Enongene Mirabeau Sone
Biographic Data
| ID | 1839738 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Enongene Mirabeau Sone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Enongene Mirabeau |
| FAMILY NAME | Sone |
| SIGNATURE | SONE E M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Walter Sisulu University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3640-0407 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Toward an African Cultural Entomology
This article advances the concept of African cultural entomology as an innovative framework for reinterpreting African oral traditions through the symbolic and ecological roles of insects. Moving beyond the Eurocentric focus on insects as pests or vectors, the study foregrounds their rich emic meanings in myths, folktales, riddles, proverbs, and rituals across multiple African societies. Drawing on decolonial theory, posthumanism, and oral litera…
Lone Voices, Shared Stories
Scholarship on singlehood has largely been shaped by Eurocentric paradigms that foreground urban modernities, nuclear family structures, and Western cultural expectations. Such perspectives have marginalized indigenous African understandings of singleness, which are often embedded in oral traditions and communal storytelling. This paper draws on African oral literature and folklore—including proverbs, praise poetry, myths, and storytelling tradit…
Recasting Manhood
This article examines how masculinity is culturally produced, transmitted, and contested through Sesotho oral traditions in post-apartheid South Africa. Drawing on masculinity theory, African masculinity scholarship, and theories of orality and cultural memory, the study analyses folktales, legends, and proverbs collected from Sesotho-speaking communities in the Matatiele region. It argues that Sesotho oral narratives function as gendered pedagog…
The use of proverbs and metaphors in isiXhosa football reporting
This article explores the different uses of colourful and military language in the commentaries of isiXhosa football reporters, and highlights an interesting relationship between football and war in terms of isiXhosa vocabulary, notions and expressions. These metaphorical expressions incite emotions in fans. We argue that, by using existing elements and events from the outside world to qualify actions and activities on the football field, isiXhos…
Ńwábụìfè (the child is light)
Power, Powerlessness and Radical Protest in Contemporary Cameroonian Popular Music
The fraught relationship between popular music and the various kinds of power in Africa has stimulated intensive scholarship and encouraged heated discussions on the topic. Of special interest seems to be the multifaceted character of that interrelationship. It is generally agreed that artistic expression is influenced by political power and that the two mutually inform and shape each other. This article examines the themes of power, powerlessnes…
The Folktale and Social Values in Traditional Africa
Africans, like people elsewhere in the world, have a set of values which they consider worthwhile and necessary for the preservation and wellbeing of their culture. In this way, it may be said that societal values are embodied in and communicated by its system of education and that the education that a society offers its youth reflects the sum total of what is held dear in that society. In many African societies, an important aspect of traditiona…
African Oral Literature and the Humanities
This paper examines the origin, evolution and emergence of folklore (oral literature) as an academic discipline in Africa and its place in the humanities. It draws attention to the richness of indigenous knowledge contained in oral literature and demonstrates how the ethical and moral gap in the existing educational system can be filled by the moral precepts embedded in oral literature. The paper argues that African oral literature has not receiv…
Symbolism of place and cultural identity in Cameroon
Each society on earth uses essential symbols which resemble the key ideas, attitudes and values that unite its members. Places are key symbols of many cultures around the world that shape the social, economic, religious, political and psychological aspects of a people’s world view. Its study, therefore, is of primary significance in the systematic reconstruction of a people’s cultural and spiritual experience and provides us with a reliable means…
Swazi Oral Literature, Eco-culture and Environmental Apocalypse
The main objective of this paper is to show how oral literature is engaged by Swazis with regards to environmental sustainability. It demonstrates the relationship between nature and culture as reflected in Swazi oral literature and how indigenous knowledge embedded in this literature can be used to expand the concepts of Eco literature and Eco criticism. The paper argues that the indigenous environmental expertise among the Swazi people, encapsu…
Moralising female identity in Cameroon in the 1990s
Between the 1970s and early 1980s, when Cameroon was still at the juncture of promising social plenitude, popular music genres like Makossa were a mere auditory art instead of a profit-making activity as we have in Cameroon today. Popular music at that time was simply “music for the ears”, meant to produce emotional sounds, pleasant to listen to. Bars, night clubs and streets were common environs where dancing took place as the physical expressio…
Nature in crisis
Oral literature is one of the oldest art forms ever created and utilized by mankind. Swazis’ use of oral literature through songs, praises, stories, riddles and proverbs shows how they love and value nature and the environment. The aim of this paper is to show how values expressed in Swazi oral literature are consistent with the ecological wisdom of the Swazi people who produce them. The paper demonstrates the dialectical relationship between env…
Aesthetics from the Swazi perspective
The concept of an African aesthetics has been the object of intense and ongoing debate among scholars and critics of the arts in Africa. There are some eminent Western scholars who still doubt the very existence of African arts and who argue that there is no such a thing as traditional African critical criteria for evaluating a work of art. Using the Swazi umhlanga/reed dance as case study, this paper sets out to make an emphatic statement that, …
