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Proverbes vrais ou faux? : crise et dangers du proverbe africain / Jean-Marie Ndzomo Malla.
- Text
- Bandundu, Zaire : Ceeba Publications, 1982.
- 1982
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 84-92 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Where continents meet; African proverbs, collected and illustrated with photos. by Nat Lambie.
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- New York, John Day Co. [1972]
- 1972
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 398.9-L (Lambie, N. Where continents meet) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Our baby's first seven years / Clarence L. Holte, editor ; iIllustrated by Robert S. Pious ; introduction by Dr. Frederick C. Green.
- Text
- New York, The Nubian Press, [1971]
- 1971
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc G 15-50 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Sabedoria Cabinda; símbolos e provérbios.
- Text
- Lisboa, Junta de Investigações do Ultramar, 1968.
- 1968
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFF 73-634 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Sabedoria Cabinda; símbolos e provérbios.
- Text
- Lisboa, Junta de Investigações do Ultramar, 1968.
- 1968
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 398.9-M (Martins, J. Sabedoria Cabinda) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Le tam-tam du sage; poèmes et proverbes africains, réunis par Hyacinthe Vulliez.
- Text
- [Paris] Éditions du Cerf, 1972.
- 1972
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFC 73-3173 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Speak to the winds : proverbs from Africa / [compiled by] Kofi Asare Opoku ; illustrated by Dindga McCannon.
- Text
- New York : Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, [1975]
- 1975
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 17-7536 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Not available - Please for assistance.Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 398.996-O (Opoku, K. Speak to the winds) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
African proverbs/ compiled by Charlotte and Wolf Leslau and with decorations by Jeff Hill.
- Text
- Mount Vernon, N. Y.: Peter Pauper Press, 1962.
- 1962
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc C 79-8 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Initiation au proverbe : redécouverte du sens propre du proverbe pour un meilleur usage / Jean-Marie Ndzomo Malla.
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- Yaoundé : [s.n.], 1980.
- 1980
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc G 82-6 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Springs of African wisdom; traditional sayings of African peoples: Baya, Ganda, Hausa, Herero, Swahili and others.
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- New York, Herder and Herder, 1970.
- 1970
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc B 82-19 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Comprendre les proverbes / Jean Cauvin.
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- Issy les Moulineaux : Les Classiques africains, c1981.
- 1981
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 85-6299 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
La femme dans la pensée nègre [microform] / Sop Nkamgang Martin.
- Text
- Yaoundé : [s.n.] 1975.
- 1975
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Micro F-10898 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Afrika für dich : afrikanische Weisheit aus allen Zeiten von der Sahara bis zur Kalahariwüste, von Angola bis Abessinien : afrikanische Bilder und Ornamente / Auswahl und Gestaltung: Charlotte Widmer.
- Text
- St. Gallen : Amboss Verlag, [1986].
- 1986
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 88-675 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Songye, livre des proverbes / Muepu Mibanga.
- Text
- [Zaire?] : Editions Bouwa, 1988.
- 1988
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 90-188 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The A-Z of African proverbs / [compiled] by Jan Knappert.
- Text
- London : Karnak House, 1989.
- 1989
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 90-793 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Mekhoa le maele a Basotho / a hlalositsoeng ke Azariele Sekese.
- Text
- Morija, Lesotho : Morija Sesuto Book Depot, 1968.
- 1968
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc C 11-96 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Jamaican sayings : with notes on folklore, aesthetics, and social control / G. Llewellyn Watson.
- Text
- Tallahassee : Florida A & M University Press ; Gainsville, Fla. : University Presses of Florida [distributor], c1991.
- 1991
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 91-301 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Proverbs in traditional education : research assignments, 1987-1988 / adult education students of Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone ; compiled and edited by A. Coomber ... [et al.].
- Text
- Freetown : Institute of Adult Education and Extra-mural Studies, Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, 1988.
- 1988
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc+ F 92-274 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Le livre de la sagesse nègre : sentences exemplaires / recueillies par Ellian J. Finbert, présentées par René Maran ; motifs décorés par Andrée Corbin.
- Text
- [Paris] R. Laffont, 1950.
- 1950
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *C-2 p.v. 264 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 398.9-F (Finbert, E. Livre de la sagesse nègre) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Wit and wisdom from West Africa; or, A book of proverbial philosophy, idioms, enigmas, and laconisms.
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- New York, Negro Universities Press [1969]
- 1969-1865
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 398.9-B (Burton, R. Wit and wisdom from West Africa) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 398.9-B (Burton, R. Wit and wisdom from West Africa) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Schwarze Weisheiten : Negersprichwörter.
- Text
- Freiburg/Breisgau : H. Klemm, [c1958].
- 1958
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc B 77-74 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Wit and wisdom from West Africa, or, A book of proverbial philosophy, idioms, enigmas, and laconisms / compiled by Richard F. Burton, (late) H.M.'s consul for the Bight of Biafra and Fernando Po, author of "A mission to Dahomey," "A pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah," &c.
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- London : Tinsley Brothers, 18, Catherine St., Strand, 1865.
- 1865
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Rare 398.9-B (Burton, R. F. Wit and wisdom from West Africa) Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Proverbes africains : sagesse imagée / Germ. van Houtte.
- Text
- Limete (Kinshasa) : L'Epiphanie, [1986]
- 1986
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 93-874 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The leopard's spots : biblical and African wisdom in proverbs / Friedemann W. Golka.
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- Edinburgh : T&T Clark, 1993.
