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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
wiley   +1 more source

On how 'middle' plus 'associative/reciprocal' became 'passive' in the Bantu A70 languages [PDF]

, 2010
In this paper we show that the Bantu A70 languages did not preserve the passive morpheme inherited from Proto-Bantu (PB), but developed a new suffix. It is a morpheme that is compound in origin, consisting of two verbal derivation suffixes which still ...
Bostoen, Koen, Nzang-Bie, Yolande
core   +1 more source

Inter‐Model Feature Fusion for Robust Low‐Resource Speech Recognition

Applied AI Letters, Volume 7, Issue 2, June 2026.
Our Self‐Supervised Feature Fusion (SSF‐FT) method enhances low‐resource speech recognition by adaptively combining features from self‐supervised models trained with Contrastive, Predictive, and Reconstruction objectives. This attention‐weighted ensemble delivers robust performance, particularly in acoustically challenging conditions, extending current
Ussen Kimanuka, Ciira wa Maina, Osman Büyük   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Swahili language in Afro-American culture [PDF]

, 2020
The article examines the role and functions of Swahili language in Africa and the USA, and using the vocabulary of Swahili in the Afro-American culture, particularly in the Afro-American festival of Kwanzaa, which founder is the American historian Maulana Karenga. Attention is also paid to ideology of Afrocentrism and replacing ‘slave’ names by Swahili
openaire   +1 more source

“Nothing for Us Without Us”: A Mixed Methods Study Examining the Acceptability, Feasibility, and Impact of Involving Guardians of Children With Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Tanzania as Public Contributors

Cancer Medicine, Volume 15, Issue 3, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Introduction In low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs) such as Tanzania, non‐adherence and treatment abandonment are major factors contributing to low childhood cancer survival rates. Providing guardians with reminders and information via an SMS intervention may increase adherence and reduce treatment abandonment.
Faraja Chiwanga, Guardian Advisory Board, Ruchius Philbert, David A. Richards, Abla Sami, Holly V. R. Sugg, Ida Österman Menander, Joanne Woodford, Louise von Essen   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Speaking Their Language: Language Inclusion and YouTube Agricultural Content Engagement in Africa

THE ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, Volume 92, Issue 2, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Efficiently educating farmers in effective agricultural practices is critical in resource‐limited developing countries. YouTube, with its broad accessibility and built‐in viewership tracking, presents a potential scalable platform for agricultural education.
N. Peter Reeves, Ahmed Ramadan, Victor G. Sal y Rosas Celi, John W. Medendorp, Anne N. Lutomia, Julia M. Bello‐Bravo, Barry R. Pittendrigh   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Improving the Computational Morphological Analysis of a Swahili Corpus for Lexicographic Purposes

Lexikos, 2011
<p>Abstract: Computational morphological analysis is an important first step in the automatic treatment of natural language and a useful lexicographic tool. This article describes a corpus-based approach to the morphological analysis of Swahili. We
Guy De Pauw, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
doaj   +1 more source

“Prétendre comme si on connaît pas une autre langue que le swahili”: Multilingual parents in Norway on change and continuity in their family language policies

International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2019
In this article, we examine how parents explain their choices of transmitting certain languages to their children, a key element of family language policies (FLP), in light of their dynamic linguistic repertoires and biographic experiences.
Judith Purkarthofer, G. Steien
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Transforming healthcare with large language models: Current applications, challenges, and future directions—a literature review

Journal of Intelligent Medicine, Volume 3, Issue 1, Page 8-25, March 2026.
Abstract AI‐based large language models (LLMs) have gradually made their way into various fields, transforming industries and changing the way we solve problems. LLMs have great potential in healthcare, where they can share the burden of data management, retrieval, and decision‐making.
Muhammad Umar, Vanessa Ali, Laiba Shamim, Imshaal Musharaf, Rabia Hafsa, Muhammad Umar Ahsan, Osama Ahmad, Lamea Bint Sabhan, Muhammad Saeed, Somaiya Ahmed, Sana Iftikhar, Noor Ul Ain   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

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, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, Peter Waiganjo Wagacha   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source