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The Institute of Kiswahili Studies offers two postgraduate programs. These are MA (Kiswahili) and PhD (Kiswahili) programs.

MA KISWAHILI PROGRAM

MA Kiswahili Program is offered under the following procedures:

MA Kiswahili by Coursework and dissertation which is studied in 18 months 

MA Kiswahili by Thesis which is studied in 24 months

OBJECTIVES OF MA KISWAHILI PROGRAM

• To prepare experts to teach Kiswahili in advanced education levels;
• To prepare experts who will work in the media, publishing companies, government departments, international organizations, and other related areas;
• To prepare students to pursue PhD studies (Doctor of Philosophy) in Kiswahili linguistics/ literature; and
• To prepare experts who will bring about development and transformation in Kiswahili language and literature through technology.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES OF MA KISWAHILI PROGRAM

• To educate students to substantially contribute knowledge in Kiswahili linguistics and literary fields;
• To introduce to students current issues concerning the knowledge of Kiswahili linguistics and Kiswahili literature; 
• To enable students to acquire broad knowledge in Kiswahili linguistics and Kiswahili literature; and thus, to enable them to realise the interaction between the two;  
• To enable students to gain systematic and experimental skills of research methodology and Kiswahili linguistic and literary theories; 
• To enable students to acquire analytical and theoretical skills to analyse, explain, understand, and assess Kiswahili linguistics and literature as well as other African languages and literature in all spheres;
• To impart to students the knowledge on the use of computational technology in research and teaching languages and literature. 

REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION INTO MA KISWAHILI PROGRAM

Besides general requirements for admission of the University of Dar es Salaam, the chief requirement to be enrolled in this program is the undergraduate degree with a lower second pass, an Average of 2.8 G.P.A or above. Furthermore, to be enrolled, an applicant must possess at least 3.0 UNITS of linguistics and literature courses studied at the undergraduate level. 

Students enrolled in this Program are categorised into linguistics or literature category depending on their pass mark in their BA courses.  Kiswahili is the medium of instruction in the Institute. This includes dissertation and thesis writing.

PHD KISWAHILI PROGRAM  

PhD Kiswahili program is categorised into two categories: PhD (Kiswahili) Linguistics and PhD (Kiswahili) Literature. It is offered under the following procedures:

• PhD Kiswahili (Linguistics) by Course Work and Dissertation full time, offered  in 48 Months
• PhD Kiswahili (Linguistics/Literature) by Thesis full time, offered in 36 Months
• PhD Kiswahili (Linguistics/ Literature) by Thesis part-time, offered  in 60 Months

OBJECTIVES OF PHD KISWAHILI PROGRAM

• To prepare Kiswahili experts required in various areas in East Africa, African Union Headquarters, East African Parliament, Meetings of the Countries of Interlacustrine Region, United Nations and other places.
• To prepare expert in linguistics and literature who will teach in Universities within and outside Tanzania. Among the countries that need Swahili experts in Kiswahili studies are: Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Ghana, Libya, Mozambique, Burkina Faso, Mauritius, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Japan, China, South Korea, Germany, United States, etc.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES OF PHD KISWAHILI PROGRAM

• To nurture and produce experts in Kiswahili who will be experts in various fields of Kiswahili language and linguistics;
• To encourage experts who will become a motivation to others in various fields of oral and written Swahili literature;
• To encourage experts who will be expert in communication and publishing in Kiswahili.

REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION INTO PhD KISWAHILI PROGRAM

For the applicant to be selected to enrol into PhD Kiswahili Program, s/he must, first of all, possess MA Kiswahili degree or its equivalent from the University of Dar es Salaam or any other recognised University. 

Kiswahili language is used as a medium of instruction in teaching all courses and in writing dissertations.

