Monograph No. 1 (Year 1998)
Tongues: African Languages and the Challenges of Development
Kwesi Kwaa Prah & Yvonne King (eds)

This is an edited record of the Symposium on African Languages and the Challenge of Development held at the Golden Tulip Hotel, Accra, Ghana, on 5 March 1998. It was sponsored by the Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS).

ISBN No.1-919799-15-X R38,00 / US$8 / £4

Monograph No. 2 (Year 1999)
Ngon Sekk
Pathe Diagne, Woyzek de Buchner & Teerewaay Sankore

Ngon Sekk is an adaptation, in Wolof, of Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck, written in German and translated into French by Arthur and Martha Adamov. Ngon Sekk is a social and human story which takes place in the world of the downtrodden who live their daily tragic lives. It forms part of a body of the grand classics translated into Wolof for a readership of ten million people today, and twenty million by 2025.

ISBN No.1-919799-18-4 R25,00 / US$5 / £2

Monograph No.3 (Year 1999)
Akòj·p· Iwe Kikà Fun Ilé ·k· Gíga
Ige Àkànní Mamud

The idea of publishing this small book was conceived in the early 1990s, when the department of linguistics, University of Benin, Cotonou, started the teaching of African languages. It contains the works of D. O. Fagunwa, the first Yorùbá novelist, and of younger authors like Oladipo Yemitan, Esho Oluborode, Bamiji Ojo, Adebisi Thompson, Oladejo Okedeji, Babatunde Awoyele and Femi Jeboda. Akòj·p· Iwe Kikà Fun Ilé ·k· Gíga can be used in colleges and universities.

ISBN No. 1-919799-26-5 R25,00 / US$5 / £2

Monograph No. 4 (Year 1999)
Grammaire Yorùbá de Base
Ige Àkànní Mamud

The purpose of the Grammaire Yorùbá de Base is to provide a quick, easy-to-use guide to Yorùbá grammar. It is divided into 9 chapters, each covering an important aspect of Yorùbá. Both teachers and students will find it useful. 

ISBN No. 1-919799-25-7 R25,00 / US$5 / £2

Monograph No. 5 (Year 2000)
Banso Koransan
Alex Oteng Boakye

An appreciation of the life, times and legacy of Nana Ofori Atta II (1899 – 1973).

ISBN No. 1-919799-30-3 R25,00 / US$5 / £2

Monograph No. 6 (Year 2000)
Atúmó-edè Fonólójì àti Gírámà Yorùbá
L.O. Adewole

Atúmó-edè Fonólójì àti Gírámà Yorùbá is Part 1 of a Dictionary of Yorùbá Phonology and Grammar. In the dictionary, the headwords are entered in Yorùbá, followed by their English translation. This is followed by the definition of the headwords. Many examples are given to illustrate the meanings of words and references are made to published work, especially, those of Awobuluyi (1978), Bamgbose (1990) and Owolabi (1989), for further study. The work is fully tone-marked.

ISBN No. 1-919799-34-6 R25,00 / US$5 / £2

Monograph No. 7 (Year 2000)
Oman Ba Paye Ho Ahintasem
J. Gyekye-Aboagye

Reflections on the social values of nationhood and development.

ISBN No. 1-919799-41-9 R25,00 / US$5 / £2

Monograph No. 8 (Year 2000)
Ìsetofabo Ninu ise Awon Onkowekunrin Yorùbá
Janet Olaide Sheba

This text examines the images of women in the works of selected Yorùbà male authors. These authors are grouped into three: the early writers, the middle course writers and the latest writers. A general assessment of the importance of women and their limitations within the socio-cultural and religious set up of the Yorùbà society is initially undertaken. The study also analyses the various techniques that are used to depict such feminine images in the works.

ISBN No.1-919799-42-7 R85,00 / US$12 / £8

Monograph No. 9 (Year 2000)
Beginning Yorùbá – Part I
L.O. Adewole

This is volume one of a handbook on Yorùbá for non-speakers of the language. Yorùbá is spoken in the south-western part of Nigeria. The language is regarded as one of the three major languages of the country. Apart from Nigeria, the language is also spoken in some parts of the republics of Togo and Benin and an awareness of the language is noted in Brazil and Cuba.

ISBN No.1-919799-48-6 R60,00 / US$10 / £6 

Monograph No. 10 (Year 2001)
Beginning Yorùbá – Part II
L.O. Adewole

This is volume two, a handbook on Yorùbá for non-speakers of the language. Yorùbá is spoken in the south-western part of Nigeria. The language is regarded as one of the three major languages of the country. Apart from Nigeria, the language is also spoken in some parts of Togo and Benin Republics and an awareness of the language is noted in Brazil and Cuba.

