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Integrating the In‐Laws: Class and Kin Support Within Marriage in Urban Kenya
Journal of Marriage and Family, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective This study compares affinal kin relationships in low‐income and higher‐income families in Nairobi, Kenya. Background In most studies of kinship structure and relationships in sub‐Saharan Africa, culture serves as the basis upon which norms and expectations of kin are differentiated.
Kirsten Stoebenau +3 more
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Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2004 Swahili Language Manager (SALAMA) is a computational environment for managing written Swahili language and for developing various kinds of language applications.
Arvi Hurskainen
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New Roles for African Languages with the New Electronic Media [PDF]
, 2005 Mass communication is not new in Africa. Until the mid-20th century aural surrogate languages were used to convey messages which would immediately reach many listeners and which could even be transmitted when the telephone line was interrupted, in ...
Pasch, Helma
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Performing Empire: Theater and Colonialism in Caroline Link's Nirgendwo in Afrika [PDF]
, 2020 In Caroline Link's popular 2001 film Nirgendwo in Afrika, a Jewish family fleeing the Holocaust finds refuge in British-controlled Kenya. Theater plays a crucial role in the film: Members of the Redlich family explicitly call upon one another to engage ...
Erickson, Peter
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Food Gifting and Household Food Security
Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Food gifting provides an important means of risk sharing in agrarian economies where farming households have limited access to formal credit and insurance markets. Food gifting is also an important source of food for households that are struggling with food scarcity.
Shaoyan Sun, Henry An, Philippe Marcoul
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International Journal of Personality PsychologyHuman social behavior is a function of peoples’ personalities and individual differences. As humans engage in social behaviors, peoples’ traits and other unique attributes come out and get noticed, and community members may feel tempted to talk about ...
Harrun H. Garrashi +2 more
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Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2005 Book Review: Kamusi ya Kiswahili Sanifu: Toleo la Pili. (A Standard Swahili-Swahili Dictionary. Second Edition.)
Arvi Hurskainen
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Hypothesis Testing based Intrinsic Evaluation of Word Embeddings
, 2017 We introduce the cross-match test - an exact, distribution free, high-dimensional hypothesis test as an intrinsic evaluation metric for word embeddings.
Gurnani, Nishant
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Fugitive Junctures: Life‐Seeking, Route‐Finding and the Mobile Ensemble at Kenya's Borders
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.Short Abstract Fugitivity has become an important conceptual frame to understand the illegalised mobilities of contemporary migrants in conjunction with enslaved people's historical lines of flight as spatial praxes to seize their own freedom. Thinking from Kenya, and drawing on research with migrants, border officials, activists, police and smugglers,
Hanno Brankamp
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A Corpus-based Survey of Four Electronic Swahili–English Bilingual Dictionaries
Lexikos, 2011 <p>Abstract: In this article we survey four different electronic bilingual dictionaries for the language pair Swahili–English. Aided by a data-driven morphological analyzer and part-of-speech tagger, we quantify the coverage of the dictionaries on ...
Guy De Pauw +2 more
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