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:
- The traditional practitioner
- Fees
- Treatment
- Ingredients
- Efficacy
- Health
- Prevention
- Diseases etc.
I imagine that post-proverbials can also be subdivided.
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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