ISBN No.1-919799-52-4 R60,00/ US$10 / £6

Monograph No. 11 (Year 2001/2005)
A Unified Standard Orthography for South-Central African Languages: Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia
Felix Banda, Al Mtenje, Lazarus Miti, Vincent Chanda, Gregory Kamwendo, Armindo Ngunga, Marcelino Liphola, Carlos Manuel, Langa Khumalo, Silvester Simango

As part of the major initiative of the Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS), Cape Town, towards the harmonization and standardization of African languages across the continent, linguists from Universities in South Africa, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Zambia have come up with a single spelling system for cross-border languages found in these countries. Languages such as ciNyanja, ciCewa, ciNsenga, ciNgoni, ciNsenga, eLomwe, eMakhuwa, ciYao, ciTumbuka, ciSenga, iciBemba, kiKaonde, ciLunda and ciLuvale, and related dialects will now have a single spelling system, rather than three or more spelling systems within the same language, or even more systems across related Bantu languages.

ISBN No.1-919799-63-X R35,00 / US$7 / £4

Monograph No. 12 (Year 2002)
Language Clusters of Nigeria
Francis Egbokhare, Solomon O. Oyetade, Eno-Abasi E. Urua, Ahmed H. Amfani

This present text is the result of work done in Nigeria by the CASAS network. The starting point was drawn from the listing of languages as presented in the Ethnologue. The Nigeria network has attempted to cluster these speech forms into groups enjoying mutual intelligibility. Using the tested CASAS methods, the network has produced a preliminary regrouping of these speech forms.

ISBN No.1-919799-61-3 R30,00 / US$6 / £3

Monograph No. 13 (Year 2002)
Ogbon-isotan Imunimote
Olanipekun Olurankinse

This study sets out to trace the historical development of the literary concept of prognosis, to establish that prognosis is a narrative technique of Yorùbá novelists. It also set out to analyse the various ways in which prognoses are used.

ISBN No.1-919799-69-9 R60,00 / US$10 / £6

Monograph No. 14 (Year 2002)
Miyambo Yathu Ndi Ufulu Wa Amai
Silvester Ron Simango

This monograph examines the changing patterns in human civilization in relation to traditional practices; and within this context it explores the changing roles of women in African society. A critical observation made is that modern African society needs to accord women greater freedom to engage in activities that were hitherto reserved for men. Considering the fact that women constitute more than half the population it makes much economic sense to involve this sector of the population in developmental activities. The monograph argues that for meaningful development to occur in Africa there needs to be concerted effort in educating girls; for it is through the upliftment of women that families and nations can become prosperous.

ISBN No.1-919799-72-9 R35,00 / US$7 / £4

Monograph No. 15 (Year 2002)
Tsogolo Lathu Lili Kuti
Gregory Kamwendo & Al Mtenje

This publication discusses some of the crucial issues affecting nations and societies in the Southern African region. These are political conflicts, poverty, diseases such as HIV/AIDS and social practices. Despite claims by countries in the area that they have fully embraced values of political democracy, there is evidence indicating that high levels of political intolerance among political parties and groupings still persist, resulting in ethnic conflicts which retard economic progress and thus reinforce poverty. The authors argue that social practices like polygamy have an impact on perceptions and values about gender equality and the empowerment of women and in some cases even contribute to the spread of diseases like HIV/AIDS.

ISBN No.1-919799-73-7 R35,00 / US$7 / £4

Monograph No. 16 (Year 2002)
Cifunikilo Ca Maphunzilo
Lazarus Miti

In this monograph Lazarus Miti discusses the importance of education. The text is written in ciNsenga, spoken by the Ngoni people of Chipata in Zambia and Mchinji in Malawi. The text’s primary intended audience are those literate in ciNsenga, whether it is their mother tongue or not. The text is written in a style accessible even to the reader who has not gone beyond the primary level of formal schooling. The topics covered include the meaning of education; types of schooling; the advantages of learning to read and write in indigenous African languages; learning English and other foreign languages; the need for numeracy; studying the geography and history of our native countries and others; learning about the human body, about health and hygiene, and about the environment.

