SOAS Research Online

Authored Books

McGrath, Donovan and Marten, Lutz (2012) Colloquial Swahili: The Complete Course for Beginners (2nd edition). London; New York: Routledge.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Githiora, Chege, ed. (2012) Waswifu wa Ahmed Sheikh Nabhany. London: JC Press.

Book Chapters

Coetzee, Carli (2012) 'In the archive: records of the Dutch settlement and the contemporary novel.' In: Attwell, David and Attridge, Derek, (eds.), The Cambridge History of South African Literature. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Dovey, Lindiwe (2012) 'Fidelity, Simultaneity and the 'Remaking' of Adaptation Studies.' In: Nicklas, Pascal and Lindner, Oliver, (eds.), Adaptation and Cultural Appropriation: Literature, Film, and the Arts. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 162-185.

Dovey, Lindiwe (2012) 'Storytelling in Contemporary African Fiction Film and Video.' In: Khatib, Lina, (ed.), Storytelling in World Cinemas Volume 1. New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 89-103.

Dovey, Lindiwe and Singer, Christine (2012) 'Representations of African childhood in conflict and post-conflict contexts: Johnny Mad Dog, Ezra, and Sleepwalking Land.' In: Olson, Debbie and Scahill, Andrew, (eds.), Lost and Othered Children in Contemporary Cinema. Plymouth: Lexington Books, pp. 151-174.

Marten, Lutz (2012) 'Agreement in locative phrases in Luganda.' In: Brenzinger, Matthias and Fehn, Anne-Maria, (eds.), Proceedings of the 6th World Congress of African Linguistics, Cologne 2009. Cologne: Koppe, pp. 433-443.

Marten, Lutz (2012) 'Herman Batibo.' In: Akyeampong, Emmanuel K. and Gates, Henry Louis Jr., (eds.), Dictionary of African Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 402-404.

Opland, Jeff (2012) 'Abantu-Batho and the Xhosa poets.' In: Limb, Peter, (ed.), The People’s Paper: A Centenary History and Anthology of Abantu-Batho. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, pp. 201-225.

Opland, Jeff (2012) 'Xhosa poetry.' In: Greene, Roland, (ed.), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics 4th ed. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, pp. 1544-1545.

Opland, Jeff (2012) 'The image of the book in Xhosa oral poetry.' In: Barnard, Rita, (ed.), Print, text and book cultures in South Africa. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, pp. 286-305.

Orwin, Martin (2012) 'Maxamed Xaashi Dhamac "Gaarriye": a short note of biography.' In: Musse Jama, Jama, (ed.), Maxamed Xaashi Dhamac "Gaarriye": Biography and Poems. Pisa: Ponte Invisibile, pp. 11-12. (Iswaydaarsi, 5)

Orwin, Martin (2012) 'Somali Poetry.' In: Cushman, Stephen, (ed.), Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: Fourth Edition. Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 1313-1314.

Rettová, Alena (2012) 'Philosophy.' In: Ramsamy, Edward, (ed.), Cultural Sociology of the Middle East, Asia, and Africa: An Encyclopedia. Vol. 2 Africa. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage, pp. 346-347.

Rettová, Alena (2012) 'Swahili Poetry.' In: Greene, Roland, Cushman, Stephen, Cavanagh, Clare, Ramazani, Jahan and Rouzer, Paul, (eds.), The Princeton Encyclopaedia of Poetry and Poetics. Fourth Edition. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, pp. 1380-1382.

Rettová, Alena (2012) ''They see him, but they don't recognize him because of his striking attire': Africa's changing identities and the Lingala novel.' In: Fiala, Vlastimil, (ed.), Multiple Identities in Post-Colonial Africa. Hradec Králové: Publishing House Moneta-FM, pp. 191-202.

Journal Article

Biersteker, Ann and Rettová, Alena (2012) 'Swahili Language and Literature.' Oxford Bibliographies in African Studies.

Dovey, Lindiwe (2012) 'New Looks: The Rise of African Women Filmmakers.' Feminist Africa, 16. pp. 18-36.

Dovey, Lindiwe (2012) 'Report on Film Africa: Celebrating African Cinema, 3-13 November 2011.' Journal of African Cultural Studies, 24 (1). pp. 113-120.

Furniss, Graham and Uba Adamu, Abdalla (2012) '"Go by appearances at your peril": the Raina Kama writers' association in Kano, Nigeria, carving out a place for the "popular" in the Hausa literary landscape.' Research in African Literatures, 43 (4). pp. 88-111.

Githiora, Chege (2012) 'Radio and Minority African Languages.' Journal of African Cultural Studies, 25 (1).

Kavari, Jekura, Marten, Lutz and van der Wal, Jenneke (2012) 'Tone cases in Otjiherero: Head-complement relations, linear order and information structure.' Africana Linguistica, 18. pp. 315-353.

Marten, Lutz and Kula, Nancy C. (2012) 'Object marking and morphosyntactic variation in Bantu.' Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 30 (2). pp. 237-253.

Marten, Lutz and Mostert, Carola (2012) 'Background languages, learner motivation and self-assessed progress in learning Zulu as an additional language in the UK.' International Journal of Multilingualism, 9 (1). pp. 101-128.

Marten, Lutz, Riedel, Kristina, Simango, Silvester Ron and Zeller, Jochen (2012) 'Introduction.' Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 30 (2). iii-vii.

Riedel, Kristina and Marten, Lutz (2012) 'Locative object marking and the argument-adjunct distinction.' Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 30 (2). pp. 277-292.

Conference or Workshop Items

Githiora, Chege (2012) The Nairobi Process and the Context for the Foundations for the Future. In: The Nairobi Process and the Foundations for the Future, 27 Feb 2012, London. (Unpublished)

Shows/Exhibitions

Dovey, Lindiwe (2012) Film Africa 2012. [Shows/Exhibitions]

Translations

Orwin, Martin, trans. (2012) Central London. The World Record: International Voices from Southbank Centre's Poetry Parnassus . Tarset, Northumberland: Bloodaxe Books in association with Southbank Centre. pp. 245-246.

Orwin, Martin, trans. (2012) Maryama Sheekh: A Poem by Sayid Mohamed Abdille Hasan. Journal of the Anglo-Somali Society, 52 . p. 6.