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INTRODUCTION to special issue: SWAHILI LITERATURE IN GLOBAL EXCHANGE: TRANSLATIONS, TRANSLATORS AND TRENDS

2018, Swahili Forum

Swahili translation is a relatively new academic field, and recent publications show increasing interest in this area of research. The articles in this volume bring together reflections on translation from and into Swahili from across four continents. The papers offer insights into translation from Swahili into other languages in Europe (Aiello, Garnier, Gaudioso, Reuster-Jahn), the USA (Koenings), Russia (Gromov), China (Lei), and Egypt (Salah). They also consider translation practices in Kenya (Gromov) and Tanzania (Böhme, Gromov).

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This paper considers some of the questions posed by literary translations both from and into Swahili. While the questions a translator might address as she proceeds with each translation may be the same, their differing answers often highlight the translator’s different position towards, and history with, each target language, as well as her aesthetic and political commitments in each. The projects discussed are Mlenge Fanuel Mgendi’s comic short story Starehe gharama (Comfort is Expensive) about a young schoolboy’s misadventure on a daladala bus in Dar es Salaam and Tope Folarin’s Caine Prize shortlisted story Genesis (Mwanzo), in which two Nigerian boys living in the American Midwest witness their mother’s struggle with her new surroundings

Justus Mtende Chimoni

This study investigates the notion of “shifts” in Swahili literary translations within a wider context of communication and focuses on the translators’ role and goals, which shape and direct both the process and the product of translation. The study is intended to answer the broad question of why Swahili literary translations appear as refracted as they are hence, it is, an inquiry into the make-up of Swahili literary translations, as they exist in the target culture. Of key importance to this research is the broad view of translation as mediated inter-lingual communication. Based on such a view, this study proceeds on the general assumption that translation is a rewriting of an original text and as such it not only reflects a certain ideology and a poetics but also manipulates literature to function in society in a certain way (Lefevere, 2002, p. xi). The fundamental contention of this thesis is that since translation involves active intervention of translators through transformati...

Translators Have Their Say?: Translation and the Power of Agency, ed. by Abdel-Wahab Khalifa. Zürich: LIT.

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Uta Reuster-Jahn

This article shows how changing ideologies and evolving market forces have combined to lessen German publishers' enthusiasm for Swahili literature-and how, surprisingly, translators of Swahili are now taking the initiative to ensure that Swahili literature still gets published. After outlining preceding periods of translation and showing how they are determined by ideologies and market forces, I take a close and partially personal look at the development and role of the translator-publishers: how digital technology and new formats have enabled them to take over classical publishers' tasks. Still, even if translators manage to publish their translated works, they are confronted with the challenge of reaching an audience and creating a space for Swahili literature in German-speaking countries. These translators could possibly join forces to reach a critical mass for translations, thus paving the way for Swahili translated literature to be recognized and appreciated by German-speaking readers.

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Translation of "Ph.D." into Swahili

shahada ya uzamivu is the translation of "Ph.D." into Swahili. Sample translated sentence: Reporting on scientists who believe that intelligent design is responsible for our cosmos and life in it, a book review in The New York Times comments: “They have Ph.D.’s and occupy positions at some of the better universities. ↔ Ikieleza kuhusu wanasayansi wanaoamini kwamba ulimwengu wetu na viumbe vilivyopo vilibuniwa kwa akili, makala moja katika gazeti The New York Times inasema hivi: “Wana shahada za juu zaidi na vyeo maarufu katika baadhi ya vyuo vikuu vinavyoheshimiwa sana.

Doctor of Philosophy, a terminal research degree, the highest of academic degrees conferred by a college or university. [..]

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Shahada ya uzamivu.

Philosophiae Doctor, Doctor of Philosophy

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Home student fees (full-time) : £4,860 per year Home student fees (part-time) : £2,430 per year Overseas student fees (full-time) : £22,490 per year Overseas student fees (part-time) : £11,245 per year

Please note that fees go up each year.   See  research fees  for further details.

