“Five and Five Does Not Make Ten …”

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" “Five and Five Does Not Make Ten …” "
Aderemi Raji-Oyelade, Zaynab Ango

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1076805
Doc. No	:	LA120434
Call No	:	‭10.1163/18757421-05102013‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Aderemi Raji-Oyelade
	:	Zaynab Ango
Title & Author	:	“Five and Five Does Not Make Ten …” [Article]\ Aderemi Raji-Oyelade, Zaynab Ango
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Matatu
Date	:	2020
Volume/ Issue Number	:	51/2
Page No	:	406–416
Abstract	:	The scholarship of change and transformations in proverbs has become an emergent industry in contemporary African studies. The term in transgressive paremiography used for this phenomenon of transformation is called postproverbials. Postproverbiality in Fulfulde is one illustration of the engagement with perspectives of modernities, and aspects of change in worldviews among the Ful’be. “Five and five does not make ten, …” is a signal Ful’be proverbial clause which represents the early interactional history of trade, political and jurisprudent relations between the Ful’be and the predominant Hausa communities of Northern Nigeria. The proverb has experienced a radical reception and turning, based on contemporary social relations and literacy. It is employed in this essay as a symbolic example of how change in proverb construction can also be a challenge to received history. Thirteen pairs of Ful’be proverbs and postproverbials will be deployed to establish the phenomenon of transgressive proverb-making among contemporary Ful’be speakers. The essay will highlight the peculiar forms of extensions, adaptations and cutterage that have been invested into the making of new radical Fulbe proverbs, usually by a younger generation of Fulfulde speakers whose attempt (inadvertent or deliberate) is ultimately to break conventions through newly invented proverbs.
Descriptor	:	African Studies
Descriptor	:	Comparative Studies World Literature
Descriptor	:	Criticism Theory
Descriptor	:	Cultural History
Descriptor	:	Ful’be
Descriptor	:	Fulfulde
Descriptor	:	Literature Culture
Descriptor	:	Literature and Cultural Studies
Descriptor	:	Postcolonial Literature Culture
Descriptor	:	postproverbials
Descriptor	:	proverb transformation
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/18757421-05102013‬