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The noncausal/causal alternation in Swahili

Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2022
Haspelmath (1993) investigates types of noncausal/causal alternation and examines 31 verb pairs in 21 languages, including Swahili, a Bantu language spoken in East Africa.
Nobuko Yoneda
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Modern Swahili: an integration of Arabic culture into Swahili literature

Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2018
Due to her geographical position, the African continent has for many centuries hosted visitors from other continents such as Asia and Europe. Such visitors came to Africa as explorers, missionaries, traders and colonialists. Over the years, the continent
Hanah Chaga Mwaliwa
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Uundaji wa Istilahi za Kiswahili Kileksikografia na Athari zake

Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2007
The promotion of terminology has been one of the challenges of the development of Swahili language, especially after the year 1967 when Swahili was handed over the new responsibilities of being the official language in the activities of the government ...
S. S. Sewangi
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Swahili in Academic Writing

Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2003
Swahili, an important indigenous language of wider communication in Eastern and Central African countries, has been and continues to be used effectively in specialist communication for almost three decades now.
H. J. M. Mwansoko
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Le kiswahili : une politique linguistique d’exception au Tanganyika

Les Cahiers d’Afrique de l’Est, 2012
This article presents the language policy in Tanganyika under German and British colonizations through textbooks. In this territory, the language of instruction was Swahili, an African language used and propagated by Muslim traders, and then European ...
Aude Chanson
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Negotiating Authority between Family Members at Work in Iringa, Tanzania

Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2022
This article focuses on a single interaction taking place in a tree nursery located in a village of the Iringa Region in Tanzania. In a country which built its unity around one language, Swahili, this article intends to show how code-switching between ...
Nathaniel Gernez
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Educational Publishing in African Languages, With a Focus on Swahili in Kenya

Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2002
This paper argues the case for more educational publications in Swahili as a good medium educational and national development. It acknowledges that education is not only a capital investment in the development of human resources but it also immensely ...
Nathan Oyori Ogechi, Emily Bosire-Ogechi
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Exploring Haji Gora Haji’s poetics in his collection Shuwari

Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2020
This article has its roots in a project carried out with Irene Brunotti (University of Leipzig), the result of which was the publication of a bilingual Swahili-English edition of the latest collection of poems by Haji Gora Haji, a well-known Swahili poet
Flavia Aiello
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From A-Town to ATL: The Politics of Translation in Global Hip Hop Culture [PDF]

, 2015
This article examines the linguistic and cultural tensions in global Hip Hop culture through an analysis of the performance of Gsann, an emcee from the Tanzanian Hip Hop crew X Plastaz, at the 2009 Black Entertainment Television (BET) Hip Hop Awards in ...
Droessler, Holger
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From seed to plant: vegetal images and metaphors in Swahili poetry

Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2016
The article analyses a few Swahili poems; the focusing on the use of metaphorical language and the resulting images in order to represent the cultural context in which both classical and modern Swahili poetry play its role as medium of knowledge. Swahili
Graziella Acquaviva
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