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Selected Akan Proverbs And Their Meaning
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Book Synopsis Selected Akan Proverbs And Their Meaning by : Frimpong Manso Adakabre
Download or read book Selected Akan Proverbs And Their Meaning written by Frimpong Manso Adakabre and published by Volume. This book was released on 2019-11-06 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proverbs make the wise wiser, it makes the primitive knowledgeable, and it increases the knowledge of the knowledgeable. Each proverb has a meaning but is open to various interpretations. The principles of the Akan proverbs are meant to be applicable to all regardless of nationality, heritage, or social standing.
Book Synopsis Akan Proverbs by : Emmanuel K. A. Asante
Download or read book Akan Proverbs written by Emmanuel K. A. Asante and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hearing and Keeping by : Kofi Asare Opoku
Download or read book Hearing and Keeping written by Kofi Asare Opoku and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes 589 Akan proverbs, some collected by the author and others selected from the sources listed in the bibliography. They are presented with translations, explanations, illustrations and subject classification in keeping with the style of the African Proverbs series.
Book Synopsis Akan mme̳ 1000 by : Kwabena Ofori-Panin
Download or read book Akan mme̳ 1000 written by Kwabena Ofori-Panin and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bu Me be written by Peggy Appiah and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 1238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ashanti Proverbs by : Robert Sutherland Rattray
Download or read book Ashanti Proverbs written by Robert Sutherland Rattray and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Three Thousand Six Hundred Ghanian Proverbs (from the Asante and Fante Language) by :
Download or read book Three Thousand Six Hundred Ghanian Proverbs (from the Asante and Fante Language) written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of proverbs from the Twi-speaking people of Ghana, collected by Reverend J.G. Christaller in about 1879 and translated in this work into English.
Book Synopsis Oral Literature in Africa by : Ruth Finnegan
Download or read book Oral Literature in Africa written by Ruth Finnegan and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruth Finnegan's Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been widely praised as one of the most important books in its field. Based on years of fieldwork, the study traces the history of storytelling across the continent of Africa. This revised edition makes Finnegan's ground-breaking research available to the next generation of scholars. It includes a new introduction, additional images and an updated bibliography, as well as its original chapters on poetry, prose, "drum language" and drama, and an overview of the social, linguistic and historical background of oral literature in Africa. This book is the first volume in the World Oral Literature Series, an ongoing collaboration between OBP and World Oral Literature Project. A free online archive of recordings and photographs that Finnegan made during her fieldwork in the late 1960s is hosted by the World Oral Literature Project (http: //www.oralliterature.org/collections/rfinnegan001.html) and can also be accessed from publisher's website.
Book Synopsis Proverbs within Cognitive Linguistics by : Sadia Belkhir
Download or read book Proverbs within Cognitive Linguistics written by Sadia Belkhir and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2024-06-15 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume presents an innovative set of researches featuring theoretical and practical discussions of the proverb in cognition and culture. To date, there seems to be a need for state-of-the-art research into this subject matter. This volume aims at responding to this need. The chapters contribute, from a Cognitive Linguistics interdisciplinary perspective, to the existing body of literature on the proverb. The book begins with a first part containing three chapters concerned with theoretical discussions of proverbs in cognition and culture. The three chapters in the second part ponder proverbs within a cognitive-cross-cultural perspective. The third part of the volume includes three chapters that deal with the proverbs of individual languages and cultures. The three chapters in the fourth part study proverbs and/or related phenomena from a cognitive and cultural perspective: snowclones, idioms, and proverbial phrases. This book will be of interest to academics interested in proverbs within a cognitive linguistic framework and to scholars in the areas of language studies, applied linguistics, language teaching and learning, and Cognitive Linguistics in general, and to those researchers who wish to refine their knowledge about the cognitive activities featuring proverb use and their interaction with sociocultural contextual variables.
Book Synopsis The Proverb in the Context of Akan Rhetoric by : Kwesi Yankah
Download or read book The Proverb in the Context of Akan Rhetoric written by Kwesi Yankah and published by Diasporic Africa Press. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Being and Becoming African as a Permanent Work in Progress by : B. Nyamnjoh
Download or read book Being and Becoming African as a Permanent Work in Progress written by B. Nyamnjoh and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2021-06-09 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a timely addition to debates and explorations on the epistemological relevance of African proverbs, especially with growing calls for the decolonisation of African curricula. The editors and contributors have chosen to reflect on the diverse ways of being and becoming African as a permanent work in progress by drawing inspiration from Chinua Achebe's harnessing of the effectualness of oratory, especially his use of proverbs in his works. The book recognises and celebrates the fact that Achebe's proverbial Igbo imaginations of being and becoming African are compelling because they are instructive about the lives, stories, struggles and aspirations of the rainbow of people that make up Africa as a veritable global arena of productive circulations, entanglements and compositeness of being. The contributions foray into how claims to and practices of being and becoming African are steeped in histories of mobilities and a myriad of encounters shaped by and inspiring of the competing and complementary logics of personhood and power that Africans have sought and seek to capture in their repertoires of proverbs. The task of documenting African proverbs and rendering them accessible in the form of a common hard currency with fascinating epistemological possibilities remains a challenge yearning for financial, scholarly, social and political attention. The book is an important contribution to John Mbiti's clarion call for an active and sustained interest in African proverbs.
