"This essential language guide presents the traveler with the vocabulary and phrases necessary to communicate in Swahili, the most widely spoken African language. The two-way dictionary has over 5,000 total entries ; the phrasebook contains terms and phrases for travel and daily…
The author argues that reading poetry in Kiswahili provides important insights into questions of language and power, as well as into discussions of socialist practice in East Africa and East African resistance to colonialism and neo-colonialism. Includes the text of numerous poe…
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This monograph is the first study of the acquisition of Swahili as a first language. It focuses on the acquisition of inflectional affixes, with a particular emphasis on subject agreement and tense. Other inflectional affixes are also investigated, including object agreement and…