We normally require a 2.1 bachelor's degree (or its equivalent) plus a Masters degree in appropriate subject area plus one reference. In exceptional cases we may accept applicants who do not meet these criteria if they show evidence of a strong Masters degree and/or appropriate level of relevant work experience. International applicants should also see  Doctoral School English language requirements

Course overview

The MPhil/PhD in Translation Studies is a research training programme which combines foundational and advanced training in the core areas of translation studies, research methods and research work leading to a thesis. The Department is strongly research-oriented, and through a combination of courses, advanced seminars and individual supervision, aims to provide the intellectual discipline, knowledge and skills required of a well-rounded researcher.

Supervision is offered in theoretical, descriptive and comparative, historical translation studies, as well as a wide range of interdisciplinary areas cutting across linguistics, cultural studies, sociological and political field of studies. Depending on the research topic, it may be possible to arrange joint supervision with specialists in other departments.

Research at the Centre for Translation Studies and in the Department of Linguistics

Research interests of the faculty are wide-ranging, spanning the languages across the world, from Chinese to Arabic, Swahili to Korean, Mongolian to Japanese. This focus on Asian and African languages, combined with the unparalleled access to the considerable language and regional expertise of other SOAS researchers constitutes a unique resource for the study of translation studies benefitting from expertise of many leading researchers in the areas of other languages, theoretical, comparative and descriptive linguistics, and area studies, which greatly enrich the field of translation studies.

Modern Languages and Linguistics at SOAS has been ranked 10th in the UK in the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021. We've also been ranked 4th for research environment - with 100% of our research ranked as 'internationally excellent' and 85% as 'world-leading' - and 8th for research outputs in the REF 2021.

The PhD programme in Translation Studies is a rigorous, structured interdisciplinary training programme with different activities and requirements taking place throughout the period of the programme.

All students register in year 1 of the programme as MPhil students. The upgrade from MPhil to PhD registration takes place at the end of the first academic session for full time students (or at the end of the second academic session for part time students).

All new MPhil/PhD students are provided with a supervisory committee of three members, comprising a main or primary supervisor, and a second and third supervisor. The split in time commitment across the supervisory committee is 60:25:15. In the first year students are expected to meet their main supervisor on a bi-weekly basis for a period of at least one hour.

The student’s primary supervisor is either a member of the Linguistic Department, or a member from the department of area studies if they are registered at the Centre for Translation Studies. The second and third supervisors, who act in a supplementary advisory capacity, may be from the same Department, or other Departments/Centres in the Faculty of Languages and Cultures or in Departments/Centres in the other Faculties of the School.

Depending on the nature of the research, joint supervision is sometimes recommended, under the direction of two primary supervisors. In such cases the student has only one further supervisor on their committee.

The student’s progress is further overseen by the Centre's Research Tutor.

In the first year, students prepare for research by following the research training seminar (RTS) offer by the Centre for Translation Studies, Department of Linguistics convened by the Research Tutors, as well as training offered by the Faculty's research programme and supported by the generic training on offer in the Academic Development Directorate (ADD) .

Students may also be encouraged by supervisors to attend additional taught courses relevant to their research and to their training needs. These may include specialist disciplinary, language or regional culture courses or research training in other Departments outside the Faculty.

All MPhil/PhD students are encouraged to attend the talks of the departmental seminar series, or those organised by the Department of Linguistic or the Centre for Translation Studies. In addition, there are special PhD seminars in which advanced PhD students present their work and which are open to staff and students.

Year 1 full-time students (year 2 for part-time students) are required to submit a core chapter and research proposal (of about 10,000 words) by first Friday in May, typically including the following elements:

• Research rationale and context of proposed research
• Main research questions
• Literature review
• Theoretical and methodological framework and considerations
• Proposed research methods
• Ethical issues (where applicable)
• Samples of initial data and their analysis
• Outline structure of PhD dissertation
• Schedule of research and writing
• Bibliography

Adjustments to one or more of these sections, including additions or deletions where appropriate, are possible by prior arrangement between the students and lead supervisors.

