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[Review of] Ngugiwa Thiong\u27o. Decolonizing the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature [PDF]

open access: yes, 1987
This book, Decolonising the Mind, is my farewell to English as a vehicle for any of my writings. From now on it is Gikuyu and Kiswahili all the way. This declaration by Ngugi wa Thiong\u27o is one he has every right to make.
Bruner, David K.
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Assessing the Readiness of Nairobi Deaf Youth to Accept a Best-practice HIV/AIDS Intervention [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
After nearly forty years of HIV/AIDS research in the global community, data on HIV/AIDS in the Deaf population is still disproportionately neglected. No surveillance system is in place to monitor prevalence, awareness or mode of HIV infection in the Deaf
Morrell, Ke\u27ala
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Rangi za Kiswahili

open access: yes, 2012
Swahili has a larger inventory of (more or less \"basic\") colour terms than most Bantu languages. The aim of this article is to present this colour terminology and to point out semantic, syntactic and morphological divergences. We also look at the etymology of the various colour terms and try to establish a chronology of the growth (and decline?) of ...
openaire   +1 more source

Reviews

open access: yesStudies in African Languages and Cultures, 1997
Reviews of: English-Swahili Dictionary. Kamusi ya Kiingereza-Kiswahili, Dar es Salaam: Institute of Kiswahili Research [Taasisi ya Uchunguzi wa Kiswahili - TUKI], University of Dar es Salaam, 1996, XX + 883 pp.
Rajmund Ohly   +2 more
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Dar es Salaam as a 'Harbour of Peace' in East Africa: Tracing the Role of Creolized Urban Ethnicity in Nation-State Formation [PDF]

open access: yes
Dar es Salaam is exceptional in East Africa for having a record of relatively little ethnic tension, and remaining tranquil and true to its name, the ‘harbour of peace’. This paper explores the interface between ethnic and national identities in Tanzania’
Fahy Bryceson, Deborah
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