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Majunga Tok
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Author : Peter W. Vakunta
language : cpe
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date : 2008
Majunga Tok written by Peter W. Vakunta and has been published by African Books Collective this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Cameroon categories.
Pidgin English is the chief medium of communication for the great majority of Cameroonians. It sustains a world view, culture and way of life. Pidgin embodies concepts that would at best be partially expressed in formal English. A critical understanding of Pidgin English requires not only a thorough grasp of the socio-cultural matrix from which the words and expressions originate but also an immersion in an Afro-centric worldview. Majunga Tok: Poems in Pidgin English is the poet's attempt at capturing these speech patterns of ordinary Cameroonians in written form. Pidgin English, also called broken English, is a lingua franca spoken not only in Cameroon but also in many West African countries, including Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone and Liberia amonst others. This poetry anthology is inspired by the poet's desire to salvage a language that has been subjected to multiple forms of denigration because it is oral. In Cameroon, for instance, Pidgin English has been the target of myriad attacks from self-styled linguistic purists who claim that Pidgin is a bastardized variant of Standard English and, therefore, should not be allowed to thrive. The controversy and denigration directed at Amos Tutuola and his Pidgin English creative genius are vivid examples. This condescending attitude of speakers of Standard English stems from the fact that Pidgin is often associated with illiteracy.
Cam Tok And Other Poems From The Cradle
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Author : PETER W.VAKUNTA
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2010-05-28
Cam Tok And Other Poems From The Cradle written by PETER W.VAKUNTA and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-28 with Poetry categories.
Cam Tok & Other Poems from the Cradle is the poet’s attempt at capturing in print the orality characteristic of Cameroonian discourse and speech mannerisms of the proverbial man in the street. Pidgin English, also called broken English, is a lingua franca spoken throughout the national territory of Cameroon. Of the over 200 languages spoken in this African country, only Pidgin enjoys the rare privilege of being spoken by people from all social strata and walks of life, regardless of educational standing. Indeed, Pidgin has acquired the status of an independent language in Cameroon.It is no longer restricted to small talk, business and music; it is now the language of Cameroonian literature. Francis Njamnjoh, Patrice Nganang, Kangsen Wakai, Mercédès Fouda, and Gabriel Fonkou to name but a few, have adopted Cam Tok as a medium of expression in their literary works. They continually imprint their creative writing with Pidgin English and Camfranglais words and expressions. These writers constantly resort to pidginization and code-switching as a mode of literary indigenization and cultural appropriation.This anthology of poems is inspired by the poet’s desire to salvage a language that is threatened with asphyxiation by self-styled linguistic purists in Cameroon who have subjected this lingua franca to denigration on account of its being non-standardized. Pidgin English translates the worldview of Cameroonians; it conveys their imagination, sensibilities and lived experiences. Although Pidgin has, hitherto, been regarded as a language used mostly by the not so educated people in Cameroon and beyond, this hybrid language has now gained currency among the elite. Learned Cameroonians often resort to Pidgin English for the purpose of phatic communion in informal circles.
Poems From Abakwa In Cameroon Pidgin English
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Author : Vakunta, Peter Wuteh
language : en
Publisher: Langaa RPCIG
Release Date : 2015-05-10
Poems From Abakwa In Cameroon Pidgin English written by Vakunta, Peter Wuteh and has been published by Langaa RPCIG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-10 with Poetry categories.
"Poems from Abakwa in Cameroon Pidgin English is one patriotic rage. An anthology of sorts, this book of poems contains wisdom, inspirational reflections and witticisms for all. Through apt descriptions, illustrations, dialogues, interrogations and incisive phraseology, Peter Wuteh Vakunta creates an effective balance of colorful images that traces and documents disturbing accounts and evidences of corruption, greed, skewed values and life experiences that have assaulted his fatherland, betrayed political leaders and institutions, court judges, and parliamentarians as the police-cum-military continue to put their ambitions above the country's needs while forsaking future leaders-children. Vakunta describes how civil servants represent selfish interests and aspirations. Judges are intimidated as the nation's laws continue to be transgressed. The police and military continue to abuse the trust invested in them by civilians and misdirect their patriotism while virtually the entire nation continues to live shaky lives with a punctured integrity. Vakunta does this in popular lingos commonly used by musicians, business folks, and the common man under several labels-pidgin English, Camfranglais, Cam-tok, Camspeak, Majunga tok ..." Dr. Fidelis Achenjang, Union College, USA
Straddling The Mungo A Book Of Poems In English And French
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Author : Peter W. Vakunta
language : en
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date : 2009
Straddling The Mungo A Book Of Poems In English And French written by Peter W. Vakunta and has been published by African Books Collective this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Poetry categories.
This collection makes a forceful case that official bilingualism is not a pipe-dream, but rather a powerful modus operandi with the potential to ease a myriad of socio-political bottlenecks.