The upgrade process from MPhil to PhD status is based upon an assessment of the core chapter and research proposal by the student’s research committee, and upon on a 20-30 minute oral presentation, followed by discussion. The oral presentation is given to, supervisory committee members and other Departmental staff and research students. This is followed by an interview of 10-15 minutes between the student and the committee. On successful completion of the upgrade process, students are formally upgraded to PhD and proceed to the second year. (If the assessors consider there to be shortcomings in the core chapter or research proposal, students will be asked to revise it to their satisfaction before the upgrade to PhD status can be confirmed.) Students are not normally permitted to proceed to the second year until the upgrade process has been completed.

The second year (or part-time equivalent) is normally spent engaged in research. This may be by any combination of fieldwork and research in libraries and material collection as agreed between the student and the supervisor(s).

The third year (or part-time equivalent) is devoted to writing up research for the PhD thesis. During this time, students will normally give a presentation in the PhD seminar series organised by the Research Tutor, which is open to staff members and other research students. During the third year (or part time equivalent) students will present draft chapters to their main supervisor for comment, before completing a final draft of the thesis. Once a full draft is complete, the work is assessed by all members of the supervisory committee and the student can either submit the thesis or move on to Continuation Status to be given a further 12 months to complete the thesis and submit for examination.

The thesis must be completed within 48 months from the time of registration (or part time equivalent).

The thesis – not to exceed 100,000 words in length – is examined by two leading authorities in the field.

PhD Degrees are awarded by SOAS from registration in 2013 and are subject to SOAS regulations.

Important notice

The information on the website reflects the intended programme structure against the given academic session. The modules are indicative options of the content students can expect and are/have been previously taught as part of these programmes. However, this information is published a long time in advance of enrolment and module content and availability is subject to change.

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“We Should Also Translate the Spirit”: Kiswahili Literature in Translation

Notes on the 3rd Annual Swahili Literary Festival and the translation of African languages.

I’m Kelsey McFaul, a PhD candidate at UC Santa Cruz where I study contemporary literature from East Africa. During the 2020-21 school year, I’m working with the Center for the Art of Translation to develop institutional capacity and international publishing support for African literature and translators from African languages. This year we’ve focused specifically on Kiswahili, a language spoken throughout East Africa including Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Last month I logged on from Los Angeles to join the third annual Swahili Literary Festival , with a line-up of in-person and online events centered in Mombasa, Kenya. The festival, coordinated by Hekaya Arts Initiative and Abu Amirah, celebrates the literary and cultural production of the Swahili Coast, the area of East Africa’s Indian Ocean coastline where the Kiswahili language originated. The coast is home to long and rich traditions of performance poetry which have developed and inspired countless writers. Coinciding with International Women’s Day, this year’s festival emphasized the role of women in Swahili heritage across space and time.

The festival brought together audiences of elders, academics, writers, and translators on the topics of women in contemporary Swahili Coast literature and the art of translation. Winners of the Mabati Cornell Kiswahili Prize , the first Pan-African literary prize for an African language literature, Anna Samwel and Zainab Bahroon read from their works Penzi la Damu and Mungu Hakopeshwi . Panelists and audience members in these conversations spoke passionately about ways to nurture readers and writers in Kiswahili and other languages like Kikuyu and Kikamba from a young age, as well as the hurdles to publication on the Swahili Coast.

The Center for the Art of Translation sponsored the Art of Translation panel and I helped moderate panelists Aurélie Journo, Edwige-Renée Dro, Madhu Krishnan, Moses Kilolo, and Nathalie Koenings’ conversation on the histories and practices of literary translation on the continent. Drawing on examples from West and East Africa, they deemphasized translation from African to European target languages, and instead made the case for the importance of Africa-centered translation—literary translations of African texts by African translators, often into African languages. One foundational example is audience member Abdilatif Abdalla’s translation of Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born from English into Kiswahili ( Wema hawajazaliwa , 1975).

