Review published in:
Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
Vol. 32:1 (2017) ► pp. 186–193
Book review

Thompson & Koroma, (Eds), 2014. Krio Dictionary and Phrasebook and Umarr Kamarah & Jones, (Eds), 2013. Beg Sɔl Nɔba Kuk Sup: An Anthology of Krio Poetry

Hanne-Ruth Thompson & Momoh Taziff Koroma. Krio Dictionary and Phrasebook, Krio-English/English-Krio: A language of Sierra Leone
and New York: Hippocrene Books, 2014. vii + 222 pp. Paperback $14.95
andSheikh Umarr Kamarah & Marjorie Jones. Beg Sɔl Nɔba Kuk Sup: An Anthology of Krio Poetry
& Freetown: Sierra Leone Writers Series, 2013. xxiv + 103 pp. Paperback $15.00 http://www.sl-writers-series.org

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| University of Texas, Austin
Article outline
  • Krio Dictionary and Phrasebook by Hanne-Ruth Thompson and Momoh Taziff Koroma
  • Beg Sɔl Nɔba Kuk Sup: An Anthology of Krio Poetry. By Sheikh Umarr Kamarah & Marjorie Jones (eds.)
  • References


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Published online: 23 June 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.32.1.12han
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