SWAHILI FORUM is an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed online journal free of charge. We invite submissions of original manuscripts on a full range of topics related to Swahili language, linguistics, literature, culture, history and society.
We accept manuscripts in Swahili, English, French or German. The deadline for the annual open issue is January, 31st. You will find us here: https://www.gkr.uni-leipzig.de/en/swahili-forum.
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Contents of SWAHILI FORUM 31 (2024)

In Memoriam

Enock Matundura & Patrick Iribemwangi
Kumbukizi ya ‘Baba wa Kiswahili’ Mohamed Hassan Abdulaziz Mkilifi

Lutz Diegner Kumbukizi ya
Wilhelm J. G. Möhlig

Articles

Patrick Iribemwangi & Nicholus Makanji
Utoupole katika Ucheshi: Kifani cha Kauli zilizo kwenye Vibandiko vya Matatu

Vincenzo Straface

Language, Identity, and Sexuality: Swahili Linguistic Practices Among Self-Identified Gay Men in Dar es Salaam

Cristina Nicolini
“Thunder” and “Relief”: Contemporary Popular Web Writers and their Commitment to Swahili Literature

Ahmad Kipacha & Hadija Jilala

Ufungwa wa Mwili na Nafsi: Uchambuzi wa Kifoucault wa Sauti ya Dhiki ya Abdilatif Abdalla

Rasmus Bernander
Lazima in Swahili and Beyond: Accounting for the Double Transfer of a Strong Necessity Marker in East Africa

Review

Peter Githinji
Review: Alamin Mazrui & Kimani Njogu, Swahili in Spaces of War: A Sociolinguistic Odyssey (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)