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Reading the Kenyan Swahili prose works:: A terra incognita in Swahili literature. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Kenyan Swahili creative writing has been in the shadow of Tanzanian creative works for a long time. Infact some critics even end up claiming that one cannot really talk of Kenyan Swahili prose creative writing.
Wamitila, Kyallo Wadi
core   +2 more sources

The word order in Swahili adnominal constructions with locative demonstratives

open access: yesNordic Journal of African Studies, 2015
This paper analyses the demonstratives of noun classes 16–18, the locative demonstratives, in Swahili. The main focus of the paper is the word order of these demonstratives in adnominal constructions.
Eva-Marie Bloom Ström
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring Distribution‐of‐Practice Effects on L2 Grammar Learning Among Older Adults

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines the effects of practice distribution among older adult learners of L2 English, an understudied population in both second language acquisition and distributed practice research. Additionally, it considers the effects of proficiency and age.
Raquel Serrano, Anna Gawlikowicz
wiley   +1 more source

Dentality areal features and phonological change in northeastern Bantu

open access: yesStudies in African Linguistics, 1985
A minority of the world's languages appear to have a series of dental (as opposed to alveolar) obstruents. Proto-Bantu does not have such a series, nor do most East African Bantu languages.
Derek Nurse
doaj   +3 more sources

A case for the adoption of Swahili as a language of early school literacy instruction in Ekegusii-speaking areas of western Kenya

open access: yesNordic Journal of African Studies, 2019
Swahili, a national and official language in Kenya, is in wide use in the country as an inter-ethnic medium of communication and, generally, as a lingua franca.
Peter Mose, Russell Kaschula
doaj   +1 more source

Financial Literacy Intervention and the Willingness to Pay for Digital Credits: A Scalable Video‐Based Approach in Kenya

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rapid growth in digital finance has expanded credit access for rural smallholders, yet financial capability has not kept pace with access. Where fee structures are opaque and search is costly, this gap raises the risk of expensive borrowing in digital financial services.
Albert Nsengumuremyi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The state of human papillomavirus research in Africa

open access: yesPublic Health Challenges, 2023
Background Human papillomavirus (HPV) research scholarship evaluation is pivotal to the strategic planning, implementation and sustainability of HPV prevention and control programmes in Africa.
Kehinde Kazeem Kanmodi   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
wiley   +1 more source

THE VIOLENCE OF FULL COST RECOVERY: Financing Water Infrastructure, and the History and Future of Perpetual Crisis in Mombasa

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Foregrounding the role of finance, this article examines the historical production and future trajectory of the urban water crisis in Mombasa. Drawing on archival research and contemporary fieldwork, it traces how principles of full cost recovery—institutionalized during the colonial period and later reworked through postcolonial ...
Joe Williams
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of Transnational Family Separation on Parenting and Psychosocial Well‐Being for Black African Migrant Parents in Hamilton

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In light of increased migration from sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA) to Hamilton in the past 5 years, this qualitative study explores the experiences of Black African migrant parents resettling in Hamilton, Canada. Using semi‐structured interviews and thematic analysis, four key themes emerged: (1) impact of migration and family separation stress on ...
Tsinat Semagn   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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