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ISBN: 9956-551-95-3

Note: Includes index. , Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- About the Authors -- Contents -- Foreword -- Chapter 1 - Introduction. Being and Becoming African: Insights from Chinua Achebe's and Related Usage of Proverbs -- The Many Faces and Guises of Being and Becoming African -- Chinua Achebe's Contribution in the Storytelling of Being and Becoming African -- Chinua Achebe's Artistic Iconoclasm -- Synopsis of Chapters -- Endnotes -- References -- Part I. Proverbial Cultures: Being, Becoming and Belonging in African Proverbs -- Chapter 2 - Being and Becoming African as a Permanent Work in Progress: Inspiration from Chinua Achebe's Proverbs -- Introduction -- Proverbs in Motion and their Mobilisation by Chinua Achebe -- Proverbs as Palm-Oil -- Proverbing Humility and Modesty in Leadership -- Gluing Change and Continuity with Proverbs -- Telling the Untold Stories of the Hunt: A Proverbial Achebe Legacy -- Achebe the Dancing Mask Humbles Death -- Endnotes -- References -- Chapter 3 - The Community, Belonging and Agency in Akan Proverbs -- Introduction -- The Sociality of the Person in Akan Proverbs -- Belonging as Membership of a Kin Group -- The Personhood as Belonging to a Community -- Individual Agency and the Community -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- References -- Chapter 4 - The Place of Proverbs amongst the Otukpo of North Central Nigeria -- Introduction -- Who are the Otukpo People? -- Other Versions of Proverbs in Otukpo: Meanings and Applications -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5 - An Encounter with a Proverb-Hunter and the Beingness of Igbo Proverbs -- Introduction -- The Forest of Proverbs -- Proverbs and the Art of Conversation -- The Art of Proverbialising and the Family -- The Dawn of Ilulu Igbo n'ime Igbo: Textbook of Igbo Proverbs -- Igbo Proverbs: New Channels, Different Contexts -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Endnotes -- Works Cited. , Part II. The Materiality of Proverbs: Performing Morality, Spirituality, Politics and Wisdom in and through African Proverbs -- Chapter 6 - Wax and Gold: Wisdom, Spirituality and Moral Discourse in Ethiopian Proverbs -- Introduction -- Part I: Highlights on Orality and Proverbs in Ethiopia -- Part II: How Proverbs and Qene Converge -- Part III: Themes in Amharic Proverbs and Qene -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Chapter 7 - Proverbs and the Celebration of the Igbo Tradition of Politics in Chinua Achebe's Novels -- Introduction -- Ancestral Spirit and Good Governance -- Elders' Wisdom and the State -- Negotiated Power Ratio -- The Political Hero -- Lessons for Contemporary Time -- References -- Chapter 8 - Poetry as a Vehicle for Communication and Orientation in Contemporary Igbo Politics -- Introduction -- Political Poetry - Abu Ntubiriko -- Political Situations of Political Songs in Igboland -- The Second Stanza is a Reverse of the First -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 9 - African Wisdom in Proverbs: The Yorùbá Example -- Introduction -- Theoretical Framework -- The Nature and Function of Proverbs in Yorùbá Society -- Defining Wisdom -- Wisdom in Proverbs vis-à-vis Yorùbá Society -- Analysis and Discussion of the Data -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- Part III. Celebrating the Proverbial Genre: The Interconnections and Interdependencies between African Proverbs and Creativity -- Chapter 10 - Paremiological Poetics: The Poetic Dimensions of Igbo Proverbs -- Introduction -- The Proverb -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 11 - The Pleasure(s) of Proverb Discourse in Contemporary Popular Ghanaian Music: The Case of Obrafour's Hiplife Songs -- Introduction -- "Pleasure" from an Akan Perspective -- Obrafour's Thematic Proverbial Dexterity: ɛb ɛ De ɛ Ennyina Faako, ɛtu (Proverb [use] is not stationary, it flies). , Conclusion: On the Pleasure(s) of the "Executioner's" Proverbs -- Endnotes -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Chapter 12 - Malinkelisation of French in Ahmadou Kourouma's Les soleils des indépendances -- Introduction -- The "Malinkelisation" of French in Kouroumian Fiction -- Proverbs and Related Idiomatic Expressions in Les soleils des Indépendances -- Translation of Orality into the Written Word through Proverbs -- Toward the Decolonisation of Les Soleils des Indépendances -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- References -- Chapter 13 - Drinking from the Bottomless "Eagle on Iroko" Proverbial Gourd: Africanising and Globalising Chinua Achebe's Igbo (Narrative) Proverbs -- Introduction -- Coupling the Shards of the Chinua Achebe-Francis Nyamnjoh Creative Parallelisms -- The Interlinkages between Nyamnjoh Hypertexts and Achebe's Hypotexts -- Francis B. Nyamnjoh's Souls Forgotten : Proverbalising Marginalisation and Dismemberment in Mimboland -- Conclusion: "Carving" Dancing Masks that Would Dance with and Not against the Times -- Works Cited -- Part IV. African Epistemologies: Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Conceptualisations and Pedagogical Values of Proverbs -- Chapter 14 - "Drinking from the Cosmic Gourd" and the Fallacy of Completeness by Way of African Proverbs -- Introduction -- Gatekeeping and the Case of the Old Man Stuck at Home -- Conviviality and Incompleteness: Tools for Dismantling Ready-made Epistemologies in Africa -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 15 - Intellectual Virtues of Indigenous African Wisdom: The Perspectives of Akan Proverbs -- Introduction -- Differentiating Moral and Intellectual Virtues -- Akan Proverbs -- Illuminating the Intellectual Virtues in Akan Proverbs -- Implications for Practice in Education and Politics in Africa -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- References. , Chapter 16 - Epistemological and Moral Aspects of Selected Shona Proverbial Lore: Implications for Health and Safety in the Face of Covid-19 and Other Such Pandemics -- Introduction -- Debunking the Myths: Justifying Philosophy, Rationality and Proverbial Lore in Africa -- The Efficacy of Proverbs -- Shona Proverbs with Critical Epistemological and Moral Implications to Covid-19 and Other Pandemics -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 17 - Epistemology and Politics in Proverbial Names in the Pre-Colonial Great Lakes Region -- Introduction -- The Politics of Child Naming among the Bakiga-Banyankore -- Names that Were Used to Express General Suffering in Society -- Names Illuminating Hope in the Society -- Names Expressing the Ravenous Nature of Death -- Proverbial Names About Desolation and Humility -- them.Proverbial Names Based on Gender Preferences -- Names on Behavioural Attributes such as Bravery and Peacefulness -- Names Denoting and Admonishing Bodily Beauty and Aesthetics -- Proverbial Names against Complex Social Conditions -- Names on Social Deviance such as Indiscipline, Indolence, Ungenerousness and Cruelty -- Names on Waywardness -- Names Conveying Internal Satisfaction -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- References -- Chapter 18 - If You Want to Understand Africa's Politico-Epistemological World, Look at the Chameleon -- Introduction -- The Nawuri and Proverbs -- Political Epistemology and Traditional Knowledge in Ghana -- The Nawuri Story of the Chameleon and the Chief -- The Chameleon, the Chief, and Issues of Truth, Trust and Authority -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Chapter 19 - The Kola Nuts of Ideas: African Proverbs and Epistemic Emancipation -- Introduction -- False Translations and Misapplications in the Use of African Concepts -- Proverbs and Meaning in Everyday Life Struggles. , Proverbs as the Kola Nuts of Epistemic Emancipation -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- References -- Afterword. African Proverbs, Personhood and the Knowledge Commons -- Index -- Back cover.

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Language: English