John Mugane
Biographic Data
| ID | 147090 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Mugane |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Mugane |
| SIGNATURE | MUGANE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | African and African American Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Contemporary conversations: Is English an African language
The great English heist in African studies
This is a paper in celebration of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s contribution to the way we think about language. I argue that the discussion of English in the academy needs to move forward from the possession/ownership question whether English is an African language or not to the dispossession/cost question what it is that we lose, forfeit and suffer through when we have English as the medium of Africa’s intellectual work and debates. The argument is that …
The Odyssey of ʿAjamī and the Swahili People
This paper takes a look at the odyssey of the Arabic script in Swahili hands. It shows how the distinction between the Arabic script and Swahili ʿAjamī constitutes a hyphen whose meaning is saturated with the story of Swahili society and language. The hyphen represents a non-trivial record of Swahili agency as innovative users, authors, transcribers, translators, and interpreters of the Arabic script enlarged its use and versatility as a viable m…
Necrolinguistics: Linguistic-Death-In-Life
Necrolinguisticsrefers tolinguistic-death-in-life, a situation in which languages are incarcerated, leaving folk in linguistic limbo. It names the process by which people come to lack the ability to use at least one language well, and includes those who are tongue-locked because their languages are incarcerated in one or more ways. In illustrating how and why the linguistic experience of Black folk inspires the termnecrolinguistics, examples from…
Contemporary conversations: Is English an African language
The great English heist in African studies
This is a paper in celebration of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s contribution to the way we think about language. I argue that the discussion of English in the academy needs to move forward from the possession/ownership question whether English is an African language or not to the dispossession/cost question what it is that we lose, forfeit and suffer through when we have English as the medium of Africa’s intellectual work and debates. The argument is that …
Necrolinguistics: Linguistic-Death-In-Life
Necrolinguisticsrefers tolinguistic-death-in-life, a situation in which languages are incarcerated, leaving folk in linguistic limbo. It names the process by which people come to lack the ability to use at least one language well, and includes those who are tongue-locked because their languages are incarcerated in one or more ways. In illustrating how and why the linguistic experience of Black folk inspires the termnecrolinguistics, examples from…
The Odyssey of ʿAjamī and the Swahili People
This paper takes a look at the odyssey of the Arabic script in Swahili hands. It shows how the distinction between the Arabic script and Swahili ʿAjamī constitutes a hyphen whose meaning is saturated with the story of Swahili society and language. The hyphen represents a non-trivial record of Swahili agency as innovative users, authors, transcribers, translators, and interpreters of the Arabic script enlarged its use and versatility as a viable m…
Necrolinguistics: Linguistic-Death-In-Life
Necrolinguisticsrefers tolinguistic-death-in-life, a situation in which languages are incarcerated, leaving folk in linguistic limbo. It names the process by which people come to lack the ability to use at least one language well, and includes those who are tongue-locked because their languages are incarcerated in one or more ways. In illustrating how and why the linguistic experience of Black folk inspires the termnecrolinguistics, examples from…
The Odyssey of ʿAjamī and the Swahili People
This paper takes a look at the odyssey of the Arabic script in Swahili hands. It shows how the distinction between the Arabic script and Swahili ʿAjamī constitutes a hyphen whose meaning is saturated with the story of Swahili society and language. The hyphen represents a non-trivial record of Swahili agency as innovative users, authors, transcribers, translators, and interpreters of the Arabic script enlarged its use and versatility as a viable m…
Contemporary conversations: Is English an African language
The great English heist in African studies
This is a paper in celebration of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s contribution to the way we think about language. I argue that the discussion of English in the academy needs to move forward from the possession/ownership question whether English is an African language or not to the dispossession/cost question what it is that we lose, forfeit and suffer through when we have English as the medium of Africa’s intellectual work and debates. The argument is that …
History (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · African history and culture analysis (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works)