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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
Publication co-financed
by the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw
On-line version is available at:
http://www.sdalc.uw.edu.pl
Copyright © Katedra Języków i Kultur Afryki 2013
ISSN 0860-4649
The printed version of the journal is a primary one to the on-line edition. The SDALC journal
content is freely available on the journal website after a one-year embargo period has passed.
Permission of the Publisher is required for resale or distribution and for all other derivative
works (including compilation and translations).
Contents
FROM THE EDITORS
MARINA TOLMACHEVA
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
ANETA PAWŁOWSKA
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
REVIEWS
Henry Tourneux (ed.), Topics in Chadic Linguistics VII,
„Chadic Linguistics / Linguistique Tchadic / Tschadistik”, Köln:
Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2013, 243 pp.
(Stanisław Piłaszewicz)
113
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 Reimer 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.
125
(Iwona Kraska-Szlenk)
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:
UNIWERSYTET WARSZAWSKI
Wydział Orientalistyczny
Katedra Języków i Kultur Afryki
ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28
00-927 Warszawa
P O LAN D
e-mail: [email protected]
http://www.sdalc.uw.edu.pl