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Swahili Palimpsests: The Muslim stories beneath Swahili compositions

, 2018
Although a textual relationship between Arabic Muslim texts and their rendition through Swahili epic poems (tendi) is acknowledged in Swahili poetry studies, “translation” is not a straightforward explanation of this relationship.
Raia, Annachiara, Raia, A.
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Children’s books & African languages: Swahili literature for younger readers

, 2013
Since independence, language and instruction policies in African countries have generally not promoted people's literacy or readership in African languages.
AIELLO, Flavia
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The treatment of phraseological units (PUs) in dictionaries

Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 1995
This is part of an ongoing research geared towards a ph.d. dissertation titled ‘Phraseological Units and Dictionary. The Case of Swahili Language’. This article investigates the general treatment of PUs in various dictionaries (monolingual, bilingual ...
Albina Rogati Chuwa
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The Role of Shift-Induced Interference in the Development of a Typologically Rare Phonological Contrast in Somali Bantu Kizigua

TIPA. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage, 2015
This paper discusses the development of a typologically rare phonological contrast in an under-documented language called Somali Bantu Kizigua. The contrast in question is a contrast between two coronal places of articulation for NC (Nasal + Consonant ...
Holman Tse
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New Responses to Old Problems: How the German Translator Publisher is Making Swahili Literature Available in a Notoriously Difficult Market

, 2019
This article shows how changing ideologies and evolving market forces have combined to lessen German publishers’ enthusiasm for Swahili literature – and how, surprisingly, translators of Swahili are now taking the initiative to ensure that Swahili ...
Reuster-Jahn, Uta
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THE PRESENT STATE OF SWAHILI LITERATURE AS AN ARTISTIC AND SOCIAL PHENOMENON

, 2014
This study is aimed at giving an overall picture of present state of creative writing in the language of Swahili in the Eastern part of the African continent, i.e.
Gromov, Mikhail D.
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La memoria coloniale nella narrativa swahili contemporanea

, 2016
The memory of the colonial experience is a recurrent topic in the Swahili prose produced after the independencies. The present article investigates how East African writers creating in the Swahili language reconstructed and preserved the local ...
AIELLO, Flavia
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Religion and the Development of Swahili Political Poetry

, 2009
Religion and literature have a powerful symbiotic relationship.Just as the former renders truth of a kind, so is literature anexpression of truth about society. In both one encounters sharedconcerns for and responses to life.
Simala, KI, KI Simala
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A quarter century of Swahili corpus building (1999-2024)

== 1. My way … == 1999: Kiswahili Internet Corpus (KIC), version 1 [1.03m, synchronic] *** 2000: Kiswahili Internet Corpus (KIC), version 2 [2.7m, synchronic] *** 2001 – 2003: Kiswahili Internet Corpus (KIC), version 3 [+ 2.4m, synchronic] *** 2003 ...
de Schryver, Gilles-MauriceLW21LW220019891140298010014649590000-0001-7272-9878F6071184-F0ED-11E1-A9DE-61C894A0A6B4
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Progressive Swahili bibliography (1990s - 2001)

, 2012
Once more we can offer our readers some further titles of the Swahili- related research literature, some brand new in publication, others already out since years, yet still not yet put on record for the wider world of Swahilists.
Geider, Thomas
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