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Coexistence and colonialism: religious conversion and the expansion of Christianity in Northeast Africa (second–sixteenth centuries) (2025)
Journal Article
Phillips, J., & Tribe, T. (online). Coexistence and colonialism: religious conversion and the expansion of Christianity in Northeast Africa (second–sixteenth centuries). Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270x.2025.2529113

This paper explores how the expansion of Christianity in Northeast Africa between the second and sixteenth centuries played a central and often complex role in the dissemination of colonialism. Initially introduced to first- or second-century Egypt,... Read More about Coexistence and colonialism: religious conversion and the expansion of Christianity in Northeast Africa (second–sixteenth centuries).

Decolonizing Cameroon's language policies: a critical assessment (2024)
Journal Article
Kamdem, S., Ojongnkpot, C., & van Pinxteren, B. (2025). Decolonizing Cameroon's language policies: a critical assessment. Applied Linguistics Review, 16(2), 1007-1029. https://doi.org/10.1515/applirev-2023-0273

Due to its colonial history and prevalent multilingualism, Cameroon is a country where language policies have profoundly impacted socioeconomic and political life. Cameroon has 273 local languages and two official languages, English and French. The t... Read More about Decolonizing Cameroon's language policies: a critical assessment.

Translator as Researcher: Co-Producing Research on Food-Based Livelihoods in South Africa (2024)
Book Chapter
Dlamini, K. T., & Hull, E. (2024). Translator as Researcher: Co-Producing Research on Food-Based Livelihoods in South Africa. In Sage Research Methods Cases: Diversifying and Decolonizing Research. Sage. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529690576

This case is based on a project in rural South Africa investigating food access and livelihoods after the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The research entailed remote collaboration between an anthropologist and a locally based translator. By explainin... Read More about Translator as Researcher: Co-Producing Research on Food-Based Livelihoods in South Africa.

Ọ̀rúnmìlà and the Yorùbá Intellectual Tradition: Words and Language vis-à-vis Western Modernity (2023)
Journal Article
Bello, S. A. (2023). Ọ̀rúnmìlà and the Yorùbá Intellectual Tradition: Words and Language vis-à-vis Western Modernity. Culture and dialogue, 11(1), 85-103. https://doi.org/10.1163/24683949-12340129

The essay offers a decolonial reading of the thought of Ọ̀rúnmìlà, the ancient legendary Yorùbá African messenger and interpreter of the spiritual tradition of Ifá with the aim to address the problem of hegemonic languages (such as English and French... Read More about Ọ̀rúnmìlà and the Yorùbá Intellectual Tradition: Words and Language vis-à-vis Western Modernity.

Englishes in Africa - Foreword (2023)
Book Chapter
Marten, L. (2023). Englishes in Africa - Foreword. In M. Akinlotan (Ed.), Englishes in Africa (ix-x). Peter Lang

Valency and saliency in Bantu applicatives: A diachronic reanalysis (2022)
Book Chapter
Gibson, H., Marten, L., Mous, M., & Riedel, K. (2022). Valency and saliency in Bantu applicatives: A diachronic reanalysis. In S. Pacchiarotti, & F. Zúñiga (Eds.), Applicative Morphology: Neglected syntactic and non-syntactic functions (163-188). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110777949-007

This chapter examines apparent competing functions of applicatives, prepositions and locative-marked phrases in a number of Bantu languages, focussing on the interaction of these types of categories in various applicative constructions. We show that... Read More about Valency and saliency in Bantu applicatives: A diachronic reanalysis.

Translanguaging spaces and multilingual public writing in Zambia: tracing change in the linguistic landscape of Ndola on the Copperbelt (2022)
Journal Article
Costley, T., Kula, N. C., & Marten, L. (2022). Translanguaging spaces and multilingual public writing in Zambia: tracing change in the linguistic landscape of Ndola on the Copperbelt. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 44(9), 773-793. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2022.2086985

Zambia is home to a complex set of language practices, which involve languages being used in different ways across social contexts. Historically written communication has typically been associated with English with African languages mainly associated... Read More about Translanguaging spaces and multilingual public writing in Zambia: tracing change in the linguistic landscape of Ndola on the Copperbelt.

