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Behind The Immediacy, The Nodal Points In The Congolese Story: Two Generations Of Writers, Kasongo Mulenda Kapanga
Behind The Immediacy, The Nodal Points In The Congolese Story: Two Generations Of Writers, Kasongo Mulenda Kapanga
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications
La première génération des écrivains congolais de l' ére postcoloniale a traité du déséquilibre éprouvé par toute la société au lendemain de l'indépendance. Aussitôt que le glas de la liberté a retenti, les troubles sociaux, en partie causés á l'instigation de l'ancienne autorité coloniale, mirent á feu et á sang plusieurs zones de la nation. L'indépendance cha cha chantée dans l'euphorie géné-rale par Joseph Kabasele et l'African Jazz, chanson devenue méto-nymie auditive de cette période de liberation, ne donna suite qu'á des célébrations éphèméres suivies de crises sociales déchirantes.
Tomini, Jennifer W. Nourse
Tomini, Jennifer W. Nourse
Sociology and Anthropology Faculty Publications
The Tomini of Indonesia occupy the northern Sulawesi peninsula from Donggala to Gorontalo. The name "Tomini" is both a geographic and linguistic designation. Geographically, Tomini is a thin strip of land which borders the western edge of Tomini Bay; linguistically, Tomini is a subgroup of western Central Sulawesi languages which include Toli-toli, Dondo, Bolano, Tinombo, Kasimbar, Dampelas and Ndau. Although linguistics formerly thought all Tomini languages were mutually intelligible and the different names merely referred to dialects, recent research has asserted that each group forms a separate language. Supposedly these multiple language originated from the area's many political-trading empires, which …