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Linguistic complexity: A case study from Swahili
, 2018 This paper addresses the question of linguistic complexity in Swahili, a Bantu language spoken in East and Central Africa. Literature on linguistic complexity in other languages has argued that high levels of second-language learning affect linguistic ...
Kyle Jerro, Jerro, Kyle
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Integrating the In‐Laws: Class and Kin Support Within Marriage in Urban Kenya
Journal of Marriage and Family, Volume 88, Issue 3, Page 777-790, June 2026.ABSTRACT Objective This study compares affinal kin relationships in low‐income and higher‐income families in Nairobi, Kenya. Background In most studies of kinship structure and relationships in sub‐Saharan Africa, culture serves as the basis upon which norms and expectations of kin are differentiated.
Kirsten Stoebenau +3 more
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, 2020 The article discusses the problem of the development of a scientific approach and Swahili terminology by national Swahili literary science in the context of the emergence of new Swahili poetry in the 1970s against the background of prevailing ...
Frolova, Natalya S.
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Bridging New Divides: Ethnic Linkages and Trade in Africa
South African Journal of Economics, Volume 94, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT This paper studies the effects of ethnic linkages on trade between countries within Africa. I construct a digitised and geo‐referenced dataset of historical ethnic territories for pre‐colonial Africa. The empirical strategy exploits the role of historical ethnic territories in shaping the current distribution of ethnic groups across countries ...
Conrad Copeland
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Rare individual in Swahili literature comes to print
, 2014 SITI Binti Saad has been a rare individual in Swahili literature..
Mhando, M.
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Fugitive Junctures: Life‐Seeking, Route‐Finding and the Mobile Ensemble at Kenya's Borders
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 2, June 2026.Short Abstract Fugitivity has become an important conceptual frame to understand the illegalised mobilities of contemporary migrants in conjunction with enslaved people's historical lines of flight as spatial praxes to seize their own freedom. Thinking from Kenya, and drawing on research with migrants, border officials, activists, police and smugglers,
Hanno Brankamp
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Swahili popular literature in recent years
, 2008 The article outlines recent trends in popular writing in Swahili in Kenya and Tanzania, the research being mainly based on titles published after the year 2000, by both well-known writers and newcomers.
Gromov, Mikhail D.
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Machine learning intervention on cyber-hate in code-switch texts: a systematic review with open challenges and solutions [PDF]
PeerJ Computer SciencePerpetrators of cyber-hate are increasingly using code-switching, which is the alternation of languages within a single text, to evade automated moderation systems.
Nanlir Sallau Mullah +3 more
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Semantic Analysis of Swahili Action Verb “To cut”: A Natural Semantic Metalanguage Approach
, 2023 This research paper aims to analyze the Swahili action verb “to cut” within the framework of Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) theory. The study also seeks to identify other Swahili verbs that share similar semantic correlations.
Wahome, Maina, Kepirianto, Catur
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The Morality of Schooling: Women's Education as an Arena for Social Tension in Cabo Delgado [PDF]
KronosIn this article, I reflect on education as a continuing arena of tension for people in Cabo Delgado. The tension between formal (state-sponsored) and religious education as a backdrop of the conflict in Cabo Delgado has been widely mentioned but largely ...
Carmeliza Rosario
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