Swahili-Forum

Contents
Articles

• Jenipher Wariaelli Ayo & Perida Mgecha
  Mabadiliko Yanayojitokeza Katika Msamiati wa Lugha ya Kimeru
  1-23
• Sammy Liana Dimbu
  Miundomaikro na Mahusiano ya Uwezo Katika Hotuba ya Rais Samia Suluhu Katika Kikao Cha Pamoja Cha Mabunge ya Kitaifa, Kenya
  24-42
• Elishafati J. Ndumiwe
  Uchunguzi wa Dhima na Ruwaza za Utokeaji wa Kiambishi Cha Yambwa Katika Sentensi za Kiswahili
  43-62
• Deo Ngonyani
  Akina: Associative plural and its polysemy in Swahili
  63-80

Mapitio

• Irene Brunotti
  Review: Mapitio: Mystical Power and Politics on the Swahili Coast. Uchawi in Pemba. Koenings, Nathalie Arnold. 2024. Woodbridge & New York: Boydell & Brewer
  i-iii

List of Contributors

• Jenipher Wariaelli Ayo, Chuo Kikuu Tumaini Makumira.
• Irene Brunotti, Institute of African Studies, Leipzig University.
• Sammy Liana Dimbu, Idara ya Fani, Chuo Kikuu cha Chuka.
• Perida Mgecha, Chuo Kikuu Tumaini Makumira.
• Elishafati J. Ndumiwe, Chuo Kikuu cha Mtakatifu Agustino (SAUT-Mwanza).
• Deo Ngonyani, Michigan State University.

Special Issue

Critical Swahili Studies
ed. by Irene Brunotti, Serena Talento, Duncan Tarrant, Clarissa Vierke

Contents:

• Irene Brunotti, Serena Talento, Duncan Tarrant and Clarissa Vierke
  Introduction
  1—23
• Abdilatif Abdalla, Irene Brunotti, Kai Kresse na Farouk Topan
  Critical Swahili Studies: a Collective Exercise in ‘Concepting’ Uswahili
  24—66
• Aldin K. Mutembei
  Fifty-five Years of Kiswahili Studies at Mlimani: Challenges, Prospects and New Perspectives
  67—77
• Josephine Dzahene-Quarshie
  What Are You Going to Do With Your Swah? Investigating Students’ Attitudes Towards Kiswahili Studies at the University of Ghana
  78—103
• Alaa Salah
  Hali ya Ufundishaji wa Kiswahili Nchini Misri Historia na Maendeleo
  104—116
• Alamin Mazrui na Kimani Njogu
  Kiswahili Katika Enzi ya Utandawazi: Baina ya Afrika na Amerika
  117—137
• Pat Caplan
  Speaking Swahili, Being Swahili? Some Reflections on a Shifting Field Over The Past Half Century
  138—151
• Daniela Waldburger
  Greater Swahili – Swahili Varieties in L2+ Swahili Teaching
  152—170
• Birgit Englert
  Swahilité in the French Comorian Diaspora
  171—182
• T. Michael Mboya
  The Kenyan Mwananchi and the National Language: Kiswahili and “Pili Mswahili” by Moreno Batamba et l’Orchestre Moja One
  183—195
• Iwona Kraska-Szlenk
  Kiswahili Research in Cognitive and Cultural Linguistics
  196—214
• Richard Prins
  The Dance of the Spinning Top: Translating Resistance in the Poetry of Muyaka
  215—232
• Muchi na Bahati
  Siku Moja Ofisini – Nafasi ya Upapasi Mjini Zanzibar
  233—250

List of Contributors

• Abdilatif Abdalla, Institute of African Studies, Leipzig University.
• Irene Bahati Brunotti, Institute of African Studies, Leipzig University.
• Pat Caplan. Goldsmiths University of London.
• Josephine Dzahene-Quarshie, Department of Modern Languages, University of Ghana.
• Birgit Englert, Department of African Studies, University of Vienna.
• Iwona Kraska-Slenk, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw.
• Kai Kresse, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin.
• Alamin Mazrui, Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences - African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures.
• Tom Michael Mboya, School of Arts and Social Sciences, Department of Literature, Linguistics, Foreign Languages and Film Studies, Moi University.
• Muchi, ofisini, Zanzibar mjini.
• Aldin K. Mutembei, Taasisi ya Taaluma za Kiswahili, Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam.
• Kimani Njogu, Twaweza Communications, Nairobi.
• Richard Prins, Center for the art of translation, San Francisco.
• Alaa Salah, Department of African Languages, Al-Azhar University, Cairo.
• Serena Talento, Languages & Literatures in African Languages, Bayreuth.
• Duncan Tarrant, Languages & Literatures in African Languages, Bayreuth University.
• Farouk Topan, Aga Khan University, London.
• Clarissa Vierke, Languages & Literatures in African Languages, Bayreuth University.
• Daniela Waldburger, University of Vienna, Department of African Studies.

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.

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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 Uta Reuster-Jahn & Roland Kießling

Contents

• 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:

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