The Journal

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.

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.

Contents

Articles

• Mwenda Mbatiah
  Usawiri wa Wapwani na Uhusiano wao na Makundi Mengine katika Kazi za Rocha Chimerah
  1—13

• Benard Odoyo Okal
  Uhakiki wa Riwaya ya Paradiso kwa Msingi wa Nadharia ya Uhalisia
  14—33

• Richard Makhanu Wafula & Elizabeth Kasau Mue
  Uchanganuzi wa Riwaya ya Kiza Katika Nuru ya Said Ahmed Mohamed kwa Misingi ya Umarxi Mpya wa Kifreire
  34—45

• Eliud Teyie Musotsi, Frida Akinyi Miruka & Bernard Odoyo Okal
  Matumizi Mema ya Viakifishi katika Uimarishaji wa Mawasiliano katika Lugha ya Kiswahili: Mfano wa Riwaya ya Mkamandume
  46—57

• John Hamu Habwe
  Maenezi ya Lugha ya Kiswahili Nchini Sudan Kusini: Mafanikio na Changamoto
  58—71

Reviews

• Nico Nassenstein
  Review: Xavier Luffin (ed.), Un autre regard sur l’histoire congolaise. Les documents arabes et swahilis dans les archives belges (1880-1899). Fontes Historiae Africanae (Bruxelles: ARSOM-KAOW, 2020)
  i—v

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.

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 & 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 and Nico Nassenstein

Contents:

• Nico Nassenstein and Daisuke Shinagawa
  On Variation in Swahili: Current Approaches, Trends and Directions
  1—45
• Kumiko Miyazaki and 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 and 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 and 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 and 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 and 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.

Special Issue:

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

Contents

• Uta Reuster-Jahn and 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.

Contents

• Ahmad Kipacha
  Uchuro katika Nathari Teule za Euphrase Kezilahabi
  1—15
• Nathalie Arnold Koenings
  Ikiwa Kuna Shibe, Maziwa Hayauzwi: Food, History, and Community Well-being in Twentieth Century Pemba, Zanzibar
  16—36
• Emiliano Minerba
  A Frightening Play: the Element of Horror in Hussein’s Mashetani
  37—61
• Peter Githinji and Martin Njoroge
  Folklinguistic perceptions and Attitudes Towards Kenyan Varieties of Swahili
  62—84

Reviews

• Flavia Aiello
  In Memoriam Jean De Dieu Karangwa 28.10.1962—9.2.2017
  i—iii
• Serena Talento
  Ushairi na Uhuru. Poesie Scelte di Abdilatif Abdalla e Euphrase Kezilahabi. Mkusanyo wa Tungo za Abdilatif Abdalla na Euphrase Kezilahabi. Curatori e Traduttori. Wahariri na Wafasiri Flavia Aiello e Roberto Gaudioso. Napoli: Il Torcoliere, 2017.
  iv—vii

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.

Contents

• Josephine Dzahene-Quarshie
  Localizing Global Trends in Sms Texting Language Among Students in Ghana and Tanzania
  1—20
• Shani Omari
  Swahili Modern Proverbs: the Role of Literary Writers and Social Network Users
  21—46
• Grace Njeri Waweru
  Usimulizi katika Tamthilia za Kithaka wa Mbeira
  47—63
• Adam Rodgers Johns
  The Enigmatic Black Bird's Poem and its Performance in William Mkufya's Ziraili na Zirani
  64—75
• Fuko Onoda
  Circular Motifs and Structure in Euphrase Kezilahabi's Nagona and Mzingile and an Ongoing Buddhistic Study
  76—97
• Cristina Nicolini
  Uhakiki wa Tamthilia za Kiswahili Zihusuzo VVV/UKIMWI
  98—121
• Bernard Odoyo Okal, Florence Indede and Ernest Sangai Mohochi
  Uchanganuzi wa Hiponimia za Vitenzi vya Kiswahili
  122—136

In memoriam

• Hezekiel Peter Gikambi
  Omar Babu Marjan "Abu Marjan" 14 Julai 1967 — 20 Januari 2015 Kumbukumbu ya Kumuenzi Mwenzetu Marehemu
  137—143
• Elizabeth Mahenge, Emmanuel Mbogo
  Kumbukizi ya Marehemu Mwalimu Edwin Semzaba
  144—153

Reviews

• Maud Devos
  Les Extensions Verbales en Swahili Standard. East African Languages and Dialects 24. Racine, Odile. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2015, 251 pp, ISBN 978-3-89645-709-7.
  i—viii

List of Contributors

• Devos, Maud, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Culture & Society Research Unit/Ghent University, African Languages and Cultures, Belgium.
• Dzahene-Quarshie, Josephine, University of Ghana, Department of Modern Languages/ School of Languages, Ghana.
• Gikambi, Hezekiel Peter, Catholic University of East Africa, Kenya.
• Indede, Florence, Chuo Kikuu cha Maseno, Idara ya Kiswahili na Lugha Nyingine za Kiafrika, Kenya.
• Johns, Adam Rodgers, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), UK.
• Mahenge, Elizabeth Godwin, University of Dar es Salaam, Institute of Kiswahili Studies, Tanzania.
• Mbogo, Emmanuel, Open University of Tanzania, Tanzania.
• Mohochi, Ernest Sangai, Chuo Kikuu cha Rongo, Idara ya Lugha, Isimu na Fasihi, Kenya. 
• Nicolini, Cristina, LUISS University of Rome, Italy.
• Okal, Benard Odoyo, Chuo Kikuu cha Maseno, Idara ya Kiswahili na Lugha Nyingine za Kiafrika, Kenya.
• Omari, Shani, University of Dar es Salaam Institute of Kiswahili Studies, Department of Literature, Communication, and Publishing, Tanzania.
• Onoda, Fuko, Osaka University, Graduate School of Language and Culture, Japan.
• Waweru, Grace Njeri, Kenyatta University, Kenya.

