CURRENT RESEARCH IN AFRICAN STUDIES PAPERS IN HONOUR OF MWALIMU DR. EUGENIUSZ RZEWUSKI

ISBN: 978-83-7151-716-7

428 stron
format: B5
oprawa: miękka
Rok wydania: 2014

We offer this collection to our dear Colleague and Mwalimu Dr. Eugeniusz
Rzewuski as our appreciation of his constant love for and great knowledge of
Africa, and his generous sharing of this passion and expertise with everybody
around him. As Eugeniusz‘s former students and then colleagues in the
Department of African Languages and Cultures we have received incredible
amounts of enlightenment, stimulus, support and positive vibes from him.
He guided us through the intricacies of the Swahili language and culture, and
introduced us to African linguistics. He never hesitated to dedicate his time and knowledge to encourage us in our research ideas and studies. He also always shared with us his current research projects and interests, whether they be Indian Ocean civilizations, ajami manuscripts, multilingual education, Swahili travelogues, lusona drawings, or computer technologies. His deep knowledge of various fields in African Studies served many generations of students at the University of Warsaw and inspired them further in their professional activities and promotion of African culture in Poland.
Upon beginning this project, we immediately realized that Eugeniusz‘s
other Colleagues had equally positive feelings toward him. He was a friend and
a mentor to many, who will always remember the good emotions they shared
while doing research together. For the Colleagues from Mozambique, Eugeniusz
is part of the generation of independence, as Perp?tua Gon?alves and Adelina
Gouveia write in their introductory essay, while pointing out his efforts toward recognition of cultural value of Bantu languages. Drawing a Portrait of the Scholar Stanisław Piłaszewicz brings to attention Eugeniusz‘s diplomatic career and many other missions he conducted in African countries and in Poland for the purpose of intercultural dialogue and understanding; they brought him numerous awards and people‘s gratitude.
The papers collected in this volume reflect our own and Eugeniusz‘s interests
within the broad area of African Studies, providing samples of current research projects in linguistics, literature, history, art, and education.
We thank all Colleagues who have kindly agreed to participate as Authors. We
are also grateful to Ewa Rzewuska for contributing family photographs and to
Nina Pawlak, the Head of the Department of African Languages and Cultures at
the University of Warsaw, for her general support on this project.
Editors

SPIS TREŚCI

Editors‘ preface

Stanisław Piłaszewicz
Dr. Eugeniusz Rzewuski - Portrait of the Scholar

Perpetua Goncalves, Adelina Gouveia
"Geracao da independencia" de Mocambique

Publications of Dr. Eugeniusz Rzewuski

Zuzanna Augustyniak
Konstytucja Cesarstwa Etiopskiego z 1930 roku - pierwszy krok ku
modernizacji państwa czy próba wprowadzenia monarchii absolutnej?

Sergio Baldi, Kyallo Wadi Wamitila
Ideophones in Swahili: a preliminary survey

Maud Devos, Thilo C. Schadeberg
How did Shangaji come to be a nasal language?

Renata Diaz-Szmidt
The image of women in the novels of the first generation of Mozambican
and Equato-Guinean women writers

Zygmunt Frajzyngier
The limitative anaphors

Bernd Heine, Christa Konig, Karsten Legcre
What does it mean to be an endangered language? The state of Akie,
a Tanzanian language

Arvi Hurskainen
Use of English words in Tanzanian Parliament discussions

Jakub Jankowski
Quem e e quem foi o Xiconhoca? Vigilancia sobre o protagonista

Anna Kalewska
O cinema angolano entre o colonialismo portugues e a emancipacao
identitaria africana

Iwona Kraska-Szlenk
Swahili embodied metaphors in the domain of family and community
relations

Marcin Krawczuk
Some remarks on the Ethiopic martyrdom of St. Hripsime

Michel Lafon
The vexed question of African languages in education. Still a solution
may lay in front of us. Revisiting Orality for an authentic African future

Sozinho Francisco Matsinhe
The perils and prospects of bilingual education in Africa with special
reference to Mozambique

Gudrun Miehe
Nasal(ised) vowels in Gur (Voltaic) languages: an assessment report

Armindo A. Ngunga
One language, two phonologies: The case of moraic nasals in Ciyao

Marek Pawełczak
Śmierć kapitana Brownrigga a schyłek rządów plantatorów na Pembie

Nina Pawlak
Językowe modele osoby w hausa i ich kontekst kulturowy

Stanisław Piłaszewicz
Bature Tanimu Gagare: działacz społeczny i pisarz

Annachiara Raia
Remarks on Swahili - manuscripts in Arabic script: layout
and orthography of the Utendi wa Yusuf

Hanna Rubinkowska-Anioł, Ewa Wołk-Sore
Etiopski intelektualista i jego dzieło - pomiędzy oraturą a literaturą

Bento Sitoe
Escrevendo nas nossas linguaculturas

Krzysztof Trzciński
Słów kilka o potencjalnej przydatności indyjskich rozwiązań politycznych
dla demokratyzacji państw Afryki Subsaharyjskiej

Michał Tymowski
Tuat - pielgrzymi, foggary i el-kijal (fragmenty dziennika pisanego
w czasie II Akademickiej wyprawy Afrykańskiej Sahara 74)

Rainer Vossen
Animal names in Nilotic and Khoisan languages from
a comparative-reconstructive perspective

Izabela Will
Quo vadis, Nollywood?

Rafał Wiśniewski
Africans in the eyes of Poles. Conclusions of the Polish Assessment
of Values and Attitudes and other empirical studies

Beata Wójtowicz
A glimpse at the history of Swahili lexicography

List of photographs