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Reclaiming Our Subjugated Truths—Using Hip Hop as a Form of Decolonizing Public Pedagogy: The Case of Didier Awadi [PDF]
, 2019 This paper explores how Senegalese Hip Hop pioneer, Didier Awadi, uses Hip Hop as a form of decolonizing public pedagogy that renders the contributions of Pan-African leaders visible to Africa and the world, contributions that are often omitted and ...
Da Sylva, Joanna D
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Grammaticalization of auxiliary verbs in Swahili
Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2003 The goal of the present paper is to show the complexity of auxiliary verbs category, and in particular to study semantic differences in the meanings of particular verbs, their structural and syntactical features.
Beata Wójtowicz
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American Journal of Islam and Society, 2016 European colonialism and missionization in Africa initiated a massive orthographic shift across the continent, as local languages that had been written for centuries in Arabic letters were forcibly re-written in Roman orthography through language ...
Caitlyn Bolton
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Use of address forms in directive speech acts in Swahili
Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 1997 Although the sociolingustic studies of the address rules developed very strongly as early as in the 1960s, Braun, Kohz and Schubert (1986) list only 12 references regarding AF in Bantu languages, which include Swahili, half of the references involving ...
Zofia Podobińska
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Intonation of accentuation in the agglutinative languages (in comparison with Russian)
RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2017 The author continues to explore the intonation of different utterances in various world languages. The subject and the theme of the research is intonation of accented syntagms in a typical agglutinative language that Swahili is in comparison with Russian.
S S Khromov
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Kinship metaphors in Swahili language and culture
STUDIES IN AFRICAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES, 2018 Swahili kinship terms are highly polysemous and occur in many figurative meanings out of which some are fully conventionalized in language usage. The article focuses on a specific case of such extensions which metaphorically frames an unrelated person as one’s kin.
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Proverbs and Sayings of the Swahili Language in Written Discourse
RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and JournalismExamines the peculiarities of the use of proverbs and sayings of the Swahili language in written discourse, especially in literature and modern media texts. Such a study is being conducted for the first time in Russian bantu studies. The aim to establish
Victoria S. Shatokhina
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Reduplication in Swahili language
Reduplication is a characteristic feature in Bantu languages, including Swahili. This feature is found in verbs and pronouns. It is not possible to describe all nuances of meaning for all occurrences of reduplication. However, such features as emphasis, continuous action, and sometimes relaxed or playful action can be found. The study of these features
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Patriarchal Masculinity in Recent Swahili-language Muslim Sermons [PDF]
The Journal of Religion in Africa, 2016 This paper offers a close examination of statements on patriarchal masculinity from three widely traded sermon recordings produced in Zanzibar, Tanzania. It sets them in the context of Islamic reform, Muslim political discontent, and the consumption of sermon recordings in East Africa.
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Cross-Culture Adaptation and Psychometric Properties of the DrInC Questionnaire in Tanzanian Swahili
Frontiers in Public Health, 2018 Aims: To develop Swahili versions of the Drinker Inventory of Consequences (DrInC) and evaluate its psychometric properties among a mixed population in Tanzania.Methods: A Swahili version of the DrInC was developed by a panel of bilingual Swahili and ...
Duan Zhao +7 more
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