South African Journal of African Languages
Journal / South African Journal of African Languages / Vol. 40 No. 1 (2019) / Articles

Editorial

Kiswahili literature in crisis

Dagbamba and Akan praise poetry acts as a lucid narrative platform for historical and political events

11-18

The contact and clash of the Basotho and Western cultures in Mafata’s novel Mehaladitwe ha e eketheha

19-25

‘Firing with the pen’: Centring the intellectual legacy of Phyllis Ntantala-Jordan

26-31

‘Let us make Zimbabwe in my own name’: Place naming and Mugabeism in Zimbabwe

32-39

Name as a designate of culture in traditional and contemporary Yorùbá society of Nigeria

40-46

The role of multilingualism in an academic milieu at a selected South African university

47-52

The inevitability of linguistic change: The motivation of borrowing English terms by Shona speakers

53-59

Debunking the myth of lack of vocabulary for teaching content knowledge in primary schools: Exploring terminology for science in Ekegusii of Kenya

60-67

Cua language of Botswana: Resilience or a longer road to language loss?

68-75

African language use in the digital public sphere: Functionality of the localised Google webpage in Zimbabwe

76-84

A copulative decision tree as a writing tool for Sepedi

85-97

The planning and production of a corpus of Yilumbu: Progress of the building stage

98-105

Wh-questions in Bantu languages: The case of Kinshasa Lingala

106-115

Properties of the adjective category in Runyambo

120-129

Spell it the way you like: The inconsistencies that prevail in the spelling of Northern Sotho loanwords

130-138