African languages
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The Pilgrim's Progress
First Steps in Egyptian
Moderne Sprachforschung in Afrika
Black Africa
Cracking codes
Storytelling in Northern Zambia
Africanderisms
Furaha Means Happy: A Book of Swahili Words
As they say in Zanzibar
Swahili
An international bibliography of African lexicons
Amharic-English/English-Amharic Dictionary
The power of Babel
Historical linguistics and the comparative study of African languages
Language and colonial power
The Eẇe-speaking peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa
Understanding African American Rhetoric
Dinka vowel system
The Yoruba-speaking peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa
Africanisms in Afro-American language varieties
Pulaar-English/English-Pulaar
Language in Africa
The languages of Africa
Jambo means hello
Bemba, Bemba-English, English-Bemba
Beyond Ebonics
Signs of diaspora/diaspora of signs
Swahili phrase book & dictionary
The Mission Song
Liberia
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