Former Research Colloquia
Programmes of Former Research Colloquia (since 2002) can be found below:
- Winter Term 22/23Hide
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08.11.22 Recalibrating Afrikanistik Reading Group: Vincent Magugu (Moi University): Contextualising the Translation of Caitaani Mutharaba-ini (Devil on the Cross) by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o". Please note: starts at 17h00! 15.11.22 Linguistic Colloquium (16h00): Thorsten Brato “Towards a Diachronic Corpus of African Newspapers (DiaNewspapers)“. 22.11.22 Programme moderator meeting with MA students (includes information and discussion on presenting in the colloquium) 06.12.22 Recalibrating Afrikanisitk Reading Group:
Andrew Harvey (UBT): "Documenting Hadza 2019-2021: A retrospective"13.12.22
Sazzad Hossain (MA AVVA). "Traditional Art Forms in Bangladesh"
20.12.2022
Meeting with BA Students
10.01.23 Alena Rettová, Emiliano Minerba, Benedetta Lafranchi, Chantal Gishoma: "Philosophy and Genre: Creating a Textual Basis for African Philosophy" - a State of the Art Update
24.01.23 Alena Rettová, Albert Kasanda, Pierre-Philippe Fraiture, Michelle Clarke (University of Bayreuth, University of Warwick): "Philosophy and Genre: Creating a Textual Basis for African Philosophy" - a State of the Art Update (Part II)
- Summer Term 2022Hide
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03.05.22 RecAf Reading Group (17h00 s.t.) 10.05.22 Oladapo Ajayi (Bayreuth)
Fuji: The Contemporary Yoruba Urban Space and the Performance of Gbajumo or the Bigman17.05.22 Linguistic Colloquium (in German)
Dr. Susanne Kabatnik (Greifswald)
Helfende Instruktionen am Beispiel von Depression auf Twitter und der Gruppenpsychotherapie31.05.22 Q&A Bachelor Thesis 21.06.22 Linguistic Colloquium (in English)
PD Dr. Marie-Luise Pitzl (Österreichische)
Emergent multilingual practices in Transient International Groups (TIGs): Micro-diachronic analysis of ELF interactions in VOICE.28.06.22 Abibatou Diagne (Dakar), Monika Rohmer (Bayreuth)
Conceptualisations of WATER on the Senegalese Coast05.07.22 RecAf Reading Group (17h00 s.t.) 12.07.22 Irina Turner (Bayreuth)
En(l)abe(l)ing isiXhosa - Winter Term 2021/2022Hide
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26.10.21 Alena Rettova and Team (Bayreuth)
Philosophy and Genre- Creating a Textual Basis for African Philosophy02.11.21 Liliana Santos (Munich)
Silence, Voice, Gender and Racial Representations in African American Children's Literature
Maxime Boeuf (Munich)
Koloniale Jugendliteratur09.11.21 Ajibade Olusola (Ile-Ife)
Spiritualizing the COVID-19 Pandemic: Impulsion from Oral Genres Produced during COVID-19 in Nigeria23.11.21 Maureen Karanja (Bayreuth)
Code-switching and code-mixing in Kenyan Rap Music- Analysing the works of Kennedy Ombima aka King Kaka30.11.21 Jannis Kostelnik (Bayreuth)
Metaphorical Conceptualizations of DEATH and DYING in Chadic Languages- Examples from Hausa and Mofu-Gudur
Agnes Dietrich (Bayreuth)
The Conceptualization of Women in Kiswahili Proverbs07.12.21 Susanne Mohr (Trondheim)
‘Kwa quotes nzuri za kiswahili kuhusu mapenzi na maisha follow hapa’- Inspirational quotes as advice activity in the digital (tourist) space of Zanzibar21.12.21 Paul Okoro Ewoma (Bayreuth)
The Significance of Osun-Osogbo Festival
Moses Anifowose (Bayreuth)
Ijala Artist as the Memory of the Society - A Case Study of Alabi Ogundepo's works18.01.22 Vuyelwa Jacobs (Gqeberha)
The City Press Representation of Citizen Action in Housing Delivery in South Africa: 2005-201502.02.22 Irina Turner (Bayreuth)
En(l)abelling isiXhosa at the University - Summer Term 2021Hide
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27.04.21 Dyoniz Kindata (Bayreuth)
A Critical Thematic Analysis of Selim bin Abakari Travelogue04.05.21 Emiliano Minerba (Bayreuth)
Stylistic analysis in African literature: some theoretical considerations11.05.21 Maureen Karanja (Bayreuth)
(TBC)01.06.21 Abibatou Diagne (Dakar)
Languages Terminologically Undeveloped: How to Express Science and Technology08.06.21 Patrick Onuh (Bayreuth)
Voices of Disruptions: The Artistic Portrayal of Systemic Violence against Nigerian Youths22.06.21 Saheed Bello (Bayreuth)
“Ọ̀rúnmìliàn Film-Philosophy”: An African Philosophy through Cinematic Storytelling29.06.21 Annmarie Drury (Bayreuth)
"Omar Khayyam kwa Kiswahili": Re-Imagining a Travelling Text in an East African Context06.07.21 Alena Rettová and Team (Bayreuth)
Philosophy and Genre: Creating a Textual Basis for African Philosophy - Summer Term 2020Hide
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29.04.20 Johnson Segun Ige (Washington, D.C.)
