Akili kubwa - UoN Kiswahili Lecturer Awarded in US

[MK254]

The University of Nairobi continues to record honourable milestones after a Kiswahili lecturer from the institution bagged an award in the US.

In a statement from the university released on Tuesday, August 18, Prof. Iribe Mwangi, the Chairman, Department of Kiswahili was awarded by the prestigious Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship.

Mwangi was awarded alongside Prof. Mungai Mutonya of Washington University in St. Louis after presenting a proposal to the fellowship titled "Collaborative Research and Graduate Training and/or Mentoring: Interdisciplinary Focus on Language Contact‚ Migration‚ Innovation‚ and Identity’

The don further revealed that they emerged victorious after several competitive rounds of evaluation by the Advisory Council of Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP).

Towers at the University of Nairobi​

“Our proposal has been selected for funding by the Advisory Council of Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP) after several competitive rounds of evaluation. The proposal is gauged among many others, the process is very competitive.

“The proposal must have an African diaspora researcher. In our case, we have Prof. Mutonya. We wrote a collaborative proposal and the sociolinguistic research we are doing is now fully funded," stated an elated Prof. Mwangi.

The lecturer further revealed that he had made an application to the fellowship in December 2019 and the research was to kick off this year but the Covid-19 pandemic derailed the plans.

"We were to start this year but due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we will commence next year. The process started in December 2019," he stated.

The Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP) is a scholar fellowship program for educational projects at African higher education institutions.

The grant, which is funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York (CCNY) is offered in collaboration with the United States International University Africa (USIU-Africa).

A total of 471 African Diaspora Fellowships have been awarded for scholars to travel to Africa

• since the program’s inception in 2013.
  
  For African scholars to qualify for the grant, they must have been born in any African country, hold a terminal degree and be employed at an accredited college or university.
  Some of the benefits of the grant include a $150 (Ksh 15,000) per day stipend, visa costs as well as supplemental health insurance coverage.
  The scholar is also eligible for a round-trip international air travel and ground transportation costs to and from the scholar's home to the North American airport.
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UoN Kiswahili Lecturer Awarded in US

 

[pingli-nywee]

Akili Kubwa... hayo maneno mawili tu yatafanya wajaze matusi humu hadi ukurasa wa kumi. [emoji1] Hongera zake na kongole kwa THE UoN. Bila juhudi za wakenya kimataifa kiswahili kingebaki tu kuwa cha kienyeji kienyeji kama kisukuma. [emoji1] Povu ruksa.

 

[Tony254]

Ksh 15,000 a day. Wow. Huyu ameangukia jackpot.

 

[luangalila]

Well done for that ! Kenyan ni wajanjanktk kuwahi fursa ambazo hata hawastahili kupata ni wazi hili linajulikana. Tz opportunities tuna baniana sanaa ndio maana tunakosa ivyo vifursa

 

[MK254]

Well done for that ! Kenyan ni wajanjanktk kuwahi fursa ambazo hata hawastahili kupata ni wazi hili linajulikana. Tz opportunities tuna baniana sanaa ndio maana tunakosa ivyo vifursa

Haupewi vyote, aidha upewe raslimali unyimwe ubongo au upewe ubongo unyimwe raslimali, hiyo proposal ambayo imeandikwa na huyu mhadhiri imesheheni nondo hadi kukubalika kimataifa na kutuzwa, Wabongo mpo bado sana kwenye uandishi.

 

[MK254]

Akili Kubwa... hayo maneno mawili tu yatafanya wajaze matusi humu hadi ukurasa wa kumi. [emoji1] Hongera zake na kongole kwa THE UoN. Bila juhudi za wakenya kimataifa kiswahili kingebaki tu kuwa cha kienyeji kienyeji kama kisukuma. [emoji1] Povu ruksa.

Huwa nawaambia hawa, kila kitu lazima kipigiwe debe na Wakenya ndio kifahamike, hata mlima Kilimanjaro usingekua unatajwa na Wakenya wangebaki kupanda mihogo kwenye viungani mwake huku wakitambika na kunywa mbege.

 

[Ndekrepha]

Heheh kila Prof. akitoa andiko likapitishwa bhas tulete habari hapa tu-post.

Lazima tutafute area za kutu console...

 

[luangalila]

Haupewi vyote, aidha upewe raslimali unyimwe ubongo au upewe ubongo unyimwe raslimali, hiyo proposal ambayo imeandikwa na huyu mhadhiri imesheheni nondo hadi kukubalika kimataifa na kutuzwa, Wabongo mpo bado sana kwenye uandishi.

