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Archives of Popular Swahili

• 1. Letters to the editor from the section Habari za Kwetu in Mwana Shaba (Journal d'entreprise de l'U.M.H.K.)
• 2. The history of Zaire as told and painted by Tshibumba Kanda Matulu in conversation with Johannes Fabian
  • 2(1) Introduction
  • 2(2) First Session, Part 1
  • 2(3) First Session, Part 2
  • 2(4) Second Session, Part 1
  • 2(5) Second Session, Part 2
  • 2(6) Third Session, Part 1
  • 2(7) Third Session, Part 2
  • 2(8) Fourth Session
• 3. Le pouvoir se mange entier - Power is eaten whole: A play by the "Troupe Théâtrale Mufwankolo" of Lubumbashi
• 3(1) Introduction
  • Members of the Troupe Théâtrale Mufwankolo
  • Cast of Le pouvoir se mange entier
• 3(2) Scene 1 - The law of the land
• 3(3) Scene 2 - Trouble brewing
• 3(4) Scene 3 - The case of the thief
• 3(5) Scene 4 - The hunter's visit
• 3(6) Scene 5 - The case of adultery
• 3(7) Scene 6 - Revolt in the fields
• 3(8) Scene 7 - The chief takes control - Order reestablished
• 4. Vocabulaire de ville de Elisabethville: A history of Elisabethville from its beginnings to 1965. Compiled and written by André Yav
• 4(1) Introduction
• 4(2) Facsimile of the original mimeographed text
• 4(3) Title page and table of contents (English translation)
• 4(4) Shaba Swahili version and English translation
• 4(5) Kalundi Mango's comments
• 5. Teachings of the Jamaa movement: Texts and commentaries transcribed , translated, and commented by Johannes Fabian
• 5(1) Introduction
• 5(2) Text 1: Of man (1)
• 5(3) Text 2: Of man (2)
• 5(4) Text 3: Of angels
• 6. L'art populaire de Mufwankolo.
  Entretien et spectacle transcrits et traduits par Ghislain Gulda El Magambo Bin Ali et Pascal Maloji Kabemba ( alias Pascal de Saint Malo), revu par Mutonkole Lunda Wa Ngoyi, présenté par Alain Ricard
• 6(1) "Je ne mourrai pas sans cravate": Introduction par Alain Ricard
• 6(2) Entretien avec Mufwakolo | Sketch: Mambo ina nipita (Je suis dépassé par les problèmes | Suite de l'entretien
• 7. "Magic and modernity": A conversation with a herbalist and
  practitioner of magic, transcribed and translated by Johannes Fabian
• 8. Ukumbusho by Achille Mutombo
  
• 9. Vivre et exercer le métier de peintre sous la pluie des balles et des flèches empoisonnées des rebelles à Bunia, Congo-Zaïre. Témoignage de l'artiste Joseph (Jeef) Bosemo, recueilli par Pierre Sugabo Yakisabo, transcrit, annoté et traduit en français par Ibio Nzunguba
  
• 10. Language and labor: Conversations about work, language, and life, transcribed , translated, and commented by Johannes Fabian
  • Introduction
  • Text One
  • Text Two
  • Text Three
  • Text Four
  • Text Five
• 11. Swahili remembered: Two conversations, transcribed , translated, and annotated by Johannes Fabian
  • Introduction
  • Text One
  • Text Two
• 12. Conversations about Katanga Genre Painting in the 1970s, transcribed , translated, and annotated by Johannes Fabian
  • Introduction
  • Text One
  • Text Two
  • Text Three
  • Text Four
  • Text Five
  • Text Six
  • Text Seven
  • Text Eight
  • Text Nine
• 13. Conversations with the painters Mwenze Kibwanga and Pilipili Mulongoy, transcribed , translated, and annotated by Johannes Fabian
  • Introduction
  • Text One
  • Text Two
  • Text Three
• 14. The Jamaa Files, transcribed , translated, and annotated by Johannes Fabian
  • Introduction
  • Text One
  • Text Two
  • Text Three
  • Text Four
  • Text Five
• 15.“Prayer groups” in Lubumbashi: A conversation with Régine Tshitamba and members of her family, recorded 24. 6. 1986 at her home in Lubumbashi, Zone Kampemba, transcribed, translated, and annotated by Johannes Fabian
• 16. Churches proliferating – where will it end? A play by Mufwankolo and two members of his troupe., transcribed, translated, and commented on by Johannes Fabian

LPCA Text Archives

• 1. Buntungu's "Mokingi mwa Mputu": A Boloki perception of Europe at the end of the 19th Century (presented by Michael Meeuwis)
• 2. Lopolotsi: Poèmes anciens d'un esclave bombomba, Equateur, République Démocratique du Congo (presented by Motingea Mangulu)
• 3. A conversation with Baba Ngoie-Day Léon (transcribed , translated, and annotated by Johannes Fabian)
• 4. Parole et savoir-faire populaires: Conversations à propos de la poterie des Twa au Burundi (transcrites, traduites, annotées, commentées et illustrées de photos par Koen Bostoen et Gaspard Harushimana)

Journal of Language and Popular Culture in Africa

• 4(1) Review of Hasty. The press and political culture in Ghana by Marleen de Witte
• 3(2) Review of Janson. The best hand is the hand that always gives: Griottes and their profession in Eastern Gambia by Barbara G. Hoffman
• 3(1) Review of Lafkioui et Merolla. Contes berbères chaouis de l’Aurès, d’après Gustave Mercier by Abderrahman El Aissati
• 2(2) Review of Pfeiffer, Sprache und Musik in Mandinka-Erzählungen by Marloes Janson
• 2(1) The times of the "Vocabulaire": Commentary on a conversation with Baba Ngoie Léon by Johannes Fabian
• 1(3) Commenting Kalundi's comments: Notes on the ethnography of translating the "Vocabulary of the town of Elisabethville" by Johannes Fabian
• 1(2) At the launch of JLPCA (Editorial) by Vincent A. de Rooij
• 1(1) "Our strength comes from poisoned wells": the literature of self-criticism in the South African resistance struggle by Priya Narismulu
• The Editors and how to contact them
• Editorial Policy and Guidelines to Contributors
• How to submit

LPCA Information Pages

• LPCA Bulletinboard
• Popular Swahili Texts in Books and Articles
• Johannes Fabian's bio- and bibliography
• Saving and printing LPCA web pages
• Texts and ownership (LPCA Editorial)
• LPCA: Where are we? (LPCA Editorial)

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last updated: 5 May 2017
by Vincent de Rooij