Imported ornaments of a Late Antiquity community in Christian Ethiopia (2022)
Journal Article
Then-Obłuska, J., Phillips, J., & Tucker, K. (2022). Imported ornaments of a Late Antiquity community in Christian Ethiopia. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 57(2), 280-296. https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270x.2022.2078575

Several thousand glass beads excavated in the Maryam Anza (Tigray, Ethiopia) cemetery over three seasons between 2014 and 2016 tell the story of the direct or indirect long-distance contacts of the people buried there. By combining typological and qu... Read More about Imported ornaments of a Late Antiquity community in Christian Ethiopia.

From the Margins: Appreciating the African language renaissance as learners of African languages (2021)
Journal Article
Marten, L. (2021). From the Margins: Appreciating the African language renaissance as learners of African languages. 非洲语言文化研究 = Feizhou yuyan wenhua yanjiu = African language and culture studies, 1, 41-62

In the 21st century, several positive trends have led to higher representation of African languages in public discourse, to an increase in positive attitudes and to more wide-spread awareness of the importance of African languages. Against the backgr... Read More about From the Margins: Appreciating the African language renaissance as learners of African languages.

Micro-typological Covariation of Negation and Focus Marking Morphology in Bantu Languages (2021)
Journal Article
Shinagawa, D., & Marten, L. (2021). Micro-typological Covariation of Negation and Focus Marking Morphology in Bantu Languages. Gengo kenkyu, 160, 215-248. https://doi.org/10.11435/gengo.160.0_215

This paper investigates the typological correlation between negation marking and focus marking based on the ‘Bantu Morphosyntactic Variation Database’ (Marten et al. 2018) compiling linguistic data obtained through 142 parameters to capture morphosyn... Read More about Micro-typological Covariation of Negation and Focus Marking Morphology in Bantu Languages.

Adapting Gender and Development to Local Religious Contexts: A Decolonial Approach to Domestic Violence in Ethiopia (2020)
Book
Istratii, R. (2020). Adapting Gender and Development to Local Religious Contexts: A Decolonial Approach to Domestic Violence in Ethiopia. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003006992

This book provides a critical and decolonial analysis of gender and development theory and practice in religious societies through the presentation of a detailed ethnographic study of conjugal violence in Ethiopia.

Responding to recent consensus t... Read More about Adapting Gender and Development to Local Religious Contexts: A Decolonial Approach to Domestic Violence in Ethiopia.

Saharan Sand and Dust Storms and Neonatal Mortality: Evidence from Burkina Faso (2020)
Journal Article
Karimi, S. M., Pouran, H., Moradi-Lakeh, M., & Hakimian, H. (2020). Saharan Sand and Dust Storms and Neonatal Mortality: Evidence from Burkina Faso. Science of the Total Environment, 729, 121-133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139053

West African populations are exposed to the longest and harshest dust storms on the planet, the Saharan sand and dust storms (SDS). Nonetheless, little is known about the effects of the severe storms on early-life health in West Africa. This study in... Read More about Saharan Sand and Dust Storms and Neonatal Mortality: Evidence from Burkina Faso.

Ulinganishi wa mofolojia na sintaksia baina ya lugha 19 za Kibantu za Afrika Mashariki [A morphosyntactic comparison of 19 East African Bantu languages] (2020)
Journal Article
Gibson, H., Mapunda, G., Marten, L., & Taji, J. (2020). Ulinganishi wa mofolojia na sintaksia baina ya lugha 19 za Kibantu za Afrika Mashariki [A morphosyntactic comparison of 19 East African Bantu languages]. Kiswahili, 82, 1-13

Katika makala hii tumewasilisha matokeo ya utafiti wetu kuhusu lugha 19 za Kibantu za Afrika Mashariki. Tumeonesha kwamba kuna makundi makuu matatu ambayo yanafanana kiasi cha asilimia 70 au zaidi. Makundi haya yanajikuta katika maeneo mbalimbali ya... Read More about Ulinganishi wa mofolojia na sintaksia baina ya lugha 19 za Kibantu za Afrika Mashariki [A morphosyntactic comparison of 19 East African Bantu languages].