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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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Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2021 Contemporary Swahili novels transgress the boundaries of the novel text itself. They employ metatextualities of different categories in order to fulfil a variety of functions.
Lutz Diegner
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Swahili Children’s Literature in Contemporary Tanzania
Journal Des Africanistes, 2010 This article will explore the relationship between literature and education, between the oral and written genres, between nationalism, pluralism and internationalisation in Swahili children’s literature produced in Tanzania since the 1990’s. During the years of African Socialism (Ujamaa), Swahili literature was meant to promote the language and to ...
Aiello Traoré, Flavia, AIELLO, Flavia
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A divisive disease: Clashing treatments for HIV/AIDS in Swahili literature
Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2022 The aim of this paper is to illustrate the historical evolution of the “clashes between epistemes in relation to the treatment of illness”, which characterize Swahili literary genres on HIV/AIDS (Nicolini 2022) through an exploration of Swahili novels ...
Cristina Nicolini
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Which Arabic Dialect Are Swahili Words From?
Studia Orientalia Electronica, 2022 This article investigates the Arabic component of the Standard Swahili lexicon, aiming to identify the Omani Arabic dialect which comprises the dominant donor of loanwords to Swahili.
Zev Brook
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The Heterogeneity of Swahili Literature
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2000 The naming of literatures has been traditionally reposed in the geo-cultural analogy. In consequence, we talk of established categories like German literature or Chinese literature as geo-culturally bound national literatures.
Said A. M. Khamis
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Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2021 This paper deals with a theme that has been a topical issue since the beginning of 2020, the outbreak of coronavirus, by comparison with the philosophical and epistemological aspects of HIV/AIDS as they are reflected in different genres of Swahili ...
Cristina Nicolini
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Community participatory approaches in infectious disease dynamic transmission modelling: a scoping review protocol [PDF]
BMJ OpenIntroduction Community participatory modelling merges participatory research approaches with mathematical modelling. Participatory approaches are grounded in the engagement of people with lived experience (eg, who are affected by the health condition ...
Stefan Baral +13 more
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The Metrical Features of Old Swahili Dance Poems
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2021 This paper aims to describe the metrical features of tumbuizo, Swahili poems which, allegedly due to their antiquity, present very different stylistic elements from later compositions based on regular metres inspired from Arabic poetry.
Emiliano Minerba
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Swahili Poetic Tradition: Main Stages of Development (on Example of Tendi and Mashairi Genres)
Научный диалог, 2022 The stages of development of the main traditional Swahili poetic genres of tendi and mashairi, starting from the period of their formation and ending with the current state are discussed in the article.
N. S. Frolova
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