Graham Furniss
Biographic Data
| ID | 5165233 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Graham Furniss |
| GIVEN NAMES | Graham |
| FAMILY NAME | Furniss |
| SIGNATURE | FURNISS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | SOAS University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
African Literature in Transition: Print Cultures and African Literature, 1860–1960
This book offers a compelling vision of the dynamism of local printing presses across colonial Africa and the new textual forms they generated. It invites a reconceptualisation of African literature as a field by revealing the profusion of local, innovative textual production that surrounded and preceded canonical European-language literary traditions. Bringing together examples of print production in African, Europea and Arabic languages, it exp…
A Tale of Two Print Cultures: Hausa Texts in Ajami and Roman Script
This chapter considers the history of the introduction of printing presses in northern Nigeria and demonstrates how changes in technology facilitated change both within the world of manuscript culture and within roman script book culture in Hausa. Developments in the reproduction of one form of written expression, roman script, had a radical effect upon the other, ajami (Hausa written in the Arabic script). The move from letterpress to photo-offs…
William Finbarr (Barry) Burgess, 8 October 1948-7 February 2021
Barry was born on
On Engendering Liberal Values in the Nigerian Colonial State: The Idea behind the Gaskiya Corporation
This article considers an experiment in colonial race relations in Northern Nigeria of the 1940s, manifest in the creation of a book and newspaper production community, the Gaskiya Corporation in Zaria in 1945. The discussion traces the liberal ideas behind it, the putting of those ideas into practice, and the consequential difficulties encountered by the two main protagonists (Rupert East and Abubakar Imam) in the project as they found themselve…
Power, Marginality and African Oral Literature
On the Multiple Dimensions of Memory in the Oral Communicative Moment
L’instant évanescent de la communication orale saisit des exemples de continuités stylistiques, de genre et de contenu, antérieures ou postérieures à l’événement même. Entre un moment et un autre, deux actualisations distinctes de la « même chose », cet article explore ce qui aide la remémoration, suscite la production et évoque la continuité. Il examine pour cela des fragments tirés de la musicologie et des traditions de pratiques en Inde du Nor…
African-Language Writing
African-Language Writing Karin Barber and Graham Furniss "How did this new genre come into being? Why did it assume this particular shape and form rather than another? When or at what point did it assume this new shape and what outside factors contributed to it? As it travelled along Zimbabwe's dusty roads, which roads were open to it and which were closed?" asks George Kahari at the opening of his magisterial study of the Shona novel (1). Africa…
On the Implications of Orality
Video and the Hausa Novella in Nigeria
An explosion of Hausa popular fiction writing in Nigeria, from about 1987 onwards, was mirrored in an even greater growth in Hausa video film production from the mid-1990s onwards. A range of themes, reflected in the imagery of book covers, has been dominated by issues concerning the roles of women and the relations between men and women in this predominantly Islamic society, leading to a continuing debate both about Hausa society and about the m…
African Broadcast Cultures: Radio in Transition
African Languages, Development and the State
African Broadcast Cultures: Radio in Transition
African broadcast cultures, Richard Fardon and Graham Furniss. Part 1 Sub-Saharan surveys: saucepan to dish - radio and TV in Africa, Graham Mytton rural radio in Africa - audience research and participation strategies, Jean-Pierre Ilboudo. Part 2 Case studies in local radio: communtiy radio and development -issues and examples Francophone West Africa, Mary Myers the evolution of radio broadcasting in Burkina Faso - from mother radio to local rad…
African Broadcast Cultures: Radio in Transition
Documenting Kano ‘Market’ Literature
From the earliest period of the production of printed Roman script books in the north of Nigeria, a primary concern was the economics of book production. The conundrum was how to break out of the ‘chicken and egg situation’ whereby it was not possible to ‘create’ a reading public unless there were sufficient, affordable, and readable books that a potential reader would want to read; on the other hand, without an existing commercial market for boo…
West African Popular Theatre
Journal Article West African Popular Theatre Get access West African Popular Theatre, by Karin Barber, John Collins and Alain Ricard. Oxford: James Currey, 1997. xix+285 pp. £40.00 hardback; £14.95 paperback. ISBN 0-85255-244-0 and 0-85255-245-9. GRAHAM FURNISS GRAHAM FURNISS School of Oriental and African Studies Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 98, Issue 391, April 1999, Pages 257–…
Poetry, Prose and Popular Culture in Hausa
Youth culture, bandiri, and the continuing legitimacy debate in Sokoto Town
In spite of the Islamic world's adherence to the tenets of the Qur'an a localised religious culture operates to affirm, contest, or renegotiate the legitimacy of mainstream cultural order. In this paper, we describe the practice of bandiri, a musical performance genre and the attempt of its practitioners to situate bandiri at the centre of youth culture in Sokoto. We conclude that it is too early to judge the success of this experiment, but that …
Power, Marginality and African Oral Literature
Poetry, Prose and Popular Culture in Hausa
