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Language, Technology, and Social MediaSwahili, as a major lingua franca in East Africa, is undergoing significant transformation through digital communication, particularly on social media platforms.
Prisca Boniphace Makulilo
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Tathmini ya Kamusi Tano za Kiswahili
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2002 Makala hii inaeleza mbinu za kikompyuta za kutathmini kamusi, na inatoa pia matokeo ya tathmini ya kamusi tano za Kiswahili. Kamusi hizo ni: Kamusi ya Kiswahili Sanifu (TUKI), Kamusi ya Maana na Matumizi (OUP), Modern Swahili - Modern English Dictionary
Arvi Hurskainen
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article deals with anxiety about and the shaming of modern urban mothers and wives on the mines of the late colonial Central African Copperbelt. Women's various labours and public presence lead to ambivalent depictions, such as the ‘careless mother’, that were part of a broader array of anxieties about women's autonomy on the mines ...
Stephanie Lämmert
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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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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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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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British Journal of Learning Disabilities, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background The Chedoke‐McMaster Attitudes Towards Children with Handicaps (CATCH), a 36‐item scale, is widely used to assess children's attitudes toward peers with disabilities. While recognized for its strong validity and reliability, it was developed nearly four decades ago in Canada for children aged 9 to 13 and no longer fully aligns with ...
Angshuman K. Kashyap +2 more
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Multilingual assessment of early child development: Analyses from repeated observations of children in Kenya. [PDF]
, 2019 In many low- and middle-income countries, young children learn a mother tongue or indigenous language at home before entering the formal education system where they will need to understand and speak a countrys official language(s).
Ball J. +18 more
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Journal of Midwifery &Women's Health, EarlyView.Introduction Given the prevalence and consequences of unmet social needs in perinatal populations, there is a critical demand for perinatal care that addresses social needs. To better support health systems in providing comprehensive social and perinatal care services, this quality improvement initiative uses the Donabedian model for care quality to ...
Rebecca L. Emery Tavernier +7 more
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Poesia swahili in Katanga: multilinguismo e corporalità nei versi di Patrick Mudekereza
Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2019 The world of Swahili contemporary poetry, as remarked by M. M. Mulokozi and T. S. Y. Sengo (1995: 22), is amazingly broad, given the progressive diffusion of the Swahili language in the course of the last two centuries, from the East African coast to the
Flavia Aiello, Roberto Gaudioso
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