Signs of the Times: Discourse Ecologies and Street Life on Oxford St., Accra

Quayson, Ato

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“…The billboards in the area maintain bilingualism of Kiswahili and English. Perhaps this is a testimony that hybrid language is indeed used in metropolitan cities in Africa, as is the case of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania (Bwenge 2009;Higgins 2009), Cape Town in South Africa (Stroud & Mpendukana 2009) and Accra in Ghana (Quayson 2010).…”

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“…In Kigali Rwanda, Rosendal (2010) found the adherence to the modern language regulations in main-streets, having predominantly English and French, while the shop-signs in back-streets ignore modern language rules and stick to French and Nyarwanda. In metropolitan cities such as Accra in Ghana and Cape Town in South Africa, it is found that the use of fonttype and font-colour underscores the prominence of some information given in certain languages (Stroud & Mpendukana 2009;McLaughlin 2012;Quayson 2010), in most cases hybrid language (Higgins 2009). In order to emulate previous studies, the current contribution examines the font-types and font-colour used in billboards in Orkesumet smalltownship in northern Tanzania.…”

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The linguistic situation in Orkesumet, an urban area in Simanjiro District of Tanzania

Lusekelo¹

2019

Ujah J. Art Hum

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An investigation of the linguistic landscape in urban Africa is a welcome contribution to make in that multilingualism presents fascinating results. To satisfy this demand, the current paper investigates the patterns of language use in billboards in a small township of Orkesumet in northern Tanzania. Data demonstrates that the state of Kiswahili and English bilingualism is apparently open for religiously, privately and publicly owned institutions such as schools, churches, public offices, and accommodation facilities. Such bilingual billboards do not make use of hybrid language because there were no tokens of Kiswahili-English, Maasai-English and Kiswahili-Maasai recorded in the area. The main mechanism used to attract customers is through the selection of fontcolour and font-size. The large font in black colour is preferred for names of firms, while red colour is opted for items sold and/or services rendered.

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Section: Figure 2: Monolingual Kiswahili Billboards For Church Institmentioning

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The linguistic situation in Orkesumet, an urban area in Simanjiro District of Tanzania

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2019

Ujah J. Art Hum

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“… 6 The literature on hawking in Africa focuses almost exclusively on urban street entrepreneurs (Agadjanian 2002; Hansen 2004, 2010; King 2006; Lyon 2007; Asiedu and Agyei-Mensah 2008; Brown et al . 2010; Quayson 2010; Klaeger 2012a, 2012b; Stasik 2013). …”

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Introduction: The Perils and Possibilities of African Roads

Klaeger¹

2013

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Roads and automobility on the African continent are commonly encountered with a rather ambivalent stance, both by Africans and Africanist scholars. This ambivalence emerges from what Adeline Masquelier describes as the ‘profoundly contradictory nature of roads as objects of both fascination and terror’ (2002: 381). In her widely received article on ‘road mythographies’ surrounding Niger's Route 1, Masquelier draws a vivid picture of the ‘contradictory aspects of the road as a space of both fear and desire’ (ibid.: 831). She highlights, in particular, how roadside residents perceive automotive travel as ‘a process fraught with risky and contradictory possibilities’ (ibid.: 832). A ‘pioneering study in the ethnography of roads’ (Campbell 2012: 498), Masquelier's account of people's profound ambivalence towards roads, mobility and transport in post-colonial Niger has been a source of inspiration for a range of scholars who have explored in a similar vein the intricate entanglement of people with (auto)mobility, space and modernity, both in Africa and elsewhere (see, for example, Khan 2006; Klaeger 2009; Dalakoglou 2010; Hart 2011). Five articles in this volume press ahead with the analytic theme of the ambivalence of roads. Through their historic analyses and ethnographic observations, the assembled case studies from Senegal, Ghana, Sudan, Kenya and Tanzania give a strong sense of how the perils and possibilities of roads, roadsides, traffic and transport have been and continue to be embraced in the everyday lives of colonial and post-colonial subjects.

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“…This article traces the shifting geography of ‘street-level’ science work in the East African city of Kisumu by comparing two generations of local workers in public health research – one working in the present, the other remembering work and the city thirty or more years ago. Contributing to literature on the interaction of science and place – how science has shaped the city (for example, Packard 1990 ), how the city can be read as an ‘archive’ of past inscriptions (Quayson 2010 ), or how it is made part of producing and legitimizing scientific knowledge (see, for example, Gieryn 2006 ) – the article focuses on the engagement of place and work in the envisioning, and remembrance, of civic projects: the city as ‘man's method of expression’ in pursuit of association and well-being, a layered work of pasts and futures (Mumford 1961 ); or as an ensemble of movements and work that calls forth the polis, a material ‘space of appearance’ through which one's participation (or not) in a larger social entity takes form (see Arendt 1951 , 1958 : 199). 1 One's habitation and circulation in a city reflect and shape how (indeed, whether) one experiences the city as a civitas , and oneself as a citizen with entitlements and responsibilities.…”

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Stuck in Ruins, or Up and Coming? The Shifting Geography of Urban Public Health Research in Kisumu, Kenya

Geissler

2013

Africa

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Since the Second World War, the Kenyan city of Kisumu has been an important site of medical research and public health interventions – on malaria and other vector-borne diseases, and lately on HIV and related infections. This article compares the work and lives of two generations of local workers in public health research, each central to science in the city at their time: staff of the Ministry of Health's Division of Vector Borne Disease (DVBD) in the decades after independence, and temporary employees of the Kenyan Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) in its collaboration with the US government's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the early twenty-first century. Against the backdrop of changes to the city, which stagnated during the 1970s and 1980s, became an epicentre of the East African AIDS epidemic, and underwent an economic boom of sorts from the late 1990s – at least partly driven by HIV research and intervention programmes – the article examines the spaces and movements of health research workers, and their experience of the city in time. The now elderly DVBD workers' accounts are pervaded by memories of anticipated progress and the convergence of life and work in the civic wholes of nation and city; by chagrin about decay; and by nostalgia for lost hopes. Today's young KEMRI/CDC workers' short-term contracts, and the fragmented city they inhabit and study, make for less bounded and predictable spaces and temporalities. Their urban lives and work take shape between remainders and remembrances of past projects, the exhaustion of everyday struggles to make a living and a meaningful life, and the search for new forms of urban order and civic purpose.

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Signs of the Times: Discourse Ecologies and Street Life on Oxford St., Accra

Cited by 30 publications

References 7 publications

The linguistic situation in Orkesumet, an urban area in Simanjiro District of Tanzania

The linguistic situation in Orkesumet, an urban area in Simanjiro District of Tanzania

Introduction: The Perils and Possibilities of African Roads

Stuck in Ruins, or Up and Coming? The Shifting Geography of Urban Public Health Research in Kisumu, Kenya

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