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Data collection on the streets in Kitwe, Copper Belt, Zambia

Exploring Youth Language Practices on Tertiary Campuses and on the Street: Insights from Research Trips to Zambia and Malawi

In November 2024, Dr Elvis ResCue made a folllow up research trip to Zambia where he worked with our project colleague from the University of ...
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Workshop, advisory board meeting and team meeting Essex

Workshop, advisory board meeting and team meeting at the University of Essex in May/June 2024

Workshop, advisory board meeting and team meeting at the University of Essex in May/June 2024 On the 31st of May we held our final project ...
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Research Trip Zambia and Malawi

Research Trip to Johannesburg (South Africa) and Bulawayo (Zimbabwe)

To follow-up with and finalize research on youth language practices in South Africa and Zimbabwe, I went on a research trip to Johannesburg and Bulawayo ...
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Presentation Nancy

Research Impact workshop and online research methods seminar in Zambia – February/March

Research Impact workshop and online research methods seminar in Zambia Hannah, Nancy, and Elvis organised a workshop and seminar in Zambia. Here are some highlights ...
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Research trip to Zambia and youth language practices in Zambia

Research trip to Zambia and youth language practices in Zambia In February 2024, Hannah and Elvis went on a research trip to Zambia. Here they ...
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Our project represented as ECAS – African Futures

Our project team prepared a talk for the European Conference of African Studies (ECAS) which took place in Cologne from 30th of May to the ...
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fieldtrip SA

Research trip to Durban, South Africa

To conduct further research on microvariation in isiZulu/isiNdebele, I spent April 2023 in Durban (South Africa) after having done fieldwork in Bulawayo (Zimbabwe) the year ...
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Simbabwe Kooperation Visit

Zimbabwe Cooperation, Visit November 2021

In late November 2021, Nico Nassenstein and Humboldt fellow Prof. Sambulo Ndlovu organized a visit to GZU Masvingo in Zimbabwe in order to prepare the ...
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Interview Andrea Hollington Hatua kwa Hatuna

Hatua kwa Hatua – Interview with Andrea Hollington

Andrea Hollington was interviewed about her research on lugha ya mtaani by Muslim Nassor for Hatua kwa Hatua
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about the project

Workshop: What is Innovation? 1-2 October 2022

Workshop 1-2 October 2022 What is innovation? On the first weekend of October, our project team and our advisory board members met at the University ...
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Maskani – a youth chill spot in Stone Town, Zanzibar

Fieldwork in Tanzania July/August 2022

Together with my research assistant Faris Ramadhani I explored Kiswahili youth language practices, often referred to as lugha ya mtaani in Stone Town, Zanzibar and ...
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workshop malawi

Workshop Malawi: Youth language practices and morphosyntactic variation

As part of the 9th conference on Bantu languages at MUST in Blantyre, Malawi, our project team organized an interdisciplinary and versatile workshop on Youth ...
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University Lubumbashi

Exploratory fieldwork in Lubumbashi, DR Congo, June 2022

Exploratory fieldwork in Lubumbashi, DR Congo, June 2022 In late June 2022, I traveled to Lubumbashi, southeastern DR Congo, for an exploratory fieldwork stay of ...
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Meeting research partners and team members in Bulawayo and Harare, Zimbabwe,

Meeting research partners and team members in Bulawayo and Harare, Zimbabwe, May 2022

From mid-May to early June 2022, I spent time in Zimbabwe to meet team member Prof. Sambulo Ndlovu and other colleagues from Great Zimbabwe University ...
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zimbabwe outline

Fieldwork in Zimbabwe April 2022

Eita, how far? As I came to know this is one of the most frequent greetings among young people in Bulawayo. After having focused on ...
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Fieldwork Nassenstein

Fieldwork in Kinshasa, DR Congo, March-April 2022

In March I traveled to Kinshasa, the capital of the DR Congo, to collect data on “Lingala ya BaYankee”, the Yankees’ Lingala or urban youth ...
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