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"Colleen McElroy journeyed to Madagascar to undertake a Fulbright research project exploring Malagasy oral traditions and myths. In Over the Lip of the World she depicts with equal verve the various storytelling traditions of the island and her own adventures in trying to find and record them."--BOOK JACKET. "Throughout she interweaves English translations of Malagasy stories of heroism and morality, royalty and commoners, love and revenge, and the...
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From the Publisher: This volume looks at the in-depth meaning of indigenous as well as adopted African names. African personal names have multitudinous functions such as the association of one's occupation, habits and personality. Many African names emanate from one's ancestry through clan, ethnic/tribal or religious affiliation. Since most of these names emanate from the 'Bantuphone' region of the east, central and southern Africa, it is not uncommon...
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"The aim of this book is to inform both scholars and the public about the nature and extent of the problem of language decline and death in Africa. The situation of language endangerment in Africa is arguably the most pressing in the world due to the unique and very bleak set of circumstances there today. The book resourcefully traces the main causes and circumstances of language endangerment, the processes and extent of language shift and death,...
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