From the Tana River to Lake Chad
Subtitle: research in African oratures and literatures : in memoriam Thomas Geider
By: edited by Hannelore Vögele, Uta Reuster-Jahn, Raimund Kastenholz and Lutz Diegner
Contributors: Geider, Thomas, 1953-2010, honoree
Series: Mainzer Beiträge zur Afrika-Forschung -- Band 36; Mainzer Beiträge zur Afrika-Forschung -- Bd. 36.
Publisher: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Köln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 427
ISBN-13: 9783896458360
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: African literature; History and criticism; Oral tradition; Folklore
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

"Thomas Geider's list of publications": pages [411]-418.

19 English, 1 French, 11 German contributions.
Table of contents: title: In memoriam.; title: In memoriam Thomas Geider  -- H. Ekkehard Wolff; title: Thomas Geider (1953-2010)  -- Ulrich Braukämper; title: Thomas Geider (1953-2010)  -- Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig; title: In memoriam Thomas Geider 29.4.1953-15.10.2010  -- Uta Reuster-Jahn; title: KASA announces Geider's death -- Bosoma Sheriff.; title: African narrative research, documentary literature and Weltliteratur.; title: Narrare necesse est : Der Mensch als homo narrans und die Signifikanz des Erzählens  -- Manuela Kirberg; title: Und sie reimen doch : Parallelismus in afrikanischen Oraturen  -- H. Ekkehard Wolff; title: Strategies of persuasion and manipulation in animal trickster tales  -- Uta Reuster-Jahn; title: Kinoerzählen in Afrika : Skizze eines Forschungsfeldes  -- Matthias Krings; title: Documentary literature in African languages  -- Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig; title: The Grimmification of narrative tradition  -- Ulrich Marzolph; title: Drei Schritte zur Weltliteratur -- Erhard Schüttpelz.; title: West African oratures, literatures and music.; title: Praise song : Thomas Geider  -- A. Tahir Abba; title: Interpretations of Kungulu : a court music of the Shehu of Borno  -- Raimund Vogels, Bosoma Sheriff and Wakil A. Wasaram; title: The representative of the King of England in Borno : an example of recent oral history  -- Norbert Cyffer; title: Die Rezeption von Tausendundeiner Nacht in der Hausa-Literatur  -- Marion Feuerstein-Tubach; title: "I want to be my own cow" : Fulani names and superstitions about their cows  -- Rudolf Leger; title: Création et répertoire en littérature orale  -- Ursula Baumgardt; title: Bamanankan-Literatur : Eine kleine Geschichte des Veröffentlichens und Verlegens in Mali -- Nadia Cohen.; title: East African oratures, literatures and music.; title: Shairi / Poem : Thomas Geider  -- Hassan Adam, Omar Babu Marjan; title: Shairi / Poem : Kaburi! / Grave!  -- Said Ahmed Mohamed; title: Shairi / Poem : Nakukumbuka... Thomas Geider / I remember you... Thomas Geider  -- Kyallo Wamitila, Omar Babu Marjan; title: Hadithi fupi / Short story : Sitaki kwenda chuoni! / The reluctant scholar  -- Farouk Topan; title: Swahili manuscripts : looking in East African collections for Swahili manuscripts ni Arabic script  -- Ridder H. Samsom; title: "Im Gebälk die Fledermäuse" : Figurationen der Vergänglichkeit und der Täuschung in der klassischen Swahili-Dichtung --; title: The Qanbus connection : pre-Taarab roots on the northern Kenya coast  -- Werner Graebner; title: Linguistic knowledge and the creative writer  -- Said A.M. Khamis; title: The Kenyan challenge (?) : dis/continuities in Swahili novel writing 50 years after independence  -- Lutz Diegner; title: Iraqw slufay and the power of voice  -- Rose Marie Beck and Maarten Mous; title: Local names and technical terms for Amharic poetic genres in Ethiopia -- Getie Gelaye.