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