Swahili-Forum

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.

• Irene Brunotti, Institute of African Studies, University of Leipzig.

• Philippe Cassuto, Département des études moyen-orientales, Université Aix-Marseille.

• Josephine Dzahene-Quarshie, Department of Modern Languages / Confucius Institute, University of Ghana.

• Roberto Gaudioso, Dipartimento Asia Africa e Mediterraneo, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”.

• Kulikoyela K. Kahigi, Taasisi ya Taaluma za Kiswahili, Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam.

• Sarah Marjie, Department of Modern Languages, University of Ghana.

• Aldin K. Mutembei, Taasisi ya Taaluma za Kiswahili, Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam / Confucius Institute, University of Dar es Salaam.

• Kimani Njogu, Twaweza Communications, Nairobi.

• Victor Ya. Porkhomovsky, Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences.

• Irina S. Ryabova, Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences.

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