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Aesthetics from the Swazi perspective
The concept of an African aesthetics has been the object of intense and ongoing debate among scholars and critics of the arts in Africa. There are some eminent Western scholars who still doubt the very existence of African arts and who argue that there is no such a thing as traditional African critical criteria for evaluating a work of art. Using the Swazi umhlanga/reed dance as case study, this paper sets out to make an emphatic statement that, …
Moralising female identity in Cameroon in the 1990s
Between the 1970s and early 1980s, when Cameroon was still at the juncture of promising social plenitude, popular music genres like Makossa were a mere auditory art instead of a profit-making activity as we have in Cameroon today. Popular music at that time was simply “music for the ears”, meant to produce emotional sounds, pleasant to listen to. Bars, night clubs and streets were common environs where dancing took place as the physical expressio…
Nature in crisis
Oral literature is one of the oldest art forms ever created and utilized by mankind. Swazis’ use of oral literature through songs, praises, stories, riddles and proverbs shows how they love and value nature and the environment. The aim of this paper is to show how values expressed in Swazi oral literature are consistent with the ecological wisdom of the Swazi people who produce them. The paper demonstrates the dialectical relationship between env…
Swazi Oral Literature, Eco-culture and Environmental Apocalypse
The main objective of this paper is to show how oral literature is engaged by Swazis with regards to environmental sustainability. It demonstrates the relationship between nature and culture as reflected in Swazi oral literature and how indigenous knowledge embedded in this literature can be used to expand the concepts of Eco literature and Eco criticism. The paper argues that the indigenous environmental expertise among the Swazi people, encapsu…
Symbolism of place and cultural identity in Cameroon
Each society on earth uses essential symbols which resemble the key ideas, attitudes and values that unite its members. Places are key symbols of many cultures around the world that shape the social, economic, religious, political and psychological aspects of a people’s world view. Its study, therefore, is of primary significance in the systematic reconstruction of a people’s cultural and spiritual experience and provides us with a reliable means…
The Folktale and Social Values in Traditional Africa
Africans, like people elsewhere in the world, have a set of values which they consider worthwhile and necessary for the preservation and wellbeing of their culture. In this way, it may be said that societal values are embodied in and communicated by its system of education and that the education that a society offers its youth reflects the sum total of what is held dear in that society. In many African societies, an important aspect of traditiona…
African Oral Literature and the Humanities
This paper examines the origin, evolution and emergence of folklore (oral literature) as an academic discipline in Africa and its place in the humanities. It draws attention to the richness of indigenous knowledge contained in oral literature and demonstrates how the ethical and moral gap in the existing educational system can be filled by the moral precepts embedded in oral literature. The paper argues that African oral literature has not receiv…
Power, Powerlessness and Radical Protest in Contemporary Cameroonian Popular Music
The fraught relationship between popular music and the various kinds of power in Africa has stimulated intensive scholarship and encouraged heated discussions on the topic. Of special interest seems to be the multifaceted character of that interrelationship. It is generally agreed that artistic expression is influenced by political power and that the two mutually inform and shape each other. This article examines the themes of power, powerlessnes…
Ńwábụìfè (the child is light)
The use of proverbs and metaphors in isiXhosa football reporting
This article explores the different uses of colourful and military language in the commentaries of isiXhosa football reporters, and highlights an interesting relationship between football and war in terms of isiXhosa vocabulary, notions and expressions. These metaphorical expressions incite emotions in fans. We argue that, by using existing elements and events from the outside world to qualify actions and activities on the football field, isiXhos…
Toward an African Cultural Entomology
This article advances the concept of African cultural entomology as an innovative framework for reinterpreting African oral traditions through the symbolic and ecological roles of insects. Moving beyond the Eurocentric focus on insects as pests or vectors, the study foregrounds their rich emic meanings in myths, folktales, riddles, proverbs, and rituals across multiple African societies. Drawing on decolonial theory, posthumanism, and oral litera…
Lone Voices, Shared Stories
Scholarship on singlehood has largely been shaped by Eurocentric paradigms that foreground urban modernities, nuclear family structures, and Western cultural expectations. Such perspectives have marginalized indigenous African understandings of singleness, which are often embedded in oral traditions and communal storytelling. This paper draws on African oral literature and folklore—including proverbs, praise poetry, myths, and storytelling tradit…
Recasting Manhood
This article examines how masculinity is culturally produced, transmitted, and contested through Sesotho oral traditions in post-apartheid South Africa. Drawing on masculinity theory, African masculinity scholarship, and theories of orality and cultural memory, the study analyses folktales, legends, and proverbs collected from Sesotho-speaking communities in the Matatiele region. It argues that Sesotho oral narratives function as gendered pedagog…
Art (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Literature (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Oral literature (4 works) · Oral tradition (4 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (4 works)