Prof.

Name
Amani Lusekelo Mwamakombe

Academic Rank
Professor

Department
Languages and Literature

Biography

Biography

Amani Lusekelo is a Professor in the Department of Languages and Literature within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Dar es Salaam University College of Education. He holds a PhD in African Languages and Literature from the University of Botswana, specializing in African languages. He completed his BA (with Education) and MA (Linguistics) at the University of Dar es Salaam. His teaching areas include field methods, language contact, morphology, syntax, and African languages structure. His research interests and scholarly work focus on ethnolinguistics, expression of information structure, issues of language contact, linguistic landscapes, morphosyntax, onomastics, sociolinguistics, and language policy.

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Research Interest

Research Interest
Ethnolinguistics, Expression of Information Structure, Language Contact, Linguistic Landscapes, Morphosyntax, Onomastics, Sociolinguistics, and Language Policy

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Projects

Projects
  • Convergence on Dominant Language Constellations: World Englishes in their local multilingual ecologies (CODILAC) project (Spokesperson: Peter Siemund, University of Humburg) – Roland Kiessling (PI), Amani Lusekelo (PI) & Kapingu Mpologo (PhD Candidate): “English in the multilingual ecologies of Tanzania”, University of Hamburg and University of Dar es Salaam, 2024-2028.

  • Language and Food Production and Preparation, The Leiden University Global Fund (LUGF), Azeb Amha (Principal Investigator), Felix Ameka & Devos Maud. Seed-Grant EUR 15,000 to Azeb Amha. In preparation of the major documentation project. Members: Azeb Amha (Ethiopia), Amani Lusekelo (Tanzania), Bobuafor Mercy (Ghana), Felix Ameka (Ghana), Devos Maud (Belgium), Emebet Bekele (Ethiopia), Jane Odour (Kenya), Nancy Kula (Zambia), 2024-2025.  

  • Investigation of Medicinal Plants Used by Datooga to Treat Humans and Cattle (with Kuria Mdoe & Halima Amir), University of Dar es Salaam Competitive Research Fund, 2022/2023 Cycle, TZS 20,000,000, 2022 – 2023.

  • Ethnolinguistic and Ethnobotanical Investigation of Medicinal Plants Used by Nyamwezi and Sukuma People in Tanzania: A Case of Treatment of Respiratory Disorders (with Halima Amir), University of Dar es Salaam Competitive Research Fund, 2020/2021 Cycle, TZS 15,000,000., 2020 – 2021.   

  • An Ethnolinguistic and Eco-criticism Study of the Hadzabe Names of Medicinal Plants, University of Dar es Salaam Competitive Research Fund, 2019/2020 Cycle, TZS 15,000,000., 2019 – 2020. 

  • Datooga lexico-grammar of motion in dialectological and historical perspective (Tanzania) – Partnership project between Hamburg University in German and University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania (The PI is Prof. Dr. Roland Kiessling), 2018 – 2022. 

  • Bantu Syntax and Information Structure (Burundi, Cameroun, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania and Uganda) – Partnership project between Leiden University in Netherlands and University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania (The PI is Dr. Jenneke van Wal), 2018 – 2023.

  • Book Completion Project; “Language Contact in Tanzania”, University of Dar es Salaam Competitive Research Fund, 2018/2019 Cycle, TZS 5,000,000., 2018 – 2019. 

  • African Humanities Program (AHP) Research Project: The documentation of the culture of the hunter-gatherer Hadzabe community in Tanzania, 2014 – 2015. 

  • Tanzania Partnership Programme (TPP) Research Project: Understanding Language Contact in Education amongst the Maasai and Arusha Children of Monduli District in Tanzania, 2014 – 2015. 

  • Endangered Language Fund: The Hadza (Tindiga) Documentation Project, Documentation of the cardinal directions and naming strategies, 2012 – 2013. 

  • USHEPiA Programme, University of Cape Town, Doctoral Studies at the University of Botswana, 2010 – 2012.   

  • DAAD Short-Term Scholarship – Six Months Stay at the Institute for African Studies, University of Cologne, 2009.   

  • Languages of Tanzania (LOT) Project, University of Dar es Salaam, M.A Linguistics, 2005 – 2007. 

