From the Editors

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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 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

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Contents

FROM THE EDITORS

MARINATOLMACHEVA The Year of Africa Remembered:

Horizons of Change in African Studies 50 years

after the Year of Africa 7

KATRIN BROMBER

‘Muscular Christianity’: the Role of the Ethiopian YMCA Sports in Shaping ‘Modern’ Masculinities

(1950s-1970s) 31

ANETAPAWŁOWSKA

Some Remarks Regarding Contemporary South African Art in the Context of Political Changes and Stability of Artistic Principles

47

KITHAKA WA MBERIA

In Pursuit of Freedom and Dignity Through Creative

Writing. A Personal Account 67

TIJJANI SHEHU ALMAJIIR

The Polysemy of Body Part Terms in Hausa within the Frame of Image Schemas

93

R^EVIEWS

Henry Tourneux (ed.), Topics in Chadic Linguistics VII,

„Chadic Linguistics / Linguistique Tchadic / Tschadistik”, Köln:

Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2013, 243 pp.

(Stanisław Piłaszewicz)

113

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Tove Rosendal, Linguistic Landshapes. A comparison of the official and non-official language management in Rwanda and Uganda, focusing on the position of African languages, Köln, Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2011, 327 pp.

(Beata Wójtowicz) 116

Herrmann Jungraithmayr, La langue mubi (République du Tchad). Précis de grammaire. Textes. Lexique, Berlin: Dietrich Rei- mer Verlag, 2013, 226 pp.

(Stanisław Piłaszewicz) 118

Gabriele Sommer and Clarissa Vierke (eds.), Speech Acts and Speech Events in African Languages (Topics in Interdisciplinary African Studies, Volume 23). Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2011, 170 pp.

(Iza Will) 120

Angelika Mietzner and Ulrike Claudi (eds.), Directionality in Grammar and Discourse: Case Studies from Africa, Rüdiger Köln: Köppe Verlag, 2012, pp. 232.

(Iwona Kraska-Szlenk) 125

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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.

The journal is available through subscription on the basis of exchange with academic centres. Some issues are also posted on the Department’s website. For submission guidelines and proposals, offers of journal exchange or other comments and questions please contact:

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