Contents

• Ahmad Kipacha
  Taswira za Ndege katika Maandiko ya Shaaban Robert
  1—19
• Makoto Furumoto
  On the Copula in the Kikae Dialect of Swahili
  20—41
• Ambrose K. Ngesa, Enock Matundura & John Kobia
  Mwingilianomatini katika Tamthilia za Kiswahili: Mashetani na Kijiba cha Moyo
  42—71
• Rosanna Tramutoli
  'Love' Encoding in Swahili: a Semantic Description through a Corpus-Based Analysis
  72—103
• Mukhata Chrispinus Wanyonyi
  Ishara na Uashiriaji kama Nyenzo ya Mtindo, Maana na Kiwakilishi cha Itikadi katika Riwaya ya Nyuso za Mwanamke
  104—118

Reviews

• Walter Schicho
  ‘La parole construit le pays’. Thêatre, langues et didactisme au Katanga (République Démocratique du Congo). Le Lay, Maëline. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2014, 496 pp, broché cousu, 15,5 x 23,5 cm, ISBN 978-2-74532-791-8.
  i—v
• Flavia Aiello Traoré
  Le Swahili de Lubumbashi. Grammaire, textes, lexique. [The Swahili from Lubumbashi. Grammar, texts, lexicon] Aurélia Ferrari, Marcel Kalunga and georges Mulumbwa. 2014. Paris: Editions Karthala, 226 pp., ISBN 978-2-8111-1130-4.
  vi—viii

List of contributors

Contents

• Uta Reuster-Jahn
  English versus Swahili: Language Choice in Bongo Flava as Expression of Cultural and Economic Changes in Tanzania
  1—25

• Vicensia Shule
  Sanaa kwa Maendeleo Tanzania: kati ya Kujiweza na Kuwezwa
  26—39
• Flavia Aiello Traoré
  Memory in Translation: “Mau Mau” Detainee and its Swahili Translation
  40—59
• Mikhail D. Gromov
  Facing the Language Border: Multi-Lingualism in Two Novels of M. G. Vassanji
  60—75
• Roberto Gaudioso
  Kuwako na Wakati: Mipaka ya Lugha kama Hatua za Falsafa katika Mashairi ya Euphrase Kezilahabi
  76—103
• Ahmad Kipacha
  Misemo katika Lugha za Magari: Divai Mpya?
  104—121

Reviews

• Flavia Aiello Traoré
  Life and Poems of Bi Zainab Himid (1920-2002) – in Swahili with English Translation. Maisha na Tungo za Bi Zainab Himid (1920-2002) – kwa Kiswahili na tafsiri yake kwa Kiingereza. Ed. by Sauda Barwani and Ludwig Gerhardt. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2012, 331 pp., 2 b/w photos, 8 facsimile reproductions, hardcover, size 18 x 26 cm. ISBN 978-3-89645-286-3.
  i—iii
• Birgit Englert
  Bongo Media Worlds. Producing and Consuming Popular Culture in Dar es Salaam (Mainzer Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung, 34). Ed. by Matthias Krings and Uta Reuster-Jahn. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2014, 286 pp, softcover, size 17 x 24 cm. ISBN 978-3-89645-834-6.
  iv—vi

List of Contributors

Contents

• Mahmoud Ahmad Abdulkadir and P. J. L. Frankl
  Kiswahili: a poem by Mahmoud Ahmad Abdulkadir to Which is Appended a List of the Poet’s Compositions in Verse
  1—18
• Flavia Aiello Traore
  Translating Culture: Literary Translations into Swahili by East African Translators
  19—30
• Pat Caplan
  Changing Swahili Cultures in a Globalising World: an Approach from Anthropology
  31—47
• Issa Mwamzandi
  Riwaya Teule za Karne ya Ishirini na Moja na Udurusu wa Nadharia za Fasihi
  48—66
• Daines Sanga
  Traditional Dances and Bongo Fleva: a Study of Youth Participation in Ngoma Groups in Tanzania
  67—84
• Serena Talento
  Of Presences/Absences, Identity and Power: the Ideological Role of Translation into Swahili during Late Pre-Colonial and Early Colonial Times
  85—101
• Rayya Timammy and Amiri Swaleh
  Wanawake Wachukua Hatua Nyingine: Analyzing Women’s Identities in Kiswahili Short Stories
  102—114
   

List of Contributors

Contents

• Ahmad Kipacha
  Launi za Kiswahili Sanifu na Kiswahili Fasaha kwa Tanzania Bara na Zanzibar
  1—22
• Angelus Mnenuka
  Tofauti ya Dhana ya Mwanamke katika Jamii: Mifano kutoka katika Taarab (Mipasho) na Nyimbo za Kibena
  23—44
• Aaron Louis Rosenberg
  Tegeni Masikio: Composing East African Realities through Young Eyes
  45—59
• Xavier Garnier
  Le Poète Swahili et sa Légende. Le Cas de Hemed Abdallah el-Buhry dit «Mzee Kibao»
  60—71
• Benedetta Lanfranchi
  Daring to be Destructive Euphrase Kezilahabi's Onto-criticism
  72—87
• Lou Akusua De Giuli
  Ziraili na Zirani, a Philosophical Analysis
  88—95
• Charlotte E. S. Elvidge
  "Time is a Wall": a Spectrum Representation of Traditions and Modernities
  96—105
• Xavier Garnier
  Talking about Oneself to Act in the World: a Swahili Autobiography (Shaaban Robert, Maisha Yangu na baada ya Miaka Hamsini [My Life and after Fifty Yeras])
  106—116
• Mwenda Mbatiah
  Deviation as a Communicative Strategy in Gamba la Nyoka
  117—126