Publications

Publications

  • Alphonce, Chrispina & Lusekelo, Amani (2025). Linguistic landscape of Tanzanian public universities: Is Kiswahili still dominant in public communication? Nuru ya Kiswahili, 4(1): 26-57. 

  • John, Method, Jonace Manyasa & Amani Lusekelo (2025). Historicity in the semantics of the locative prefixes of toponyms in Mwanza City of Tanzania. SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics, 22(1): 112-125. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (in press). The expression of aspects in Kinyakyusa. Journal of the Institute of Language Research, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, vol. 30. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani & Mogara, Budzani Gabanamontse (in press). Revisiting the languages in the policy documents prepared by the Government of Tanzania. Cogent Education, (Taylor and Francis), vol. 12(1). 

  • Da Camara, Crisofia L. & Lusekelo, Amani (2025). Mozambican languages and their role in indigenous ecological knowledge preservation: The case of medicinal plants in Anyungwe community. Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 14(2): 100-120 

  • Lusekelo, Amani & Paschal Mdukula (2025). Marketing Bottled Drinking Water for Elites: Semiotic Evidence of Social Injustice through Economic Profiling of Tanzanian Brands. Utafiti Journal of African Perspectives, vol. 20(2). 218-248. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani & Kiessling, Roland (2025). ‘The leopard has given birth’: Weather terms in Gisamjanga-Datooga. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, vol. 46(2): 1-46.  

  • Lusekelo, Amani & Kiessling, Roland (2025). English in linguistic landscape(s) of rural Tanzania. In: World Englishes in their Local Multilingual Ecologies, eds. Peter Siemund, Gardy Stein & Manuela Vida-Mann, pp. 208-230. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.  

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2025). Kiswahili (G40). In: Oxford Guide to Bantu Languages, eds. Lutz Marten, Ellen Hurst-Harosh, Nancy C. Kula & Jochen Zeller, pp. 867-876. London: Oxford University Press.  

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2025). Names of the days in the seven-day week in Bantu languages of Tanzania. South African Journal of African Languages, 45(3). 324-334.

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2025). Africa, linguistic landscape in. In: The Wiley Blackwell encyclopaedia of world Englishes, ed. Kingsley Bolton. John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani, Jenneke van der Wal & Simon Msovela (2025). The expression of information structure in Kinyakyusa. In: The expression of information structure in Bantu, ed. Jenneke van der Wal., pp. 407-452. Berlin: Language Science Press. 

  • Van der Wal, Jenneke, Amani Lusekelo, Allen Asiimwe, Zhen Li, Patrick Kanampiu, Elizabeth Kerr, Nelsa Nhantumbo & Ernest Nshemezimana (2025). On the expression ofg infmroation structure in Bantu. In: The expression of information structure in Bantu, ed. Jenneke van der Wal, pp. 1-51. Berlin: Language Science Press. 

  • Mziray, Peter & Lusekelo, Amani (2025). Examining plant names and their socio-cultual significance among speakers of Chasu in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Cogent Arts and Humanities, (Taylor and Francis), vol. 12. 

  • Utenga, Adriano & Lusekelo, Amani (2025). Lexicalisation of crop names in the Bena, Sangu and Hehe societies of Tanzania. Cogent Arts and Humanities, (Taylor and Francis), vol. 12.

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2025). The passive construction in Kinyakyusa. Journal of the Institute of Language Research, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, vol. 29. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2024). When antiquity meets modernity in postcolonial Africa: Misrepresentation at the cultural heritage sites along East African coastlines. Utafiti Journal of African Perspectives, 19(2): 173-198. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2024). Properties of arguments and predicates of weather in Kinyakyusa. Journal of Linguistics and Language in Education, vol. 18(2), 59-82.   

  • Mdoe, Kuria & Amani Lusekelo (2024). Endocentric and exocentric compounds in Datooga. SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics, 21(2), 18-39. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani & Lea Mpobela (2024). When ‘father’ means ‘husband’ and ‘sister’ means ‘cattle’: lexicalization of kinship terms and address forms in Tanzanian Bantu languages. Cogent Arts & Humanities. 11(2). 1-15 (DOI: 10.1080/23311983.2024.2356410). 

