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Ph.D. Dissertations                        (printable view)

Abdurrahman, Umar. "Social and Political Reality in Cyprian Ekwensi's Major Novels." 1987

Achufusi, Grace Ifeyinwa. "Female African Writers and Social Criticism: A Study of the Works of Bessie Head and Grace Ogot." 1991

Adams, Lois. "The Prison and Post-Prison Writing (1967-1973) of Wole Soyinka. 1980

Balisidya, May Lenna N. "Language Planning and Oral Creativity in Tanzania." 1988

Bamikunle, Aderemi James. "The Harlem Renaissance and Negritude Poetry: The Development of Black Written Literature. 1982.

Banks, Jared. "Africa and the Archive: Literature, Identity, and the Postcolonial." 2001

Beik, Janet. "Hausa Theatre in Niger: A Contemporary Oral Art." 1984

Biersteker, Ann J. "Verbal and Case-Role Patterning in Embu Tales." 1984

Broderick, Sundiata Modupe. "The Tori: Aesthetics and Time in Krio Oral Narrative-Performances." 1977

Cancel, Robert. "Inshimi Structure and Theme: The Tabwa Oral Narrative Tradition." 1981

Cham, Mbye. "Language and Style in the West African and West Indian Novel." 1978

Chavis, Helen "The New Decorum: Moral Perspectives of Black Literature." 1971

Cosentino, Donald. "Patterns in Domeisia: A Collection and Analysis of Mende Oral Narratives and Performance." 1976

Daba, Habib. "A Sociolinguistic Study of Address Terms in Hausa." 1987

Dihoff, Ivan R. "Aspects of the Tonal Structure of Chori." 1976

Dseagu, Samuel Amanor. "The Nature of Oral Influence on the African Novel." 1987

Ellington, John E. "Aspects of the Tiene Language." 1976

El-Nagar, Hassan Abdel Razig. "The Theme of Encounter between East and West: A Study of Six Novels from Africa and the Middle East." 1992

Emenyonu, Ernest N. "The Development of Modern Igbo Fiction, 1857-1966. 1972

Eshun, Francis Bannerman. "Aspects of Akan Phonology." 1992

Fagerberg, Sonya. "Syntactic Expansions in Text: Beyond SVO in Pulaar Oral Narrative Performance." 1982

Foster, Deborah D. "Structure and Performance of Swahili Oral Narrative." 1984

Frost, Mary. "Inshimi and Imilumbe: Structural Expectations in Bemba Oral Imaginative Performance." 1977

Hill, Clifford Alden. "A Study of Ellipsis within Karin Magana: A Hausa Tradition of Oral Art." 1972

Horne, Naana Banyiwa. "Ayi Kwei Armah: An African Worldview in Fiction." 1993

Kamarah, Sheikh. "Phonology and Tonology in the Morphology of Terms: A Lexicalist Approach." 1994

Kezilahabi, Euphrase. "African Philosophy and the Problem of Literary Interpretation." 1985

Konrad, Zinta. "Aspects of Trickster: Form, Style, and Meaning in Ewe Oral Narratives." 1983

Kotey, Paul F. "Syntactic Aspects of the Gã Nominal Phrase." 1969

Krüger, Marie. "Fictions of Identity and Authority in Postcolonial Kenyan Women's Literature." 2001

Kuse, Wandile. "The Forms and Themes of Mqhayi's Poetry and Prose." 1978

La Pin, Deirdre. "Story, Medium and Masque: The Idea and Art of Yoruba Storytelling." 1977

Lax, Beverly. "The Verbal System of Kigiryama." 1996

Lepine, Richard Marshall. "Swahili Newspaper Fiction in Kenya: The Stories of James I. Mwagojo." 1988

Lisimba, Mukumbute. "A Luyana Dialectology." 1982

Lulenga, Sebagenzi Wa. "Ideological Development in the Writings of Camara Laye." 1986

Lutato, Kalunga S. "The Influence of Oral Narrative Traditions on the Novels of Stephen A. Mpashi." 1980

Mack, Beverly. "‘Wafokin Mata': Hausa Women's Poetry in Northern Nigeria." 1981

Magel, Emil Anthony. "Hare and Hyena: Symbols of Honor and Shame in the Oral Narratives of the Wolof of the Senegambia." 1977