The architecture of literature and the interplay of voices imaginative prose writing 1934-94 oral narratives - Tatsuniya, the tale and other prose forms short form verbal art theatre and mimesis song and freelance popular singers tied singers, singing for combatants, farmers and emirs poetry - form and historical background in the 19th century modern Hausa poetry
Power, Marginality and African Oral Literature
Mobilize the People: The Qasida in Fulfulde and Hausa as Purposive Literature
Scribe, Griot, and Novelist: Narrative Interpreters of the Songhay Empire
Hausa poetry on the Nigerian civil war
Fitila, une nouvelle revue radicale haoussa
Furniss Graham. Fitila, une nouvelle revue radicale haoussa. In: Politique africaine, n°37, 1990. Économie alimentaire : la purge libérale. pp. 102-107
Money, marriage and the young as issues in modern Hausa poetry
(1988). Money, marriage and the young as issues in modern Hausa poetry. African Languages and Cultures: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 45-60
African Broadcast Cultures: Radio in Transition
African broadcast cultures, Richard Fardon and Graham Furniss. Part 1 Sub-Saharan surveys: saucepan to dish - radio and TV in Africa, Graham Mytton rural radio in Africa - audience research and participation strategies, Jean-Pierre Ilboudo. Part 2 Case studies in local radio: communtiy radio and development -issues and examples Francophone West Africa, Mary Myers the evolution of radio broadcasting in Burkina Faso - from mother radio to local rad…
Poetry, Prose and Popular Culture in Hausa
The architecture of literature and the interplay of voices imaginative prose writing 1934-94 oral narratives - Tatsuniya, the tale and other prose forms short form verbal art theatre and mimesis song and freelance popular singers tied singers, singing for combatants, farmers and emirs poetry - form and historical background in the 19th century modern Hausa poetry
African Broadcast Cultures: Radio in Transition
African Broadcast Cultures: Radio in Transition
African-Language Writing
African-Language Writing Karin Barber and Graham Furniss "How did this new genre come into being? Why did it assume this particular shape and form rather than another? When or at what point did it assume this new shape and what outside factors contributed to it? As it travelled along Zimbabwe's dusty roads, which roads were open to it and which were closed?" asks George Kahari at the opening of his magisterial study of the Shona novel (1). Africa…
Video and the Hausa Novella in Nigeria
An explosion of Hausa popular fiction writing in Nigeria, from about 1987 onwards, was mirrored in an even greater growth in Hausa video film production from the mid-1990s onwards. A range of themes, reflected in the imagery of book covers, has been dominated by issues concerning the roles of women and the relations between men and women in this predominantly Islamic society, leading to a continuing debate both about Hausa society and about the m…
Youth culture, bandiri, and the continuing legitimacy debate in Sokoto Town
In spite of the Islamic world's adherence to the tenets of the Qur'an a localised religious culture operates to affirm, contest, or renegotiate the legitimacy of mainstream cultural order. In this paper, we describe the practice of bandiri, a musical performance genre and the attempt of its practitioners to situate bandiri at the centre of youth culture in Sokoto. We conclude that it is too early to judge the success of this experiment, but that …
On Engendering Liberal Values in the Nigerian Colonial State: The Idea behind the Gaskiya Corporation
This article considers an experiment in colonial race relations in Northern Nigeria of the 1940s, manifest in the creation of a book and newspaper production community, the Gaskiya Corporation in Zaria in 1945. The discussion traces the liberal ideas behind it, the putting of those ideas into practice, and the consequential difficulties encountered by the two main protagonists (Rupert East and Abubakar Imam) in the project as they found themselve…
Power, Marginality and African Oral Literature
Literature in African Languages: Theoretical Issues and Sample Surveys
Preface Editors' introduction 1. Oral litertaure B. W. Andrzejewski 2. The rise of written literatures in African languages Stanislaw Pilaszewicz 3. Literature in Fula D. W. Arnott 4. Literatures in the Mande and neighbouring languages Gordon Innes 5. Akan folk literature and the beginnings of writing in Twi Nina Pawlak 6. Yoruba literature Adeboye Babalola 7. Literature in the Hausa language Stanislaw Pilaszewicz 8. Writing and literature in cla…
Documenting Kano ‘Market’ Literature
From the earliest period of the production of printed Roman script books in the north of Nigeria, a primary concern was the economics of book production. The conundrum was how to break out of the ‘chicken and egg situation’ whereby it was not possible to ‘create’ a reading public unless there were sufficient, affordable, and readable books that a potential reader would want to read; on the other hand, without an existing commercial market for boo…
Poetry, Prose and Popular Culture in Hausa
Aspects of style and meaning in the analysis of a Hausa Poem
Much of modern Hausa verse is either didactic in tone or is written in praise of God, a person, or a political party. Didacticism and praise are often seen as separate descriptive labels for poetry, song or other forms of verbal art. Yet treatment of topic may in fact be very similar in didactic and in praise poetry; certainly in Hausa this is the case. The aspect of treatment that shows this similarity is the association of the message/theme/top…
Literature in African Languages: Theoretical Issues and Sample Surveys