  • Mpobela, Lea & Lusekelo, Amani (2024). Properties of adverbs and adverbials in Runyambo. South African Journal of African Languages. 44 (1). 58-67.   

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2024). Morphosyntactic properties of object marking in Nyakyusa. In Eva-Marie Ström, Rozenn Guérois, Hannah Gibson & Lutz Marten. (eds.). Morphosyntactic variation in Bantu. London, Oxford University Press, pp. 292-316. 

  • Hara, Agness & Lusekelo, Amani (2024). Multilingualism in the linguistic landscape of northern Malawi. In Multilingualism in Southern Africa: Issues and Perspectives, eds. Wellman Kondowe, Chimwemwe M.M. Kamanga, Precious Madula. New York: Routledge. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2024). Onomatopoeic words in Nyakyusa. In Onomatopoeia in the World’s Languages, ed. Lívia Körtvélyessy and Pavol Štekauer, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 163-172. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2024). Concord and Agreement in Eastern Bantu: The Pre-Prefix and Noun Class Prefixes in Nyakyusa. In Hannah Gibson, Guérois Rozenn, Gastor Mapunda & Lutz Marten. (eds). Morphosyntactic variation in East African Bantu languages: Descriptive and comparative approaches Berlin: Language Science Press. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani, Samson Sarakikya & Blasius Achiri-Taboh (2023). Nominal morphology and syntax in Rwa-Meru (E611A). In: The Bantu Noun Phrase: Issues and Perspective, ed. Blasius Achiri-Taboh. Routledge, New York. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2023). Lexicalization of concepts of time in naming sequences of days in Tanzanian Bantu. Studies in African Linguistics, 52(Suppl. 13), 233-255. 

  • Ndumiwe, Elishafati & Lusekelo, Amani (2023). Matumizi ya nahau katika ujarabati wa mikakati ya kisintakisia ya usimbaji wa fokasi katika sentensi za Kiswahili. Kioo cha Luga. 21(2), 298-311. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2023). Portrayal of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Political Cartoons in Tanzania. Cogent Arts and Humanities Journal (Taylor and Francis). 

  • Van der Wal, Jenneke, Lusekelo, Amani & Msovela, Simon (2023). Subject inversion in Kinyakyusa. Africana Linguistica, vol. 29, pp. 157-178. 

  • Da Camara, Crisofia L. & Lusekelo, Amani (2023). Language contact and the state of multilingualism in Tete Province in Mozambique. Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 12(1), pp. 90-111. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2023). Plant nomenclature and ethnobotany of the Hadzabe society of Tanzania. Cape Town: University of Western Cape/Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society. 

  • Mziray, Peter & Lusekelo, Amani (2023). The morphology of plant names in Chasu. Journal of Linguistics and Language in Education. vol. 17.1.           

  • Van der Wal, Jenneke & Amani Lusekelo (2022). The V and CV augment and exhaustivity in Kinyakyusa. Studies in African Languages, 51 (2), pp. 324-346. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani, Onesmo Nyinondi & Chrispina Alphonce (2021). Linguistic landscape of universities during COVID-19 in Tanzania. Ethnologia Actualis 21. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2021). Framing of COVID-19 news in front pages of Swahili newspapers. Ethnologia Actualis 21. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani & Amir, Halima (2022). Naming of plants in Nyamwezi and Sukuma Societies of Tanzania. Kioo cha Lugha 20 (2), pp. 217-238.  

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2022). Locating the Hadzabe people in the wilderness: Kinship relations and naming system of the Hadzabe society of Tanzania. Utafiti Journal of African Perspectives vol. 17.1, pp. 130-154. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani. 2021. Expression of Meteorological Events in Kiswahili. Journal of Linguistics and Language in Education, 15(1). 

  • Lusekelo, Amani & Jonace Manyasa. 2022. Doing gender in Sukuma personal names. SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics 19(2): 35-52.

  • Lusekelo, Amani & Paschal C. Mdukula (2021). The Linguistic landscape of urban Tanzania in Dodoma City. Utafiti Journal of African Perspectives, vol. 16.1, pp. 63-94 

  • Lusekelo, Amani & Adventina Buberwa (2021). Swahili and English sell; but what about Iraqw and Sukuma? Tanzania Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, vol. 10(1): 73-103. 

