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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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