Beauty from Ashes: Witnessing Economic and Political Transformation of Rwanda’s Politics and Social Relations from its Genocidal Past14.05.20 Susanne Mohr (Bayreuth)
Language learning in the Zanzibari tourist space: Some considerations on the concept of 'grassroots'19.05.20 Taofik Olasunkanmi Adesanmi (Ondo)
Investigating the Nexus between Animals and Basotho's Identities in Epitaphs as Death Discourse (Linguistic Colloquium)09.06.20 Hanna Nieber (Bayreuth)
Drinking the Written Qur’an – writing a diffractive ethnography - Winter Term 2019/2020Hide
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22.10.19 Pierre Sambou (Dakar)
Non verbal Predication in Joola Karon, an Atlantic Language of Senegal05.11.19 Jaouad Serghini (Rabat)
La Coproduction Cinématographique Sud-Sud: État des Lieux, Défis et Enjeux26.11.19 Nathalie Koenings (Amherst)
“We have rukya, and we have mumian”: contemporary trends in the mystical realms of Pemba, Zanzibar03.12.19 Monika Rohmer (Bayreuth)
Representing No-Man’s Land? Stories from Senegal from those ‘left behind’ by migrants10.12.19 Zra Kodji (Bayreuth)
Tiernamen in der Kapsiki-Bibel: eine translatorische und semantische Analyse14.01.20 Melissa Deiß (Bayreuth)
An introduction to the 'utendi wa sayyidina Ali na Mudhari bin Darimi' and the 'utendi wa Barasisi'28.01.20 Ninja Steinbach-Hüther (Leipzig)
The circulation of African knowledge or One-Way-Ticket to Europe? New methods for the research of the reception of Africana with Digital Humanities - Summer Term 2019Hide
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30.04.19 Eliane Kamdem (Bayreuth)
Tense-Aspect Categories and Standard Negation in Five Bamileke Languages of Cameroon: Ngiemboon, Feʔfeʔ, Ghomalaʔ, Ngombale, and Medumba:
A Descriptive and Comparative Study14.05.19 Dikko Muhammad (Bayreuth)
Beyond "the Women Talk": Political Activism and Space Contestation in Female Poetry in Northern Nigeria21.05.19 Anne Schröder (Bielefeld)
Approaching the Dynamics of English in Namibia – Focus on the Pragmatics of Namibian English
(= Linguistic Colloquium)28.05.19 Gabriele Sommer & Michael Broß (Bayreuth)
Introduction to the Online-Course IsiXhosa04.06.19 Sheena Shah (Hamburg)
SiPhûthî, a highly endangered Tekela-Nguni language spoken in rural Lesotho18.06.19 Valentina Serreli (Bayreuth)
Arabic L2 in Siwa Oasis – A Berber-speaking Enclave of Egypt
(= Linguistic Colloquium)25.06.19 Oshita Oshita (Abuja)
Elections as a Metaphor in the Democratic Process02.07.19 Eloisa Ruppert (Kiel)
Negation in Ruuli16.07.19 Salem Ejeba (Port Harcourt)
A Discourse-Structural Analysis of Ígálâ Names
Gideon Sunday Omachonu (Keffi)
Sound, Structure and Semantics of Igala Personal Names: A Legacy of Tripartite Beauty - Winter Term 2018/2019Hide
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23.10.18 Masresha Fetene (Addis Abeba)
African Knowledge Systems − The imperative for African Universities30.10.18 Jacqueline Lück (Port Elizabeth)
Decolonizing the University Curriculum: Developing a Bottom-Up Transformative African-Centred Model for Linguistics
(= Linguistic Colloquium)13.11.18 Oyèníyì Okùnoyè (Ile-Ife)
Women's Voices and Dreams of Change in Nigerian Short Story in English27.11.18 Susann Ludwig (Leipzig)
La Chance - or University Graduates Making Sense of Uncertainty in Bamako, Mali22.01.19 Pepetual Mforbe Chiangong (Berlin)
The Elderly and Performative Actions in African Drama and Theatre29.01.19 Chapane Mutiwa (Hamburg)
Bridging the land to the sea: tenzi literature, oral historiography and the construction of identities from late 19th century Angoche - Summer Term 2018Hide
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24.04.18 Gratien Atindogbe (Buea)
Achieving the SDGs through Documentary Linguistics15.05.18 Kithaka wa Mberia (Nairobi) 29.05.18 Duncan Tarrant (Bayreuth)
A comparison in the themes of two Swahili Free verse poets05.06.18 Nikitta Adjirakor (Bayreuth)
On being Swahili and Tanzanian’: (re)exploring questions of self and nation through poetry and hip-hop in everyday life in Dar es Salaam12.06.18 Ajibade Olusola (Ile-Ife)
The Yoruba Christians Rewriting the Bible: Illustrations from their Songs19.06.18 Linguistic Colloquium 26.06.18 Buata Malela (Mayotte)
L’Afrique centrale comme concept d’écriture dans le discours littéraire de la diaspora afrodescendante - Winter Term 2017/2018Hide
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17.10.17 Baba Mai Bello (Maiduguri)
The construction of fear in Boko Haram’s propaganda messages
Mimboabe Bakpa (Kara)
A study of Hausa borrowed connectors in Moba language (Gur, Togo)14.11.17 Duncan Tarrant (Bayreuth)