  • Chebanne, Anderson & Lusekelo, Amani (editors). (2021). African Languages – Linguistic, Literary and Social Issues – A Festschrift in Honour of Herman Batibo. Cape Town: University of Western Cape/Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani. 2021. The semantic-pragmatic theory of definiteness: A grammaticalization account of indefiniteness markers in the determiner phrase in Kinyakyusa. Journal of Linguistics and Language in Education, 15(2), pp. 25-53. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani & Amani Chipalo (2021). The patterns of lexical borrowing in Sandawe, a Khoisan language of Tanzania. African Languages – Linguistic, Literary and Social Issues – A Festschrift in Honour of Herman Batibo, Eds. Anderson Chebanne & Amani Lusekelo, pp. 124-145. Cape Town: UWC/CASAS. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani & Chrispina Alphonce (2021). Properties of Adjectives Word Class in Iraqw, a Southern Cushitic Language of Tanzania. Festschrift to Herman Batibo, Botswana. In African Languages – Linguistic, Literary and Social Issues – A Festschrift in Honour of Herman Batibo, Eds. Anderson Chebanne & Amani Lusekelo, pp. 250-272. Cape Town: UWC/CASAS.  

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2021). Linguistic aspects of forms of address in Nyakyusa. Journal of Languages in Africa, vol. 2(1): 62-90.  

  • Lusekelo, Amani & Micky Mgeja (2020). Linguistic and social outcomes of interactions of Hadzabe and Sukuma in north-western Tanzania. Utafiti Journal of African Perspectives 15(2): 348-373. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani & Victor Mtenga (2020). Historicity of personal names in Tanzania: The case of the names of the Rombo-Chagga community in Kilimanjaro. International Journal of Modern Anthropology, vol. 2 (13): 100-121. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani & Onesmo Nyinondi (2020). Lexical verbs expressing modality in Bantu languages: The case of Runyambo and Luguru. Journal of West African Languages, vol. 47(2): 63-84. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2020). The incorporation of the Kiswahili names of cereals and tubers in the non-Bantu languages in Tanzania. Utafiti Journal of African Perspectives, 14 (2): 295-314. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (with Lea Mpobela) (2020). Adjectives in Runyambo. South African Journal of African Languages (SAJAL), vol. 40 (1): 120-129. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2019). Endocentric and exocentric compounds in Kiswahili. SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics, vol. 16 (4): 22-47. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2019). Why did you choose Runyambo instead of Ruhaya for your research project? By the way, why not choose Kiswahili, the national language? ‘Forces’ acting upon the choice of language of research in Tanzania. Journal of Linguistics and Language in Education, vol. 13 (2): 22-49. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2019). Adaptation of Sukuma Loanwords in the Western Dialects of Datooga (Taturu) and its Dialectological Implications. Ethnologia Actualis - The Journal of Ethnographic Research. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2019). African Linguistics in East Africa. In A History of African Linguistics, ed. H. Ekkehard Wolff, pp. 133-152. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani, Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle, Wolbert G. C. Smidt, Ronny Meyer, Angelika Jacobi, Bruce Connel, Akinibiyi Akinlabi (2019). African Linguistics in North-Eastern and so-Called Anglophone Africa. In The Cambridge Handbook of African Linguistics, ed. H. Ekkehard Wolff, pp. 73-972. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2019). The Linguistic Situation in Orkesumet, an Urban Area in Simanjiro District of Tanzania. Unizik Journal of Arts and Humanities 20 (1): 30-60. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2018). An Account of Intercultural Contact in Nyakyusa Personal Names. African Study Monographs, 39(2): 47-67. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2018). Lexical Borrowing in Africa with Special Attention to Outcomes Of Languages In Contacts In Tanzania. Mgbakoigba: Journal of African Studies, 7(2): 1-22. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani & Chrispina Alphonce. (2018). The linguistic landscape in urban Tanzania: An account of the language of billboards and shop-signs in district headquarters. Journal of Language, Technology and Entrepreneurship in Africa, vol. 9(1): 1-28.      

