Swahili-Forum

Contents

Articles

• Rosanna Tramutoli
  Swahili Complex Predicates with Body Part Terms
  1—18
• Holger Tröbs
  Some Notes on the Discourse Function of Locative Inversion in Swahili
  19—47
• Alfred Malugu
  Utata katika ubainishaji wa fasihi ya watoto kwa kurejelea kitabu cha Mgomba Changaraweni
  48—65
• Roberto Gaudioso
  Liberating Criticism: Liberating Form and Thought. A Preliminary Comparative Study of Shona and Swahili Poetry
  66—94
• Ahmad Kipacha
  Manukato ya Kimanga: ‘Tarabizuna’ katika Ushairi wa Kiswahili wa Karne ya 19 na 20
  95—113
• Shani Omari Mchepange & Elizabeth Godwin Mahenge
  Methali za Kiswahili Zihusuzo Ulemavu: Mitazamo na Athari zake katika Jamii
  114—133

List of Contributors

• Roberto Gaudioso, Independent researcher, Naples, Italy.
• Ahmad Kipacha, School of Business Studies and Humanities, The Neslon Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Arusha, Tanzania.
• Elizabeth Godwin Mahenge, Department of Literature, Communication and Publishing, Institute of Kiswahili Studies, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
• Alfred Malugu, Rongo University, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Literature, Kenya.
• Shani Omari Mchepange, Department of Literature, Communication and Publishing, Institute of Kiswahili Studies, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
• Rosanna Tramutoli, post-doc research fellow at the University "L'Orientale" of Naples, Italy.
• Holger Tröbs, Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien, University of Mainz, Germany.

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: 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