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A JOURNAL OF SOCIAL & RELIGIOUS CONCERN

Volume 14 No. 1 (1999)

TRADITIONAL AFRICAN WISDOM & MODERN LIFE

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FOR FURTHER READING ON AFRICAN PROVERBS


1. On the Internet
African Proverbs, Sayings and Stories Web Site: http://www.afriprov.org

2. On a CD Rom
Nussbaum, Stan, Editor. African Proverbs: Collections, Studies, Bibliographies. CD ROM. Colorado Springs: Global Mapping International (GMI), 1996. Available in Nairobi from Urban Ministries Support Group.

3. Textual material
African proverbs series. This series was published by Unisa Press, P.O. Box 392, Pretoria, South Africa in 1997 and consists so far of the following five volumes:

  • Ethiopian wisdom: proverbs and sayings of the Oromo people by George Cotter.
  • Hearing and keeping: Akan proverbs (Ghana) by Kofi Asare Opuku.
  • Lugbara wisdom (Uganda and Zaire) by Albert Dalfolvo.
  • The voice of the people: proverbs of the Basotho (Lesotho/South Africa) by Makali I Mokotimi.
  • Embracing the baobab tree: the African proverb in the 21st century, edited by Willem Saayman.

    Cisternino, Marius. The proverbs of Kigezi and Ankole (Uganda). Rome: Missionari Comboniani, 1987.

    Delano, Isaac O. Yoruba Proverbs: their meaning and usage. Ibadan: Oxford University Press, 1972.

    Healey, Joseph G., Editor. 226 Misemo kwenye khanga za Afrika Mashariki (Sayings on East African cloth). Dar es Salaam and Musoma: Privately printed, 1999.

    Healey, Joseph G. and Donald F. Sybertz. Towards An African narrative theology. Nairobi: Paulines Publications Africa, 1996; Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1997.

    Farsi, S.S. Swahili sayings 1. Nairobi: Kenya Literature Bureau, 1958.

    Karama, S. & M. Saidi. Melezo ya methali za Kiswahili. Nairobi: Longman Kenya, 1983.

    Nsalu, Ahmed & Kitula G. King. Kamusi ya methali za Kiswahili. Nairobi: Heinemann Kenya, 1989.

    Kiiru, Muchugu. "Culture talk: how sayings mesh into society's life." Daily Nation, June 23, 1990.

    Kiiru, Muchugu. "Culture talk: the long and short of proverbs." Daily Nation, June 16, 1990.

    Kiiru, Muchugu. "Proverbs help enhance a sense of responsibility." Daily Nation, November 26, 1993.

    Schipper, Mineke. Source of all evil: African proverbs and sayings on women. Nairobi: Phoenix Publishers, 1991.

    Simpson, J. A. (ed.). The concise Oxford dictionary of proverbs. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

    Wanjohi, Gerald J. The wisdom and philosophy of the Gîkûyû proverbs: the kîhooto world-view. Nairobi: Paulines Publications Africa, 1997.


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