  • Lusekelo, Amani & Loveluck P. Muro (2018) Naming Practices in Contemporary Machame-Chagga Culture. International Journal of Modern Anthropology, 2 (11): 64-83. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2017). Language Usage, Style and Content of Mass Media Outlets in Tanzania: The Case of Hardcore and Tabloid Kiswahili Newspapers. In: Lugha na Fasihi katika karne ya ishirini na moja, eds. Mosol Kandagor, Nathan Ogechu & Claissa Vierke, pp. 375-392, Eldoret: Moi University Press, Kenya.

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2017). Additive and substitutive borrowing against semantic broadening and narrowing in the names of architectural structures in Tanzanian Bantu languages. Unizik Journal of Arts and Humanities, vol. 18(1): 19-45. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani & Lea Mpobela (2017). Lexical categories in African languages: The case of adjectives word-class in Nyakyusa. Journal of Languages, Technology and Entrepreneurship in Africa, vol. 8(1): 1-31. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2017). Education-Induced Borrowing in Tanzania: Penetration of Swahili Nouns into Maa (Maasai) and Hadzane (Hadzabe). Language Matters, 48 (1): 3-26

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2017). The Swahili Noun Phrase in its Sentential Aspect. Mkwawa Journal of Education and Development, Volume 1 Number 1 (2017), pp. 35-46.

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2016). The spread of Kiswahili lexis into the interior Bantu: The case of names of New World cereals and tubers in Tanzanian Bantu. Kioo cha Lugha, vol. 14: 50-73. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2016). Lexical Semantics and Selection of TAM in Bantu Languages: A Case of Semantic Classification of Kiswahili Verbs. International Journal of Society, Culture & Language, vol. 4 (1): 89–102. [Special Issue for African Cultures and Languages].

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2016). The Nature of Conditional Sentences in Nyakyusa. Journal of Education, Humanities and Sciences, vol. 5 (1): 36–51. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2016). An onomastic account of food and personal names utilized in contemporary Nigerian novels. UDOM Journal of Humanities, vol. 3 (1): 74-89. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2016). The Language of Caricatures in Political Landscape in Tanzania: The Case of Selected Masoud Kipanya’s Cartoons. Sanaa Journal, vol. 1 (1): 22-37. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2015). Distribution of ɸ-features in Bantu DPs and vPs: The Case of Concord and Agree in Kiswahili and Kinyakyusa. Journal of Linguistics and Language in Education, vol. 9(1): 1-42. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2015). The consequences of the contacts between Bantu and non-Bantu languages around Lake Eyasi in northern Tanzania, International Journal of Society, Culture & Language, vol. 3(1): 62-75. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2015). The Hadzabe Society of Tanzania: Contacts, Sociolinguistics and Onomastics. Ibadan: John Archers Publishers Limited. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2014). Linguistic Morphology: A Student Guide. E&D Vision Publishing Limited, Dar es Salaam. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2014). ‘Similar’ languages contact but ‘different’ languages change: Historical lessons from loanwords in Tanzanian Bantu communities. Journal of Education, Humanities and Sciences, vol. 3 nos. 1 & 2. pp. 91-110. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani & Kapufi, Daudi Isaac (2014). An Analysis of Metaphoric Use of Names of Body Parts in the Bantu Language Kifipa. International Journal of Society, Culture & Language, vol. 2(1): 106-118. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2014). The encroachment of the personal names and naming system of the Hadzabe. In FEL XVIII Okinawa: Indigenous Languages - Value to the Community, edited by Ostler, Nicholas & Patrick Heinrich, pp. 88-92. Bath: Foundation for Endangered Languages. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (with Kitila Mkumbo & Emiliana Mwita) (2014). Sam Maghimbi: An editorial preview. Journal of Education, Humanities and Sciences, vol. 3 nos. 1 & 2. pp. v-xiii. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2013). Language Contact in Lake Eyasi Area in Northwestern Tanzania. Journal of Historical Society of Nigerian (JHSN), vol. 22: 137-157.

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2013). Swahili loanwords nativisations in the languages of Tanzania. HURIA Journal of the Open University of Tanzania, vol. 14, pp. 151-162.

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2013). DP-internal and V-external agreement patterns in Eastern Bantu: Re-statement of the facts in Eastern Bantu. Journal of Linguistics and Language in Education. vol. 7 No. 1, pp. 19-47. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2013). A coursebook of syntactic theories: With Special Reference to Kiswahili and English. Iringa: Kasenyenda Publishers, Tanzania. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2013) Tense, Aspect, Modality and Negation in Kinyakyusa: A Bantu Language of Tanzania and Malawi. Saarburuecken: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing.