Mh bongo kuna viumbe wanajua kuandika ww issue ni opportunities zinapotoka tunatabia ya kuupuzia sometimea pia ktk maofisi izo fursa mfano za sponsorship unakuta taarifa zinachelewa kutolewa iyo changamoto tunayo

 

[mkorinto]

Mh bongo kuna viumbe wanajua kuandika ww issue ni opportunities zinapotoka tunatabia ya kuupuzia sometimea pia ktk maofisi izo fursa mfano za sponsorship unakuta taarifa zinachelewa kutolewa iyo changamoto tunayo

sehemu kama hizi unawacha wabaki wakioshana makalio kwa acid wao peke yao. usisogee.

wanatafuta kick kwenye nyuzi zao za kipuuzi.

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[pingli-nywee]

Huwa nawaambia hawa, kila kitu lazima kipigiwe debe na Wakenya ndio kifahamike, hata mlima Kilimanjaro usingekua unatajwa na Wakenya wangebaki kupanda mihogo kwenye viungani mwake huku wakitambika na kunywa mbege.

Eti mihogo? [emoji1] Tena ile ya sumu. [emoji38]

 

[Kiyawi]

Well done for that ! Kenyan ni wajanjanktk kuwahi fursa ambazo hata hawastahili kupata ni wazi hili linajulikana. Tz opportunities tuna baniana sanaa ndio maana tunakosa ivyo vifursa

Wa Tanzania siyo kwamba wanabaniana ILA tatizo ni lugha yaani language barrier, kama hujui lugha ya kigeni kama Kiingereza, Kifaransa, Kijispaniola(Spanish) Kirussi, huwezi kamwe kufundisha wageni au nchi za kigeni Kiswahili!!! Ndiyo maana nafasi nyingi zinachukuliwa na Wakenya, Waganda(mfano Peter Musembi Mkurugenzi wa idara ya Kiswahili BBC ni Mganda), WaRwanda!!! Dunia ipo kiganjani, lugha ni muhimu. Maelfu ya wanafunzi kutoka China wanasoma katika vyuo vikuu USA, UK, kama ilikuwa hawajui Kiingereza hawangejiunga na vyuo vikuu katika nchi hizo na katika nchi hizo kamwe hawasomi social science subjects ILA high tech subjects baada ya kumaliza PhDs wanaiba mali wanaondoka nazo I mean wanaiba technology wanapeleka kwao!!!! Once again foreign language is of uttermost importance kwa dunia ya sasa na hata ya zamani!

 

[luangalila]

Wa Tanzania siyo kwamba wanabaniana ILA tatizo ni lugha yaani language barrier, kama hujui lugha ya kigeni kama Kiingereza, Kifaransa, Kijispaniola(Spanish) Kirussi, huwezi kamwe kufundisha wageni au nchi za kigeni Kiswahili!!! Ndiyo maana nafasi nyingi zinachukuliwa na Wakenya, Waganda(mfano Peter Musembi Mkurugenzi wa idara ya Kiswahili BBC), WaRwanda!!! Dunia ipo kiganjani, lugha ni muhimu. Maelfu ya wanafunzi kutoka China wanasoma katika vyuo vikuu USA, UK, kama ilikuwa hawajui Kiingereza hawangekiunga na vyuo vikuu katika nchi hizo na katika nchi hizo kamwe hawasomi social science subjects ILA high tech subjects baada ya kumaliza PhDs wanaiba mali wanaondoka nazo I mean wanaiba technology wanapeleka kwao!!!! Once again foreign language is of uttermost importance kwa dunia ya sasa na hata ya zamani!

Iv we unaifahamu taasisi ya bbc swahili na jopo viongoz wake wakiwemo waliopita ?unamjua mtu anaitwa Tido mhando

 

[Kiyawi]

Iv we unaifahamu taasisi ya bbc swahili na jopo viongoz wake wakiwemo waliopita ?unamjua mtu anaitwa Tido mhando

I know it very well, baada ya Mzee Tindo Mhando ambaye ni Mtanzania, ndo Peter Mussembi, Mganda kashika madaraka kwa sababu ya smartness yake ya lugha ya Kiswahili na Kiingereza! Alishinda kwa technical knockout an individual who is a master of Queen’s English just like the late Ben Mkapa, the third President of Tz.