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[from amaah] Decolonization, multilingualism, and African languages in the making of African philosophy.

Kwasi Wiredu in Dialogue with Kai Kresse... African philosophy galore... Wiredu expounds on his customary themes: tradition and modernity, cultural universals and particulars... revisit for social living project

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[from amaah] The Special Court for Sierra Leone - Transcripts of Charles Taylor trial

harrowing in its own way, the transcripts of the ongoing case against Charles Taylor. There's a certain poetry to be found in court transcripts. Very bad men doing very bad things for so long. And the small boy units a decade later. Revisit

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[from amaah] The Founding Of Nima

on the early history of Nima and its formation "he obtained permission to settle here, and to build a village for the accommodation of strangers like himself in 1931" A place for outsiders on the fringe of urbanity. a resting place for exiled souls

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[from amaah] Hot wheels

Soyinka on the art of mammy-lorry painting, the trotro sloganeering popular in Africa. Funnily enough, the great man is derivative. There's already a whole amount of scholarship on the phenomenon. Indeed: observers are worried.

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[from amaah] In a Land of Homemade Names, Tiffany Doesn't Cut It

So was a man named Enough, about whom more will be said later. Across southern Africa, in fact, one can find any number of Lovemores, Tellmores, Trymores and Learnmores, along with lots of people named Justice, Honour, Trust, Gift, Energy, Knowledge and e

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Translate.org.za Development Blog » Free Software empowers African languages

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[from amaah] When Gobbledegook Becomes A Fetish: Making Ghanaian English Less Too Known

If I am a guest at a wedding, it means I was invited. If I was not invited but I managed to come all the same, I am still a guest. I am not less of a guest than those who were officially invited. When people, normally MC’s, say Mr. Chairman, invited gue

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[from amaah] When Gobbldegook Becomes A Fetish: Making Ghanaian English Less Too Known

If I am a guest at a wedding, it means I was invited. If I was not invited but I managed to come all the same, I am still a guest. I am not less of a guest than those who were officially invited. When people, normally MC’s, say Mr. Chairman, invited gue

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[from amaah] Denying Genocide in Darfur -- and Americans Their Coca-Cola

As diplomatic threats go, that one gets high points for creativity: Try to stop the killings in Darfur, and we'll take away your Coca-Cola. "Sudan is the breadbasket of the world," he boasted, and it is setting up "the best democracy in the world." Furthe

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[from amaah] The Opposite House by Helen Oyeyemi

There are moments, when her ability to look suffering squarely in the eye and describe it in all its horror can be enough to make you take a brisk walk before returning to the next sentence. Here is language that does justice to the suffering of gods.

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[from amaah] You say Goggle, I say Google

Ah... Yoruba-inflected linguistics meets the endless flexibility of the English language. Controversy ensues. Answer me this, how do you pronounce prove? And why should Palm Groove be pronounced Palm Grove...

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Bemba language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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