More recently, Moses Kilolo edited Jalada Africa’s Translation Issue , which collected translations of an Ngugi wa Thiong’o short story in Kikuyu—96 languages and counting! Translators without knowledge of Kikuyu worked from one or more bridge translations in English, French, and Arabic; for example, the Somali translator was most comfortable working from Arabic, so the story was translated from Kikuyu to English, English to Arabic, and finally Arabic to Somali. That’s just one example of East Africa’s dynamic and multi-directional literary culture. Many of the translators I’ve spoken with spend a significant portion of their time translating from English into Kiswahili. Others translate from older or marginalized dialects of Kiswahili into modern, mainstream Kiswahili, or between Kiswahili and Arabic.

While Kiswahili is underrepresented on the global literary scale, it tends to dominate in countries like Kenya and Tanzania where it is a national language. The panelists discussed how East African translators hoping to work in mother tongues other than Kiswahili (Kikuyu, Kikamba, Luo, and others) have few formal educational materials and often find themselves using missionary translations of the Bible to learn the language’s “standardized” form. Yet because Kiswahili and its neighboring languages are characterized by borrowing, malleability, and variation, translators must often navigate whether a “right” version of the language for a particular text even exists, and what their answer to this question might say about their perspective, politics, and taste.

My favorite part of the conversation was listening to practicing translators discuss how they approach their projects and their interaction with audience members about the translator’s craft. While much of our conversation had focused on language, the panelists concluded that a translator moves, not from one language to another, but from one literary text to another, creating again, as best they can, an author’s personal style and voice. The translator asks, as the poet Ibrahim Noor exhorted us all,

“How can I take this idea, this concept, and make my people appreciate the form, the substance, and the spirit of it all? We should also translate the spirit.”

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Global Center for Kiswahili Studies and Advancement (GCKSA)

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The expansion and development of Kiswahili as both, a discipline and a language of wider communication has over the years made impressive strides locally, regionally and globally. This has brought about a number of challenges that deemed necessary to address them. These include among others harmonization of Kiswahili teaching, research, methods and techniques, dissemination of Kiswahili knowledge, Kiswahili programmes, use of ICT and media, collaboration and partnership. In responding with local, regional and global challenges in promoting and advancing Kiswahili, The State University of Zanzibar (SUZA) has recently established the Centre to efficiently deal with them in collaboration with other local, regional and international institutions with a similar interest.

To be the best Centre on Kiswahili Studies in the world.

To offer quality services on Kiswahili Studies.

The basic and primary goal of the Centre is to foster, maintain and develop Kiswahili in the highest possible standard that will preserve it in its pure and fine form with its best qualities and virtues while at the same time avoiding all possible tendencies which threaten to pollute its characterization of a soft, musical, expressive and classical language resulting in good speakers in whatever other languages they speak.

In order therefore to achieve this goal, the objectives of the centre shall be:

• To develop research agenda, conduct diversified research and coordinate dissemination of the findings on Swahili language, history and culture.
• To establish a state of the art that will support research, documentation and presentation of the findings to the public, researchers and students, locally, regionally and internationally.
• To generate, document and disseminate Swahili knowledge, information and innovation for socio-economic and political development.
• To encourage exchange of staff and students among institutions involved with Kiswahili studies and research worldwide.
• To establish competitive Kiswahili trainings programmes for speakers of other languages that will attract learners across the boarders.
• To promote scholastic partnership and collaborative researches with Universities and other national and international institutes offering studies on African languages and establish centers of advanced studies and researches in Kiswahili.
• To foster collaboration with other government and non-government organizations and other stakeholders locally, regionally and internationally in promoting and advancing Swahili usage, culture and history.
• To strengthen the use of ICT and media in training and advancing Kiswahili and making of the language of broadcasting in the Eastern African region and ultimately in Africa.
• To organize Swahili cultural festival and other relevant activities and events for fostering and advancing Swahili language.

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GCKSA is located within Zanzibar Stone Town, Vuga Road, adjacent to Ben Bella Secondary School.

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Coordinator, Mr. Ali Saleh Khalfan Global Centre for Kiswahili Studies and Advancement P.O. Box 146 Zanzibar Tanzania. E-mail:   [email protected]

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Flavia, Aiello Traore. "Translating Culture: Literary Translations into Swahili by East African Translators." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2014. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-137419.