Reviews

• Mikhail D. Gromov
  East African Literature: Essays on Written and Oral Traditions. Ed. by J.K.S. Makokha, Egara Kabaji and Dominica Dipio. Berlin: Logos Verlag, 2011, 513 pp. ISBN 978-3-8325-2816-4.
  i—viii

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Contents

• Ingeborg Grau & Walter Schicho
  In Memoriam Irmi Maral-Hanak
  3—4
• Aurelia Ferrari
  Instrumentalisation du Swahili dans l’Espace Revendicatif Afro-américain et Commentaires de Locuteurs Swahili sur la Célébration Kwanzaa
  5—23
• Sangai Mohochi
  Mielekeo ya Wasomi na Viongozi Kuhusu Lugha ya Kiswahili   
  24—36
• Adam Shafi & Lutz Diegner
  Mazungumzo na Adam Shafi juu ya Uandishi wake wa Riwaya
  37—68
• Shani Omari
  Call Me ‘Top in Dar’: The Role of Pseudonyms in Bongo Fleva Music
  69—86
• Yohana P. Msanjila
  Utata wa Kutumia Lugha kama Kibainishi cha Utambulisho wa Mzungumzaji
  87—96
• James Omboga Zaja
  Translating the Language of Development Communication into Kiswahili: A Case of Mediating Meaning, Difference and Ambiguity in Cross-Cultural Communication
  97—113
• Dorothee Rieger
  Swahili as a Tense Prominent Language. Proposal for a Systematic Grammar of Tense, Aspect and Mood in Swahili
  114—134
• Magdaline N. Wafula
  ‘Tradition’ versus ‘Modernity’: Generational Conflict in Vuta N’kuvute, Kufa Kuzikana, Msimu wa Vipepeo and Tumaini
  135—162
• Florence Indede
  Mwanamke Angali Tata katika Ushairi wa Kisasa?
  163—197
• Aldin Mutembei
  Kukitandawazisha Kiswahili Kupitia Simu za Kiganjani: Tafakari kuhusu Isimujamii
  198—210
• Thomas Geider †
  A Bibliography of Swahili Literature, Linguistics, Culture and History. Update 2003-2009
  211—244

Reviews

• Asha Khamis Hamad
  Hilal 2007. Mfinyanzi Aingia Kasri – Siti Binti Saad, Malkia wa Taarab. Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota.
  245—247

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Contents

• Kimani Njogu
  In Memoriam/Kumbukumbu ya John Francis Marchmant Middleton   
  3—8
• Chege Githiora and Angelica Baschiera
  In Memoriam Mu’allim Yahya Ali Omar, Swahili Scholar
  9—10
• Uta Reuster-Jahn
  In Memoriam Thomas Geider
  11—13
• David Leslie
  Hekima and Busara – Are They Different Concepts and How Do They Relate to Utu?
  24—33
• Alena Rettová
  Philosophy in Utenzi Metre. Expression of Ideas and Values in Post-Independence Swahili Historiographic Poetry and the Mediality of African Philosophy
  34—57
• Katriina Ranne
  Heavenly Drops. The Image of Water in Traditional Islamic Swahili Poetry
  58—81
• Jasmin Mahazi
  Shela Koma na Mizimu Mema - Remembering Our Ancestors
  82—90
• Elena Bertoncini-Zúbková
  Stylistic Innovation and Social Commitment in Kithaka wa Mberia's Poetry
  91—103
• Steven Elisamia Mrikaria
  Kejeli na Fasihi ya Kiswahili – Tanzania
  104—125
• John Hamu Habwe
  Politeness Phenomena: A Case of Kiswahili Honorifics
  126—142
• Ken Walibora Waliaula
  Uhalisia na Uhalisiamazingaombwe: Mshabaha kati ya Dunia Yao na The Tin Drum
  143—157

Reviews

• Elena Bertoncini-Zúbková
  Garnier 2006. Le roman Swahili. La notion de “littérature mineure” à l’épreuve. Paris: Éditions Karthala.
  i—iii

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Special Issue:

Contents

• Gudrun Miehe & Henrike Firsching
  Special Issue: Exploring Krapf's Dictionary
  1—205

Contents

• Mikhail D. Gromov
  In Memoriam Ben Rashid Mtobwa
  3—4
• Mikhail D. Gromov
  Swahili Popular Literature in Recent Years
  5—13
• Elena Bertoncini-Zúbková
  What's Wrong with the Marine and the Beauty?
  15—23
• Uta Reuster-Jahn
  Newspaper Serials in Tanzania: the Case of Eric James Shigongo (with an Interview)
  25—50
• Tiina Sakkos
  Existentialism and Feminism in Kezilahabi's Novel Kichwamaji
  51—61
• Flavia Aiello Traoré
  Family and Society in Said Ahmed Mohamed's Novels
  63—72
• Florence Ngesa Indede
  Mabadiliko katika Umbo la Ushairi na Athari zake katika Ushairi wa Kiswahili
  73—94
• Raija Kramer
  Ubaopogoa – Barua Taka – Mfumo Endeshi. Der computerspezifische Wortschatz des Open Swahili Localization Project
  95—113
• Nelli V. Gromova
  Maswali Machache ya Usanifishaji wa Kiswahili (jingine au lingine?)
  115—120
• Kiarie Wa'Njogu
  Ufundishaji wa Kiswahili Marekani: Maendeleo na Changamoto
  121—133

