Kiswahili 2000
Author: Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam. Taasisi ya Uchunguzi wa Kiswahili
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13:
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Kiswahili
Postcoloniality, Translation, and the Bible in Africa
Author: Musa W. Dube
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2017-07-14
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 1498295142
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is critically important for Bible translation theorists, postcolonial scholars, church leaders, and the general public interested in the history, politics, and nature of Bible translation work in Africa. It is also useful to students of gender studies, political science, biblical studies, and history-of-colonization studies. The book catalogs the major work that has been undertaken by African scholars. This work critiques and contests colonial Bible translation narratives by privileging the importance African oral vitality in rewriting the meaning of biblical texts in the African sociopolitical, political, and cultural contexts.
Kiswahili 2000
Author: Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam. Taasisi ya Uchunguzi wa Kiswahili
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13:
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New Language Bearings in Africa
Author: Margaret Jepkirui Muthwii
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9781853597275
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The collection of papers in this special volume discuss issues and challenges that are pertinent in understanding present-day moves and tendencies in the use of languages in the African contexts. The volume's major asset lies in the diversity of topics, the range of languages and the African geographical areas covered. Not only do the contributors come from different nations in Africa but also many of them are established scholars who interact with and interpret the unique situations in their nations on a daily basis.
'Along the Routes to Power'
Author: Martin Pütz
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2011-12-22
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 3110923246
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The present volume grew out of the 30th International LAUD Symposium, held on April 19–22, 2004 at the University of Koblenz-Landau in Landau, Germany. The conference, "Empowerment through Language", was centrally concerned with the concept of power and/or empowerment as observed in the status and use of language(s) and their speakers in bilingual and multilingual communities. The book discusses the theoretical issues inherent in the relation between language and power, the empowerment strategies involved in language policy and language planning situations, and the issue of language endangerment in Africa, i.e., the fate of minority languages and their speakers and the sociopolitical factors perpetuating their exclusion from access to knowledge and skills. The volume constitutes a collection of papers by prominent linguists from many countries who explore the exciting interdisciplinary area of language, power, and linguistic empowerment. Broadly speaking, the papers focus on the theoretical and sociolinguistic problems related to the role of power in language policy and language planning situations in multilingual settings, language choices, code switches, and associated topics. Thus, the aim of the volume is to open up language policy and language planning issues as observed in multilingual contexts (nations, institutions, other settings, and domains) to the wider community of critical sociolinguistics by concentrating on the relationship between language and power. More particularly, it offers a decidedly sociolinguistic perspective to the study of language and power, which likewise has been tackled from other perspectives in the areas of sociology and political science. This interdisciplinary relationship is important both for linguistics and for the sociology of language. In this way, the book is an important contribution to general linguistics, sociolinguistics, minority issues in multilingual settings as well as the social sciences. In honor of his upcoming 80th birthday (2006) , Fishman's colleagues and former students are preparing five volumes by him or about him, this being one of them.
A Companion to African Literatures
Author: Olakunle George
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2021-03-22
Total Pages: 512
ISBN-13: 1119058171
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Rediscover the diversity of modern African literatures with this authoritative resource edited by a leader in the field How have African literatures unfolded in their rich diversity in our modern era of decolonization, nationalisms, and extensive transnational movement of peoples? How have African writers engaged urgent questions regarding race, nation, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality? And how do African literary genres interrelate with traditional oral forms or audio-visual and digital media? A Companion to African Literatures addresses these issues and many more. Consisting of essays by distinguished scholars and emerging leaders in the field, this book offers rigorous, deeply engaging discussions of African literatures on the continent and in diaspora. It covers the four main geographical regions (East and Central Africa, North Africa, Southern Africa, and West Africa), presenting ample material to learn from and think with. A Companion To African Literatures is divided into five parts. The first four cover different regions of the continent, while the fifth part considers conceptual issues and newer directions of inquiry. Chapters focus on literatures in European languages officially used in Africa -- English, French, and Portuguese -- as well as homegrown African languages: Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Swahili, and Yoruba. With its lineup of lucid and authoritative analyses, readers will find in A Companion to African Literatures a distinctive, rewarding academic resource. Perfect for undergraduate and graduate students in literary studies programs with an African focus, A Companion to African Literatures will also earn a place in the libraries of teachers, researchers, and professors who wish to strengthen their background in the study of African literatures.
The Funeral Performances among the Bukusu of Kenya
Author: Simon Nganga
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Published: 2017-12-21
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 3643909713
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is about interactions in the funeral context among the Bukusu people of Kenya that brings together many religions. The author describes and accounts for hybridity as it is revealed by communicative techniques used by the priest and the comforter in the two communicative genres-the sermon and the traditional public comforting-that belong to the Christian and the Traditional Bukusu religions respectively. By approaching the co-existence of the two religions from a linguistic perspective, the study aims at ascertaining the relationship between the two religions. Dissertation. (Series: Contributions to Africa Research / BeitrÃ?¤ge zur Afrikaforschung, Vol. 84) [Subject: Anthropology, African Studies, Religious Studies, Sociology]
Discourses of the Developing World
Author: Shi-xu
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-28
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 1317702549
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Against the backdrop of overwhelming discourse scholarship emanating from the Western cosmopolitan centres, this volume offers a development-centred approach to unfamiliar, marginalized or otherwise disadvantaged discourses of the Third World or the Global South. Written by leading researchers based in Asia, Africa and Latin America, respectively, this book reconstructs Eastern paradigms of communication studies on the one hand and explores the discursive problems, complexities, aspirations, and dynamics of the non-Western, subaltern, and developing societies on the other. As methodological principles, the authors i) adopt the cultural-political stance of supporting cultural diversity and harmony at both academic and everyday levels, ii) draw upon Asian, African and Latino scholarship in critical dialogue with the existing mainstream traditions, and iii) make sense of the discourses of Asia, Africa and Latin America from their own local as well as global, historical and intercultural, perspectives. This book will particularly appeal to scholars and students in the fields of discourse studies, communication and cultural studies, and development studies.
The role of the school environment in learning Kiswahili in Kenya
Author: Rebecca Omollo
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Published: 2020-07-28
Total Pages: 97
ISBN-13: 3346214060
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Master's Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject Pedagogy - School System, Educational and School Politics, grade: 4.00, Moi University (SCHOOL OF EDUCATION), course: Curriculum Instruction and Educational Media, language: English, abstract: This study investigated the effect of causal factors namely, availability of instructional resources, class size, school language policy and language of the catchment area on the teaching of Kiswahili at primary school since this is the formative stage of learning. The study was based on the sociocultural theory (SCT). The study was descriptive in nature. The sample comprised of teachers of Kiswahili from selected primary schools. Kiswahili is one of the official national language in Kenya together with English. In primary school, it is one of the compulsory subjects that is nationally examined. There have been complaints about the poor performance of Kiswahili both at primary school level. The study recommends that schools should come up with clear and working language policies in order to promote the use of Kiswahili language. For example, all the teachers, workers and pupils should use Kiswahili when addressing each other, especially during assemblies and barazas. The findings of the study shall provide insight in understanding the role of school environment to the learning of Kiswahili at primary school level.
