“254 Misemo Kwenye Khanga za Afrika Mashariki (Sayings on East African Cloth).” Collected and edited by Rev. Joseph G. Healey, M. M.   16 February, 2000.  19 pages duplicated.

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254 African sayings, idioms, proverbs, and riddles in Swahili and English on East African khangas (colorful cotton cloth with many designs).

NOTE: More background information on and explanations of these proverbs, sayings and other types of African Oral Literature are found in Chapter One especially the sections on “Oral Literature as a Source of an African Narrative Theology of Inculturation” and “Research Methodology Used in Collecting and Interpreting African Oral Literature” in the following book: Joseph G. Healey, M.M. and Donald F. Sybertz, M.M., Towards An African Narrative Theology (Nairobi: Paulines Publications Africa, 1996) and Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1997), 400 pages.

The complete text of this list of sayings is available online at:

Website of “De Proverbio — Electronic Journal,” Issue 11 (Volume 6, No. 1, 2000)
http://www.deproverbio.com/DPjournal/DP,6,1,00/HEALEY/KHANGA.html

Paper and e-mail copies of this list of sayings are available from:

Rev. Joseph G. Healey, M.M.	Research Committee
Maryknoll Missioners	Maryknoll Language School
P.O. Box 867	P.O. Box 298
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania	Musoma, Tanzania
E-Mail: moderator@afriprov.org

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