Interview

• Mikhail D. Gromov
  Mahojiano na Ben R. Mtobwa
  135—140

List of Contributors

Contents

• Gudrun Miehe
  In Memoriam Andrej Aleksejevic Zhukov
  1
• Natalya S. Frolova
  The “Renovated” Poetry of Theobald Mvungi and Said Ahmed Mohamed: on Mechanisms of Transformation of Traditional Swahili Verse
  5—15
• Xavier Luffin
  On the Swahili Documents in Arabic Script from the Congo (19th Century)
  17—26
• Clarissa Vierke
  Of Plants and Women. A Working Edition of Two Swahili Plant Poems
  27—80
• D. Okoth Okombo & John Hamu Habwe
  Pragmatic Strategies in the Use of Kiswahili Demonstratives
  81—88
• Alena Rettová
  Lidství ni Utu? Ubinadamu Baina ya Tamaduni
  89—134
• Vilém Rehák
  Kazimoto and Meursault: “Brothers” in Despair and Loneliness. Comparing Kezilahabi’s Kichwamaji and Camus’ L’Etranger
  135—151
• Elena Bertoncini-Zúbková
  A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed: Ken Walibora’s Novel Kufa Kuzikana
  153—163
• Said A. M. Khamis
  The Swahili Novelist at the Crossroads: The Dilemma of Identity and Fecundity
  165—180
• Flavia Aiello Traoré
  Women’s Taarab Lyrics in Contemporary Zanzibar
  181—195
• Steven Elisamia Mrikaria
  Fasihi Simulizi na Teknolojia Mpya
  197—206
• Maria Suriano
  ‘Mimi ni msanii, kioo cha jamii’. Urban Youth Culture in Tanzania as Seen through Bongo Fleva and Hip-Hop
  207—223
• Uta Reuster-Jahn
  Let’s Go Party! Discourse and Self-Portrayal in the Bongo Fleva-Song Mikasi
  225—244
• James Ogola Onyango
  Masculinities in Kiswahili Children's Literature in Kenya
  245—254

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Special Issue:

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

Contents

• Elena Bertoncini-Zúbková
  William E. Mkufya’s Latest Novel Ua La Faraja: a Commitment to the Fight against HIV/AIDS
  3—13
• Alena Rettová
  “The Best of all Possible Worlds”? The Creation of a World in William E. Mkufya’s Ziraili na Zirani
  15—24
• Lutz Diegner
  Intertextuality in the Contemporary Swahili Novel: Euphrase Kezilahabi’s Nagona and William E. Mkufya’s Ziraili na Zirani
  25—35
• William E. Mkufya
  Mazungumzo na Lutz Diegner juu ya Riwaya ya Ziraili na Zirani (1999)
  37—62
• Pompea Nocera
  An Interpretation of Said Ahmed Mohamed’s Novel Kiza katika Nuru and Some Aspects of Translation
  63—80
• John P. Mbonde
  Gabriel Ruhumbika: Janga Sugu la Wazawa (2002). Uchambuzi na Uhakiki
  81—93
• Kyallo Wadi Wamitila
  Mahojiano Mafupi na Lutz Diegner juu ya Riwaya ya Bina-Adamu! (2002)
  95—97
• Flavia Aiello Traoré
  Translating a Swahili Novel into “Kizungu”: Separazione, the Italian Edition of Said Ahmed Mohamed’s Utengano
  99—107
• Yared M. Kihore
  Uzingatifu wa Sarufi katika Tafsiri
  109—120
• Deo Gratias Ngonyani
  Vitendawili vya Kiswahili: Usambamba wake na Dhima yake katika Jamii
  121—132
• Said A. M. Khamis
  Clash of Interests and Conceptualisation of Taarab in East Africa
  133—159
• Irene Brunotti
  Ngoma ni Uhuni? Ngoma za Kisasa Mjini Zanzibar
  161—171
• Ludger Wimmelbücker
  Der Bericht des Mzee bin Ramadhani über den Maji-Maji-Krieg im Bezirk Songea: Swahili-Text und zeitgenössische deutsche Übersetzung mit einem einführenden Kommentar
  173—203
• Yohana P. Msanjila
  Hali ya Kiswahili katika Shule za Sekondari Tanzania: Udhalilishaji wa Lugha ya Taifa?
  205—218
• James Ogola Onyango
  Issues in National Language Terminology Development in Kenya
  219—234

Reviews

• Irmtraud Herms
  TUKI 2004. Kamusi ya Kiswahili Sanifu. Toleo la Pili.
  235—240

