Swahili-Forum
About us
Swahili Forum provides a unique platform for research articles on Swahili language, literature as well as on Swahili-speaking cultures and societies in Eastern Africa and the diaspora. As a peer-reviewed open-access journal, Swahili Forum has an unequalled status in international Swahili Studies.
The Journal
Published since 1994, Swahili Forum seeks to combine a high standard of scholarly publication with an open-access policy that allows for transcontinental accessibility and broad academic reception.
News
Current Issue
SwaFo 27 (2020)
Contents
In Memoriam
- Flavia Aiello
In Memory of Elena Bertoncini Zúbková
1—4 - Roberto Gaudioso
To the Eternal Presence of Poetry, to Euphrase Kezilahabi
5—16 - Kimani Njogu
Kumbukizi ya Kennedy Waliaula Walibora
17—26 - Aldin Mutembei
Kumbukizi ya Marehemu Steven Elisamia Mrikaria
27—31
Articles
- Kulikoyela K. Kahigi
Sitiari katika Kichomi — Uchambuzi wa Mojawapo ya Mbinu za Kifasihi ya Euphrase Kezilahabi
32—56 - Josephine Dzahene-Quarshie & Sarah Marjie
Negotiating Language Use in Specific Domains Among East African Migrant Students and Workers in Ghana
57—81 - Philippe Cassuto, Victor Ya. Porkhomovsky and Irina S. Ryabova
Swahili and Zulu versions of the Old Testament from a General Perspective of Bible Translations
82—98
Reviews
- Catherine Agoya-Watsuna
Rezension: Yuning Shen, Transitivität und Verbvalenz im Swahili (Köln: Köppe, 2018).
i—iv - Flavia Aiello
Review: Roberto Gaudioso, The Voice of the Text and its Body. The Continuous Reform of Euphrase Kezilahabi’s Poetics (Cologne: Köppe, 2019).
v—vii - Irene Brunotti
Mapitio: Kai Kresse, Swahili Muslim Publics and Postcolonial Experience (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2018 & Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota, 2019).
viii—xii
List of contributors
- Catherine Nanjala Agoya-Wotsuna, Department of Linguistics and Languages, German Studies, University of Nairobi.
- Flavia Aiello, Dipartimento Asia Africa e Mediterraneo, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale.
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Irene Brunotti, Institute of African Studies, University of Leipzig.
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Philippe Cassuto, Département des études moyen-orientales, Université Aix-Marseille.
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Josephine Dzahene-Quarshie, Department of Modern Languages / Confucius Institute, University of Ghana.
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Roberto Gaudioso, Dipartimento Asia Africa e Mediterraneo, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”.
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Kulikoyela K. Kahigi, Taasisi ya Taaluma za Kiswahili, Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam.
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Sarah Marjie, Department of Modern Languages, University of Ghana.
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Aldin K. Mutembei, Taasisi ya Taaluma za Kiswahili, Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam / Confucius Institute, University of Dar es Salaam.
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Kimani Njogu, Twaweza Communications, Nairobi.
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Victor Ya. Porkhomovsky, Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences.
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Irina S. Ryabova, Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences.
Special Issues
Special Issue:
Variation in Swahili
ed. by Daisuke Shinagawa & Nico Nassenstein
Contents:
- Nico Nassenstein & Daisuke Shinagawa
On Variation in Swahili: Current Approaches, Trends and Directions
1—45 - Kumiko Miyazaki & Keiko Takemura
Dialectal Variation in Swahili – Based on the Data Collected in Zanzibar
46—62 - Makoto Furumoto
*-mala ‘finish’ Derived Perfect(ive) Prefixes in Unguja Dialects of Swahili
63—88 - Meikal Mumin & Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
A Brief Sketch of Chimiini with Special Focus on Contact-Induced Phenomena
89—121 - Daisuke Shinagawa
The Syntactic Distribution of Relativizers and the Development of -enye Relative Constructions in Sheng
122—141 - Hannah Gibson, Gastor Mapunda, Lutz Marten, Sheena Shah & Julius Taji
Variation in Double Object Marking in Swahili
142—165 - Shigeki Kaji
How Did Swahili Expand as Far as Eastern Congo? An Account From its Structural Basis
166—180 - Sayaka Kutsukake & Nobuko Yoneda
Contact-Induced Language Divergence and Convergence in Tanzania: Forming New Varieties as Language Maintenance
181—204 - Nico Nassenstein
On the Variability of Kiswahili in Bujumbura (Burundi)
205—239 - Steffen Lorenz
Kiswahili in the Language Ecology of Gulu, Northern Uganda
240—257
- Paulin Baraka Bose
Analyzing Ways of Speaking Kivu Swahili: Variation and Ethnic Belonging
258—276 - Helma Pasch & Charles Kumbatulu
Kiswahili Loanwords in Pazande
277—291 - Gudrun Miehe
Swahili and its Speakers 2020: Review and Outlook
292—297
List of Contributors
- Paulin Baraka Bose, University of Cologne, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Cologne, Germany.
- Gerrit J. Dimmendaal, University of Cologne, Institute for African Studies and Egyptology, Cologne, Germany.
- Makoto Furumoto, University of Essex, Department of Language and Linguistics, Colchester, UK.
- Hannah Gibson, University of Essex, Department of Language and Linguistics, Colchester, UK.