Download or read book Bu Me Be written by Peggy Appiah and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Asantes and to a large extent the Akans of Ghana are a proverbs people, who over the past 400 years built empires and civilizations. One can fully understand and appreciate the philosophy and other cultures of these African people without understanding their proverbs. In ancient days, education in many African traditional societies involved oral not written communication. Even today, this is still the case, since proverbs continue to function as a way to reinforce moral and social precepts, and they teach the philosophy and ways of the community, its customs, and its prejudices. The proverbs collected in this book provide a richness of poetic imagery and vision, distilling the best of Asante language and oral tradition. In addition, they give inspiration to drum and horn language and provide depth to the funeral dirges and the appellations of Asante and Akan chiefs and the traditional political and religious rulers. They are also used symbolically in many items of stool paraphernalia, where visual designs have associated proverbial meanings.
Book Synopsis Harnessing Cultural Capital for Sustainability by : Mawere, Munyaradzi
Download or read book Harnessing Cultural Capital for Sustainability written by Mawere, Munyaradzi and published by Langaa RPCIG. This book was released on 2015-06-20 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the basic component of any society's social security and sustainability is cultural capital and its ability to fully recognise diversity in knowledge production and advancement. However, with regard to African societies, since the dawn of racial slavery and colonialism, cultural capital ñ indigenous knowledge in particular ñ has iniquitously and acrimoniously suffered marginalisation and pejorative ragtags. Increasingly since the 1990s, cultural capital informed by African knowledge systems has taken central stage in discussions of sustainability and development. This is not unrelated with the recognition by America and Europe in particular of the central role that cultural capital could and should assume in the logic of development and sustainability at a global level. Unfortunately, action has often failed to match words with regard to the situation in Africa. The current book seeks to make a difference by exploring the role that African cultural capital could and should assume to guarantee development and sustainability on the continent and globally. It argues that lofty pan-African ideals of collective self-reliance, self-sustaining development and economic growth would come to naught unless determined and decisive steps are taken towards full recognition of indigenous cultural capital on the continent.
Download or read book From the Heart of Africa written by and published by Tundra Books. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of African wisdom gorgeously illustrated by artists from Ghana, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Canada, the United States and more. Aphorisms are universal. They give guidance, context and instruction for life's issues, and they help us understand each other and the world around us. We use them every day, yet never think about where they came from or why they exist. In this beautifully illustrated collection, Eric Walters brings us classic sayings from the places where this shared wisdom began. Ashanti, Sukuma, Akan and Kikuyu: all of these cultures use the portable and easily shared knowledge contained in aphorisms, and from these cultures and more this communal knowledge spread. This book is a celebration of art, of community and of our common history.
Book Synopsis The Heritage of African Music by : Lyn Avins
Download or read book The Heritage of African Music written by Lyn Avins and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis African Virtue Ethics Traditions for Business and Management by : Kemi Ogunyemi
Download or read book African Virtue Ethics Traditions for Business and Management written by Kemi Ogunyemi and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African philosophies about the way to live a flourishing life are predominantly virtue-oriented. However, narratives of African conceptions of virtue are uncommon. This book therefore helps bridge an important gap in literature. Authors writing from South Africa, Ghana, Egypt, Kenya, Mauritius, Côte D’Ivoire and Nigeria share research on indigenous wisdoms on virtue, displaying marked consensus about the communitarian nature of African virtue ethics traditions and virtues essential for a flourishing life. They also show how indigenous virtue ethics improve corporate practices. This book will be a launchpad for further studies in Afriethics as well as a medium for sharing rich knowledge with the rest of the world.
Book Synopsis The Clothes of Nakedness by : Benjamin Kwakye
Download or read book The Clothes of Nakedness written by Benjamin Kwakye and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1999 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book, Africa Region. The Clothes of Nakedness cleverly examines the complexities of human relationships, offering a gritty expose of the divide between rich and poor in modern Ghana. Evil lurks in the streets of Accra and it goes by the name of Mystique Mysterious. A wealthy man with maleficent intentions, Mystique delights in manipulating the vulnerable with his exploitative deals. His bargains may seem fishy but when poverty is knocking on your door and options are limited, what choice do you have? The Clothes of Nakedness is a gripping exploration into how, when pushed, ordinary people can fall into a vicious cycle of vice and corruption that only serves to benefit the ruling class.