List of Contributors

Contents

• Said A. M. Khamis
  Versatility of the Taarab Lyric: Local Aspects and Global Influences
  3—37
• Elena Bertoncini-Zúbková
  Mayai — Waziri wa Maradhi. Magic Realism in Kezilahabi's Long Time — Unpublished Short Story
  9—44
• Alena Rettová
  Afrophone Philosophies: Possibilities and Practice. The Reflexion of Philosophical Influences in Euphrase Kezilahabi's Nagona and Mzingile
  45—68
• Graziella Acquaviva
  Jazanda ya Njozi katika Baadhi ya Mashairi ya Euphrase Kezilahabi
  69—73
• Flavia Aiello Traoré
  Continuity and Change in Zanzibari Taarab Performance and Poetry
  75—81
• Kineene wa Mutiso
  Al-Busiri and Muhamad Mshela: Two Great Sufi Poets
  83—90
• Nathan Oyori Ogechi
  Athari za Mabadiliko ya Mitaala ya Kiswahili katika Uandishi na Uchapishaji
  92—105
• Yared M. Kihore
  Masuala ya Kisarufi katika Magazeti ya Mitaani ya Kiswahili Nchini Tanzania
  107—119
• Nelli V. Gromova
  Tafsiri Mpya za Fasihi ya Kirusi katika Kiswahili
  121—125
• Alice Mwihaki
  Meaning as Use: A Functional View of Semantics and Pragmatics
  127—139
• Zofia Podobinska
  Un Couple Polono-Tanzanien Serait-il Heureux? Recherches dans le Domaine de la Communication Interculturelle
  141—169
• Ursula Maria Drolc
  Asili ya Matumizi ya Iko katika Kiswahili cha Bara
  171—177
• Ahmad Kipacha
  Kingome—English Lexicon
  179—209
• John P. Mbonde
  Chachage Seithy L. Chachage: Makuadi wa Soko Huria (2002) — Uchambuzi na Uhakiki
  211—226
• Lutz Diegner
  Mahojiano na Chachage Seithy L. Chachage juu ya Riwaya yake Makuadi wa Soko Huria (2002)
  227—234

Reviews

• Lutz Diegner
  Kyallo Wadi Wamitila. 2003. Kamusi ya Fasihi. Istilahi na Nadharia
  235—237
   

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Special Issue:

Contents

• Thomas Geider
  A Bibliography of Swahili Literature, Linguistics, Culture and History 
  1—101

Contents

• Yahya Ali Omar and Annmarie Drury
  The Swahili Manuscripts Project at SOAS                   
  9—17
• Kineene wa Mutiso
  Sufii al-Busiri
  19—24
• Elena Bertoncini-Zúbková
  When Grandfather Came to Life Again: Said Ahmed Mohamed's New Novel Beyond Realism
  25—33
• Flavia Aiello Traoré
  Investigating Topics and Style in Vuta n'kuvute by Shafi Adam Shafi
  35—41
• Lutz Diegner
  Allegories in Euphrase Kezilahabi's Early Novels
  43—74
• Sonja Mezger
  Roman Catholic Faith Represented in Kezilahabi's Mzingile
  75—85
• Lutz Marten
  A Lexical Treatment for Stem Markers in Swahili
  87—100
• Sofia Podobinska
  How Are Directives Formulated in Swahili? Strategy Types and the Status of the Participants of an Interaction
  101—123
• P. Mbatha Mathooko
  Kutoka Lugha Kienzo hadi Lugha ya Isimu: Matatizo Yanayotinga Kiswahili kama Lugha ya Kufunzia Isimu Vyuoni Vikuu Nchini Kenya
  125—133
• G. Kitula King'ei
  The Swahilization of Kenya's Socio-Political Culture
  135—142
• John G. Kiango
  Nafasi ya Kiswahili katika Ujenzi wa Jamii Mpya ya Afrika Mashariki
  143—154
• Nathan Oyori Ogechi
  Utegemezi au Utegemeano Baina ya Kenya na Tanzania katika Ukuzaji na Uendelezaji wa Kiswahili Nchini Kenya?
  155—172
• Thomas Geider
  Swahili Bibliography Update and Contents of SWAHILI FORUM I—VII
  173—182

Reviews

• Thomas Geider
  Jan Hoorweg, Dick Foeken & R. A. Obudho (eds.) 2000. Kenya Coast Handbook. Culture, Resources and Development in the East African Littoral. With a Preface by Prof. Ali A. Mazrui. (A publication of the African Studies Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands). Münster/Hamburg/London: LIT-Verlag, 2000. xvi + 527 pp. (Distributed in North America by Transaction Publishers, Rutgers University, New Brunswick).
  183—186

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Contents

• Thilo C. Schadeberg
  Number in Swahili Grammar
  7—16
• Deo Gratias Ngonyani
  The Morphosyntax of Negation in Kiswahili
  17—33
• Ursula Maria  Drolc
  Textlinguistische Funktionen der Swahili-Morpheme ka und ki
  35—47
• Wolfram Full
  Two Past Tenses in Comorian: Morphological Form and Inherent Meaning
  49—58
• Nelli V. Gromova
  Mara Tena juu ya Usarufishaji (Suala la Mwana)
  59—65
• A.Y. Mreta & H.R.T. Muzale
  Nafasi ya Kiswahili katika Lugha ya Alama ya Tanzania
  67—79
• Kineene wa Mutiso
  Kasida ya Hamziyyah (Part I)
  81—115
• Elena Bertoncini-Zúbková
  Nyoko-Nyoko: An Unpublished Short Story by Saad Yahya
  117—122
• Flavia Aiello Traoré
  Taarab and Swahili Prose
  123—128
• Werner Graebner
  Twarab ya Shingazidja: a first Approach
  129—143
• Said A. M. Khamis
  Redefining Taarab in Relation to Local and Global Influences
  145—156
• Rose Marie Beck
  Ambiguous Signs: the Role of the Kanga as a Medium of Communication
  157—169
• Joshua S. Madumulla
  Hali ya Vitabu vya Watoto katika Tanzania
  171—183
• Nathan Oyori Ogechi
  Publishing in Kiswahili and Indigenous Languages for Enhanced Adult Literacy in Kenya
  185—199
• Ulrich Schulz-Burgdorf
  Habari za Miti na Mitishamba Miongoni mwa Wamijikenda na Waswahili - Matokeo ya Kwanza kutoka Utafiti
  201—203
• Andrzej Zhukov
  Some Remarks on One Old Swahili Manuscript
  205—207
• Thomas Geider
  Progressive Swahili Bibliography 1990s — 2001
  209—213
• Werner Graebner
  Progressive Comoro Bibliography 1994—2001
  215—219

