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Nordic Journal of African Studies
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ISSN 1459-9465 · Nordic Africa Research Network · 671 artikel di indeks
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The Linguistic and Discursive Construction of Age Grades Among Maasai Women
This article explores the socio-temporal dimensions of Kisongo Maasai women’s age grades and their entanglement with the male age-set system. Although Maasai women lack an institutionalized age-set system, their age grades are linguistically and culturally constituted to serve as socio-temporal…
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Asian Drug Import, Local Production, and Regulatory Capacity in Tanzania, 1970–2005
By the mid-2000s, the contribution of Tanzania’s pharmaceutical industry to local drug circulation was low compared to imports, with the latter mostly coming from India. The situation had mainly stayed the same since independence in 1961, despite a political desire to develop a local…
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Beyond the Frontiers of Activism and Social Change
Fela Anikulapo Kuti (1938–1997) distinguished himself as one of the foremost Nigerian musicians in the Afrobeat genre by identifying with the masses in Africa. He achieved a populist appeal by critiquing social ills and advocating for the establishment of an egalitarian society. He also identified…
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Rwandans’ Attitudes Towards Swahili
This paper reports findings from a study examining Rwandans’ attitudes towards Swahili across different occupational groups. The study hypothesized that there would be a relationship between Rwandans’ occupations and their attitudes towards Swahili. Data were collected from 252 respondents…
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Akan Noun-Noun Compounds
This paper presents a discussion of Akan noun-noun compounds and a Construction Morphology account of their properties. Noun-noun compounds are the most studied type of compounds cross-linguistically, with studies revealing interesting issues about their nature, including their productivity, the…
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Auxiliary Verb Constructions and Decategorialization in Gĩkũyũ
Gĩkũyũ (E.51) exhibits several verbs that can be used both as lexical verbs and as auxiliary verbs. We compare the lexical and auxiliary usages of four verbs and show that all auxiliary verb usages display uniform restrictions concerning valency-related morphology (object marking, voice…
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On the Morphology, Interpretation, and Development of the Kagulu Auxiliary ng’hali
The Kagulu auxiliary verb ng’hali appears in a variety of auxiliary verb constructions and has several phonological realizations (ng’hali, kali, and ng’hati). Unlike other auxiliary verbs in the language, ng’hali occurs with limited morphology and is not used as a main verb. As in many Bantu…
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BE Auxiliary Verb Constructions in Kihehe
Kihehe (G62) has a rich inventory of auxiliary constructions (> 120) grounded in different forms of be: copula -li and -ʋa ‘be’. This paper addresses those constructions in which the auxiliary is marked for one of three pasts – hodiernal, pre-hodiernal, or remote – or one of two futures – near and…
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Dedicated Auxiliaries in Tswana (Bantu S31)
This article discusses the subclass of Tswana auxiliaries that cannot be analysed as resulting from the grammaticalization of regular forms of verbs also used predicatively in the present state of the language. It describes the general characteristics of the dedicated auxiliaries, their individual…
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Auxiliaries and Analyticity in Northwestern Bantu
Northwestern Bantu (NWB) languages differ from Eastern/Southwestern Bantu languages in that their verb forms are more often analytic, with pre-stem inflectional material appearing in a complex that may be unbound from the main verb. This has resulted in NWB languages being described as having Aux V…
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The Development of Negative ‘have’ Auxiliaries in the Bantu Languages of the Middle and Lower Zambezi
This paper studies the grammaticalization of possessive predicates into negative auxiliaries expressing main clause negation in the Bantu languages of the Middle and Lower Zambezi River region. Drawing on a convenience sample of languages from this linguistic area, the study identifies four…
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The Pragmatic Functions of the Auxiliary Verbs za ‘come’ and ya ‘go’ in isiXhosa
This study focuses on the syntactic and pragmatic functions of the isiXhosa auxiliary verbs za ‘come’ and ya ‘go’ when followed by subjunctive or past consecutive lexical verbs. Analysis of the auxiliaries’ occurrence in a 60,000-word database reveals that both auxiliaries introduce new predicates…
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Auxiliary Stacking in Southern Bantu Languages
Auxiliary constructions in Southern Bantu exhibit a feature in which two or more auxiliaries appear alongside a single lexical verb. We term this construction ‘auxiliary stacking’. The goal of the paper is to outline the phenomenon of auxiliary stacking in Southern Bantu and raise questions about…
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Southern Bantu Auxiliary Functions and Their Distributions
Southern Bantu languages have extensive auxiliary inventories with functions that sometimes go beyond typical tense/aspect/mood/polarity meanings. This article examines areal semantic patterns of auxiliaries in 16 Southern Bantu varieties, identifying functions that are regularly encoded by…
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Introduction to the Special Issue
Bantu languages are notoriously “verby” (Nurse 2008, 21), referring to the highly agglutinative nature of the inflected verb, whose complexities have sparked extensive research. Now that Bantu verbal morphology is much better understood, the time has come to widen the scope of research beyond the…
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The Mother of Awashi
In September 2020, a video circulating on social media plunged he country of Mozambique into a deep moral crisis. The video showed five young men, dressed in the uniform of the Mozambican army, cruelly whipping a naked woman along a road and eventually riddling her with bullets. The clip came from…
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Warriors and Colonizers
This study critically examines (post)colonial ideologies within the Nollywood epic Jagun Jagun (2023), directed by Adebayo Tijjani and Tope Adebayo and produced by Femi Adebayo. Through a colonial reading, the film emerges as a narrative that critiques systems of power, exposes the enduring…
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Trapped in Coloniality
This article explores how the popular Icelandic Nordic Noir series, Trapped Season 2, provides a nuanced perspective on the deeply rooted concepts of Icelandic and Nordic exceptionalism and homonationalism in popular culture. It offers a complex discourse on the portrayal of the foreign other…
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Silozi Phrasal Tonology
In Silozi, High tones are subject to a number of different processes including shift, doubling and deletion. After establishing these on the basis of isolation forms and two-word phrases, this paper examines a range of complex phrases which reveals a very productive process of phrasal High…
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“What Are We Agreeing Upon?” Negotiating Consent in Research with Indigenous Communities in the DRC
Ethical review boards in social science research require researchers to solicit informed and voluntary consent from their research participants. However, how is consent negotiated in the field when working with research participants who have different perspectives on consent, privacy, and…