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After many years of teaching Swahili as a lecturer in the University
of Bayreuth’s Language Centre, Gerlind Scheckenbach
bid farewell to colleagues and friends in September 2013 as
she took her retirement. She contributed significantly to the
steadily growing prominence of Swahili as an integral part
of various BA and MA programmes in linguistics, literature,
anthropology, history, geography, etc. at the University of
Bayreuth. Having lived in Tanzania for several years with her
family, Gerlind Scheckenbach joined the Language Centre in
the 1990s and has been actively involved in supervising Swahili
tutors over many years. She supported the Swahili Choir
and took care of guests and students from Eastern Africa as
well as students who spent a semester abroad in a Swahilispeaking
country.
Gerlind Scheckenbach is succeeded by Frederick Bosire
and Rosanna Tramutoli who started teaching as a team in
October 2013. Frederick Bosire was born and grew up in Nakuru
District, Kenya. He holds a BA in Swahili Studies and an
MA Literature in Cultural Contexts both from the University
of Bayreuth. He is currently working on his PhD on Swahili
literature and development in the International Doctoral Programme
(IPP) “Cultural Encounters”. Rosanna Tramutoli received
her MA in Comparative Studies in Naples, Italy. She also
studied African Linguistics at Leiden (Netherlands) and spent
a year in Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania). She is currently working
on a PhD on Swahili body terminology in African Linguistics.
NAB XIII, 2013, p. 76