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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]
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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FixMyStreet Brussels: Socio-Demographic Inequality in Crowdsourced Civic Participation
, 2017 FixMyStreet (FMS) is a web-based civic participation platform that allows inhabitants to report environmental defects like potholes and damaged pavements to the government. In this paper, we examine the use of FMS in Brussels, the capital city of Belgium.
Chua, Alvin +2 more
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Intensification Of Teaching Russian To Swahili Speakers
Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2010 The article provides a contrastive analysis of Russian and Swahili, some phonetic and grammar similarities and differences between two languages are defined.
E A Nazartseva, L I Chauzova
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, 2002 The Swahili song Kijiti, whose text was composed by the famous taarab artist Siti binti Saad (1898-1950) to express her anger about the abuses committed against women that often remained unpunished.
Merolla, Daniela
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Swahili vs. English in Tanzania and the political discourse
Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2010 This paper deals with the role of Swahili and English in Tanzania. It gave examples of current language use illustrated by written records of middle class people’s verbal interaction.
Karsten Legère
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Journal of Linguistics, Literary and Communication StudiesIn this era of science and technology, the standardisation of the Swahili language in Tanzania has been developed due to the emergence of new words in various fields such as health, politics, ICT, and education.
Sarah Vincent, Neema Julius Luhwago
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, 2016 International audienceThis article presents the data collected and ASR systems developped for 4 sub-saharan african languages (Swahili, Hausa, Amharic and Wolof). To illustrate our methodology, the focus is made on Wolof (a very under-resourced language)
Besacier, Laurent +4 more
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Language Ideologies, Choices, and Practices in Eastern African Hip Hop [PDF]
, 2000 Hip hop emerged as a musical and cultural force during the late 1970s in the United States and has followed a global trajectory ever since. Artists and fans around the world filter North American hip hop styles through their own local musical, social ...
Fenn, John, Perullo, Alex
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Means of neologisms formation in Swahili language (based on english vocabulary)
Russian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN, 2012 The article is devoted to the main means of new words formation in Swahili language borrowed from English language, including political, scientific technical terms, geographical names.
L A Semenkova
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