A comparison in the themes of two Swahili free verse poets21.11.17 Abraham Olivier (East London)
The facticity of freedom05.12.17 John Lamola (East London)
Das Kapital and the postcolonial ontology of the African Self12.12.17 Danillo Barata (Salvador da Bahia)
Afro Brazilian art19.12.17 Klaudia Dombroswky-Hahn (Bayreuth)
Relative clauses in Senufo languages and linguistic typology
(= Linguistic Colloquium, 16 c.t., S 68 RW I)09.01.18 Julian Wenger (Bayreuth)
Rewriting: Albert Camus 'The Stranger' and Kamel Daouds 'The Meursault Investigation'16.01.18 Sam Naidu (Grahamstown)
Book launch - A survey of South African crime fiction (2017)23.01.18 Chijioke Uwah (East London)
Exploring the prophetic discourses on the realities of post-apartheid South Africa in the plays of Zakes Mda30.01.18 Susanne Mohr (Bonn)
Of jambo and hakuna matata. Language as a commodity in tourist-host interactions in Zanzibar - Summer Term 2017Hide
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109.05.17 Crispin Maalu-Bungi (Kinshasa)
Un nouveau-né en lexicographie congolaise16.05.17 Oyeniyi Okunoye (Ile-Ife)
A Distant View of the Homeland: Representations of Nigeria in Selected Short Fiction from the Nigerian Diaspora23.05.17 C.J Odhiambo (Moi) & Loreen Maseno (Maseno)
Satiric and Comic Irony: Framing intervention in Luo Popular culture and Media in two films, Kalausi and Cleansing30.05.17 BIGSAS Alumni Workshop 13.06.17 Nassur Attoumani (Mayotte)
Écrire en milieu d’illettrisme11.07.17 Nico Nassenstein (Cologne)
Kikongo Facile: On mediatized language, metalinguistic chic and translanguaging practices among youths from Matadi, Kinshasa and beyond18.07.17 Georg Ziegelmeyer (Vienna)
From the Chadic-Kanuri Contact Zone to the Wider Lake Chad Area - Winter Term 2016/2017Hide
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18.10.16 Eliane Kamdem (Bayreuth)
A description and comparison of the tense-aspect systems in Bamileke languages25.10.16 Angiachi Demetris Esene Agwara (Bayreuth)
Assessing oral rural multilingual competence in lower Bafut, North-West Region of Cameroon11.08.16 Nomsa Satyo (Fort Hare)
IsiXhosa Riddles: A contribution to real learning in the Foundation Phase
22.11.16 Chapane Mutiua (Maputo)
Typology, Style, and Materiality of the nineteenth century northern Mozambique ajami correspondence: the case of the collection of Bwana Shaki ibn Abdulatifo al-Mafazy29.11.16 Abraham Olivier (Fort Hare)
Racism, speciesism, and suffering13.12.16 Dianne Shober (Fort Hare)
History of South African Literature: Literary Footprints10.01.17 Anja Oed (Mainz)
Detective novels in African languages24.01.17 Davids Boakye (Bayreuth / Accra)
tbc31.01.17 Georg Ziegelmeyer (Vienna)
Language contact between Chadic and Nilo-Saharan Languages - Summer Term 2016Hide
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26.04.16 Mary Zacharia Charwi (Bayreuth)
The analysis of verb extensions, arguments relations and their semantic scope in Kuria10.05.16 Flora Amabiamina (Douala)
L’éthos de femme libérée dans la chanson féminine camerounaise31.05.16 Michael Kasombo (Lubumbashi)
The Swahili of Lubumbashi: between tone and stress or the dynamics of the lexicon07.06.16 Klaudia Dombrowsky (Bayreuth)
Book Launch: A grammar of Syer (Western Karaboro, Senufo): phonology, morphology, argument realization. Köln: Köppe, 201514.06.16 C.J Odhiambo (Moi) & Loreen Maseno (Maseno)
Satiric and Comic Irony: Framing intervention in Luo Popular culture and Media in two films
28.06.16 Alexandra Verezemskaya (Frankfurt)
The typology of verbal imperfective paradigms in West Chadic12.07.16 Fabienne Loureiro (Cologne)
The influence of Kimbundu and Kikongo as a major factor in the development of Angolan Portuguese - Winter Term 2015/2016Hide
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20.10.15 Ines Fiedler (Berlin)
Information structure and the verb system of Oti-Volta languages03.11.15 Ajibade Olusola (Ile-Ife)
Body no Be Wood: A Literary and Socio-cultural Analysis of Sexuality among the Yoruba Deities10.11.15 Gregorio Firmino (Maputo)
Portugese Orthography24.11.15 Chukwuma Okoye (Ibadan)
Nigerian Music Videos01.12.15 Jean-Pierre Boutche (Bayreuth)
Linguistic socialisation and performance: featuring non-ethnic Fula in Northern Cameroon08.12.15 Alioune Niang (Bremen)
Sprache und Identität. Das Beispiel Wolof im Senegal und die Frage des Identitätsbewusstseins der Senegalesen angesichts des Kolonialismus22.12.15 Francisco da Silva Xavier (Sao Paulo)
Phonology and morphology of modern Kimbundu12.01.16 Marie Ngom (Frankfurt am Main)
The impact of foreign verbs on the use of the antipassive marker-it in Seereer (an Atlantic language)19.01.16 Rudolph Botha (Alice)
