Go to AfricaBib home

Go to AfricaBib home AfricaBib Go to database home

bibliographic database
Line
Previous page New search

The free AfricaBib App for Android is available here

Book Book Leiden University catalogue Leiden University catalogue WorldCat catalogue WorldCat
Title:Language and literature: vehicles for the enhancement of cultural understanding
Authors:Maganda, Dainess
Traoré, KarimISNI
Year:2016
Pages:289
Language:English
City of publisher:London
Publisher:Adonis & Abbey
ISBN:1909112585; 9781909112582
Geographic term:Africa
Subjects:African languages
literature
Swahili language
Yoruba language
Mande languages
pedagogy
identity
African identity
Abstract:This edited volume looks at the way African languages, teaching and literature are used inside and outside of Africa to generate a greater cultural understanding of the African continent and the notions of African identity. Contributions: Introduction: why and how should culture be taught? (D. M. Maganda); African languages and African development in the 21st century (G. Rubumbika); Sustaining the global visibility of African languages and cultures: the case of Kiswahili (L. Moshi); Doors of perception: dialogues with otherness (C. M. Beleana); Africa in the selected high school world history textbooks in Korea (H. Yi, S. Abn); Culture prints in African languages: the world we share (D. Baloubi); A literacy-based approach to cultural understanding in African language pedagogy (K. K. Sanuth, A. Agoke); Using music/songs in the African language classroom: ideas and challenges (D. M. Maganda, et al.); Literary translation, cultural understanding selected translated works of Akínwůmí Ěsňlá (A. Ojo); Return of the native? Images of alienation and ''outsiderhood'' in Tayeb Salih's 'Season of Migration to the North' (S. S. Kumar); Spatial organization of Mande tales (K. Traoré); The secret imports of names and its implication for individual in nation building: a study of Yorůbá anthroponomy (G. Ayoola); Teaching languages, literatures and cultures: examining teaching philosophies (O. Kole). [ASC Leiden abstract]
Views
Cover