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Research in Sierra Leone Studies : Weave
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ISSN (Print) 2167-9835
Published by Franklin and Marshall College

[1 journal]

Enduring Paths, Crossroads and Intersections: Path-breaking Knowledges in
Pede Hollist’s So The Path Does Not Die.
- Authors: Samuel Alpha Kamara
  Abstract: Among other things, So The Path Does Not Dies rekindles age-old themes such as tradition versus change; ethnicity, racism, sexism, and marginal identities; individual and institutional corruption; Diaspora and home; love and sacrifice; civil war and rehabilitation with fresh insights and focus. This article examines these themes in the novel's treatment of Talaba culture and its Musudugu myth.
  PubDate: 2015-09-30
  Issue No: Vol. 3 (2015)
Ideophones and Anatomes as Literary Tropes in Bassie Kondi's Oral Poetry:
A Study of "Yengema Women", a Love Poem
- Authors: Sheikh Umarr Kamarah
  Abstract: This article examines the uses of the linguistic devices of ideophones and anatomes as "literary" strategies in one of the the oral poems of the Sierra Leonean artist, Bassie Kondi. The thrust of the essay focuses on how Kondi deploys both tropes to convey meaning, generate narrative, and portray character in his poem "Yengema Woman."
  PubDate: 2015-09-30
  Issue No: Vol. 3 (2015)
Dr. Umaru Bah at Inaugural Africa Open Data
- Authors: Umaru Bah
  PubDate: 2015-09-30
  Issue No: Vol. 3 (2015)
Considering Ibrahim Abdullah's Review of Gibril Cole's The Krio
of West Africa
- Authors: C. Magbaily Fyle
  PubDate: 2015-09-30
  Issue No: Vol. 3 (2015)