The languages & literatures of Africa: the sands of Babel
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| adam_text | The Languages
amp; Literatures of Africa
The Sands of Babel
ALAIN RICARD
Research Professor,
Centre National de la
Recherche Scientifique, Paris
Translated from the French by
Naomi Morgan
CENTRE NATIONAL
DE LA RECHERCHE
SCIENTIFIQUE
James Currey
OXFORD
Africa World Press
TRENTON,NJ
David Philip
CAPE TOWN
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Photographs, between pages 6 8-7
The Classification amp; Ranking of African Languages
ON CONCEPTS amp; MISCONCEPTIONS
Background to the Debate
On Tones amp; Noun Classes
Tones, Pitch, Intonation amp; Print
Understanding Noun Classes
Some Historical Language Analyses
From Dualism to Unity
An Open Vision: the Triple Heritage
Tradition amp;• Orality
Pseudo-Oral Literature
What is Oral Literature Exactly?
The Poets Orality
Poets amp; the Texts
Other Literary Forms in Mandinka
The Yoruba Tradition
Conclusions
The Manuscript Heritage
Ethiopia amp; Sub-Saharan Africa
Ge ez Literature
Amharic Literature
From Writings in Arabic to Arabic Spelling
Hausa Literature
Kiswahili Literature
Books amp; the Latin Alphabet in Western Africa
Yoruba Literature
Igbo Literature
Akan Literature
Ewe Literature
Books amp; the Languages of East amp; Southern Africa
Gikuyu Literature
Shona Literature
Xhosa Literature
Sotho Literature
Zulu Literature
The Future of Literatures in African Languages
vii
X
57
vi Contents
The Go-Betweens
WRITING IN TWO LANGUAGES 123
Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo (1903-1937): Translation as
a Creative Principle 125
Alexis Kagame (1912-1981): Bantuist, Philosopher amp; Poet 127
Amadou HampStfi Ba (1901-1991), the Fulani Interpreter 130
Okot p Bitek (1931-1982): Satirizing Tradition 133
Translating One s Culture: Jomo Kenyatta (1893-1978) 136
Amos Tutuola s Linguistic Un-consciousness (1923-1997) 138
Conclusion 140
Towards a New Poetic Discourse? 141
The Music of Conversation 141
The Pioneers of Anglophone Poetry 145
Asserting Autonomous Poetry 147
New Ethics in Poetry 150
Francophone Poetry: the Senghor Century 154
Creolisation, M6tissage 156
Conclusions 160
Inventing Theatre 162
Linguistic amp; Collective Consciousness 162
Orality amp; the Stage, Theories on the Origins of Drama 164
Popular Theatre 167
The Model: Soyinka 169
Anglophone Theatre 172
Francophone Theatre 176
Narrative Fiction
THE SANDS OF BABEL 182
Pioneers of the Novel 183
Local Fiction 188
Establishing a Body of Reference 190
Masters of Representative Writing 193
Words in Action: the Sands of Babel 198
Bibliography 204
Index 225
List of Maps
1 Main African languages in expansion 17
2 Towns amp; regions of Ethiopia 47
3 Languages of the Benin Coast 76
4 Ethnic groups of East Africa discussed in the text 93
5 Spatial distribution of the principal languages of South Africa 95
6 Main Xhosa-speaking areas in the Eastern Cape 99
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