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Special Issue

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

Contents:

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.

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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.

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Reviews

List of Contributors

  • John Habwe, Idara ya Kiswahili, Chuo Kikuu cha Nairobi / Department of Kiswahili, University of Nairobi, Kenya.
  • Mwenda Mbatiah, Idara ya Kiswahili, Chuo Kikuu cha Nairobi / Department of Kiswahili, University of Nairobi, Kenya.
  • Frida Akinyi Miruka, Shule ya Sanaa na Sayansi za Kijamii, Idara ya Lugha na Fasihi katika Elimu, Chuo Kikuu cha Masinde Muliro cha Sayansi & Teknolojia / School of Arts & Social Sciences, Department of Languages, Literature in Education., Masinde Muliro University of Science & Technology Kakamega, Kenya.
  • Elizabeth Kasau Mue, Idara ya Fani na Sayansi za Kijamii, Chuo Kikuu cha Kabianga / Department of Arts and Social Sciences, Kabianga University, Kenya.
  • Eliud Teyie Musotsi, Shule ya Sanaa na Sayansi za Kijamii, Idara ya Lugha na Fasihi katika Elimu, Chuo Kikuu Cha Masinde Muliro Cha Sayansi & Teknolojia, Kakamega/School of Arts and Social Science, Department of Language and Literature in Education, Masinde Muliro University of Science & Technology Kakamega, Kenya.
  • Nico Nassenstein, Department of Anthropology and African Studies, Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz, Germany.
  • Benard Odoyo Okal, Idara ya Kiswahili na Lugha Nyingine za Kiafrika, Chuo Kikuu cha Maseno Department of Kiswahili and other African Languages, Maseno University, Kenya.
  • Richard Makhanu Wafula, Idara ya Kiswahili na Lugha za Kiafrika, Chuo Kikuu cha Kenyatta / Department of Kiswahili and African Languages, Kenyatta University, Kenya.

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In Memoriam


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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 and Nico Nassenstein

Contents:


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.

Special Issue:

Swahili Literature in Global Exchange: Translations, Translators and Trends
ed. by Uta Reuster-Jahn and Serena Talento

Contents


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.

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Reviews


List of contributors

  • Aiello, Flavia, Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale", Dipartimento di Asia, Africa e Mediterraneo, Italy.
  • Githinji, Peter, Kenyatta University, Fine Art and Design, Kenya.
  • Kipacha, Ahmad, The Nelson Mandela African Institutions of Sciences and Technology, School of Business Studies and Humanities, Tanzania.
  • Koenings, Nathalie Arnold, Hampshire College, Interdisciplinary Arts, Massachusetts (US).
  • Minerba, Emiliano, Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale", Dipartimento di Asia, Africa e Mediterraneo, Italy.
  • Talento, Serena, University of Bayreuth, Literatures in African Languages, Germany.
  • Njoroge, Martin C, Pan African Christian University, Communication, Languages and Linguistics, Kenya.

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