"Long live our tribal jujus" - The range of meanings of the word juju in Cameroonian English

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https://doi.org/10.15460/auue.2020.93.1.217

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Cameroonian English, juju, lexical semantics

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In the following I analyse the range of meanings of the generic term juju in Cameroonian English based on short essays which were written by students from different South-western Cameroonian communities in 1968. The analysis shows that juju has a wide range of meanings, if can denote several semantically connected phenomena: 1. a secret society, 2. a supernatural power, 3. a mask which personifies a deity, 4. a performance, in which a deity occurs (in the form of a mask), 5. an object which has supernatural powers.

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2020-01-24

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2020-03-20

Published

2020-12-31

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Kempf, V. (2020). "Long live our tribal jujus" - The range of meanings of the word juju in Cameroonian English. Afrika Und Übersee, 93(1), 202–223. https://doi.org/10.15460/auue.2020.93.1.217

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Afrikanist:innentag