Note: In memoriam. In memoriam Thomas Geider , African narrative research, documentary literature and Weltliteratur. Narrare necesse est : Der Mensch als homo narrans und die Signifikanz des Erzählens , West African oratures, literatures and music. Praise song : Thomas Geider , East African oratures, literatures and music. Shairi / Poem : Thomas Geider , Thomas Geider (1953-2010) , Thomas Geider (1953-2010) , In memoriam Thomas Geider 29.4.1953-15.10.2010 , KASA announces Geider's death , Und sie reimen doch : Parallelismus in afrikanischen Oraturen , Strategies of persuasion and manipulation in animal trickster tales , Kinoerzählen in Afrika : Skizze eines Forschungsfeldes , Documentary literature in African languages , The Grimmification of narrative tradition , Drei Schritte zur Weltliteratur , Interpretations of Kungulu : a court music of the Shehu of Borno , The representative of the King of England in Borno : an example of recent oral history , Die Rezeption von Tausendundeiner Nacht in der Hausa-Literatur , "I want to be my own cow" : Fulani names and superstitions about their cows , Création et répertoire en littérature orale , Bamanankan-Literatur : Eine kleine Geschichte des Veröffentlichens und Verlegens in Mali , Shairi / Poem : Kaburi! / Grave! , Shairi / Poem : Nakukumbuka... Thomas Geider / I remember you... Thomas Geider , Hadithi fupi / Short story : Sitaki kwenda chuoni! / The reluctant scholar , Swahili manuscripts : looking in East African collections for Swahili manuscripts ni Arabic script , "Im Gebälk die Fledermäuse" : Figurationen der Vergänglichkeit und der Täuschung in der klassischen Swahili-Dichtung ; The Qanbus connection : pre-Taarab roots on the northern Kenya coast , Linguistic knowledge and the creative writer , The Kenyan challenge (?) : dis/continuities in Swahili novel writing 50 years after independence , Iraqw slufay and the power of voice , Local names and technical terms for Amharic poetic genres in Ethiopia , Beitr. teilw. dt., teilw. engl., teilw. franz., teilw. Swahili

Note: Preface ; Language contact, language change and history based on language sources in Africa , Was there an interchange between Cushitic pastoralists and Khoesan speakers in the prehistory of southern Africa and how can this be detected? , Semantic vagueness and cross-linguistic lexical fragmentation in Bantu : impeding factors for linguistic palaeontology , Writing, oral traditions and the construction of ethnic identities , Esterogeny and localist strategies in a Nuba mountain community , Language history in SE Angola : the Ngangela-Nyemba dialect cluster , Crossing the linguistic divide between Namibian Khoekhoe and Kalahari Khoe : possible directions for future research , A sketch of pre-colonial metalworking in northern Namibia and southern Angola , Historiography on the basis of contemporary linguistic data : the Herero case , Language contact, areality, and history : the Songhay question revisited , Social networks, linguistic variation and micro change in an African context : a case study in the borderland of Mali and Burkina Faso , Layered language genesis in the "catch basin" of the Linyanti and Okavango swamps : the case of Yeyi , Folktales as a source for historical traces : the reintroduction of iron working along the central Kavango , Cultured contact : ritualisation and semantics in Jukun , General bibliography ; Index of languages and subjects ; Addresses of contributors.

Note: Literaturverz. S. 263 - 266

Note: Literaturangaben