Masembe, Harriet. "Folklore in J. P. Clark's Drama." 1981

Mazombwe, Obediah. "Umuntu: World View in the Structure and Theme of Nsenga Narrative Performance." 1982

Mbele, Joseph. "The Hero in the African Epic." 1986

Mokhoane, Mpapa. "The Emergence of the Sotho Novel." 1992

Moyo, Steven P. "A Linguo–Aesthetic Study of Ngoni Poetry." 1978

Nahishakiye, Leocadie. "Language Planning in Burundi: Policies and Implementation." 1991

Nasr, Ahmad A. "Maiwurno of the Blue Nile: A Study of an Oral Biography." 1977

Newton, Robert C. "The Epic Cassette: Technology, Tradition, and Imagination in Contemporary Bamana Segu." 1997

Niyonkuru, Lothaire. "Morphological and Syntactic Analysis of the Verb Extension System of the Rundi Language." 1989

Noss, Philip A. "The Gbaya Predicate." 1969

Obuke, Okpure. "Isoko Oral Narratives." 1977

Ogbonaya, Anthonia. "Chinua Achebe and the Igbo World View." 1984

Onyemena Ifedilichukwu, Clement. "Literature as History: A Study of the Novels of Chinua Achebe and Ngugi Wa Thiong'o." 1999

Oumarou, Chaibou Elhadji. "Individual Talent in Contemporary Hausa Oral Poetry." 1996

Peters, Barbara Diane. "Power Relations and Conflict in Selected Works of Tayeb Salih: Implications for a New History." 1990

Pike, Charles A. "The Luyia Olukono." 1981

Plane, Mark. "Fusing Oral and Literary Practices: Contemporary Popular Theatre in Dar es Salaam." 1996

Powe, Edward. "Hausa Combat Literature: An Exposition, Analysis and Interpretation of Its Form, Content, and Effect." 1984

Pweddon, Nicholas. "Thematic Conflict and Narrative Technique in Abubakar Imam's Creative Writings." 1977

Qader, Nasrin. "From Poetry to Writing: Abdelkebir Khatibi's Amour Bilingue, Le Livre du Sang and Dédicace à L'année qui vient." 1999

Rassner, Ronald. "Narrative Rhythms of Giryama Ngano." 1980

Rossing, Melvin. "Mafa-Mada: A Comparative Study of Chadic Languages in North Cameroun." 1978

Sarr, Akua. "Black Feminist Discourses: Dialogues, Disclosures, and the Discursive Difference of Black Women's Writing." 1998

Scheub, Harold E. "The Ntsomi: A Xhosa Performing Art." 1969

Sekoni, Oluropo J. "The World in Search of Viable Leadership: A Study of Structure and Communication in Soyinka's Scripts." 1977

Sengova, Matthew Joko. "A Classification of ‘Tense,' ‘Aspect' and Time Specifications in the Verb System of Mende." 1981

Skinner, Margaret G. "Aspects of the Grammar of Pa'anci." 1979

Stephens, Connie, "The Relationship of Social Symbols and Narrative Metaphor: A Study of Fantasy and Disguise in the Hausa Tatsuniya of Niger." 1981

Sterk, Jan. "Elements of Gade Grammar." 1977

Sullivan, Joanna. "Modern Hausa Fiction: An Examination of Language, Nationalism and Style in Four Prize-winning Novels." 2000

Tanna, Laura. "The Art of Jamaican Oral Narrative Performance." 1980

Tekpetey, Alphonse. "Social and Political Commitment in the Works of Ousmane Sembene." 1973

Traore, Ousseynou. "Aesthetic Ideology and Oral Narrative Paradigms in Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God." 1981

Umeh, Marie. "Women and Social Realism in the Novels of Buchi Emecheta." 1982

Vail, Hazen L. "Aspects of the Tumbuka Verb." 1972

Wasserman, Bonnie Sue. "Metaphors of Oppression in Modern Lusophone Historical Drama (Angola)." 1999

Wendland, Ernst. "Stylistic Form and Communicative Function in the Nyanja Radio Narratives of Julius Chongo." 1979

Westley, David Michael. "The Oral Tradition and the Beginnings of Hausa Fiction." 1987

Whittsit, Novian. "Kano Market Literature and the Construction of Hausa-Islamic Feminism: A Contrast in Feminist Perspectives of Balaraba Ramat Yakubu and Bilkisu Ahmed Funtuwa." 2000

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