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Steve Cokely lecture in 93 in L.A. titled after William Copper book Behold a pale horse.

Nigeria erupted in protests this week against the anti-labor policies of the Tinubu administration and soaring inflation that is crippling Nigerians. Inspired by the anti-colonial uprisings across the Sahel, thousands took to the streets to demand living wages and the resignation of US-backed President Tinubu. Investigative journalist and author David Hundeyin joins the show to discuss the demands behind the #endbadgovernance protests and how the US government’s backing of Tinubu

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Do Yourself Feat Burna Boy - Angélique Kidjo
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Lyrics :

Kata si débi é é
Kata si débi é é
Wèti na déssi é é
Wèti na déssi é é
Kata si débi é é
Kata si débi é yeah eh eh yeah

Oh é é
Yé oh
Kpélou, kpélou
Oh é é

Ara rè lo n’shé oun
Nouvou dido, adjo djidjè lo
Ara rè lo n’shé oun
Alo do alo min, mi nan zon la
Té ba ro m’kpé è n’shéré Africa
Nouvou dido, adjo djidjè lo
Ara rè lo n’shé oun
Alo do alo min, mi nan zon la

Cos’ I reveal Africa
Tough like metal and steel, Africa
You fighting pam real, Africa
They don’t know our way for us to be African
Nana Africa na

Tell me what’s the deal right now
To tafè reveal right now, right now
I’m trying to build right now
Do you really want to make it fall apart ah ah art

No ladju mon,
Mi wa la
Make it fall apart ah ah art
Mi wa la
You want é é
Mi wa la
make it gun skata a a
É é é é é é é
Azo min bi ton wè yin élo lo
É é é é é é é
fall apart ah ah art
É é é é é é é

Fonlin non lè bo yé non zola, non zola

Ara rè lo n’shé oun
Cos’ I’ll be real, Africa
Ara rè lo n’shé oun
Tough like metal and steel, Africa
Té ba ro m’kpé è n’shéré Oluwa abo ra a a
Let’s keep it real Africa
Ara rè lo n’shé oun
They don’t know our way just to be Africa
Nana Africa, na

Amlon dido gbodjè mandé
Nou min nan djro Africa
Nouvou dido adjo djidjè
Wè zon bo ya wa africa

Minbisséssé sin azo wè nan zon
Bo mi nan dja wa
Alo do alo min mi nan zon
Nou min bi nan dja wa

No ladju mon,
Make it fall apart ah ah art
You want é é
Anin non té kpon mi dé
make it gun skata a a
Azo min bi ton wè lo
É é é é é é é
fall apart ah ah art
É é é é é é é

Ara rè lo n’shé oun
Nouvou dido, adjo djidjè lo
Ara rè lo n’shé oun
Alo do alo min, mi nan zon la
Té ba ro m’kpé è n’shéré Oluwa abo ra a a
Nouvou dido, adjo djidjè lo
Ara rè lo n’shé oun

You just dé do yourself
No not be me, you dé do yourself, yéyé
Na ba no fiting
If no be me, for be someone else
I’ve been on my knees but I don’t need help
You say you go laugh of me if I fell
Laru iya mi obi model
You dé do well, you won’t make it fall apart

No ladju mon,
Anin non té kpon mi dé
Make it fall apart ah ah art
Azo min bi ton wè lo
You want é é
Anin non té kpon mi dé
make it gun skata a a
Azo min bi ton wè lo
É é é é é é é
fall apart ah ah art
É é é é é é é

Fall apart no way
Fall apart no way ay ay
Fall apart no way
Fall apart no way ay ay
Mi wa la, minbi sin afo nin so gbélo
Mi wa la, min nin tchité yi wa zo lo
Mi wa la, minbi sin afo nin so gbélo
Mi wa la, min nin tchité yi wa zo lo

He heeeee
Hé heeeee
He he o
He he he he ooo

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Obadele Kambon's PhD Thesis Defense which took place at University of Ghana-Legon on 20 June 2013. Talk and Most of Question/Answer session.

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Dr. Obadele Kambon - PhD Graduation - University of Ghana 2013 - July 26, 2013

Dr. Obadele Kambon 2013 UG-Legon Vice Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Thesis - Humanities

Comments from the external examiner:
The main findings of the research point to the fact that (a) An overwhelming majority (98%) of Full Lexicalized-Integrated SVCs have nominal counterparts; 2% do not; (b) Only 3% of Partial Lexicalized-Integrated SVCs have nominal counterparts; 97% do not; (c) Clause Chaining Serial Constructions appear to nominalize haphazardly and/or unsystematically as frozen sentences or figures of speech (idioms, proverbs, etc.; (d) The primary function of such forms, he identified, were what Charles Morris (1971) calls denotata and designata; Full Lexicalized-Integrated SVCs behave as lexicalized idioms and because of this, four criteria of idiomaticity namely -- collocability, familiarity, flexibility and compositionality -- are applied to them; and (g) There is systematicity in the pattern of nominalization behavior of serial verb nominal across the main Akan dialects.
This work recapitulates and substantially extends work already done on Akan SVCs Osam, Agyeman and others. A major contribution of the dissertation is the detailed discussion and exemplification of issues relating to nominalization of SVCs. This is the first attempt at such a detailed discussion and exemplification and the candidate deserves commendation. His categorizations are original as is his attention to scholarly detail and to showing the relationship between and among the three major Akan dialects. One could conveniently argue that this is one of the strongest points of the dissertation.
Very little has been done on Akan nominalization in general and little to nothing on SVC nominalization in particular, so this study is a trailblazer or a path-finder! Syntacticians and semanticists will cite this work and continue with the discussion and issues it raises for the next couple of decades. I am impressed with the details and both the candidate and his advisors must be commended for the high degree of systematicity employed in the synthesis and analyses done in the study.
The candidate drew his conclusions based on the actual data collected and on the results (synthesis and analysis of the data) thereby making the analytical claims have functional validity and protecting them from standing insulated from public scrutiny. This is, again, commendable.
The recommendations for future research, especially, his call for comparing SVNs with other types of nominalizations, is in the right direction more especially due to the scantiness and dearth of knowledge about nominalizations in general about Akan and other West African languages in particular.
The dissertation is very well written and I am willing to pass it without any reservation whatsoever. The content is excellent as is its rendition.

Comments from the internal examiner:

The study does a good job of relating the data and findings to broader theoretical debates in the Functional/cognitive linguistic literature. For example, study results suggest that, at least in the Akan data examined, higher degrees of semantic integration in complex forms correlate with lower degrees of iconicity. Further, the subtype categories of serial verb constructions identified by Osam (1994) are "fuzzy" categories in terms of ability to undergo nominalization. This supports the prototype approach to categorization, rather than a classical "sharp-boundary" approach to categorization though the author does not particularly draw it out rhetorically, the study sits squarely within the linguistic sub-field of Lexicography: the study is a detailed investigation of speakers' lexical knowledge of nouns formed (either historically or productively possibly in the moment of speaking) from serial verb constructions. In my view, the lexicographic work, bringing out native-speaker knowledge about the complex forms including in some cases how this may have changed across time and may vary by dialect, may be one of the most enduring contributions of the study. Many of the item-by-item findings could, for example, largely be incorporated into an etymological dictionary of Akan.
The study contributes new information to understanding the cross-linguistic and Akan-internal typology of nominalizations of serial verb constructions. The minute detail on dialect variation is valuable for sociolinguistic variationist studies.

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