tbc - Summer Term 2015Hide
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05.05.15 Roberto Gaudioso (Bayreuth/Naples)
The written voice: a new aesthetics of Swahili literature. The poetics of Euphrase Kezilahabi12.05.15 Stephanie Rudwick (Leipzig)
Vernacularization at the University of KwaZulu-Natal: chances and challenges09.06.15 Nikitta Adjirakor (Bayreuth)
Language and Identity in Hip-hop from Ghana (Hiplife) and Tanzania (Bongo Flava)16.06.15 Niyi Okunoye (Ile-Ife)
The Nigeria Literature Prize and the Canonization of New Nigerian Writing23.06.15 Crispin Maalu Bungi (Kinshasa)
Pour ou contre Claude Bremond: la néo-oralité en Rd Congo30.06.15 Abraham Olivier (Alice)
In Search of Identity – Amo’s worlds14.07.15 Billy Kahora (Nairobi)
The Story of Kwani: Between Creative Intervention and a Social 'Creative Content' Contract - Winter Term 2013/2014Hide
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28.01.14 Rainer Voßen (Frankfurt)
Research in Khoisan Linguistics - The State of the Art14.01.14 Christiana Chimezie (Bayreuth)
Body Parts and Their Cultural Perception and (Role) according to Igbo Proverbs07.01.14 Anthonia Dugga (Bayreuth)
Cross-Lingual Households and the Future of Minority Languages in Urban Central Nigeria17.12.13 Rosanna Tramutoli (Bayreuth)
Swahili body terminology: a linguistic analysis10.12.13 Sara Marzagora (London)
Deceit and divination in Amharic and Swahili drama: the prophecy of national liberation in Mengistu Lemma's “Anticolonialist” and Ebrahim “Kinjeketile” Hussein's03.12.13 Albert Kasanda (Bayreuth)
The Representation of the Other One in Africa26.11.13 Serena Talento (Bayreuth)
The Conceptualisation of Translation in Classical Swahili Poetry12.11.13 Mary Charwi (Bayreuth)
Syntactic and Semantic Aspects of Verb Extension Systems in Bantu Languages: A Case Study of Kuria and Swahili in Tanzania05.11.13 Magdaline Wafula (Bayreuth)
Narrative Voice and Focalization in the Narration of Generational Conflicts in Selected Kiswahili Novels
29.10.13 Claudia Böhme (Leipzig)
The Making of Swahiliwood - Summer Term 2013Hide
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02.07.13 Iscah Biwott (Bayreuth)
Features of Modernism and Post Modernism in the Swahili novel25.06.13 Michael Kasombo (Lubumbashi)
A little story of final vowel deletion in Ruwund L5311.06.13 Clarissa Vierke (Bayreuth)
Beautiful South. On the Swahili Languages in Mozambique04.06.13 Irina Turner (Bayreuth)
Businified Political Discourse on the State of the South African Nation: A Dialogue between Presidential Speeches and Newspaper Reports28.05.13 Daniel Künzler (Freiburg)
Transnational collaborations in Kenyan rap music as strategies of cultural entrepreneurs?14.05.13 Andreas Wetter (Berlin / Addis Ababa)
Language contact in Argobba30.04.13 Samuel Ndogo (Moi)
Narrating the self and nation in post-colonial autobiographical writings from Kenya23.04.13 Alain Ricard (Bordeau)
From Fekisi to Segilola: The novel as a new genre? - Winter Term 2012/2013Hide
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05.02.13 Said Khamis (Bayreuth)
Creative Writing and Linguistic Knowledge22.01.13 Klaudia Dombrowsky-Hahn (Bayreuth)
Tone in Syer, a Senufo Language of Burkina Faso (Gur)08.01.13 Ricarda de Haas (Bayreuth)
Spoken Word goes digital. Aesthetics in Performance and New Media in Harare (Zimbabwe) and Johannesburg (South Africa)11.12.12 Dan Omanga (Bayreuth)
'Raid at Abbottabad': Editorial Cartoons and the Terrorist Almighty Frame in Kenyan Newspapers04.12.12 Buata Malela (Kinshasa)
Posture controversée et Discours Littéraire. L’écrivain Francophone dans le Dispositif Médiatique27.11.12 Jean Pierre Boutche (Bayreuth)
Fulfulde spoken by non ethnic Fulani in the city of Maroua (Northern Cameroon)13.11.12 Marie-Laure Bonson Kozi (Bayreuth)
Comparative Description of Northern Bia Languages: Agni, Baule, and Anufo06.11.12 Iscah Biwott (Bayreuth)
Features of Modernism and Post Modernism in the Swahili novel: Case study of Babu Alipofufuka
Christiana Chimezie (Bayreuth)
The Meronymy of the Human Body Parts: Igbo as a case study30.10.12 Gabriele Sommer (Bayreuth)
African Linguistics and the Issue of Language Diversity - examples from a Southern African Context - Summer Term 2012Hide
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17.07.12 Crispin Maalu-Bungi (Kinshasa)
L'engagement dans la littérature écrite en langues congolaises. Le cas de la poésie luba moderne03.07.12 Lena Kostial (Bayreuth)
Translating Swahili Novels into German: An Attempt to Outline and Systematize Translatory Peculiarities26.06.12 Jean Pierre Boutché (Bayreuth)