ISBN No.1-919799-74-5 R40,00 / US$8 / £5

Monograph No. 17 (Year 2002)
Matenda Wa Kalionde
Lazarus Miti

Written in ciNsenga, spoken by the Ngoni people of Chipata in Zambia and Mchinji in Malawi, Matenda ·a Kalionde is a discussion of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in a non-technical and reader-friendly style. Although the text is targeted at speakers of ciNsenga who have not received formal education beyond primary school level, even those who have attained a much higher educational standard will find it useful. It seeks to answer such questions as what HIV/AIDS is; the distinction between HIV and AIDS; how and where it originated; what its causes are; the problem of finding a cure; how we can minimize the risk of contracting the disease; how to care for HIV/AIDS sufferers; what HIV/AIDS care givers can do to avoid contracting the disease; and what HIV/AIDS-related diseases are.

ISBN No.1-919799-79-6 R40,00 / US$8 / £5

Monograph No. 18 (Year 2003)
Maghanze-Anyonyauka – Sighalileghe Waswaya
Jonas Mumbai (translated by Rosemary Malilwe)

This is a story about Felix Kombwe’s nasty experience, as an AIDS victim, in the community in which he lives and at his work place. His status comes to be known after the death of his wife Tamala and their little premature baby girl, Lisa. The story also tries to bring to light property-grabbing issues and different myths concerning death and the existence of witchcraft in both Kombwe’s and Tamala’s families. Thus, due to his prolonged illness, he loses a lot of chances to hold a higher post at the bank, his work place, even though he has very high qualifications, as he is a University of Zambia and Manchester graduate. His dreams are indeed shattered.

ISBN No.1-919799-85-0 R40,00 / US$8 / £5

Monograph No. 19 (Year 2002)
Fa Ho Adwen
J. Gyekye-Aboagye & S.A. Gyima

A collection of proverbial and folk wisdom, anecdotally and narratively explained.

ISBN No.1-919799-86-9 R80,00 / US$12 / £8

Monograph No. 20 (Year 2003)
A Unified Orthography for the Akan Languages of Ghana and Ivory Coast: General Unified Spelling Rules
N’Guessan Jeremie Kouadio, Kofi Agyekum, Kofi Korankye Saah, James Gyekye-Aboagye, Kalilou Tera, Djaban Tano Kouame

The central mandate of CASAS and main area of its work has been the harmonization and standardization of African languages, based on considerations of mutual intelligibility. One of the language clusters which has been addressed is the Akan cluster of West Africa. The first workshop on the harmonization and standardization of Akan took place in June 2000 and the second in September 2001, both in Abidjan, Ivory Coast: N’Guessan Jérémie Kouadio, Kofi Agyekum, Kofi Korankye Saah, James Gyekye-Aboagye, Kalilou Tera, Djaban Tano Kouame, Sassongo Silue, Kouassi Adoua and Niamouke Joseph were the linguists involved in this exercise. A third workshop on the harmonization and standardization of Akan was convened for 22 – 23 May 2002 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Again, N’Guessan Jérémie Kouadio, Kofi Agyekum, Kofi Korankye Saah, James Gyekye-Aboagye, Kalilou Tera and Djaban Tano Kouame were in attendance. Jérémie Kouadio was the chairperson of both meetings. This text is the final result of their work. For the first time in history the text harmonizes the orthography of most Akan speech forms in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.

ISBN No. 1-919799-87-7  R 35,00 / US$7 / £4

Monograph No. 21 (Year 2003)
Matenda Ndi Zakudya
Felix Banda

The booklet tries to show a link between poor eating habits and malnutrition, and a number of diseases. In this regard, the association between diseases such as marasmus, kwashiorkor, diabetes, heart diseases, rickets, etc., is discussed. It is argued that disease can cause malnutrition, and malnutrition can cause disease. Thus, the booklet suggests some ways of avoiding both. The booklet also gives suggestions on some ways of preventing these diseases, as well as ways of curtailing their effects once one has them.

ISBN No.1-919799-88-5 R40,00 / US$8 / £5

Monograph No. 22 (Year 2003)
Madyedwe Abwino
Felix Banda

This booklet is about good eating habits. It aims to teach people about eating adequate but healthy food. It highlights the availability of inexpensive local foodstuffs in the three major groups: body-building food, protective food and energy food. The booklet also reminds readers that malnutrition can afflict anyone, young and old, though it usually has a debilitating effect on the young.

