Friday, February 1, 2019

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

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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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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