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2013d). Viambishi Yambwa katika Kiswahili Sanifu: Matumizi yake katika Taarifa Mbalimbali ndani ya Magazeti ya Kiswahili. Journal of Mulika, volume 32, (pp 130-141). 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2013).  Criteria for Identification of Determiners in Bantu Noun Phrases. Journal of the Linguistics Association of Southern African Development Community [SADC] Universities, Volume 4, Issue No. 1, pp. 4-16. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2013). Word Categorization in African Languages: The Case of Ideophones in Swahili. In: Adegbite, Wale, Ayo Ogunsiji & Oye Taiwo (Eds). Linguistics and the Glocalisation of African Languages for Sustainable Development: A Festschrift Ii Honour of Prof. Kola Owolabi. Ibadan: Universal Akada Books Limited. pp. 369-389. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2012). Rich and highly educated, poor and less educated: The rising gap between the urban and rural youth in Tanzania. In: Youth, Democracy and legal reform progresses. Dar es Salaam: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. pp. 51-59. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2012). The expression of Cardinal Directions in the Tanzanian Bantu languages. Occasional Papers in Linguistics (OPiL), University of Dar es Salaam, pp. 1-18. 

  • Rugemalira, Josephat, Henry Muzale, Protas Ezekiel, Lusekelo, Amani Benedict Lema, Deo Ngonyani, George Mrikaria, Julius Taji, Khamisi Kindija & Nicholous Asheli (2012). Harmonization of the Orthography of the Bantu Languages of Tanzania. The Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS), South Africa, Monograph Series No. 250. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2010). Comparative study of the motion domain in Tanzanian Bantu languages. KISWAHILI: Journal of the Institute of Kiswahili Studies, vol. 73, pp. 13-31. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2010). Morphology-Pragmatics Interface: The Case of the Tanzanian Commercials in Swahili Newspapers, Afrikanistik Online.

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2010). Adverbs as a word category in Kinyakyusa. Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages (JNCOLCTL), vol. 8. pp. 59-88.   

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2009). A description of Kinyakyusa reduplication. SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics, 2009, vol. 6, No. 2. pp. 23-43.  

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2009). The structure of the Nyakyusa noun phrase. Nordic Journal of African Studies, vol. 18 (4): 305–331.

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2009). The structure of the Swahili noun phrase: Evidence from fictional narratives. In: Burger, Willie & Marné Pienaar (eds.) Die Tand van die Tyd: Opstelle opgedra aan Jac Conradie. Bloemfontein: Sun Press. pp. 45-60. . 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2008). Lexicalization of motion events in Kiswahili and Kinyakyusa. KISWAHILI: Journal of the Kiswahili Research, vol. 71. pp. 11-23. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2008). A descriptive account of the Bantu verbal extensions in Kinyakyusa. Journal of Research in African Languages and Linguistics (RALL), vol. 8. pp. 83-116. 

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  • Lusekelo, Amani (2014). Linguistic Morphology: A Student Guide. E&D Vision Publishing Limited, Dar es Salaam. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2014). ‘Similar’ languages contact but ‘different’ languages change: Historical lessons from loanwords in Tanzanian Bantu communities. Journal of Education, Humanities and Sciences, vol. 3 nos. 1 & 2. pp. 91-110. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani & Kapufi, Daudi Isaac (2014). An Analysis of Metaphoric Use of Names of Body Parts in the Bantu Language Kifipa. International Journal of Society, Culture & Language, vol. 2(1): 106-118. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2014). The encroachment of the personal names and naming system of the Hadzabe. In FEL XVIII Okinawa: Indigenous Languages - Value to the Community, edited by Ostler, Nicholas & Patrick Heinrich, pp. 88-92. Bath: Foundation for Endangered Languages. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (with Kitila Mkumbo & Emiliana Mwita) (2014). Sam Maghimbi: An editorial preview. Journal of Education, Humanities and Sciences, vol. 3 nos. 1 & 2. pp. v-xiii. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2013). Language Contact in Lake Eyasi Area in Northwestern Tanzania. Journal of Historical Society of Nigerian (JHSN), vol. 22: 137-157. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2013). Swahili loanwords nativisations in the languages of Tanzania. HURIA Journal of the Open University of Tanzania, vol. 14, pp. 151-162.