Reviews

• Deo Gratias Ngonyani
  Mgullu, Richard S. 1999. Mtaala wa Isimu: Fonetiki, Fonolojia na Mofolojia ya Kiswahili. Nairobi: Longhorn Publishers Kurasa XV, kurasa 247.
  221—223
• Said S.H. Omar
  Yahya Ali Omar. 1998. Three Prose Texts in the Swahili of Mombasa. Sprache und Oralität in Afrika: Band 21. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag.
  224
• P. J.L. Frankl
  Issa Nasser Issa Al-Ismaily. 1999. Zanzibar: Kinyang'anyiro na Utumwa. [Slavery and the Scramble for Zanzibar] Ruwi (Oman). xlii + kurasa 285.
  224—226

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Contents

• P.J.L. Frankl (in consultation with Yahya Ali Omar)
  Siku ya Mwaka — The Swahili New Year (with Special Reference to Mombasa)
  5—31
• Thilo C. Schadeberg
  Rangi za Kiswahili                       
  33—43
• G. Kitula King'ei
  Matatizo ya Matumizi ya Lugha katika Vyombo vya Habari: Mifano kutoka Kenya
  45—56
• Jana Novotna
  Reduplication in Swahili
  57—73
• Lutz Marten
  Agreement with Conjoined Noun Phrases
  75—96
• Katrin Bromber
  Biashara Nzuri — Biashara Mbaya. Eine textlinguistische Untersuchung zum Abgrenzungsdiskurs in der tansanischen Presse (Mambo Leo, 1923)
  97—125
• Elena Bertoncini-Zúbková
  Beyond the Utenzi: Narrative Poems by Theobald Mvungi
  127—143
• Pamela M. Y. Ngugi
  Nafasi ya Muziki Uliopendwa katika Fasihi ya Kiswahili
  145—152
• Reinhard Klein-Arendt
  The Iron Crafts of the Swahili from the Perspective of Historical Semantics
  153—204
• Moinaecha Cheikh Yahaya
  L'Onomastique Comorienne: Étude Linguistique
  205—235
• Friederike Wilkening
  Who Is J. W. T. Allen?
  237—258
• Uta Reuster-Jahn
  Review: the Rosetta Stone Swahili
  259—263
• Thomas Geider
  Progressive Swahili Bibliography 1993—2000
  265—277

Contents

• Yahya Ali Omar
  Burdai al Al-Busiri
  5—20
• Ridder H. Samsom
  Tungo za Mzee Kimbunga: Haji Gora Haji
  21—33
• Kyallo Wadi Wamitila
  What's in a Name: Towards Literary Onomastics in Kiswahili Literature
  35—44
• Elena Bertoncini-Zúbková
  Kenyan Literary Kiswahili
  45—58
• Flavia Aiello Traoré
  Mabadiliko ni Maumbile Yenyewe: the Thematic and Stylistic Dynamism in S.A. Mohamed's Novel Utengano
  59—65
• Rose Marie Beck
  Comic in Swahili or Swahili Comic?
  67—101
• Stéphane Pradines
  L'influence indienne dans l'architecture Swahili
  103—120
• Thilo C. Schadeberg
  Nguo-Nyingi Mkoti: Mwanzishaji wa Mji wa Ngoji (Angoche)
  121—130
• Pamela M. Y. Ngugi
  Kiswahili: kama Kilivyotumika Nyakati za Vita
  131—136
• Paul M. Musau
  The Liberalization of the Mass Media in Africa and Its Impact on Indigenous Languages: the Case of Kiswahili in Kenya
  137—146
• G. Kitula King'ei
  Swahili Technical Terminology: Problems of Development and Usage in Kenya
  147—160
• P.J.L. Frankl
  W.E. Taylor (1856—1927): England's Greatest Swahili-Scholar
  161—174
• Katrin Bromber
  Gustav Neuhaus: Mwalimu wa Kiswahili, Mhariri na Mtumishi wa Serikali ya Kikoloni
  175—182