- Steffen Lorenz, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Bonn, Germany.
- Shigeki Kaji, Kyoto Sangyo University, Faculty of Sociology, Kyoto, Japan.
- Charles Kumbatulu Sita Bangbasa, Université de Kisangani, Département des Lettres et Civilisations Africaines, Kisangani, DR Congo.
- Sayaka Kutsukake, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo, Japan.
- Gastor Mapunda, University of Dar es Salaam, Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
- Lutz Marten, SOAS University of London, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, London, UK.
- Gudrun Miehe, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany.
- Kumiko Miyazaki, The State University of Zanzibar, Global Center for Swahili Studies and Advancement, Zanzibar, Tanzania.
- Meikal Mumin, Independent researcher, Cologne, Germany.
- Nico Nassenstein, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Department of Anthropology and African Studies, Mainz, Germany.
- Helma Pasch, University of Cologne, Institute for African Studies and Egyptology, Cologne, Germany.
- Sheena Shah, University of Hamburg, Department of African and Ethiopian Studies, Hamburg, Germany & University of the Free State, Department of African Languages, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
- Daisuke Shinagawa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo, Japan.
- Julius Taji, University of Dar es Salaam, Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
- Keiko Takemura, Osaka University, Graduate School of Language & Culture, Osaka, Japan.
- Nobuko Yoneda, Osaka University, Graduate School of Language and Culture, Osaka, Japan.
SwaFo 25
Special Issue:
Swahili Literature in Global Exchange: Translations, Translators and Trends
ed. by Uta Reuster-Jahn & Serena Talento
Contents
- Uta Reuster-Jahn & Serena Talento
Introduction
1—15 - Annachiara Raia
Swahili Palimpsests: The Muslim stories beneath Swahili composition
16—41 - Flavia Aiello
Swahili Literature into Italian: The Challenge of Translating Abdilatif Abdalla's Poems
42—56 - Roberto Gaudioso
When Words Go Beyond Words: Notes on a Hermeneutical and Sensualistic Approach to Text and Translation in the Poems of Kezilahabi and Leopardi
57—74 - Nathalie Arnold Koenings
'Eating the Country' and 'Aluminium Foil': Questions in the Translation of Contemporary Literary Texts from and into Swahili
75—93 - Xavier Garnier
Translating Kezilahabi's Nagona and Mzingile into French
94—100 - Mikhail Gromov
Blowing the Summoning Horn: Euphrase Kezilahabi, Kithaka wa Mberia and Self-translation in Modern Swahili Poetry
101—117 - Claudia Böhme
Mediating Science Fiction Film through Translation and Commentary: the Star Wars Episode "Attack of the Clones" in Kiswahili
118—137 - Uta Reuster-Jahn
New Responses to Old Problems: how the German Translator Publisher is Making Swahili Literature Available in a Notoriously Difficult Market
138—157 - Zhao Lei
Historia Fupi ya Tafsiri za Vitabu vya Kiswahili Nchini China
158—164 - Mikhail Gromov
Swahili Literature in the Russian Language
165—168 - Flavia Aiello
Literary Translations at the University of Naples "L'Orientale"
169—173 - Alaa Salah
Tafsiri Baina ya Kiswhaili na Kiarabu Nchini Misri
174—185 - Nathalie Arnold Koenings
Seeing the World with Zanzibari Poet Nassor Hilal Kharusi
186—195
List of Contributors
- Flavia Aiello, University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Department of Asian, African and Mediterranean Studies, Naples, Italy.
- Claudia Böhme, University of Trier, Department of Sociology/Social Anthropology, Trier, Germany.
- Xavier Garnier, New Sorbonne University (Paris 3), Department of French and Romance Literature and Linguistics, Paris, France.
- Roberto Gaudioso, University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Department of Asian, African and Mediterranean Studies, Naples, Italy.
- Mikhail D. Gromov, United States International University, Department of Languages and Literature, Nairobi, Kenya.
- Nathalie Arnold Koenings, Hampshire College, School for Interdisciplinary Arts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA.
- Zhao Lei, Beijing Foreign Studies University, School of Asian and African Studies, Beijing, China.
- Annachiara Raia, University of Leiden, African Studies Center/Center for the Arts in Society, Leiden, Netherlands.
- Uta Reuster-Jahn, University of Hamburg, Department of African and Ethiopian language studies, Hamburg, Germany.
- Alaa Salah, Al-Azhar University, Department of African Languages, Cairo, Egypt.
- Serena Talento, University of Bayreuth, Literatures in African Languages, Bayreuth, Germany.
Special Issue:
Lugha ya Mitaani in Tanzania.
ed. by: Rose Marie Beck, Lutz Diegner, Clarissa Dittemer, Thomas Geider, Uta Reuster-Jahn
Contents
- Uta Reuster-Jahn & Roland Kießling
Lugha ya Mitaani in Tanzania. The Poetics and Sociology of a Young Urban Style of Speaking, with a Dictionary Comprising 1100 Words and Phrases
1—200
Special Issue:
Swahili Bibliography.
ed. by: Rose Marie Beck, Lutz Diegner, Thomas Geider, Uta Reuster-Jahn
Contents
- Thomas Geider
A Bibliography of Swahili Literature, Linguistics, Culture and History
1—101
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