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Bibliograhpy of Dagaare Studies |
compiled by
Dr. Adams B. Bodomo
This bibliography aims at documenting all publications and substantial manuscripts in the field of Dagaare Studies. It is hoped that it will serve as a useful resource for scholars doing work in this emergent field. Please, help make it more and more comprehensive by sending me your latest publications and substantial manuscripts for inclusion. |
Alphabetically ordered by authors' last names The full bibliography is also
available as PDF. |
Alenuma,
Sidonia. 2002. The Dagaare-speaking communities of West Africa: a culture area
profile. Journal of Dagaare Studies. 2: 58-70. Barker,
Peter. 1986. Peoples,
Languages and Religion in Northern Ghana. Ghana Accra: Evangelical Committee. Callow, L. C. 1969. Pre-survey report on Dagaare dialects. Research Review. 6 (1). Institute of African Studies, Accra. Dagaare
Language Committee. 1982. A
Guide to Dagaare Spelling. Wa: Catholic Press. Girault,
Louis. 1964. Notes
sur la langue Dagara. Documents Linguistiques 1. Universite de Dakar. Hall,
Edward. 1973.
Dagaare. In West African Language Data Sheets. ed. by M. E. K. Kennedy, J.
1966. Collected Field Reports on the Phonology of Dagaari. Collected Language Notes
6. Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Accra. Lentz, Carola. 2003. This is Ghanaian territory: land conflicts on a West African border. American Ethnologist 30 (2):27389. ------. 2003. Stateless societies or chiefdoms? A debate among Dagara intellectuals. In Franz Krger und Barbara Meier (eds). Ghanas North: Research on Culture, Religion, and Politics of Societies in Transition. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 129159. ------. 2002. The time when politics came: Ghanas decolonisation from the perspective of a rural periphery. Journal of Contemporary African Studies 20(2):24574. ------. 2002. Contested boundaries: decentralisation and landconflicts in northwestern Ghana. APAD Bulletin 22: 726. ------. (with Richard Kuba). 2002. Arrows and earth shrines: towards a history of Dagara expansion in southern Burkina Faso. Journal of African History 43:377406. ------. 2001. Local culture in the national arena: the politics of cultural festivals in Ghana. African Studies Review 44 (3):4772. Lentz, Carola and Hans-Jrgen Sturm. 2001. Of trees and earth shrines: an interdisciplinary approach to settlement histories in the West African savanna. History in Africa 28:139168.. ------. 2001. Ouessa: dbats sur lhistoire du peuplement. In Richard Kuba, Carola Lentz et Katja Werthmann (dir). Les Dagara et leurs voisins. Histoire du peuplement et relations interethniques au sudouest du Burkina Faso. Frankfurt: Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereichs 268 Westafrikanische Savanne, 2961. ------. (with Paul Nugent) (eds). 2000. Ethnicity in Ghana: The Limits of Invention. London: Macmillan. ------. 2000. Of hunters, goats and earth-shrines: settlement histories and the politics of oral tradition in northern Ghana. History in Africa (27):193214. ------. 2000. Colonial constructions and African initiatives: the history of ethnicity in northwestern Ghana. Ethnos 65 (1):10736. ------. 2000. Tradition versus politics: succession conflicts in a chiefdom in northwestern Ghana. In Joao de Pina-Cabral and Antnia Pedroso de Lima (ed). Choice and Leadership in Elite Succession. London: Berg Publishers, 91112. ------. 2000. Chieftaincy has come to stay. La chefferie dans les socits acphales du Nord-Ouest Ghana. Cahiers dEtudes Africaines 159:593613. ------. 2000. Contested identities: the history of ethnicity in northwestern Ghana. In Carola Lentz und Paul Nugent (eds). Ethnicity in Ghana: The Limits of Invention. London: Macmillan. 13761. ------. 1999. Colonial ethnography and political reform: the works of A.C. Duncan-Johnstone, R.S. Rattray, J. Eyre-Smith and J. Guiness on northern Ghana. Ghana Studies 2:11969. ------. 1998. Die Konstruktion von Ethnizitt. Eine politische Geschichte Nord-West Ghanas, 18701990. Kln: Kppe Verlag. ------. 1998. The chief, the mine captain and the politician: legitimating power in northern Ghana. Africa 68:4667. ------. 1997. Creating ethnic identities in north-western Ghana. In Cora Govers and Hans Vermeulen (eds). The Politics of Ethnic Consciousness. London: Macmillan. 3189. ------. 1995. Unity for development: youth associations in north-western Ghana. Africa 65: 395429. ------. 1994. Home, death and leadership: discourses of an educated elite from northwestern Ghana. Social Anthropology 2: 14969. ------. 1994. A Dagara rebellion against Dagomba rule? Contested stories of origin in north-western Ghana. Journal of African History 35: 45792. ------. 1994. They must be Dagaba first and any other thing second: the colonial and post-colonial constructions of ethnic identites in north-western Ghana. African Studies 53:5791 ------. 1993. Histories and political conflict: a case study of chieftaincy in Nandom, northwestern Ghana. Paideuma 39:177215. ------. (with Veit Erlmann.) 1989. A working class in formation? Economic crisis and strategies of survival among Dagara mine workers in Ghana. Cahiers d'tudes Africaines, 113:69111.
Luke, K. K. and Adams Bodomo. 2001. A comparative study of the semantics of serial verb constructions in Dagaare and Cantonese. Languages in Contrasst. 3 (2)
Manessy, G. 1981. Les Langues voltaiques. Les Langues dans le Monde Ancien et Moderne. Pt. I: 103-10, ed. by G. Manessy. Les Langues de l'afrique sub-Saharienne, ed. by. J. Perrot. Paris: CNRS. Naden, Tony.
1989. Gur. In The Niger-Congo Languages pp. 141 - 168. ed. by J. Bendor-Samuel.
Lanham, MD: Universities Press of America. Olawsky,
Knut. 1996. An
Introduction to Dagbani Phonology. Arbeiten des Sonderforschungsbereichs 282. Heinrich
Heine Universitat, Dusseldorf., Germany. Rialland,
Annie. 1985. Le
fini/infini ou l'affirmation.l'interrogation en moba (language voltaique parlee au
nord-togo). Studies in African Linguistics, Supplement 9, 258-61. Richard, Kuba, Carola Lentz et Katja Werthmann (dir.). 2001. Les Dagara et leurs voisins. Histoire de peuplement et relations interethniques au sud-ouest du Burkina Faso. Frankfurt: Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereichs 268 Westafrikanische Savanne
Saanchi,
James A. 1992. The
Dagaaba Dirge: A Study of its Structure and Style. M. Phil Thesis, University of
Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana. Taabazuing,
Alexis. and Jeffrey
S. Siekpe. 2001. Doing business with the Dagaaba: a cultural profile of a people.
In Journal of Dagaare Studies. Vol 1:1. Wilson, W.
A. A. 1962a. Notes
on Dagaari: Kaleo-Jirapa Dialects. ms. Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. Yabang,
Cletus K. 1990.
Dialectal survey of Dagaare. Proceedings of the 19th West African Languages Congress,
University of Ghana, Legon: 91-101. Zakpaa, B. B. 1978. Te kobo yili Bureu of Ghana Languages. Accra, Ghana.
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