have been a guide to the various aspects of their daily life for generations. Now they have been compiled and sorted for readers everywhere. The proverbs are grouped into universally relatable categories like love, family, misfortune, opportunity and more. Readers are presented with the original Zulu proverb, the literal English translation and an English interpretation. This format allows readers a glimpse into the cultural significance of the saying as well as the humanitarian intent of the advice. Readers from all over the globe will find the cross-cultural subjects of love, death, opportunity and misfortune to interesting, humorous and soulful. Those who are familiar with Zulu culture and language as well as those just being introduced will equally be drawn by these witty sayings.

Zulu Proverbs
Zulu Proverbs

Author: Cyril Lincoln Sibusiso Nyembezi

Publisher: I.B.D. Limited

Published: 1989-12-31

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13:

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The Proverb in the Context of Akan Rhetoric
The Proverb in the Context of Akan Rhetoric

Author: Kwesi Yankah

Publisher: Diasporic Africa Press

Published: 2012-02-15

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 1937306038

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Attracting renewed attention by a new generation of scholars, the book presents a comprehensive ethnography of proverb communication in an African culture and achieves a significant breakthrough in proverb studies. The author critically reviews the dynamics of the proverb, one verbal genre that embodies the high point of rhetoric in traditional and contemporary Africa, and explores in rich details the proverb's creative potential, authorship and effectiveness in crisis management. Yankah elevates the documentation of the African proverb beyond decontextualized compilations, and portrays the proverb as a dynamic communicative strategy in which form, meaning and logic are in constant flux. The study, which focuses on the Akan of Ghana, situates the proverb in the heart of real life discourse interactions and monitors its rhetorical efficacy on the basis of indigenous aesthetics. The book should be of value to folklorists, sociolinguists, anthropologists, literary scholars and students of African studies and communications.