Zaja, James Omboga. "Translating the language of development communication into Kiswahili: a case of mediating meaning, difference and ambuguity in cross-cultural communication." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-90579.

Zaja, James Omboga. "Translating the language of development communication into Kiswahili: a case of mediating meaning, difference and ambuguity in cross-cultural communication." Swahili Forum 18 (2011), S. 97-113, 2011. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A11468.

Kihore, Yared M. "Uzingatifu wa sarufi katika tafsiri." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-98293.

Traoré, Flavia Aiello. "Translating a Swahili novel into `Kizungu`: Seperazione, the Italian edition of Said Ahmad Mohamed`s Utengano." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-91265.

Aiello, Traoré Flavia. "Memory in translation: Mau Mau Detainee and its Swahili Translation." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2015. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-162770.

Blommaert, Jan. "A Shaba Swahili life story.: Text and translation." Swahili Forum; 3 (1996), S. 31-62, 1996. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A10585.

Blommaert, Jan. "A shaba Swahili life story:: Text and translation." Swahili Forum; 2 (1995), S. 73-103, 1995. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A11620.

Hadjivayanis, Ida. "Norms of Swahili translations in Tanzania : an analysis of selected translated prose." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2011. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/13602/.

Bertoncini-Zubkova, Elena. "Maria Valtorta: Injili kama nilvyofunuliwa." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-95707.

Gromova, Nelli V. "Tafsiri mpya za fasihi ya Kirusi katika Kiswahili." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-98239.

Omar, Yahya Ali. "Burdai ya Al-Busiri." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-97744.

Nocera, Pompea. "An interpretation of Said Ahmed Mohamed`s novel Kiza katika Nuru and some aspects of translation." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-91241.

Talento, Serena. "Of Presences/Absences, Identity and Power: the Ideological Role of Translation into Swahili during Late Pre-Colonial and Early Colonial Times." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2014. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-137488.

Aiello, Traorè Flavia. "Life and Poems of Bi Zainab Himid (1920-2002) – in Swahili with English Translation. Maisha na Tungo za Bi zainab Himid (1920-2002) – kwa Kiswahili na tafsiri yake kwa Kiingereza. Ed. by Sauda Barwani and Ludwig Gerhardt. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2012, 331 pp, 2 b/w photos, 8 facsimile reproductions, hardcover, size 18 x 26 cm, ISBN 978-3-89645-286-3." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2015. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-162784.

Mbatha, Mathooko Petronilla. "Kutoka lugha kienzo hadi lugha ya isimu: matatizo yanayotinga kiswahili kama lugha ya kufunzia isimu vyuoni vikuu nchini Kenya." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-100819.

H, Samsom Ridder. "‘Hammatbihi wahammabiha’: fasihi ya Kiswahili na kisa cha Yusuf." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-100770.

Orang'i, Douglas Ondara. "Translating linguistic and cultural aspects in Swahili healthcare texts: a descriptive translation studies approach." Thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/26527.

Aiello, Flavia. "Swahili Literature into Italian: The Challenge of Translating Abdilatif Abdalla's Poems." 2018. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A35324.

Garnier, Xavier. "Translating Kezilahabi's Nagona and Mzingile into French." 2018. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A35327.

Chimoni, Justus. "Decision-Making in Literary Translation: A Descriptive Study of Swahili Literary Translations." 2016. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A72888.

Gromov, Mikhail. "Swahili Literature in the Russian Language." 2018. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A35332.

Reuster-Jahn, Uta, and Serena Talento. "Swahili Literature in Global Exchange: Translations, Translators and Trends: Introduction." 2018. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A35194.

Arnold, Koenings Nathalie. "Eating the Country' and 'Aluminium Foil': Questions in the Translation of Contemporary Literary Texts from and into Swahili." 2018. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A35326.

Arnold, Koenings Nathalie. "Seeing the World with Zanzibari Poet Nassor Hilal Kharusi." 2018. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A35335.

