Verbal Art and Documentary Literature in African Languages

University of Cologne, Germany

Whereas Boas and Malinowski conjoined in their works cultural anthropology and linguistics into a kind of cultural philology, these two disciplines have developed in the course of scientific history into two distinct fields of study. This series is devoted to the intercultural research of texts in African languages, thereby documenting as well as interpreting its source material.

Volume 45
Tales, Fables and Narratives of Rwanda (forthcoming)
Author: Eugène Hurel †. Transcribed by: Matthias Brack, Leo Sibomana, John Doldo IV. Translated by: Matthias Brack, Leo Sibomana, John Doldo IV.
Volume 44
Swahili Proverbs from the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Author: Nico Nassenstein.
Volume 43
Legenden, Märchen und Fabeln aus Ruanda
Author: Leo Sibomana, Matthias Brack. Illustrated by: Eliane Hierl. Photographs by: Matthias Brack, Lis Brack-Bernsen, Anne Sollid Brack. With a drawing by: Wolfgang Grünhagen.
Volume 42
Framing Texts – Framing Social Spaces
Author: Serena Talento.
Volume 41
Luhala lwa Wavidunda – Vidunda Wisdom
Edited by: Karsten Legère, Peter S. Mkwan’hembo. With a foreword by: Shani Omari Mchepange. With a preface by: Karsten Legère, Peter S. Mkwan’hembo. Illustrated by: Juma Mgenda.
Volume 40
« Les deux amis, les tresses, et la viande » – Contes balant du Sénégal
Author: Jules Mansaly. With drawings by: Carmen E. Weinzierl.
Volume 39
The Voice of the Text and its Body
Author: Robert Gaudioso. With a preface by: Annmarie Drury. With an introduction by: Kai Kresse.
Volume 38
Mpoto Fables and Folktales (Tanzania)
Author: Margaret P. Mwingira, Robert Botne.
Volume 37
Dictionnaire des proverbes balant
Author: Jules Mansaly.
Volume 36
Dunia Yao – Utopia/Dystopia in Swahili Fiction
Edited by: Clarissa Vierke, Katharina Greven. With an introduction by: Clarissa Vierke, Katharina Greven. With contributions by: Abdilatif Abdalla, Elena Bertoncini-Zúbková †, Lutz Diegner, Mikhail D. Gromov, Geoffrey Kitula King’ei [show more…], Alena Rettová, Peter Simatei, Magdaline Nakhumicha Wafula, Ken Walibora Waliaula.
Volume 35
Shakespeares Julius Caesar und Macbeth
Author: Cornelia Bock.
Volume 34
Vodun Stories of the Fon (Benin)
Author: Marjolijn Aalders Grool.
Volume 33
Suri Orature
Author: Jon Abbink, Michael Bryant, Daniel Bambu.
Volume 32
Verbal Art of the Fon (Benin)
Author: Marjolijn Aalders Grool.
Volume 31
Chanter l’existence
Author: Alena Rettová. Translated by: Albert Kasanda. With an epilogue by: Albert Kasanda.
Volume 30
Life and Poems of Bi Zainab Himid (1920–2002) / Maisha na Tungo za Bi Zainab Himid (1920–2002)
Author: Sauda A. Barwani, Ludwig Gerhardt. With a preface by: Said M.A. Khamis, Saad Saleh Yahya. With an introduction by: Sauda A. Barwani, Ludwig Gerhardt.
Volume 29
Vies quotidiennes à Dakar (Sénégal) / Everyday Life in Dakar (Senegal) / Nettaliy dundin ci Ndakaaru, bis bu nekk
Author: Adjaratou Oumar Sall.
Volume 28
Proverbs Finish the Problems – máakut(i) t’awá shuultáa
Edited by: Gertrud Schneider-Blum.
Volume 27
„Derjenige, der sich selbst erschaffen hat …“
Author: Marc Seifert.
Volume 26
Finding Female Voice
Author: George Olusola Ajibade.
Volume 25
« Boulettes de graines de courge, pêche, hospitalité … »
Author: Christina Thornell.
Volume 24
Boran Proverbs in their Cultural Context
Author: Abdullahi A. Shongolo, Günther Schlee.
Volume 23
Narrations of the Kavango
Edited by: Marc Seifert.
Volume 22
The Voice of the Elders
Author: Manny Cangaley. Translated by: Douglas A. Kibbee. With an introduction by: Manny Cangaley, Douglas A. Kibbee.
Volume 21
Bibliography of Hausa Popular Fiction 1987–2002
Author: Graham Furniss, Malami Buba, William Burgess.
Volume 20
Oromo Oral Poetry Seen from Within
Edited by: Catherine Griefenow-Mewis, Tamene Bitima. With an introduction by: Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig. With contributions by: Debela Goshu, Ronny Meyer, Abdullahi A. Shongolo, Tadesse Jaleta Jirata, Tamene Bitima [show more…], Tesema Ta’a.
Volume 19
Bridging the Unbridgeable
Author: Reinhard Klein-Arendt.
Volume 18
Unser Leben vor der Revolution und danach – Maisha yetu kabla ya mapinduzi na baadaye
Edited by: Sauda A. Barwani, Regina Feindt, Ludwig Gerhardt, Leonhard Harding, Ludger Wimmelbücker.
Volume 17
Motivforschung in Volkserzählungen der Kanuri (Tschadsee-Region)
Author: Thomas Geider †.
Volume 16
Contes des Bakas (Sud-Est Cameroun)
Author: Christa Kilian-Hatz.
Volume 15
Rendille Proverbs in their Social and Legal Context
Author: Günther Schlee, Karaba Sahado.
Volume 14
The Form and Meaning of Otjiherero Praises
Author: Jekura Uaurika Kavari.
Volume 13
Erzählte Kultur und Erzählkultur bei den Mwera in Südost-Tansania
Author: Uta Reuster-Jahn.
Volume 12
Contes et textes documentaires kwa de Côte d’Ivoire
Edited by: William R. Leben, Firmin Ahoua. With a preface by: William R. Leben, Firmin Ahoua. With an introduction by: William R. Leben, Firmin Ahoua.
Volume 11
Texte auf Textilien in Ostafrika
Author: Rose Marie Beck.
Volume 10
Sprache und Musik in Mandinka-Erzählungen
Author: Katrin Pfeiffer.
Volume 9
Aspects of the Aesthetics of Hausa Verbal Art
Author: Linda Hunter, Chaibou Elhadji Oumarou.
Volume 8
Nyagalen Mugan Tarawele
Author: Klaudia Dombrowsky-Hahn.
Volume 7
Conversational Strategies in Akan
Author: Samuel Gyasi Obeng.
Volume 6
Texts in Koroboro Senni (Songhay of Gao, Mali)
Edited by: Jeffrey Heath.
Volume 5
Texts in Koyra Chiini (Songhay of Timbuktu, Mali)
Edited by: Jeffrey Heath.
Volume 4
Mandinka Spoken Art
Edited by: Katrin Pfeiffer.
Volume 3
Tonrelationen in Luba-Sprichwörtern
Author: Hans-Ingolf Weier †.
Volume 2
Luba-Sprichwörter
Edited by: Hans-Ingolf Weier †.
Volume 1
Die Figur des Oger in der traditionellen Literatur und Lebenswelt der Pokomo in Ost-Kenya
Author: Thomas Geider †.