Language Contact and Linguistic Change: The Case of Fulfulde Spoken by the Youth in Maroua (Northern Cameroon)12.06.12 Nina Pawlak (Warsaw)
The Notion of SELF in Hausa05.06.12 Abel Lupapula (Bayreuth)
Basukuma Greetings as Source for History
Mashaka Henrick Kahindi Ng'waje (Bayreuth)
A Study on Sukuma and Nyamwezi Traditional Kitchen Utensils:A Taxonomic Approach to their Classification22.05.12 Afonso Teca (Bayreuth)
Study of the Verbal Voice in Kizombo (H.16) in a Translation Studies Perspective08.05.12 Adams Bodomo (Bayreuth)
The Structure of Ideophones24.04.12 Katharina Greven (Bayreuth)
Language as Identity Marker for Urban Communities as Shown by the Song Texts Tokelezea and Kariobangi South of Abbas Kubaff - Winter Term 2011/2012Hide
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07.02.12 Shigeki Kaji (Kyoto)
Social-linguistic Situation in Uganda24.01.12 Shaban Mayanja (Nairobi)
The transition from philological to cultural translation: "The Translation Turn" and its role in enhancing intercultural dialogue10.01.12 Britta Neumann (Hamburg)
"Let' s support our children that they should see spirits"
Attitude towards education in public speeches of the chief of Isu13.12.11 Jean-Pierre Boutché (Maroua)
From Fulfulde to Ganoore: A structural and sociolinguistic Study of the Fulani Youth-Language as spoken in Cameroon06.12.11 Paulo J. Pilar (Sao Paulo)
How to characterize a predicative possessive construction (in Bantu): An examination of typological ties to existential, locative and associative constructions29.11.11 Abel Lupapula (Bayreuth)
Terms and divisions of cow body parts in Sukuma - with particular reference to butchers and traditional slaughters
Henrick Mashaka (Bayreuth)
The Folk taxonomy of Sukuma traditional kitchen utensils22.11.11 Katharina Greven (Bayreuth)
Language as identity marker for different communities in Kenya with particular reference to Swahili and Sheng08.11.11 Gastor Mapunda (Dar es Salaam)
Parents' attitude towards children's use of Kingoni in beginner classes
- Summer Term 2011Hide
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12.07.11 Christoffel Rudolf Botha (Alice)
The implementation of a policy of multilingualism in the South African higher education sector: some of the challenges05.07.11 Geoffrey Kitula King’ei (Nairobi)
Language provision in Kenya’ new constitution and their impact on Language Policy28.06.11 Tina Sakkos (Bayreuth)
Male and female representations in classical Swahili poetry
Frank Fessler (Bayreuth)
Mood in Southern African Bantu languages07.06.11 G. Olusola Ajibade (Ile-Ife)
Same-sex relationships in YORÙBÁ culture and orature31.05.11 Paul Newman (Indiana)
Greenberg’s classification of African Languages: An insider’s view of his style, logic, and lasting accomplishments10.05.11 Lustina Kyando (Bayreuth)
Aptronymic names of characters in Robert’s KUSADIKIKA and Kezilahabi’s KICHWAMAJI
Genoveva Mbilinyi (Bayreuth)
Changes of Swahili Poetry: From prosodic poetry to free verse - Winter Term 2010/2011Hide
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01.02.11 Aishatu Iya Ahmed (Bayreuth)
What about Passive in Hausa and Warji25.01.11 Uta Reuster-Jahn (Mainz)
Sex and relationship advice in the popular press and magazines11.01.11 Juliana Macek (Sao Paulo)
An evolutionary approach to language change based on interactive creations in Sheng (Kenya) and Lugha ya Mitaani (Tanzania)
14.12.10 Dmitri Bondarev (London)
Converbs in Saharan (old Kanembu, Kanuri, and Beria): Dependancy, Multiple and Single Events07.12.10 Tiina Sakkos (Bayreuth)
Reflections on the interpretation and criticism of utendi wa Mwana Kupona
Genoveva Mbilinyi (Bayreuth)
Language and Culture Discourse Convention in Hehe and Kinga Greetings30.11.10 Marie-Laure Kozi (Bayreuth)
Aspect verbal et negation dans les langues du Bia nord23.11.10 Frank Fessler (Bayreuth)
Past systems of Bantu languages in southern Africa
Lustina Kyando (Bayreuth)
Metaphorical usage of colour terms in Kinga09.11.10 Daoda Traore (Bayreuth)
Le senar (langue senufo du Burkina Faso): éléments de description et d'influence du dyula véhiculaire dans un contexte de contact de langues02.11.10 Magdaline Wafula (Bayreuth)
Narration of generational conflicts in Tumaini: a Swahili novel by Clara Momanyi - Summer Term 2010Hide
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06.07.10 Sule E. Egya (Berlin)
Metonymic Outbursts: A Critique of the Images of Military Despotism in Recent Nigerian Poetry in English29.06.10 Eva Rothmaler (Bayreuth)
Can we speak of 'converb' in Kanuri?22.06.10 Edith Bwana (Bayreuth)
Establishment and Maintenance of Masculinity in Swahili Poetry08.06.10 Pierre Malgoubri (Ouagadougou)
