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Language and social structure : A case study of the tourism industry in Kenya [PDF]
, 1983 In this study I investigate the question who speaks which language to whom and for what purpose on the basis of a conceptualization of society which differs from previous sociolinguistic research.
Crampton, Diana
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Styles of Swahili carving. [PDF]
, 1996 As a woodcarver since the age of fifteen, I have been a keen observer of carving patterns and motifs practiced by contemporary Swahili wood carvers. In my investigations, I discovered that carvers along the coast of East Africa, do not practice a uniform
Athman, Athman Hussein
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Uchunguzi (Journal Watch/Montre de Journal)
African Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2015 Uchunguzi means investigation in Swahili and provides a summary of some of the most recent international literature as presented in other leading journals, but with an emphasis on what is relevant to our continent.
Benjamin W. Wachira
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Discovering Usage Patterns for the Swahili amba- Relative Forms cl. 16, 17, 18
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2005 The paper discovers and describes generalised usage patterns meant for assisting second language Swahili learners in appropriate use of the amba- locatives by applying corpus-based discovery procedures where the actual communication environment of each ...
Maddalena Toscano, Simon Sewangi
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Urban Planning, 2022 Self-building is the prevalent mode of urban production in rapidly urbanizing African cities. National and international policy frameworks, as well as popular discourse, still portray self-building as an informal and temporary fix for insufficient state ...
Priscila Izar
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Ritual practices, hypnotic suggestions and trance-like states in Swahili written literature
Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2021 This article suggests an interdisciplinary analysis of Swahili written literature from Tanzania through the principles of hypnosis, such as trance-like states, post-hypnotic suggestions, therapeutic metaphors and negative autohypnosis, produced during ...
Cristina Nicolini
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The role of commercial and cultural links of East Africa and the Persian Gulf in the Zār ritual [PDF]
تحقیقات تاریخ اقتصادی ایران, 2023 Black slaves were one of the important trade items that have been popular since ancient times and continued more or less after the Islamic conquests.
Ali Bahranipour, Seyede Zahra Zarei
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From Andalusia to Yemen: the origin of the Swahili stanzaic metres
Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2020 In this paper I will propose a prosodic analysis of three important metres of the Swahili literary tradition, which are utenzi, shairi and wimbo. Despite the great difference between them concerning usage and context of composition, in fact, their ...
Emiliano Minerba
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Greater Swahili – Swahili Varieties in L2+ Swahili Teaching [PDF]
, 2023 In this paper, I focus on what we could call the ‘myth of Standard Swahili’ and its consequences for language teaching. Instead of distinguishing between ‘standard’ and ‘deviant’ varieties of Swahili, I suggest the term Greater Swahili to designate the ...
Waldburger, Daniela
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Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2023 This paper stems from the challenge of translating Pirandello’s plays into Swahili and is aimed to open up a polylogue between Italian and Swahili literature. Therefore, in searching for connections between Luigi Pirandello’s and Penina Muhando’s plays,
Cristina Nicolini
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