Essays about: "Kiswahili"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the word Kiswahili.

  1. 1. A/Wakening, Healing and Caring in the Pandemic borderland(s): theorizing an Emancipating, Pleasurable and Restful Black Femme Form in Gender Studies

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Centrum för genusvetenskap

    Author : Agnese Noah; [2021]
    Keywords : embodied; emotive; writing; femmebodimotive; femme; black; form; biomythography; choreopoem; intersectionality; rhizomatic; phenomenology; healing; caring; awake; awakening; wake; ocean; sea; queer; texture; borderland; swAfrican;

    Abstract : In this study on form within the field of Gender and Fem(me)inist Studies I build on, and work with, works created by black women and femmes, as well as femmes and women of color to explore their ways of theorizing through form, as well as finding my own, with roots from all the beautiful experiments lived and written about by these folks. As I sketch out these theories and texts and bring them to the Swedish context in which I write I am breaking new ground for research on blackness, femme-inist theory and form as well as methodologies here. READ MORE

  3. 2. A Language for all? KiSwahili as a Tool for Unity: Problematizing the East African Community’s Language Policy

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Anton Brandberg; [2021]
    Keywords : kiSwahili; national unity; regional unity; East African Community; Tanzania; Kenya; language policy; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In modern state-development it is common practice to use one language for unifying people in a nation or region. However, in the wake of decolonisation, many African states found themselves struggling with the decision to pick a national language. READ MORE

  4. 3. English as a Second Language for Kenyan Children in Primary School : A Trial of the Spoken Language Assessment Profile – Revised Edition

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för klinisk och experimentell medicin; Linköpings universitet/Medicinska fakulteten

    Author : Therése Karlsson; Hanna Lawrence; [2015]
    Keywords : SLAP-R; Kenya; children; primary school; phonology; semantics; grammar; expressive; receptive; English L2; SLAP-R; Kenya; barn; grundskola; fonologi; semantik; grammatik; expressiv; receptiv; engelska som andraspråk;

    Abstract : Sub-Saharan Africa is a multilingual environment and there is a lack of materials available for speech and language assessment in this area (Hartley & Krämer, 2013). The norms for assessment material cannot be used for both monolinguals and bilinguals, since bilinguals may have different levels of knowledge in their languages (Kohnert, 2010). READ MORE

  5. 4. "It's like going fishing without a fishing-net" : a study on how students in Tanzania perceive the transition of language of instruction from Kiswahili to English.

    University essay from Högskolan Kristianstad/Sektionen för lärande och miljö

    Author : Mikaela Persson; [2013]
    Keywords : tanzania; language of instruction; focus groups; bourdieu´s social theory; said´s orientalism; code-switchin; secondary schools;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study is to contribute to previous research on the subject of language transition in Tanzania. The aim is also that the information gained in this study can be used to improve students' prospects when they undergo the linguistic transition from primary school to secondary school. READ MORE

  6. 5. Breastfeeding ans sexuality after childbirth in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

    University essay from Institutionen för folkhälso- och vårdvetenskap

    Author : Ruby Hansen; Anahí Hormazábal Contreras; [2012]
    Keywords : Tanzania; breastfeeding; sexual abstinence; information; nurse; kubemenda; Tanzania; amning; sexuell avhållsamhet; information; sjuksköterska; kubemenda;

    Abstract : Background: Kubemenda is a word in Kiswahili and a conception that the infants‟ health will be negatively affected if the mother has sexual intercourse during the breastfeeding period. Aim: The aim of this study is to explore if nurses experience concerns among parents about sexuality during the breastfeeding period related to kubemenda. READ MORE