Editorial Board
STANISŁAW PIŁASZEWICZ (CHIEF EDITOR),UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW SERGIO BALDI,UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI
MATTHIAS BRENZINGER (UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN) IWONA KRASKA-SZLENK,UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW RUDOLF LEGER,J.W.GOETHE UNIVERISTÄT,FRANKFURT NINA PAWLAK (ASSOCIATE EDITOR),UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW HANNA RUBINKOWSKA,UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW
Advisory Board/ External Reviewers FELIX K. AMEKA (University of Leiden) JANUSZ S. BIEŃ (University of Warsaw)
ZYGMUNT FRAJZYNGIER (University of Colorado, Boulder) MAREK PAWEŁCZAK (University of Warsaw)
MICHAŁ TYMOWSKI (University of Warsaw) HAFIZU MIKO YAKASAI (Bayero University, Kano) ANDRZEJ ZABORSKI (Jagiellonian University) JERZY ZDANOWSKI (Polish Academy of Sciences)
Editorial Secretary Zuzanna Augustyniak
Cover design
Monika Piwowarska-Kulisa
Publication co-financed
by the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw
On-line version is available at:
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Copyright © Katedra Języków i Kultur Afryki 2014 ISSN 0860-4649
Druk i oprawa: Zakład Graficzny UW, zam. 1490/2014
The printed version of the journal is a primary one to the online edition. The journal content is freely available on the journal website after a one-year period delay. Then all journal content appears on the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Licence.
Contents
FROM THE EDITORS
NINA PAWLAK
In memory of Professor Andrzej Zaborski 7
PAUL NEWMAN
The Range and Beauty of Internal Reconstruction:
Probing Hausa Linguistic History 13
MICHELLAFON
African Languages in Education. Orality as a Way
Forward 33
MARINATOLMACHEVA
Two East African Toponyms: A Case Study in
Intercultural Transmission of Knowledge 67
JEROEN VAN DEN BOSCH
The Mobutu Regime: Leveraging State Weakness 83
MARTYNA RUTKOWSKA
Exodus! Movement of Jah People in Contemporary Ethiopia with Reference to Shashemenē (a report
from field research) 111
REVIEWS
Sergio Baldi, Geraud Magrin (eds.), Les échanges et la com- munication dans le bassin du lac Tchad. Actes du colloque de Naples du réseau Méga-Tchad, Studi Africanistici, Serie Ciado-Sudanese 6, Napoli: Universitá degli Studi di Napoli „L’Orientale”, 2014, 569 pp.
(Stanisław Piłaszewicz) 123
Girma Awgichew Demeke, Grammatical change in Semitic: A Diachronic Grammar of Amharic, "Afroasiatic Studies" 4, Prince- ton-Addis Abeba: WibTaye Publishers, 2014, 336 pp.
(Marcin Krawczuk) 126
François-Xavier Fauvelle-Aymar, Bertrand Hirsch (eds.), Les ruses de l’historien. Essais d’Afrique et d’ailleurs en hommage à Jean Boulègue, Paris: Éditions Karthala, 2013, 498 pp.
(Stanisław Piłaszewicz) 131
Nina Pawlak, Ewa Siwierska, Izabela Will, Hausa and Chadic Studies, in Honour of Professor Stanisław Piłaszewicz, Warsaw, Dom Wydawniczy Elipsa, 2014, 271 pp., hardback.
(Ewa Wołk) 133
FROM THE EDITORS
The journal is a forum for the presentation of the latest research carried out by the faculty members of the Department of African Languages and Cultures, University of Warsaw. All other scholars working in various fields of African Studies (linguistics, literature, history, education and others) are also cordially invited to submit the results of their original work. The journal’s contents cover articles and monographs, as well as bibliographies, lexicographic studies and other source materials. Some issues are devoted to specialized topics or events.
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