Abstract The language of public space in Tanzania is increasingly reported to be dominated by English the bottom-up signage for maintaining higher status quo. At same time, utility Kiswahili predominates top-down signposts that aim pass information quickly. While literature shows skewed towards communication intended message, COVID-19 situation expanded this universities country. expression sta...

Research has consistently indicated that children of naturalized citizens from refugee backgrounds lag in most indicators development. The disparities are more nuanced contexts with limited educational resources, such as the sub-Saharan region Africa. However, is not case Burundian origin living Tanzania. early learning attainment these comparable to advantaged urban majority groups. In this ar...

Text-to-Speech (TTS) system converts an input text into a synthetic speech output. The paper provides detailed description of developing Kiswahili TTS using Tacotron 2 architecture and WaveNet vocoder. will help visually impaired persons to learn, assist with communication disorders, provide source in Voice Alarm Public Address equipments. is sequence-to-sequence model for building systems. con...

Abstract In Nakuru, a secondary city in Kenya, herbal doctors argue that African bodies are infested by ‘dirt’. Gathering at crossroads, they teach about the dangerous effects of processed foods on bodies. During public product demonstrations, patch together urban gossip, kemikali (chemicals Kiswahili) and consumer goods from abroad to demonstrate their overheating stomachs. this article, I thi...

Data are presented on the development of tests of reading skill for primary school pupils in rural Tanzania. Instruction in these schools is in Kiswahili, a regularly spelled language. Using a translation of a standard reading test, children can read aloud all words once they have learned the sound– letter correspondences, regardless of comprehension. In addition, children can pass traditional ...

Grammatical priming of picture naming was investigated in Kiswahili, which has a complex grammatical noun class system (a system like grammatical gender), with up to 15 noun classes that have obligatory agreements on adjectives, verbs, pronouns and other parts of speech. Participants heard a grammatically agreeing (concordant), nonagreeing (discordant) or neutral prime before seeing a picture o...

Introduction: Education in Kenya has been tasked since independence 1964 to be the tool of forging national unity among ethnic people Kenya. Surprisingly, negative ethnicity levels have escalated, as witnessed 1992, 1997, and 2007/2008 clashes. Purpose: The review investigated theories practices Kenyan education with regard promotion goals for unity. Methodology: This study employed critique a ...