Point sur les recherches dialectologique et dialectométrique nuni01.06.10 Mimboabe Bakpa (Bayreuth)
Nominal classes in Gangam (Koumongou)11.05.10 Marie Laure Kozi (Bayreuth)
Comparative Description of Northern Bia Languages: Agni, Baoulé and Anufo04.05.10 Alain Ricard (Berlin)
Le Principe d'Asihu - The Taxi Principle27.04.10 Natascha Bing (Mainz)
Language and Nation in Africa. Monolingual Model in Multilingual Societies. Language and Nation Building in Kenya - Winter Term 2009/2010Hide
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09.02.10 Jouni Maho (Gothenburg)
Comparative Morphosyntax and what it can tell us about the Historical Classification of Bantu Languages26.01.10 Doris Löhr (Hamburg)
How much of discontinuity can a dialect continuum stand? Examples from four Kanembu varieties12.01.10 Annekie Joubert (Berlin)
Memory Embroidered: Craft Art as Intermedial Space of Expression22.12.09 Mandy Walker (Bayreuth)
Colour terms in Éwé and Kabiyè idioms08.12.09 Klaudia Dombrowsky-Hahn (Bayreuth)
Noun Morphology in Karaboro (Senufo, Gur), a Language Group of Burkina Faso01.12.09 Matthias Krings (Mainz)
Turning Rice into Pilau. Dubbing Culture in Tanzania24.11.09 Leo Sibomana (Regensburg)
VP-Expansion in Zama10.11.09 Olajumoke Oyedele (Ile-Ife)
An Error Analysis of Written and Oral Texts of Yoruba Students of German in Two Nigerian Universities03.11.09 Edith Bwana (Bayreuth)
From Zilipendwa to Bongo Fleva: An Analysis of Style - Summer Term 2009Hide
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14.07.09 Marie-Hélène Gutberlet (Frankfurt)
Zerzaust, afrikanisches Kino heute30.06.09 Said El-Gheithy (London)
Behind the Veil of History: The Life and Writings of Princess Salme bint Said bin Sultan (1844-1924)23.06.09 André Mangulu Motingea (Kinshasa)
Considérations sur la conjugaison périphrastique en bantou: cas des langues du bassin central congolais09.06.09 Oyeniyi Okunoye (Bayreuth)
Lánréwájú Adépòjù and the Making of Modern Yorùbá Poetry26.05.09 Austin Bukenya (Kampala)
Proverbial Depth: a Semiotic Approach19.05.09 Judith Böhm und Gabriele Sommer (Bayreuth)
Anredeverhalten in afrikanischen Sprachen am Beispiel medialer Inszenierungen im Zulu, Bambara und Swahili12.05.09 Maria Schubert (Bayreuth)
Fahrzeuge und Transportmittel in Nigeria. Eine kognitiv-semantische Untersuchung05.05.09 Henrike Stühring (Bayreuth)
Temperature Terms in African Languages29.04.09 Elisabeth Reber (Potsdam)
Affektgeladene Rezipientensignale in der sprachlichen Interaktion: Lautobjekte im Englischen28.04.09 Laré Kantchoa (Kara)
Vers la disparition des classes nominales en moba? - Winter Term 2008/2009Hide
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27.01.09 Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst (Cologne)
Wissenschaft und Öffentlichkeit – Ausstellungen als Medium der Wissenschaftskommunikation20.01.09 Gratien G. Atindogbé (Cologne)
Pronoun serialisation in Kamtok (Pidgin English): the syntax-semantic interface13.01.09 Lutz Diegner (Berlin)
Expert Interviews as a Method of Research in African Language Literatures09.12.08 Mimboa Bakpa (Bayreuth)
Le parler Gangam de Koumongou - description en relation au Gangam de Gando et les langues Gurma02.12.08 Marie-Laure Kozi (Bayreuth)
Baule, Anyi, Anufo - un groupe Tano25.11.08 Said Khamis (Bayreuth)
The Notion of Standard Swahili in Swahili Literature11.11.08 Baba Mai Bello (Bayreuth / Maiduguri)
Language, Ethnicity and the Intergenerational Continuity in North-eastern Nigeria04.11.08 Eva Rothmaler (Bayreuth)
Auswirkungen von Globalisierung auf die Ernährung im Tschadseegebiet14.10.08 Ulrich Kleinewillinghöfer (Mainz)
Klassensprachen im Zentralen "Adamawa". Voko, Koma- und Veregruppe - Summer Term 2008Hide
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08.07.08 Flora Veit-Wild (Berlin)
Zimbolicious? The Creative Potential od Linguistic Innovation: The case of Shona-English in Zimbabwe01.07.08 Naomi L. Shitemi (Moi)
The Language Issue in Kenya's constitutional review processes24.06.08 Manfred von Roncador (Bayreuth)
Remarks on noun-classes in Oti-Volta10.06.08 Philip Jaggar (London)
In situ wh-expressions and in situ focus in Hausa (Chadic): another feature we completely overlooked!03.06.08 Pierre Malgoubri (Ouagadougou/Bayreuth)
Conséquences d'un phénomène de contact de langues : Le Zaoore?27.05.08 Bassey Antia (Maiduguri / Bielefeld)
Corpora and Language Technologies: Strategic Management Options for African Higher Education06.05.08 Gudrun Miehe (Bayreuth)
Zum Adjektiv im Cerma22.04.08 Gratien Atindogbe (Cologne/Buea)
Ablaut/Umlaut in Bantu languages of Zone A - Winter Term 2007/2008Hide
