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This dictionary in Kiswahili is a product of comprehensive research carried out by scholars and highly experienced lexicographers. It is targetted at the level of secondary school students, and for scholars of the language, and the general readership. Some of the key features that make this dictionary outstanding include: • Headwords – over 35,000 • Number of words – over 320,000 • Etimology – the development of words from the headword • Noun classes • Plurals • Relevant examples that are used in context 42 pages of extra information include: ➢ Semantic, sintaxical and mofological analysis of the noun classes ➢ Categorisation of words e.g. nouns, adverbs etc ➢ Swahili grammar terminologies ➢ Parts of speech ➢ Types of Kiswahili compositions taught in schools ➢ Terminologies used in Swahili Literature – written and oral ➢ Terminologies used in Kiswahili social linguistics ➢ Terminologies used in Swahili poetry
The National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) was set up to facilitate and promote equality of opportunity, good relations, harmony and peaceful coexistence between persons of the different ethnic and racial communities of Kenya, and to advise the Government on all aspects thereof after the violence that followed the December 2007 elections. In Kenya, Bridging Ethnic Divides: A Commissioner’s Experience on Cohesion and Integration, Commissioner Alice Wairimũ Nderitũ looks behind the scenes at the NCIC’s efforts to ensure peaceful co-existence. Such as, working with elders, mediating confidentially between political leaders at the highest levels and co-founding and working as ...
From the Pharaohs to Fanon, Dictionary of African Biography provides a comprehensive overview of the lives of the men and women who shaped Africa's history. Unprecedented in scale, DAB covers the whole continent from Tunisia to South Africa, from Sierra Leone to Somalia. It also encompasses the full scope of history from Queen Hatsheput of Egypt (1490-1468 BC) and Hannibal, the military commander and strategist of Carthage (243-183 BC), to Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana (1909-1972), Miriam Makeba and Nelson Mandela of South Africa (1918 -).
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This volume provides a systematic comparative treatment of urban contact dialects in the Global North and South, examining the emergence and development of these dialects in major cities in sub-Saharan Africa and North-Western Europe. The book’s focus on contemporary urban settings sheds light on the new language practices and mixed ways of speaking resulting from large-scale migration and the intense contact that occurs between new and existing languages and dialects in these contexts. In comparing these new patterns of language variation and change between cities in both Africa and Europe, the volume affords us a unique opportunity to examine commonalities in linguistic phenomena as well...
This is a dictionary in Kiswahili targeted towards elementary learners of the language. It is a product of comprehensive research that was carried out by the author and subjected to serious scrutiny by experienced lexicographers from East Africa. Some of the key features that make this dictionary outstanding include: more than 7,000 headwords; 170,000 Words, clearly defined noun classes, and a glossary that includes coloured illustrations of different types of animals, shapes, colours, and birds.
A concise and portable dictionary developed by two experienced and well respected teachers of Swahili. In this work they have taken into account not only the difficulties which non-Swahili speakers from many different language backgrounds have in learning the language, but also the importance of making Swahili equivalents of English words, correspond to those of the best speakers of Swahili. The English-Swahili Pocket Dictionary will be of benefit to English speakers who are learning Swahili, while Swahili speakers who are learning English will also find it invaluable.