History from below : the 'Vocabulary of Elisabethville' by André Yav : text, translations, and interpretive essay / edited, translated and commented by Johannes Fabian with assistance from Kalundi Mango ; with linguistic notes by W. Schicho.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fabian, Johannes.

Mango, Kalundi, 1919-

Schicho, Walter.

Series:

Creole language library ; 7.

Creole lanaguage library, 0920-9026 ; 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yav, André. Vocabulaire de ville de Elisabethville--English & Swahili.

Yav, André.

Swahili language--Dialects--Democratic Republic of the Congo--Lubumbashi.

Swahili language.

Lubumbashi (Democratic Republic of the Congo)--History.

Lubumbashi (Democratic Republic of the Congo).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 pages) : maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1990.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Johannes Fabian with assistance from Kalundi Mango (Administrator, National Museum of Zaire) and with linguistic notes by Walter Schicho (University of Vienna).An extraordinary linguistic and sociopolitical document, this is a history of colonization written by the colonized, about the colonized, and for the colonized. The original text, a history of what is now Lubumbashi in the Shaba region of Zaire, is reproduced in exact facsimile in Part 1. The period covered is from the beginning of Belgian colonization to 1965.

Contents:

pt. 1. The document

pt. 2. Translations

pt. 3. Interpretations.

Notes:

Includes Swahili, Shaba, Swahili, and English text.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-236).

Contains:

Yav, André. Vocabulaire de ville de Elisabethville. English & Swahili. 1990.

ISBN:

1-283-32826-7

9786613328267

90-272-7825-3

OCLC:

769341881