ISBN No.1-919799-89-3 R40,00 / US$8 / £5

Monograph No. 23 (Year 2002)
Kupa Ulemu ·anakazi (Giving Women the Respect They Deserve)
Lazarus M. Miti

The intended audience for this text includes all men and women literate in ciNsenga, irrespective of their educational background. Written in the dialect of ciNsenga spoken by the Ngoni of Chipata in Zambia and Mchinji in Malawi, the text is based on the premise that women have traditionally been and are still marginalized in society. Its primary aim is to contribute to the cessation of the marginalization of women mainly by men but also by their fellow women, as well as marginalization by women of themselves. The author argues that in many instances the marginalization of women is caused by men’s conscious and/or unconscious misinterpretation of various aspects of African culture. The text shows that women in both rural and urban settings have more chores to perform in the family and in society as a whole than men do.

ISBN No.1-919799-90-7 R40 ,00 / US$8 / £5

Monograph Series No. 24 (YEAR 2003)
L’Orthographe Harmonissee du Mandenkan
Boniface Keita, Kalilou Tera, Moussa Diaby, Mohamadou Diallo, Mamadou Lamine Gassama, Sidia Sana Jatta

This text forms part of the CASAS Africa-wide harmonization and standardization of African Languages Project.

ISBN No. 1-919799-95-8 R40,00 / US$8 / £5

Monograph Series No. 25 (Year 2003)
Report of the Evaluation of the Democratization of ICT Content for Africa: Pilot Project
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)/Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS)

This report is a record of how CASAS undertook with the support of the IDRC Acacia Project the development of ICT content materials on HIV/AIDS, Insect Pests Against Maize, the Medicinal Properties of the Neem Tree and Soil Fertility for African languages in and around Uganda.

ISBN No. 1-919799-96-6 R50,00 / US$9 / £5

Monograph Series No. 26 (Year 2003)
Matende Opatsilana (Communicable Diseases)
Felix Banda

One of the major challenges confronting health on the African continent is the issue of accessible information regarding clean water and sanitation. Related to this is non-threatening and non-sophisticated information on the easily preventable (and sometimes easily treatable) water-borne, air-borne, skin-to-skin or blood-borne communicable diseases. The onset of HIV/AIDS has only compounded the problem by making the impact of these diseases more devastating, through the promotion of opportunistic infections arising from these communicable diseases. In particular, malaria, TB, cholera and bilharzias have combined with HIV/AIDS to form a deadly cocktail that has wrecked havoc on the African family and society. Apart from these diseases, the booklet also discusses suggestions for the prevention of scabies and chickenpox.

ISBN No. 1-919799-97-4 R40, 00 / US$ 8 / £5

Monograph Series No. 27 (YEAR 2003)
Donso Siriman
N’Golo Konate

ISBN No. 1-919932-08-9 R / US$ / £

Monograph Series No. 28 (Year 2003)
Sinbon
N’Golo Konate

The author has produced an interesting extended creative piece based on bamanan tradition.  It is an epic poem arising out of his thesis produced some years ago.

ISBN No. 1-919932-09-7 R40,00 / US$8 / £5

Monograph Series No. 29 (Year 2003)
Udongo Ucinjilizha Matenda
Lazarus Miti

In Udongo Ucinjilizha Matenda, the author discusses how lack of general cleanliness causes diseases. He discusses causes of diseases such as cholera, typhoid fever, dysentery, bilharzia, tapeworm, hookorm, malaria and yellow fever. Miti explains in simple language the need for clean water and for efficient drainage and disposal of sewage in towns generally and in urban houses. For rural areas, the author advocates the construction and maintenance of latrines as well as the provision of clean drinking water from boreholes. The book is intended for readers who have not attended formal schooling or those who did not go beyond elementary school. 

ISBN No. 1-919932-11-9 R / US$ / £

Monograph Series No. 30 (Year 2003)
A Unified Standard Orthography for the Nguni Languages of Southern Africa
Mbulelo Jokweni, Sihawu Ngubane, Langa Khumalo, Mntwoxolo Kwetana, Jane Nkosi, Eric Sibanda, Nomsa Zindela

This text forms part of the CASAS Africa-wide harmonization and standardization of African Languages Project.

ISBN No. 1-919932-12-7 R40,00 / US$8 / £5

Monograph Series No. 31 (YEAR 2003)
A Unified Standard Orthography for Sotho-Tswana Languages Southern Africa
Andy Chebanne, Makali Mokitimi, Lits'episo Matlosa, Rosalia Nakin, Mildred Wakumelo Nkolola, Sekgothe Mokgoatsana, Mats'epo Machobane

This text forms part of the CASAS Africa-wide harmonization and standardization of African Languages Project.