Cassuto, Philippe, Victor Ya Porkhomovsky, and Irina S. Ryabova. "Swahili and Zulu versions of the Old Testament from a General Perspective of Bible Translations." 2020. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A72138.

Gromov, Mikhail. "Blowing the Summoning Horn: Euphrase Kezilahabi, Kithaka wa Mberia and Self-translation in Modern Swahili Poetry." 2018. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A35328.

Aiello, Flavia. "Literary Translations at the University of Naples 'L'Orientale." 2018. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A35333.

Reuster-Jahn, Uta. "New Responses to Old Problems: How the German Translator Publisher is Making Swahili Literature Available in a Notoriously Difficult Market." 2018. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A35330.

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shahada ya phd

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welcome, cuban doctors.

karibu, madaktari wa cuba.

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how many doctors are there

je! maji yanaonekana kama mchafu?

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there are doctors and nurses but nothing else.

kuna madaktari na manesi na si kingine.

doctors have given him a clean bill of health.

madaktari wamemthibitishia kwamba afya yake iko imara.

a boston-based organization is seeking volunteer doctors

shirika lililoko huko boston linatafuta madaktari

the doctors are saying nothing about bo's condition.

madaktari hawajasema lolote kuhusu hali ya bo.

they asked us not to leave our seats unless we are doctors.

walitutaka tusiondoke kwenye viti vyetu isipokuwa kama ni madaktari.

is it not a token for them that the doctors of the children of israel know it?

je! haikuwa kwao ni ishara kwamba wanayajua haya wanazuoni wa wana wa israili?

Last Update: 2014-07-03 Usage Frequency: 1 Quality: Reference: Anonymous

ensure that all information and advice you receive has been backed by reputable doctors and scientists.

hakikisha kwamba maelezo na ushauri wote unaopokea umeungwa mkono na madaktari na wanasayansi wanaoaminika.

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our doctors name is bob he is 22 years old he cured many people from disease he finished university and got a

madaktari wetu wanaitwa bob ana umri wa miaka 22 aliponya watu wengi kutokana na ugonjwa aliomaliza chuo kikuu na kupata

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it was created by doctors but also involves active participation of other professionals from different walks of life.

lilianzishwa na madaktari lakini linajumuisha wataalam wengine wenye shughuli mbalimbali.

there is also a challenge of shortage of doctors, some of whom allegedly steal medicine for their private clinics.

pia kuna changamoto ya upungufu wa madaktari, baadhi yao wakituhumiwa kuiba dawa kinyemela kwa ajili ya kliniki zao binafsi.

family members milled around the front reception area while doctors and bodies covered in blood were rushed in and out of surgery.

wanafamilia walimiminika kuelekea sehemu ya mapokezi wakati ambapo madaktari na miili iliyojaa damu walikimbizwa na kutolewa katika chumba cha upasuaji.

on teachers and doctors working in botswana where many flocked to from the late 1980 to the early 2000s, president sata said:

kuhusu suala la walimu na madaktari wanaofanya kazi botswana ambapo wengi walikimbilia hapa kwenye miaka ya 1980 mwishoni mpaka miaka ya 2000 mwanzoni, rais sata alisema:

2012 june: doctors' strike (back in february and onwards) and the abduction of dr ulimboka.

2012 juni: madaktari wagoma (ni kama walianza mwezi februari na kuendelea) na kutekwa na kuteswa kwa kiongozi wa madaktari dk ulimboka.

and for those in hospitals suffering, all they see are masks and robot-looking suits of doctors and nurses caring for them.

na kwa wale walio mahospitalini wakiteseka, wanachoweza kukiona ni sura za madaktari na manesi waliovalia mavazi kama roboti wakijaribu kuwahudumia.

doctors have said they are using the drug when "there's no other option".

madaktari wamesema kuwa wanatumia dawa hiyo wakati "hakuna chaguo lingine",

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li congratulations but i urge you to exercise those rights to your phd ... keep it separate from our indigenous practices.

hongereni sana

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