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Priye E. Iyalla-Amadi
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2018.03.008
Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Rumuolumeni, Port Harcourt, Nigeria
The African cultural universe is quite replete with vivid imagery and condensed wisdom of the ways of man and nature gleaned over the years. Gerontocracy, governance by the elderly, an adopted mode of government by most African communities, mostly has its wisdom reflected in proverbs. Proverbs then become an administrative tool to resolve conflict among warring parties, communities or persons. In this paper, one of the objectives is to showcase instances of proverbs serving as tools for conflict resolution in D.O. Fagunwa’s Yoruba novel entitled Ogboju Ode Ninu Igbo Irunmọlẹ, which Abioye (1989) has translated as Le preux chasseur dans la forêt infestée de demons (The Forest of a Thousand Demons). Another objective is to study the translational strategies employed by Abioye to successfully translate the rich cultural African worldview encapsulated in Yoruba proverbs into French, a non-African language.
African cultural worldview, conflict resolution, Yoruba-French proverbs, translational strategies
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