- 1993
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *PDW (Proverbs) 93-3166 Schwarzman Building - Dorot Jewish Division Room 111 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Source of all evil : African proverbs and sayings on women / Mineke Schipper.
- Text
- London : Allison & Busby, 1991.
- 1991
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 94-31 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Cinq mille proverbes africains pour la loi des hommes nouveaux / Georges Defour.
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- Bukavu (Zaïre) : Editions Bandari, [1990?].
- 1990
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 94-382 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Proverbs in traditional education : report on INSTADEX students' research assignments / research studies by Adult Education students 1989-1990 ; compiled by Ajayi Coomber and Christiane Kayser.
- Text
- Freetown : Institute of Adult Education and Extra-Mural Studies, Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, [1990].
- 1990
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 94-97 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Dictionnaire des proverbes africains / Mwamba Cabakulu.
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- Paris : ACCT : Harmattan : ACIVA, c1992.
- 1992
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 95-841 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Een vrouw is als de aarde : Afrikaanse spreekwoorden en zegswijzen over vrouwen / Mineke Schipper.
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- Baarn : Ambo, c1994.
- 1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 96-16451 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Prohibitions : a study in African traditional education / Kwesi A. Dickson.
- Text
- Accra : Macmillan Publishers in association with Unimax Publishers, 1995.
- 1995
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 96-575 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
A dictionary of African quotations : complete with proverbs / Victor Omuabor.
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- Ikeja, Lagos : V. Omuabor, 1994.
- 1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 96-842 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Sagesse sous le soleil : proverbes du Sénégal, de Corse et de Tunisie : analogies, differences / Jean René Constantin.
- Text
- [France] : Le Regard du monde, c1995.
- 1996
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 97-4767 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Paroles d'hier et d'aujourd'hui : ainsi parlaient nos ancêtres / Djimtola Nelli.
- Text
- [N'Djamena, Chad] : CEFOD-Editions, [1995]
- 1995
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 97-617 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Sankofa : stories, proverbs and poems of an African childhood / David Abdulai.
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- Denver, Co. : Dawn of a New Day Publications , c1995.
- 1995
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 97-390 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Die Welt ist Wind : afrikanische Pointen / Janheinz Jahn.
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- München : Ehrenwirth, 1962.
- 1962
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text C-12 2295 no. 1-6 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Reife Hirse beugt das Haupt : afrikanische Aphorismen.
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- Düsseldorf : Econ-Verlag, [1963]
- 1963
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text D-14 6451 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Recueil de proverbes et devinettes / rassemblés et ordonnés par Odun Kouyomou Dieudonné.
- Text
- Cotonou, Benin : République du Bénin, Centre national de linguistique appliquée, [1990-
- 1990-present
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Ser.-M .R4367 t. 1 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Assessment of student's research work on proverbs in education, traditional vocational training and training in the informal sector : studies / by Adult Education Students 1992/93.
- Text
- [S.l.] : DVV, [1993]
- 1993
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 99-340 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Wit and wisdom from West Africa; or, A book of proverbial philosophy, idioms, enigmas, and laconisms.
- Text
- New York, Biblo and Tannen, 1969.
- 1969-1865
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text D-19 8998 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
50 proverbs : traditional and Christian wisdom / William Lane, S.J.
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- [Lusaka] : W. Lane, [between 1980 and 1994]
- 1980-1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 01-127 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The tales of Sir Apolo, Uganda folklore and proverbs, with anintroduction by the translator, F. Rowling; il. by Savile Lumley.
- Text
- London, Religious tract society [1934]
- 1934
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text RTB (Kagwa, A. Tales of Sir Apolo) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
From a vanished German colony : a collection of folklore, folk tales and proverbs from South-West-Africa / with an introduction by Odette St. Lys.
- Text
- London : Gypsy Press, [1916?]
- 1916
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text ZBIS (St. Lys, O. From a vanished German colony) Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.Pulareeje : proverbes, sentences, maximes, devinettes peul e inde kabirde Maabo, Sakke, Baylo, Cuballo, vocabulaire des corps de métiers traditionnels : tissage, cordonnerie, forge, pêche / par Mamadou Ndiaye.
- Text
- Dakar : Centre de linguistique appliquee de Dakar, 1987.
- 1987
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 98-101 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
1001 popular Enuani maxims & proverbs / Chudi Okwechime.
- Text
- Marina, Lagos : Max-Henrie & Associates, c1995.
- 1995
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 98-2872 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Sagesse africaine : proverbes / Miariama Hima.
- Text
- Paris : La Table ronde, c1998.
- 1998
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc B 99-160 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Proverbes et maximes des Bahunde : migani / Daniel Kitsa Buunda Kafukulo.
- Text
- Paris, France : L'Harmattan, c1998.
- 1998
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 98-3123 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Parémies d'Afrique centrale : proverbes & sentences / Jérôme T. Kwenzi Mikala.
- Text
- Libreville, Gabon : Editions Raponda Walker, [1997]
- 1997
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 99-84 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Proverbios, adagios y refranes fang / Federico Abaga Ondó ; con el concurso de la Unión Europea, Programa Cultural Regional Bantú.
- Text
- Libreville, Gabon : Editions Raponda Walker, 1997.
- 1997
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 99-106 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Proverbes jóola de Casamance / Nazaire Diatta ; [Préface: Louis-Vincent Thomas].
- Text
- Paris : Karthala : Agence de la Francophonie (ACCT), c1998
- 1998
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 99-1268 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
African proverbs / Gerd de Ley ; some translations are made by David Potter.
- Text
- New York : Hippocrene Books, c1999.
- 1999
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 99-1208 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
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