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6 results for “translation”
Chukwudi E. Onu, Sarah L. Bennett
Chinua Achebe described his English as ‘a new English, still in full communion with its ancestral home but altered to suit its new African surroundings’. This review reads that claim as an ethics of translation and traces its influence on later Nigerian writer…
Language, Literature and LinguisticsPeter C. Odo, Mary-Jane Ezike
Translators of the Bible into Igbo have had to choose words for God, spirit and sin from a religious vocabulary with its own history. This study compares key terms across three Igbo Bible translations and shows how each choice negotiates between indigenous rel…
Philosophy, Ethics and ReligionIfeoma G. Nwachukwu
A review of a lucid study of African writers who publish in two languages, with chapters on self-translation and on the economics of publishing in African languages.
Language, Literature and LinguisticsRuth A. Okoro
A review of a collection of essays by working translators on the homes, real and imagined, that translation builds between languages.
Language, Literature and LinguisticsEmeka J. Nwosu, Halima Bello, Grace O. Adeyemi
Proverbs are among the hardest items to translate, because their force depends on shared cultural knowledge. Using a corpus of 120 Igbo proverbs and their published English translations, this study classifies the strategies translators use, from literal render…
Language, Literature and LinguisticsFunmilayo O. Adebayo
Nollywood films increasingly circulate with English subtitles on streaming platforms, reaching viewers who do not speak the languages on screen. This study compares subtitled and original versions of twelve Yoruba- and Igbo-language films to show how subtitlin…
Communication and Media Studies