Language Contact In A Postcolonial Setting
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Author : Eric A. Anchimbe
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2012-10-01
Language Contact In A Postcolonial Setting written by Eric A. Anchimbe and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This timely book brings together research on the features and evolution of Cameroon English and Cameroon Pidgin English, approached from a variety of innovative multilingual frameworks that focus on the emergence of mother tongue speakers. The authors illustrate how language and population contact, history (colonialism), multilingualism, translation, and indigenization have contributed to shaping the norms of postcolonial Englishes and Pidgins. Employing naturalistic data, the volume provides a new fascinating perspective that better situates and supplements existing research in the fields of African Englishes and Creolistics. It is particularly of key interest to sociolinguists, contact linguists, Africanists, Anglicists, creolists and historical linguists.
Camfranglais The Making Of A New Language In Cameroonian Literature
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Author : Vakunta, Peter Wuteh
language : en
Publisher: Langaa RPCIG
Release Date : 2014-07-17
Camfranglais The Making Of A New Language In Cameroonian Literature written by Vakunta, Peter Wuteh and has been published by Langaa RPCIG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-17 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This study raises awareness to the emergence of a new genre in world literature-hybridized literature. It rejects the assumption according to which literatures written in less commonly taught languages should be subsumed into one universally accessible global idiom. Instead, Vakunta challenges literary scholars and readers of literature to regard untranslatability as the key to cross-cultural engagement. The book's multiple approaches and innumerable sources generate complex interdisciplinary connections and provide an excellent introduction to a complex literary phenomenon alien to literati resident outside the officially bilingual multicultural and multilingual Republic of Cameroon.
Creolization And Pidginization In Contexts Of Postcolonial Diversity
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-02-27
Creolization And Pidginization In Contexts Of Postcolonial Diversity written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-27 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Creolization and pidginization are conceptualized and investigated as specific social processes in the course of which new common languages, socio-cultural practices and identifications are developed in contexts of postcolonial diversity shaped by distinct social, historical and local conditions.
Paradise Of Idiots
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Author : PETER W.VAKUNTA
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2010-05-28
Paradise Of Idiots written by PETER W.VAKUNTA and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-28 with Poetry categories.
Poetry has the potential to be both therapeutic and cathartic, allowing poets to wade through ontological meanders in their lives; to find answers to nagging questions of the moment; seek clarity in the midst of obscurantism; comfort and solace in troubled times; peace and tranquility in a world gone haywire. Versification provides a vehicle for the transportation of diverse attitudes, frames of mind, and fresh insights. Paradise of Idiots accomplishes this feat. The poet speaks in a confident tone of apocalyptic utterances: advising, warning, denouncing, protesting, and chiding. This long poem harbors the twin virtues of germaneness and clarity of diction. The poet willfully eschews the irksome ineloquence and syntactic sophistry characteristic of traditional poets. He dialogues with the reader like our traditional guardians of the word, the griots, did in a bygone time. Passion, energy, and cutting irony are the hallmarks of this didactic poem. The poet subscribes to Salman Rushdie’s pronouncement that “a poet’s work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.” In this poem music becomes a quest for the authentic self; songs serve as opium imbued with the power to transform feebleness into fortitude, despair into hope, paranoia into valor, and cowardice into audacity.It is a tale of bittersweet truths. The poem resonates with the defiant voice of a son-of-the-soil at odds with a world gone topsy-turvy.
Landscaping Postcoloniality The Dissemination Of Cameroon Anglophone Literature
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Author : Joyce Ashuntantang
language : en
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date : 2009
Landscaping Postcoloniality The Dissemination Of Cameroon Anglophone Literature written by Joyce Ashuntantang and has been published by African Books Collective this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Authors categories.
This is a foundational text on the production and dissemination of Anglophone Cameroon literature. The Republic of Cameroon is a bilingual country with English and French as the official languages. Ashuntantang shows that the pattern of production and dissemination of Anglophone Cameroon literature is not only framed by the minority status of English and English-speaking Cameroonians within the Republic of Cameroon, but is also a reflection of a postcolonial reality in Africa where mostly African literary texts published by western multi-national corporations are assured wide international accessibility and readership. This book establishes that in spite of these setbacks, Anglophone Cameroon writers have produced a corpus of work that has enriched the genres of prose, poetry and drama, and that these texts deserve a wider readership.
Toward The Decolonization Of The Europhone African Novel
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Author : Peter Wuteh Vakunta
language : en
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date : 2023-09-30
Toward The Decolonization Of The Europhone African Novel written by Peter Wuteh Vakunta and has been published by African Books Collective this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Toward the Decolonization of the Europhone African Novel is a treatise on the problematics of language choice in Europhone African literature. Vakunta’s research is rooted in the notion that the postcolonial African fiction writer is at a crossroads of languages, groping for linguistic re-orientation. Using the prose of fiction of Patrice Nganang, Ahmadou Kourouma, Mercedes Fouda, Nazi Boni, and Gabriel K. Fonkou as corpus, he contends that postcolonial African fiction is an offshoot of a linguistic tinkering process that enables writers to tinker with the language of the ex-colonizer in a deliberate attempt to divest indigenous writing of its hegemonic vestiges.