Sentence examples for african speech from inspiring English sources

Otherwise you may find yourself stumbling over some of the tongue-twisting West African speech sprinkled throughout.

Awoonor's poetry, rooted in the oral poetry of his history, has kept close to the vernacular rhythms of African speech and poetry.

From the beginning Father Akpan had an ear for African speech in all its variety — pidgin and patois and local dialects.

Jump to media player The prince included some choice phrases from the West African language in his speech in Lagos.

The story loops and swoops, in its evocation of the black American experience in the 20th century, expressing a complex literary surface in a musical and often poetic language that's infused with the rhythms of African American speech and song.

The merger she's looking for, more widespread among whites, is a distinctive feature of African American speech here.

There the Brooklyn-born composer hoped to absorb the feeling of the Southern setting and the accent and rhythms of African American speech.

Did his prose style, as the novelist Russell Banks claimed that evening, take its bearings from Emerson, or was it, as the writer Hilton Als put it, "a high-faggot style", or did it originate, as John Edgar Wideman claimed, from a mixture of the King James Bible and African American speech?

Ghana's first president Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah in his African Genius speech at the opening of the Institute of African Studies in Accra, made a metaphoric reference to academic costume.

Images derive from a 1960 Look profile of Richard Adams, an African American speech therapist and social worker who worked with primarily white children in rural Iowa.

Recent work has illustrated considerable regional variation across and within African Americans' speech communities (Yaeger Dror & Thomas 2010; Wolfram 2007, 2015; Wolfram & Kohn 2015).