FW: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Developing the Database of Proverbs and Postproverbials

 

 

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From: Remi Raji <remraj1@gmail.com>
Date: Saturday, February 2, 2019 at 6:11 AM
To: Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Developing the Database of Proverbs and Postproverbials

 

Dear Prof

 

Thank you so much for passing on the interventions of responding scholars Which are absolutely helpful. Particularly I want to appreciate your own earlier suggestion as well as those of Professors Emegwali and Edward Kissi. The ultimate aim to achieve high fidelity to the delivery of each of the entries and make more interactive checks possible. As for precision of the writing/translation of specific African language (Akan for instance), we depend on the expertise of colleagues who speak and use the languages. I will proceed to share Kissi's remarkable comments to Prof Helen Yitah who is the collaborating researcher for Akan.

 

Very best regards to all.

 

Remi

 

 

On Sat, 2 Feb 2019, 02:24 Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu wrote:

 

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From: "Emeagwali, Gloria (History)" <emeagwali@ccsu.edu>
Date: February 1, 2019 at 5:27:43 PM CST
To: dialogue <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>, Yoruba Affairs <yorubaaffairs+msgappr@googlegroups.com>
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Developing the Database of Proverbs and Postproverbials
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https://postproverbial.com

 

A good project. Congrats to the collaborators. The site  should be arranged thematically, as well, at some point,  with links to the vast ocean of African proverbs embedded in song, verse, narratives and legends across the continent. This is a vast field  for data mining. In a 1992 article,   "Proverbs as repositories of medical practice," Olowo Ojoade  had eighteen subheadings including:

 

1.  The traditional practitioner

2.  Fees

3.  Treatment

4.  Ingredients

5.  Efficacy

6.  Health

7.  Prevention

8.  Diseases  etc.

 

I imagine that post-proverbials can also be subdivided.

 

 

Professor Gloria Emeagwali

 

     

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From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu>
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2019 9:18 PM
To: dialogue; Yoruba Affairs
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Developing the Database of Proverbs and Postproverbials

 

From: Remi Raji <remraj1@gmail.com>
Date: Thursday, January 31, 2019 at 5:53 PM
To: Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu>, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu>
Subject: Developing the Database of Proverbs and Postproverbials

 

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Friday, February 1, 2019

Launching the African Postproverbial Web Database Project – https://postproverbial.com

This is a database project devoted to the tradition of alternate proverb creation which has been defined as the practice of postproverbials. The web data records the production of radical sayings which exist side-by-side, or which collide with the use of traditional or conventional proverbs in contemporary African speech communities.

Basic Information

An entry contains at least a pair, of conventional and radical proverbs. The postproverbial may be more than one, with versions, so that an entry may contain two or more proverb statements. In some instances, each entry is supplemented by a short commentary to aid understanding and interpretation.

The entries are arranged under specific African language panels with translations into English. There is the possibility of interactive check using keywords (labels) that allow researchers find related postproverbial entries across languages.

Please access the website @ https://postproverbial.com

Contributions, suggestions and interests are welcome.

 Sincerely,

Aderemi Raji-Oyelade

Department of English

University of Ibadan

Ibadan, Nigeria

+2348088636663

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