TY - BOOK AU - Takemura,Keiko AU - Nyamnjoh,B. TI - Dynamism in African Languages and Literature: Towards Conceptualisation of African Potentials SN - 9956553514 AV - PL8007 .D963 2021 U1 - 306.44096 23 PY - 2021/// CY - Oxford PB - Langaa RPCIG KW - African languages KW - Periodicals KW - African literature KW - History and criticism KW - Langues africaines KW - P�eriodiques KW - Litt�erature africaine KW - Histoire et critique KW - Electronic book N1 - Description based upon print version of record; Intro -- Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Series Preface: African Potentials for Convivial World-Making -- Motoji Matsuda -- Introduction -- Dynamism in African Languages and Literature: Towards Conceptualisation of African Potentials -- Keiko Takemura and Francis B. Nyamnjoh -- PART I. Language -- 1. Convivial Multilingualism as a Modern African Ethos: Cases of East African Non-Arab Arabophone Societies -- Shuichiro Nakao -- 2. Socio-Linguistic Dynamism among Languages: Sketching from Angola as a Frame of Reflection -- Satoshi Terao; 3. Documentation of an Afar Traditional Conflict Reconciliation Speech -- Gebriel Alazar Tesfatsion -- 4. Aspects of Linguistic Dynamism in Sheng as Kenyan Colloquial Swahili: Focusing on De-Standardisation and Re-Vernacularisation -- Daisuke Shinagawa -- 5. Flexibility and the Potential of 'African Multilingualism': A Case of Language Practice in Tanzania -- Sayaka Kutsukake -- 6. Kiswahili Language and Its Potentiality for African Development -- Shani Omari Mchepange and Mussa M. Hans -- Part II. Literature -- 7. Swahili from the Perspectives of 'Language' and 'Literature' -- Keiko Takemura; 8. Cultural Transformation and the Reconstruction of Tradition in Yoruba Popular Music -- Katsuhiko Shiota -- 9. Literature for African Children: Creation and Publication of Children's Books in French-Speaking West African Countries -- Haruse Murata -- 10. Writing from the In-between: Binyavanga Wainaina's Literary Practices -- Maiko Kanda -- 11. The Social Orientation of Kiswahili Poetry -- Fuko Onoda -- 12. Amos Tutuola as a Quest Hero for Endogenous Africa: Actively Anglicising the Yoruba Language and Yorubanising the English Language -- Francis B. Nyamnjoh -- Index UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=3712202 ER -