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Linguistics terminology and neologisms in Swahili : rules vs. practice
, 2020 In this article we discuss the use of Swahili terminology in the field of linguistics. In particular, we are interested in finding out whether the rules laid out by scholars in the scientific literature for the creation of terminological neologisms in ...
de Schryver, Gilles-Maurice
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“Thunder” and “Relief”: Contemporary Popular Web Writers and their Commitment to Swahili Literature
This paper investigates the latest development of ‘Swahili popular web literature’ that I call fasihi pendwa pepe in 21st century Tanzania. With the enhancement of communication technologies, further boosted by the Covid-19 pandemic, Swahili online ...
Nicolini, Cristina
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Nordic Journal of African StudiesThe autobiography of Nicco ye Mbajo (1950–2021) provides insight into the life of an artist and his experiences as a cultural producer in Tanzania from independence to recent times.
Uta Reuster-Jahn
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The Morpho-Syntactic and Semantic-Pragmatic Realisation of Definiteness and Specificity in Swahili
, 2018 This paper studies the realisation of definiteness and specificity in Swahili. Available literature on the realisation of definiteness and specificity in Swahili focuses mainly on the morphological domain and only marginally on the syntactic domain ...
Kimambo, Gerald Eliniongoze
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Comic in Swahili or Swahili comic?
, 2012 As a subject of scientific interest `Western` comics (i.e. the European, American, Japanese comics) have after all achieved some recognition. From its beginnings in the 1890s the comic has been an economic success, and gradually gained importance in the ...
Beck, Rose Marie
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Mashairi: a surviving art of the Swahili Muslim peoples of Lamu Town, Kenya
, 2022 This research focuses on the phenomenon of Swahili poetry and its continued existence amongst Swahilis in Lamu Town, a performative art that is gradually waning in traditional contexts.
Mwaniki, Simon
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This paper analyses a rich selection of educational and moralising novellas and novelettes written in Swahili and published by the Benedictine Ndanda Missionary Press in Tanzania.
Nicolini, Cristina
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Exploited Edens: paradise discourse in colonial and postcolonial literature [PDF]
This thesis examines the relation between figures of paradise and the ideologies and economies of colonialism, imperialism, and global capitalism, arguing that paradise myth is the product of a value-laden discourse related to profit, labour, and ...
Deckard, Sharae Grace
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Swahili technical terminology: problems of development and usage in Kenya
, 2012 It is a fact that modern science and technology from the west has reached Africa through European languages. Historically, these languages have also served as the vehicles of formal education in Africa to the exclusion of Swahili and other local ...
King´ei, Geoffrey Kitula
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