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Abibifahodie Capoeira Black History Month Performance
Day of Dialogue and Cultural Experiences
28 February 2015
DuBois Center, Cantonments Accra, Ghana, West Africa
Dr. Obadele Kambon and Nii Armah representing Abibifahodie Capoeira
Linguistics Association of Ghana 2014
Dr. Ọbádélé Kambon
28th July, 2014
University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA)
The slides are here:
http://www.abibitumikasa.com/f....orums/showthread.php
The song is here: http://www.abibitumikasa.com/forums/vbtube_show.php?tubeid=685&sti=The-Path-Ralph-MacDonald
ABSTRACT:
Ralph McDonald’s song “The Path” is a poignant narrative of the story of enslaved Africans from Africa to the Diaspora and back again through music. Jími Ṣólańkẹ́’s poetic verse that opens the song of 17:12 is an interpolation of arguably the most famous Akan drum text Ɔkwan Atware Asuo – interpreted by Ralph McDonald into English – then translated from English into the Yorùbá performance of the poem Ọ̀nà Là. Ṣólańkẹ́ brings the poem to life in a way that makes it become uniquely its own while paralleling the spirit of the Akan text. In this paper, we will present a stylistic analysis of the literary and oratory tools Ṣólańkẹ́ uses to bring his text to life – tools that encapsulate the greater narrative of the song and of Africans in transition returning forward, back to our way.
Dr. Ọbádélé Kambon - Joy FM Panel Discussion on Cultural Economy - 28 March 2014
"Serial Verb Nominalization in Akan and Yorùbá: Towards a cross-linguistic typology."
A talk on how serial verb nominalization varies based on levels of
semantic integration of the SVC in question in Akan and Yorùbá. University of Ghana - Legon, Accra, Ghana. Departmental Seminar, 4 November 2011.
"Recurrent Sound Correspondences of Akan and Yoruba: Towards Proto-Benue-Kwa C1 Reconstruction." A talk on how sound correspondences between Akan and Yoruba can shed light on the phonological inventory and sound changes of Proto-Benue-Kwa,
from which they are descended. Departmental Seminar: Linguistics. 23 October 2013.
To purchase the MA Thesis that this talk is based on, click the following link: http://abibitumikasa.com/akan-....twi-language-ebooks-
#GandhiMustFall Al Jazeera Skype Interview with Dr. Ọbádélé Kambon
#gandhiHasFallen BBC Telephone Interview with Dr. Ọbádélé Kambon
Morpho-semantics of Superlatives, Augmentatives and Pseudo-augmentative Constructions in Akan
