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Traduire Mofolo
No full texttombe Mofolo La tombe de Thomas Mofolo (1876-1948) est située à Teyateyaneng, une ville près du pont de Peka, poste frontière très fréquenté par les travailleurs migrants du Lesotho. Sa famille y gère un supermarché. Mofolo repose derrière le supermarché, au milieu des détritus. L'auteur du roman Chaka (Galimard, 1939, 1982), célébré encore il y a peu dans son discours de Nobel par Le Clézio, n'est pas vraiment reconnu chez lui : mais comment "reconnaître" un écrivain ? Il y a bien un prix Mo..
Thomas Mofolo: the man, the writer and his contexts
No full textThomas Mofolo: the man, the writer and his context
Thomas Mofolo: The man, the writer and his contexts
Get PDFA substantial corpus of research has been published on Thomas Mofolo since the 1930s. Earlier portraits of Mofolo as a person leave much room for further amplification and improvement. The present research seeks to greatly enhance our understanding of Thomas Mofolo (1876-1948) by using a wealth of archival material, much of which is located at Morija Museum and Archives, and interviews with a variety of elderly informants, including Mofolo's last surviving daughter and other family members. As a result, Mofolo can now be seen more clearly as a person within the context of his large extended family, their antecedents in the wider region, his upbringing and educational formation, three successive marriages, professional life and business operations in a number of different contexts, involvement in political life, and the changing nature of his relationship with the church. The current article focuses on Mofolo's antecedents up until he began his literary career in 1905-6 at Morija, a subject that has received inadequate attention until now. By adding considerable texture to his early life and family history, as well as the historical and religious contexts and currents in which he was raised at Hermon, Qomoqomong and Morija, Thomas Mofolo emerges more clearly as an historical figure. For example, as a boy, we learn that Thomas imbibed a great deal from his father Abner Ramofolo Mofolo, a very hard-working and practically-oriented man, who was himself a gifted storyteller. Given the possibility of pursuing higher studies through the Protestant PEMS Mission, Thomas grabbed this opportunity and came to Morija at a particularly fruitful time during the 1890s, a time of ferment and great expectations. Mofolo, as part of an emerging cadre of "progressive ones" (bahlalefi or matsoelopele), developed his linguistic skills and eloquence to the point where, with the support of colleagues, he could dare to attempt something new, a creative synthesis of various forms of storytelling, indigenous and exogenous, in written Sesotho. His literary output has proved to be of enduring significance, and in the process he became, perhaps inadvertently, the father of the African novel
Preservation and Conservation of Library and Archival Materials: Lessons From Thomas Mofolo Library of the National University of Lesotho
No full textThe paper is on the preservation and conservation practices at Thomas Mofolo library. It examines the situation and the environment under which the library and archival materials are kept and made accessible to the users so as to pinpoint the main enemy of the TML collection. It goes on to look at the impact of increasing number of users on the dwindling resources.
The paper is divided into six parts. The first part is the introduction which deals with the structure of the paper. The second part is the background information on Thomas Mofolo Library. The third part is on the problems Thomas Mofolo Library experience with regard to the preservation and conservation of its collection. The fourth part is on the measures taken by Thomas Mofolo library to preserve its collection. The fifth part deals with the future activities of Thomas Mofolo Library on preservation and the sixth part is the conclusions.