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05.02.08 Doris Löhr (Leipzig)
Redezugwechsel (turntaking) in Kanuri29.01.08 Christian Rapold (Zürich)
Typologische Rara und Rarissima im Benchnon (Omotisch)15.01.08 Lutz Diegner (Cologne)
Expert Interviews as a Method of Research in African Languages Literatures08.01.08 Helma Pasch (Cologne)
Competing scripts11.12.07 Henning Schreiber (Frankfurt)
Variation und Diffusion: soziolinguistische Aspekte des Sprachwandels im Nord-Samo (Ost-Mande)04.12.07 Angelika Jakobi (Bayreuth)
Semantics and Syntax of Motion Verbs in Beria (Saharan)27.11.07 Shahrokh Raei (Göttingen)
Die afrikanische Minderheit und ihr Besessenheitsritual Zar im Südiran13.11.07 Eric Anchimbe (Bayreuth)
Mutual cross-fertilisation between Cameroonian languages and English - Summer Term 2007Hide
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10.07.07 Klaudia Dombrowsky-Hahn (Bayreuth)
Semantik und Syntax von Bewegungsvorgängen im Senufo und Mande03.07.07 Ulrich Kleinewillinghöfer (Marburg)
Sprachwandel durch Kontakt. Veränderungen in der Morphologie des Bogong in Ghana19.06.07 Uwe Seibert (Dillenburg)
"Weblog, Wiki, Podcast, etc. Welche Möglichkeiten bietet das Web 2.0 für Afrikanisten?"12.06.07 Oumarou Bukari (Bayreuth)
De la pluralité des manifestations d'une function connective: cas du marqueur de discourse to' dans le Songhay-Zerma05.06.07 Michael Gromov (Moscow)
Swahili literature in the beginning of the new century22.05.07 Robert Oduori (Moi)
Contextualizing Discourse (English in Kenya): A Critical Analysis15.05.07 Claude Rilly (Paris)
Le rayonnement de Méroé en Afrique noire: quelques pistes - Winter Term 2006/2007Hide
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06.02.07 Abubakar Girei (Maiduguri)
Progress in research on Fulfulde dialects in Nigeria30.01.07 Manfred von Roncador (Bayreuth)
Adjektive in Oti-Volta-Sprachen12.12.06 Said Khamis (Bayreuth)
The Power of 'Strangeness' in the New Swahili Novel05.12.06 Kitula King'ei (Nairobi)
The Theme of Nationalism in East Africa's Popular Swahili Songs (150-200): A Tentative Research Proposal28.11.06 Norbert Nikièma (Ouagadougou)
Topicalisation et focalisation en moore14.11.06 Karsten Brunk (Bayreuth)
Kartographie afrikanischer Sprachen und linguistischer Merkmale mittels eines geographischen Informationssystems (GIS).31.10.06 Pierre Malgoubri (Ouagadougou/Bayreuth)
Nasales et nasalisation dans deux dialectes moore: le sare et le dialecte du centre - Summer Term 2006Hide
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25.07.06 George Olusola Ajibade (Ile-Ife)
Women Voice in Women Lore: The Yorùbá Nuptial Poetry as a Pivotal for Group Solidarity04.07.06 Jeff Opland (Leipzig)
The newspaper as empowering medium of Xhosa Literature: The case of Nontsizi Mgqwelho27.06.06 Holger Tröbs (Bayreuth)
Feldforschungsbericht zum Samogo, Nord-West-Mande31.05.06 Paulette Roulon-Doko (Paris)
Les parties du corps et l'expression de l'espace30.05.06 Loic-Michel Perrin (Paris)
De la nature épistémologique des invariants sémantiques et cognitifs - le cas des marqueurs diggante et ci du Wolof23.05.06 William Mkufya (Dar es Salaam)
Atheism in the Swahili Novel16.05.06 Balarabe Zulyadaini (Maiduguri/Bayreuth)
Is Sokoto a poetic dialect?02.05.06 Nina Pawlak (Warsaw)
Conceptual metaphors within the domain of 'speaking' in Hausa - Winter Term 2005/2006Hide
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07.02.06 Carmen Eickhoff-Klouvy (Bayreuth)
Typische Buschtaxis, moderne Unterhosen und falsche Zelte. Zur Wortfeldtheorie im Mina30.01.06 Tatiana Krychkova (Moscow/Frankfurt)
European loanwords in Amharic and Oromo: comparative analysis24.01.06 Anne Storch (Cologne)
Geistersprachen: Geheimsprachen und Sprachtheorie in Afrika10.01.06 Alena Rettová (Prague/Bayreuth)
The search of the future. Linguistic arguments in African Philosophy02.12.05 Jens Peter Laut (Freiburg)
Die Afrikanistik und ihre Rolle in der türkischen Sprachreform: Ist die Afrikanistik schuld an der türkischen Sonnensprachtheorie?25.10.05 Pierre Malgoubri (Ouagadougou)
Le yaadre des immigrés (yaadse) de Ouagadougou - Summer Term 2005Hide
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12.07.05 Mfuwa Ndonga (Luanda)
Les langues nationales dans le système éducatif en Angola: bilan et perspectives05.07.05 Angelika Jakobi (Bayreuth)
Ergativ-Strukturen im Beria (Saharanisch)28.06.05 Said Khamis (Bayreuth)
The Language of the New Swahili Novel14.06.05 Holger Tröbs (Bayreuth)
Postpositionen als Quelle für Prädikatsmarkierer im Manding07.06.05 Stefan Elders (Bayreuth)
Feldforschungsbericht zum Teen und Loma31.05.05 Thilo Schadeberg (Leiden)