ISBN No. 1-919932-13-5 R40,00 / US$8 / £5

Monograph Series No. 32 (Year 2003)
A Unified Standard Orthography for XiTsonga/XiChangana
Bento Sitoe, Feliciano Chimbutana, Ximbani Eric Mabaso, Paul Hendry Nkuna, Ntiyiso Elijah Nxumalo, Madala Crous Hlungwani 

This text forms part of the CASAS Africa-wide harmonization and standardization of African Languages Project.

ISBN No. 1-919932-14-3 R40, 00/ US$8 / £5

Monograph Series No. 33 (Year 2004)
Amalile Ayasuma
Felix Banda

The monograph is about good eating habits.  It aims to teach people about eating adequate, but healthy food.  In this respect, it highlights the availability of inexpensive local foodstuffs in the three major groups: body building food, protective food and energy food.  The monograph also reminds readers that malnutrition can afflict anyone, young or old, though it usually has an extremely debilitating effect on the young

ISBN No. 1-919932-18-6 R40, 00/ US$8 / £5

Monograph Series No. 34 (Year 2005)
Kupililana Kumamanga Dziko
Silvester Ron Simango

This publication discusses the value of tolerance in pluralistic African societies as democratic practises are being entrenched. The next notes that the consequences of intolerance and separation are, in the long term, extremely negative to everyone - and all citizens to consider diversity as a resource rather than as a problem, and to encourage independence of thought among the citizens of the region

ISBN No. 1-919932-20-8 R40, 00/ US$8 / £5

Monograph Series No. 36 (Year 2005)
Ririmi Rerhu Giredi ya Nkaye
S.D. Rikhotso and R.S. Mawele

The book is divided into three sections. Section A is poems in which most are personified on human life today and C is just grammar.

ISBN No. 1-919932-24-0 R40, 00/ US$8 / £5

Monograph Series No. 41 (Year 2005)
Kaphunzisilo na Kaphunzililo ka Masamu
Lazarus Miti

This book discusses the teaching and learning of mathematics in Africa. Miti argues that in African schools, the problem of teaching and learning mathematics is compounded by the fact that it is often introduced in a language that is alien to the learner - usually English, French or Portuguese. The author explains in an African language (ciNsenga) how mathematics may be taught and learnt through the medium of the mother tongue. The discussion includes a brief account of African numeration systems and their place in the teaching and learning of mathematics in primary schools. He contends that besides using the mother tongue, there is need for teachers who not only know the subject matter, but who also employ the right teaching methods and who love teaching mathematics.

ISBN No. 1-919932-21-6 R40, 00/ US$8 / £5

Monograph Series No. 42 (Year 2005)
Ahintirho wa Yona
E.M Mathebula

A hi ntirho is a Xitsonga drama, freely translated it means: “it is not this intended purpose”. The monograph talks about a couple which misuses their child's support grant. The husband who does not even want to look for a job, keeps half of the child's grant for himself and gives the other half to his wife so that she would use it for the child. The husband uses his share to buy beer for himself, whereas a wife uses portion of the remaining half to play card games with the hope that she will be able to make some little profit out of it. Some of the couple's friends have tried in vain to have them abandon their wrongful deeds. In the last section of the book, these irresponsible parents find themselves summoned to go to the social worker where they are reprimanded. They are also warned that should they continue to misuse the child support grant, they will be prosecuted.

ISBN No. 1-919932-26-7 R50, 00/ US$9 / £5

Monograph Series No. 43 (Year 2005)
L'orthographe Harmonisee des Langues Gbe du Ghana, du Togo, du Benin et du Nigeria
H.B.C. Capo, Bedou-Jondoh Edith, Bolouvi Lebene-Philippe, Gagnon Daniel, Gbeto Flavien, Gnamiato Victorie, Kinhou Severin-Marie, Semadegbe Jules, Tohoun Benjamin

This text forms part of the CASAS Africa-wide harmonization and standardization of African Languages Project.

ISBN No. 1-919932-22-4 R40, 00/ US$8 / £5

Monograph Series No. 44 (Year 2005)
Orthographe standard et harmonisee des Langues Gur
Silue Sassongo, Norbert Nikiema, Issa Takassi, Zakari Tchagbale, B. Kassan, A. Mathieu Mawani, A. Samuel Atintono, Gerard Kedrebeogo

This text forms part of the CASAS Africa-wide harmonization and standardization of African Languages Project.

ISBN No. 1-919932-23-2 R40, 00/ US$8 / £5