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Tuesday, March 31, 2026 - 12:53

Members of the Department of Linguistics and Languages at the 4th African Pragmatics Conference held at the University of Dschang Cameroon on 25th and 26th February 2026

Tuesday, August 29, 2023 - 12:46

The 16th Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium (NISA) will be hosted jointly by the University of Nairobi and the University of Cologne from August 29, 2023 to September 1, 2023 on the 4th floor of the University of Nairobi Towers. The theme of this colloquium is “Linguistic, Sociocultural and

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Wednesday, May 3, 2023 - 09:10

Venue: University of Nairobi Towers, Main Campus, Harry Thuku Road, Nairobi, Kenya 

Tuesday, March 29, 2022 - 16:22

The University of Nairobi held its Faculty and Campus Students Association (FCSA) annual elections. The elections were held virtually on Friday March 25th, 2022.

There were three teams competing for FCSA office in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences FOASS; Team Success, Team Okuz and

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The University of Nairobi Journal of Language and Linguistics, Vol. 2 (2012) - ISSN 2224-1655

  1. Oduor, Jane. 2012. “Teaching Kiswahili pronunciation in secondary schools in Kenya: The necessity to use the right information and descriptive tools”, pp. 1-41
  2. Schröder, Helga. 2012. “A relevance-theoretical analysis of intercultural misunderstandings in global communication”, pp. 42-61
  3. Kihara, Claudius Patrick & Helga Schröder. 2012. “A relevance-theoretical analysis of aspects of mchongoano”, pp. 62-78
  4. Habwe, John. 2012. “Reference cohesion within the complex sentence in the Kiswahili of Nairobi”, pp. 79-88
  5. Agoya, Catherine. 2012. “The role of indigenous languages in Kenya: A case for using them as languages of instruction throughout primary school”, pp. 89-105
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