Swahili-Forum
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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.
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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 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
- , University of Cologne, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Cologne, Germany.
- , University of Cologne, Institute for African Studies and Egyptology, Cologne, Germany.
- , University of Essex, Department of Language and Linguistics, Colchester, UK.
- , University of Essex, Department of Language and Linguistics, Colchester, UK.
- , German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Bonn, Germany.
- , Kyoto Sangyo University, Faculty of Sociology, Kyoto, Japan.
- , Université de Kisangani, Département des Lettres et Civilisations Africaines, Kisangani, DR Congo.
- , Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo, Japan.
- , University of Dar es Salaam, Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
- , SOAS University of London, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, London, UK.
- , University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany.
- , The State University of Zanzibar, Global Center for Swahili Studies and Advancement, Zanzibar, Tanzania.
- , Independent researcher, Cologne, Germany.
- , Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Department of Anthropology and African Studies, Mainz, Germany.
- , University of Cologne, Institute for African Studies and Egyptology, Cologne, Germany.
- , University of Hamburg, Department of African and Ethiopian Studies, Hamburg, Germany & University of the Free State, Department of African Languages, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
- , Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo, Japan.
- , University of Dar es Salaam, Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
- , Osaka University, Graduate School of Language & Culture, Osaka, Japan.
- , 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
- , University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Department of Asian, African and Mediterranean Studies, Naples, Italy.
- , University of Trier, Department of Sociology/Social Anthropology, Trier, Germany.
- , New Sorbonne University (Paris 3), Department of French and Romance Literature and Linguistics, Paris, France.
- , University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Department of Asian, African and Mediterranean Studies, Naples, Italy.
- , United States International University, Department of Languages and Literature, Nairobi, Kenya.
- , Hampshire College, School for Interdisciplinary Arts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA.
- , Beijing Foreign Studies University, School of Asian and African Studies, Beijing, China.
- , University of Leiden, African Studies Center/Center for the Arts in Society, Leiden, Netherlands.
- , University of Hamburg, Department of African and Ethiopian language studies, Hamburg, Germany.
- , Al-Azhar University, Department of African Languages, Cairo, Egypt.
- , 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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