List of Contributors

Contents

• Laura Fair
  Music, Memory and Meaning: The Kiswahili Recordings of Siti Binti Saad
  1—16
• P.J.L. Frankl, Yahya Ali Omar and Janet Topp Fargion
  Kasha Langu: a Popular Song from Mombasa
  17—25
• Elena Bertoncini
  Code-Switching in an Utendi? Notes on Arabic Grammar as it Appears in Classical Swahili Poetry
  27—40
• Hamza Mustafa Njozi
  Critical Artistry in Utenzi wa Shufaka
  41—51
• Marie Krüger
  Negotiating Gender Identity and Authority in the Plays of Penina Muhando and Ari Katini Mwachofi
  53—71
• Mikhail D. Gromov
  Nagona and Mzingile: Novel, Tale, or Parable?
  73—78
• Kyallo Wadi Wamitila
  A philosophical Labyrinth: Tracing Two Critical Motifs in Kezilahabi's Prose Works
  79—91
• Said A.M. Khamis
  Implication as a Literary Technique in Mohamed S. Mohamed's Novels: Kiu and Nyota Rehema
  93—114
• Sigurd D'Hondt
  Institutionalized Identities in Informal Kiswahili Speech: Analysis of a Dispute Between Two Adolescents
  115—128
• Deo Gratias Ngonyani
  V-to-I Movement in Kiswahili
  129—144
• Helma Pasch and Christiane Strauch
  Ist das Klassenpaar 5/6 des Swahili ein Zwischenlager für Lehnwörter?
  145—154
• Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst
  Kiswahili-Speaking Africans in Germany before 1945
  155—172
• Kaingu Kalume Tinga
  Cultural Practice of the Midzichenda at Crossroads: Divination, Healing, Witchcraft and the Statutory Law
  173—184
• Andrei Zhukov
  Shabaan Robert in the Russian Language
  185—189
• Elenore Schmitt
  Swahili and the Internet II
  191—195

Reviews

• Thomas Geider
  Alain Ricard: Ebrahim Hussein. Théâtre Swahili et Nationalisme Tanzanien.
  197
• Thomas Geider
  Jan J. de Wolf: Busuku Tales.
  198

List of Contributors

Contents

• Thomas Bearth
  Inferential and Counter-Inferential Grammatical Markers in Swahili Dialogue
  1—22
• Abel Y. Mreta, Thilo C. Schadeberg and Gerlind Scheckenbach
  Kiziwi, Kipofu na Kilema: Ubaguzi au Heshima?
  23—54
• Benji Wald
  The O Tense Marker in the Decline of the Swahili Auxiliary Focus System
  55—82
• Ridder H. Samson
  "Hammatbihi Wahammabiha": Fasihi ya Kiswahili na Kisa cha Yusuf
  83—94
• Ulrich Schulz-Burgdorf
  Ujuzi wa Watoto/Vijana katika Simulizi za Maisha
  95—105
• Chris Bulcaen
  The Dialogue of an Author: Kezilahabi's Kaputula la Marx
  107—115
• Kyallo Wadi Wamitila
  Reading the Kenyan Swahili Prose Works: A "Terra Incognita" in Swahili Literature
  117—125
• Elena Bertoncini-Zúbková
  New Tendencies in Swahili Drama
  127—134
• Saida Yahya-Othman
  If the Cap Fits: Kanga Names and Women's Voice in Swahili Society
  135—149
• Y. M. Kihore
  Kiswahili Naming of the Days of the Week: What Went Wrong?
  151—156
• Catherine Griefenow-Mewis
  Swahili Loanwords in Oromo
  157—164
• Heidi Glaesel
  They're Not Just 'Samaki': Towards an Understanding of Fisher Vocabulary on the Kenya Coast
  165—179
• Thomas J. Hinnebusch
  Negotiating the New TUKI English-Swahili Dictionary: a Critique from a Pedagogical and Scholary Perspective
  181—218
• P.M Musau and P.M.Y. Ngugi
  Kiswahili Research in Kenyan Universities: Where Are We Now?
  219—229
• Elenore Schmitt
  Swahili and the Internet
  230—232
   

Reviews

• Reinherd Klein-Arendt
  Yakobo Lumwe "Eine Reise nach Bukoba", übersetzt und bearbeitet von Ernst Damman, München 1996.
  233—234
• Elenore Schmitt
  Roger Pfister: Internet for Africanists and Others Interested in Africa. Basel, 1996.
  234—235
• Kyallo Wadi Wamitila
  Kamusi ya Awali ya Sayansi na Tekinolojia. Dar es Saalam, 1995.
  236—238
   

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Contents

• Ridder H. Samson
  Tungo za Kujibizana: “Kuambizana ni Sifa ya Kupendana”
  1—10
• Athman Hussein Athman
  Styles of Swahili Carving
  11—29
• Jan Blommaert
  A Shaba Swahili Life History: Text and Translation
  31—62
• Thilo C. Schadeberg
  Uo Mmoja Hautiwi Panga Mbili. Aina za Yambwa na Maana zake
  63—71
• Thomas J. Hinnebusch
  What Kind of Language is Swahili?
  73—95
• Alwi M. Shatry
  Tamaduni na Fasihi za Kienyeji kwa Lugha za Kigeni              
  97—107
• Ulrich Schulz-Burgdorf
  Mwili, Nafsi, na Roho katika Ugonjwa: Mfano wa Simulizi za Ugonjwa (Illness Narratives)
  109—113
• Ulrike Wanitzek and Fauz Twaib
  The Presentation of Claims in Matrimonial Proceedings in Tanzania: a Problem of Language and Legal Culture
  115—137
• Elena Bertoncini-Zúbková
  Marx's Shorts and Ancestors' Caves: Tracing Critical Motifs in Kezilahabi's Play and Poems
  139—148
• Mikhail D. Gromov
  Tanzanian Prose in the Early 90s
  149—153
• Nasor Malik
  Extension of Kiswahili during the German Colonial Administration in Continental Tanzania (Former Tanganyika), 1885-1817
  155—159
• Catherine Griefenow-Mewis
  J.L.Krapf and His Role in Researching and Describing East-African Languages
  161—171
• Marina Tolmacheva
  Essays on Swahili Geographical Thought. Group Identity in Swahili Chronicles
  173—196