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2013). DP-internal and V-external agreement patterns in Eastern Bantu: Re-statement of the facts in Eastern Bantu. Journal of Linguistics and Language in Education. vol. 7 No. 1, pp. 19-47. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2013). A coursebook of syntactic theories: With Special Reference to Kiswahili and English. Iringa: Kasenyenda Publishers, Tanzania. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2013) Tense, Aspect, Modality and Negation in Kinyakyusa: A Bantu Language of Tanzania and Malawi. Saarburuecken: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing.

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2013d). Viambishi Yambwa katika Kiswahili Sanifu: Matumizi yake katika Taarifa Mbalimbali ndani ya Magazeti ya Kiswahili. Journal of Mulika, volume 32, (pp 130-141). 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2013).  Criteria for Identification of Determiners in Bantu Noun Phrases. Journal of the Linguistics Association of Southern African Development Community [SADC] Universities, Volume 4, Issue No. 1, pp. 4-16. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2013). Word Categorization in African Languages: The Case of Ideophones in Swahili. In: Adegbite, Wale, Ayo Ogunsiji & Oye Taiwo (Eds). Linguistics and the Glocalisation of African Languages for Sustainable Development: A Festschrift Ii Honour of Prof. Kola Owolabi. Ibadan: Universal Akada Books Limited. pp. 369-389. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2012). Rich and highly educated, poor and less educated: The rising gap between the urban and rural youth in Tanzania. In: Youth, Democracy and legal reform progresses. Dar es Salaam: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. pp. 51-59. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2012). The expression of Cardinal Directions in the Tanzanian Bantu languages. Occasional Papers in Linguistics (OPiL), University of Dar es Salaam, pp. 1-18. 

  • Rugemalira, Josephat, Henry Muzale, Protas Ezekiel, Lusekelo, Amani Benedict Lema, Deo Ngonyani, George Mrikaria, Julius Taji, Khamisi Kindija & Nicholous Asheli (2012). Harmonization of the Orthography of the Bantu Languages of Tanzania. The Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS), South Africa, Monograph Series No. 250. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2010). Comparative study of the motion domain in Tanzanian Bantu languages. KISWAHILI: Journal of the Institute of Kiswahili Studies, vol. 73, pp. 13-31. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2010). Morphology-Pragmatics Interface: The Case of the Tanzanian Commercials in Swahili Newspapers, Afrikanistik Online.

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2010). Adverbs as a word category in Kinyakyusa. Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages (JNCOLCTL), vol. 8. pp. 59-88.   

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2009). A description of Kinyakyusa reduplication. SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics, 2009, vol. 6, No. 2. pp. 23-43. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2009). The structure of the Nyakyusa noun phrase. Nordic Journal of African Studies, vol. 18 (4): 305–331. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2009). The structure of the Swahili noun phrase: Evidence from fictional narratives. In: Burger, Willie & Marné Pienaar (eds.) Die Tand van die Tyd: Opstelle opgedra aan Jac Conradie. Bloemfontein: Sun Press. pp. 45-60. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2008). Lexicalization of motion events in Kiswahili and Kinyakyusa. KISWAHILI: Journal of the Kiswahili Research, vol. 71. pp. 11-23. 

  • Lusekelo, Amani (2008). A descriptive account of the Bantu verbal extensions in Kinyakyusa. Journal of Research in African Languages and Linguistics (RALL), vol. 8. pp. 83-116. 

Conferences 

  • International Conference on Modality and Change in Bantu Languages, Mkwawa University College of Education, Tanzania, Mechanisms for the expression of modality in Kinyakyusa Bantu 31, 20-21 February 2026.  

  • 10th International Conference on Bantu Languages (Bantu 10), University of Dar es Salaam, August 2024. Ethnobotany of Nyungwe in Mozambique; Ethnobotany of Chasu in Tanzania; Ethnobotany of Bena in Tanzania.  

  • 11th World Conference on African Languages (WOCAL 11), University of Nairobi, Kenya, August 2024. Ethnobotany of Nyungwe in Mozambique; Ethnobotany of Chasu in Tanzania; Ethnobotany of Bena in Tanzania.  