Zur Verbalstruktur des Ebang (Heiban, Kordofanian, Sudan)24.05.05 Sa'idu B. Ahmad (Kano)
The Construction of Hausa Identity in Tales26.04.05 Ibrahim Maina Waziri (Maiduguri)
The Significance of Onomastics (Toponyms, Anthroponyms, and Hydronyms) in Understanding Bole Oral Traditions of Origin and Interpreting the Migratory Processes - Winter Term 2004/2005Hide
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08.02.05 Thomas Geider (Cologne)
East Africas's Oral and Written Literatures in the Discussion about World Literature: Theoretical Constellations - Literary Specimens01.02.05 Monika Sokol (Bayreuth)
Blackness - Afrikanizität - Alterität: Zur Rekontextualisierung und Reprofilierung eines zentralen Elements im globalisierten Hip Hop11.01.05 David Massamba (Dar es Salam)
New findings on the origin of Swahili14.12.04 Abubakar Girei (Maiduguri)
A survey of some selected Fulfulde dialects of Nigeria07.12.04 Sandra Bornand (Lausanne)
Der Erzähler in der mündlichen Literatur: das Beispiel der Zarma Erzählung (Niger)30.11.04 Robert Nicolai (Nice)
Typologie des charactéristiques aréales de l'espace songhay mandé23.11.04 Brigitte Nedellec (Bayreuth)
Eigenschaftskonzepte im Nateni16.11.04 Clarissa Dittemer (Bayreuth)
Utendi wa Haudaji. Analyse eines bisher unveröffentlichten Swahili-Epos02.11.04 Crispin Maalu-Bungi (Kinshasa)
Histoire événementielle à travers les chansons populaires Luba26.10.04 Gudrun Miehe (Bayreuth)
Besonderheiten im Nominalklassensystem des Cerma-Curama (Gur) - Summer Term 2004Hide
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13.07.04 Pierre Malgoubri (Ouagadougou)
La situation du moore dans les centres urbains: le cas de la ville de Ouagadougou06.07.04 Ahmed Bio Nigan (Cotonou)
Signe et message pour une étude sémiologique de l'annonce du deuil chez les batombu22.06.04 Ratisbonne Kumugo (Kinshasa)
La dérivation et les sous-catégories verbales du ngbaka08.06.04 Rotimi Badejo (Maiduguri)
Reflections on the language situation in Africa25.05.04 Anette Volk (Bayreuth)
Lexikalische Vergleiche: Kuschitisch-Omotisch (Projektbericht)11.05.04 Stefan Elders (Bayreuth)
Kulango/Teen (Gur-Projektbericht)04.05.04 Norbert Nikiema (Ouagadougou)
Serial verb constructions in Moore - Winter Term 2003/2004Hide
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10.02.04 Gudrun Miehe (Bayreuth)
Zur nominalen Klassifikation in Plateau- und Gursprachen03.02.04 Klaudia Dombrowsky-Hahn (Bayreuth)
Negation im Kar20.01.04 Clarissa Dittemer (Bayreuth)
Zum Liongo-Kanon13.01.04 Kerstin Winkelmann (Bayreuth)
Negation in Gursprachen02.12.03 Brigitte Reineke (Berlin)
Fokus in Gur- und Kwasprachen25.11.03 Ulrich Kleinewillinghöfer (Bayreuth)
Nord Volta-Congo Sprachen im südlichen Tschadbecken. Sprachen im südlichen Tschadbecken11.11.03 Stefan Elders (Bayreuth)
Bericht über den Workshop SPOVX Reihenfolgen an der Rudgers Univ., New Brunswick im Juni 200304.11.03 Ulrich Kleinewillinghöfer (Bayreuth)
Komposita mit -bi- in Gurunsisprachen28.10.03 E. Apia N'Guessan (Bayreuth)
Système vocalique de l'abe (langue lagunaire, Côte d'Ivoire) - Summer Term 2003Hide
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08.07.03 Sayane Gouroubera (Cotonou)
Sur le système verbal du baatonum01.07.03 Yuliya Suyetina (Moscow)
Die analytischen Konstruktionen im Hausa24.06.03 Jan Leysen (Bayreuth)
The poetics of Swahili hiphop03.06.03 Eva Rothmaler (Bayreuth)
Toponyme in Borno13.05.03 Anette Volk (Bayreuth)
Proto-kuschitische Rekonstruktionen: Probleme des Vergleichs06.05.03 Henry Tourneux (Paris)
L'argument linguistique chez les historiens africains afrocentristes29.04.03 Joe McIntyre (Hamburg)
Metaphor and Metonymy in Hausa: with Special Reference to their Role in Verbal Compounds
- Winter Term 2002/2003Hide
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28.01.03 Ursula Drolc (Cologne/Bayreuth)
Das Konsonantensystem des Proto-Cangin14.01.03 Frank Kammerzell (Göttingen)
Napatanisch, Meroitisch, Nubisch. Zur frühesten Verschriftung afrikanischer Sprachen außerhalb Ägyptens
07.01.03 Ralf Großerhode (Bayreuth)
Was macht Pflanzen ähnlich? Pflanzenbezeichnungen im Swahili03.12.02 Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst (Cologne)
Raum und Umwelt bei den Beja26.11.02 Saidu B. Ahmad (Berlin)
Hausa Tales from Oral to Multi-Media12.11.02 Jean Philippe Zouogbo (Strasburg)
Die Tierwelt in der Phraseologie des Bété mit Illustrationen aus dem Deutschen05.11.02 Ursula Drolc (Cologne/Bayreuth)
Nominalklassensysteme in Cangin-Sprachen (Senegal). Ein Vergleich29.10.02 Keith Snider (SIL Canada)
Noun class systems in Guang languages22.10.02 Manfred von Roncador (Bayreuth)
Safalba Noun Classes