ESARBICA Journal Vol.23 2004: 75-8
Towards silence: Thomas Mofolo, small literatures and poor translation
Get PDFIn his 2008 Nobel lecture, J. M. G. Le Clézio salutes all the writers with whom he lived, and at times against whom he argued, especially African writers: Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Ahmadou Kourouma, Mongo Beti, Alan Paton, with a concluding reference to Chaka by Thomas Mofolo. The other writers are well known, but Mofolo has always been largely ignored, or even misrepresented, by historians of literature. My first contact with the (excellent) French translation of Plaatje's Mhudi (1930) was a letter in which I was protesting against his inclusion of Mofolo in an anthology of Anglophone writers: as if the Sesotho text had no relevance; as if there was not a specific history of Sesotho textuality. It is my argument that for an innovative, original, but geographically marginal writer, such as Mofolo, superficial readings place a veil of ignorance on his books and relegate them to an obscure corner of Weltliteratur. My own reading has been influenced by the history of the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society (PEMS) and by the works of Tim Couzens. Drawing on the principle of coherence and seeing a continuity between Mofolo's literary project and his politics, I postulate a unity to his works and I am curious about his entire oeuvre and of course the position of Chaka in it. I am also curious about the various interpretations, produced by a series of translations, from 1930 up to 2007 which provide a frame of interpretatio
Registres, niveaux de langue et manipulations idéologiques : à propos de traductions de Chaka, une épopée bantoue de Thomas Mofolo
No full textAu travers d’une confrontation de trois traductions d’un même roman, Chaka, de Thomas Mofolo, dont deux sont dues à des missionnaires (1931, 1940), et la dernière (1981) à un critique africain, l’auteur tente de montrer comment elles se présentent comme autant de manipulations, ou de contre-manipulations idéologiques, qu’il s’agisse de registre ou de niveau. Mais il constate qu’une autre difficulté expliquerait en partie ces écarts : le problème du genre littéraire retenu comme modèle pour traduire ce chef-d’œuvre.Through a confrontation of three translations of the same novel, Chaka, by Thomas Mofolo, two by missionaries (1931, 1940) and the last by an African critic (1981), the author tries to show how they all amount to a series of ideological manipulations or counter manipulations, in terms of register or level. But he also notes how the choice of a literary genre could explain some of these differences
Retrospective review of indications for emergency obstetric referrals from Mofolo community health centre to Chris Hani-Baragwanath hospital
Get PDFA research report submitted to the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfilment of the degree of Master
of Science in Medicine in Emergency Medicine
11 May, 2016Objectives: To determine the referral rate, clinical indications, and ambulance response time for Emergency Obstetric Care referrals from Mofolo maternity obstetric unit (MOU) to CH Baragwanath Hospital (CH-B).
Method: A retrospective comparative study of the admission book records of women in labour who presented to Mofolo during the first 3 months of 2010 was conducted. Data from 624 presentations in the admission book were allocated into referred and non-referred groups with Excel spreadsheets.
Results: There were 317 deliveries at Mofolo MOU, of which 44 (13.9%) were transferred to CH-B after delivery. Referred neonates numbered 21 (6.5%), as 23 neonates accompanied their mothers who were referred. Women in labour that were referred to CH-B numbered 303. Thus, of 624 patients, there were 347 (55.6%) referred to CH-B. Sixty nine women were referred for pregnancy induced hypertension (19.9%). Prematurity referral was 17.7% (31.5 for premature rupture of membranes, 25 for preterm labour and 5 underweight babies; thus 61.5 / 347 = 17.7% of referrals). Partogram delay was the referral reason for 51 women (14.7%), and for meconium- stained amniotic fluid for 14.7%. Average ambulance response time was 48.2 minutes and 55% went by ambulance.
Conclusion: Neonatal referral rate at Mofolo MOU was 6.5%; down from the 33% at Chiawelo. The combined referral rate was similar; 55.6% at Mofolo MOU and 58.4% at Chiawelo MOU. This rise may be related to ease of referral process together with the increase in litigation. Mofolo MOU integration into the health district is facilitated by accessible referral path and the choice of transport as 55% went by ambulance.MT201
City Engineers Department, Johannesburg. Layout of the Central Portion of Mofolo Native Township, Klipspruit. No 49. 16/9/1953. Chief Architect: G Slade. NAD 53.177 Survey. Drawing: K75.
No full textCity Engineers Department, Johannesburg. Layout of the Central Portion of Mofolo Native Township, Klipspruit. No 49. 16/9/1953. Chief Architect: G Slade. NAD 53.177 Survey. Drawing: K75.City Engineers Department, Johannesburg. Layout of the Central Portion of Mofolo Native Township, Klipspruit. No 49. 16/9/1953. Chief Architect: G Slade. NAD 53.177 Survey. Drawing: K75
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