Preface Editors' introduction 1. Oral litertaure B. W. Andrzejewski 2. The rise of written literatures in African languages Stanislaw Pilaszewicz 3. Literature in Fula D. W. Arnott 4. Literatures in the Mande and neighbouring languages Gordon Innes 5. Akan folk literature and the beginnings of writing in Twi Nina Pawlak 6. Yoruba literature Adeboye Babalola 7. Literature in the Hausa language Stanislaw Pilaszewicz 8. Writing and literature in cla…
Money, marriage and the young as issues in modern Hausa poetry
(1988). Money, marriage and the young as issues in modern Hausa poetry. African Languages and Cultures: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 45-60
Fitila, une nouvelle revue radicale haoussa
Furniss Graham. Fitila, une nouvelle revue radicale haoussa. In: Politique africaine, n°37, 1990. Économie alimentaire : la purge libérale. pp. 102-107
Hausa poetry on the Nigerian civil war
Scribe, Griot, and Novelist: Narrative Interpreters of the Songhay Empire
Mobilize the People: The Qasida in Fulfulde and Hausa as Purposive Literature
Power, Marginality and African Oral Literature
Power, Marginality and African Oral Literature
Poetry, Prose and Popular Culture in Hausa
The architecture of literature and the interplay of voices imaginative prose writing 1934-94 oral narratives - Tatsuniya, the tale and other prose forms short form verbal art theatre and mimesis song and freelance popular singers tied singers, singing for combatants, farmers and emirs poetry - form and historical background in the 19th century modern Hausa poetry
West African Popular Theatre
Journal Article West African Popular Theatre Get access West African Popular Theatre, by Karin Barber, John Collins and Alain Ricard. Oxford: James Currey, 1997. xix+285 pp. £40.00 hardback; £14.95 paperback. ISBN 0-85255-244-0 and 0-85255-245-9. GRAHAM FURNISS GRAHAM FURNISS School of Oriental and African Studies Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 98, Issue 391, April 1999, Pages 257–…
Poetry, Prose and Popular Culture in Hausa
Youth culture, bandiri, and the continuing legitimacy debate in Sokoto Town
In spite of the Islamic world's adherence to the tenets of the Qur'an a localised religious culture operates to affirm, contest, or renegotiate the legitimacy of mainstream cultural order. In this paper, we describe the practice of bandiri, a musical performance genre and the attempt of its practitioners to situate bandiri at the centre of youth culture in Sokoto. We conclude that it is too early to judge the success of this experiment, but that …
Documenting Kano ‘Market’ Literature
From the earliest period of the production of printed Roman script books in the north of Nigeria, a primary concern was the economics of book production. The conundrum was how to break out of the ‘chicken and egg situation’ whereby it was not possible to ‘create’ a reading public unless there were sufficient, affordable, and readable books that a potential reader would want to read; on the other hand, without an existing commercial market for boo…
African Languages, Development and the State
African Broadcast Cultures: Radio in Transition
African broadcast cultures, Richard Fardon and Graham Furniss. Part 1 Sub-Saharan surveys: saucepan to dish - radio and TV in Africa, Graham Mytton rural radio in Africa - audience research and participation strategies, Jean-Pierre Ilboudo. Part 2 Case studies in local radio: communtiy radio and development -issues and examples Francophone West Africa, Mary Myers the evolution of radio broadcasting in Burkina Faso - from mother radio to local rad…
African Broadcast Cultures: Radio in Transition
African Broadcast Cultures: Radio in Transition
On the Implications of Orality
Video and the Hausa Novella in Nigeria
An explosion of Hausa popular fiction writing in Nigeria, from about 1987 onwards, was mirrored in an even greater growth in Hausa video film production from the mid-1990s onwards. A range of themes, reflected in the imagery of book covers, has been dominated by issues concerning the roles of women and the relations between men and women in this predominantly Islamic society, leading to a continuing debate both about Hausa society and about the m…
African-Language Writing
African-Language Writing Karin Barber and Graham Furniss "How did this new genre come into being? Why did it assume this particular shape and form rather than another? When or at what point did it assume this new shape and what outside factors contributed to it? As it travelled along Zimbabwe's dusty roads, which roads were open to it and which were closed?" asks George Kahari at the opening of his magisterial study of the Shona novel (1). Africa…
On the Multiple Dimensions of Memory in the Oral Communicative Moment
L’instant évanescent de la communication orale saisit des exemples de continuités stylistiques, de genre et de contenu, antérieures ou postérieures à l’événement même. Entre un moment et un autre, deux actualisations distinctes de la « même chose », cet article explore ce qui aide la remémoration, suscite la production et évoque la continuité. Il examine pour cela des fragments tirés de la musicologie et des traditions de pratiques en Inde du Nor…
Power, Marginality and African Oral Literature
On Engendering Liberal Values in the Nigerian Colonial State: The Idea behind the Gaskiya Corporation
This article considers an experiment in colonial race relations in Northern Nigeria of the 1940s, manifest in the creation of a book and newspaper production community, the Gaskiya Corporation in Zaria in 1945. The discussion traces the liberal ideas behind it, the putting of those ideas into practice, and the consequential difficulties encountered by the two main protagonists (Rupert East and Abubakar Imam) in the project as they found themselve…
William Finbarr (Barry) Burgess, 8 October 1948-7 February 2021
Barry was born on
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