Reviews

• Uta Reuster-Jahn
  Heine, Bernd & Karsten Legère. 1994. Swahili Plants.
  197—199
• Elena Bertoncini-Zúbková
  Valtorta, Maria. 1996. Injili kama Nilivyofunuliwa.
  199—200
• Elenore Schmitt
  Alexander J. de Voogt. 1995. Limits of the Mind: Towards a Characterisation of Bao Mastership.
  201

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Contents

• Marina Tolmacheva
  Essays in Swahili Geographical Thought
  1—40
• Derek Nurse
  Historical Texts from the Swahili Coast (Part II)
  41—72
• Jan Blommaert
  A Shaba Swahili Life History: Text and Translation
  73—103
• Ahmed Sheikh Nabhany
  Mapisi ya Kiswahili
  104—112
• Tigiti S.Y. Sengo
  Hali ya Kutatanisha ya Kiswahili hivi Leo Afrika Mashariki
  113—124
• Janet Topp Fargion
  Nyota Alfajiri — The Zanzibari "Chakacha"
  125—131
• Mohamed Ameir Muombwa
  Kofia in Zanzibar
  132—137
• Ali Yahya Omar & P.J.L. Frankl
  Mashairi ya Waadhi —"Verse of Admonition": the People of Mombasa Rebuked
  138—157
• Thilo C. Schadeberg
  Sentensi za Kuonyesha Matukio Yanayotokea kwa Pamoja
  158—167
• Alamin M. Mazrui
  Slang and Codeswitiching: The Case of Sheng in Kenya
  168—179
• Elena Bertoncini-Zúbková
  Slang in Literature? Freddy Macha's Short Story "Check Bob"       
  180—186
• Nelly V. Gromova
  Taasisi ya Nchi za Asia na Afrika, Chuo Kikuu cha Moscow. Uchunguzi wa Kiswahili katika Urusi
  187—191

Review articles

• Irmtraud Herms
  Swahili Lexikographie: Eine kritische Bilanz
  192—196
• James S. Mdee
  Das Deutsch-Swahili Wörterbuch (Legere 1990): A Jack of All Trades
  197—202
• Athman Hussein Athman
  Understanding Swahili Cultures: Some Critical Remarks
  203—210

Reviews

• Thomas Geider
  Linnebuhr Elisabeth, 1994. Sprechende Tücher: Frauenkleidung der Swahili (Ostafrika). Ausstellungskatalog Stuttgart: Linden—Museum.
  211—212
• Marie Brzobohatá
  Miehe, Gudrun & Wilhelm Möhlig (ed.), 1995. Swahili—Handbuch (under editorial co-operation of Elena Bertoncini-Zúbková, Sauda Barwani-Sheikh & Ludwig Gerhard). Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.
  212—216
• Paul M. Musau
  Miehe, Gudrun, 1979. Die Sprache der älteren Swahili—Dichtung (Phonologie und Morphologie). Berlin: Dietrich Reimer.
  216—217
• Paul M. Musau
  Mekacha, Rugatiri D.K., 1993. The Sociolinguistic Impact of Kiswahili on Ethnic Community Languages in Tanzania: A Case Study of Ekinata. Bayreuth: Bayreuth African Studies Series.
  217—219
   

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Contents

• Sauda Sheikh
  Yanayoudhi Kuyaona. Mafumbo na Vijembe vya Kiswahili
  7—11
• Elena Bertoncini-Zúbková
  Image de la femme dans la littérature Swahili
  13—27
• P.J.L. Frankl & Yahya Ali Omar
  Shairi la Washona—Nguo wa Mombasa. "The Tailors of Mombasa": a Nineteenth Century Satire from Central Swahililand
  29—46
• Derek Nurse
  Historical Texts from the Swahili Coast
  47—85
• Carol Eastman
  Service, Slavery (Utumwa) and Swahili Social Reality 
  87—107
• Bart Rwezaura
  Constraining Factors to the Adoption of Kiswahili as a Language of the Law in Tanzania
  109—126
• Ridder H. Samsom & Thilo C. Schadeberg
  Kiinimacho cha Mahali: Kiambishi Tamati cha Mahali –ni
  127—138
• Walter Schicho
  "Ist es unhöflich mit Worten sparsam zu sein?" Überlegungen zur interkulturellen Begegnung Deutsch—Swahili
• 139—158
• Jan Blommaert
  Ethnocoherence and the Analysis of Swahili Political Style. Steps towards a Method
  159—167
• Arvi Hurskainen
  Kamusi ya Kiswahili Sanifu in Test: A Computer System for Analyzing Dictionaries and for Retrieving Lexical Data
  169—179
• Maddalena Toscano
  From Text to Dictionary: Steps for a Computerised Process
  181—195

Reviews

• Farouk Topan
  Nyaigotti-Chacha, Chacha. Sauti ya Utetezi. Ushairi wa Abdilatif Abdalla (1992).
  197—198
• Thomas Geider
  Lubumbashi und Mayotte: Two Recent Editions of Swahili—written Chronicles.
  199—204

• Thomas Geider
  Manuscripts in Swahili and other African Languages in German Archives.
  205—208
• Rose Marie Beck
  Drei Swahili Frauen: Lebensgeschichten aus Mombasa, Kenya.
  209—213

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