  • International Conference of the Humanities, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Contact and influence of the Akie language of Tanzania, September 2023. 

  • Nilo-Saharan Colloquium, University of Nairobi, Kenya. Compounding in Datooga (with Kuria Mdoe), August 2023. 

  • Conference of the Language Association for Eastern Africa, Makerere University, Uganda. Akie language of Tanzania, August 2023. 

  • BaSIS (Bantu Syntax and Information Structure Conference, Leiden University, The Netherlands. Predicate doubling and information structure in Bantu languages, June 2023  

  • International conference of Bantu languages (Bantu 9), Malawi University of Science and Technology, 7-10 July 2022, Blantyre – Malawi. Naming plants among the Nyamwezi and Sukuma society of Tanzania 

  • World Conference of African Languages (WOCAL), Leiden University, The Netherlands, June 2021 The augment as exclusive focus marker in Kinyakyusa (with Jenneke van der Wal) & Focus marking in Bantu languages (with Jenneke van der Wal; Patrick Kanampiu; Allen Asiimwe et al.) 

  • World Conference of African Languages (WOCAL), Leiden University, The Netherlands, June 2021 Focus marking in Bantu languages (with Jenneke van der Wal; Patrick Kanampiu; Allen Asiimwe et al.) 

  • The Tanzania Rift Valley Network Seminar Series, 2021: Plant names in Hadzabe 

  • The Tanzania Rift Valley Network Seminar Series, 2020: Contact Issues in Hadzabe 

  • Joint SALALS/SAALT Annual Conference, University of Pretoria, South Africa, April 2019. The pre-prefix as a functional category determiner in Kinyakyusa (with Marianna Visser) 

  • The First International Conference of Gender at DUCE, Tanzania, April 2017; Presentation: How many Maasai Girl Children Obtain Opportunities into Universities in Tanzania?: Educational Reformations and Cultural Innovations in Monduli, Kiteto and Simanjiro Districts of Tanzania

  • The Sixth International Conference on Bantu Languages, University of Helsinki (Finland), 20-23rd June 2016; Presentation: Contradicting findings on “objecthood” in Bantu languages: The case of the morphosyntax of object marking in Nyakyusa 

  • Language of Tanzania Project, Workshop XIV, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 21st February 2014; Presentation: A sociolinguistic approach to the Hadzabe personal names and naming system 

  • The 5th International Conference on Bantu Languages, INALCO, Paris (12-15 June 2013). Presentation: Semantic Classification of the Bantu Verbs and Tense/Aspect Selections: The Case of Lexical Verbal Semantics in Kiswahili

  • Conference of the 50 Years of Kiswahili as a Language of Unity, Liberalization and Renaissance, Institute of Kiswahili Studies, Tanzania, 4-6 October 2012. Presentation 1: Optimality Theoretic Account of Object Marking of Conjoined-Nouns in Kiswahili. Presentation 2: Templatic account of Bantu verbal affixes: Reconsidering sequencing patterns of verbal extensions in Swahili. 

  • OSSREA Workshop, Tanzania Chapter, Tanzania, 9 August 2012. Presentation: Manifestation of gender issues in cultural practices and socio-economic activities in literary works: An expose from Swahili poems.

  • Language of Tanzania Project, Workshop XIII, University of Dar es Salaam, 25/5/2012. Presentation: Lexical Borrowing and Adaptation in African Languages: Some Intriguing Issues from Data in LOT Lexicon and Dictionary Publications.

  • SADC/French Embassy: Thematic Seminar Series on Regional Integration No. 7, "Languages as tools of regional integration in the SADC region". University of Botswana, 15-16 March 2012. Presentation: Experiences and Challenges in the Promotion of Kiswahili in Eastern Africa. 

  • Language of Tanzania Project, Workshop XII, University of Dar es Salaam, 27-28 May Presentation 1: What is a Specifier in Bantu NPs: Some issues from Eastern and Southern Bantu Presentation 2: Compound Nouns in Nyakyusa [with Obeth Mwampalile]. 

  • Fourth International Conference on Bantu Languages [Bantu 4], Berlin (Germany), 7-9 April 2011. Funded by USHEPiA (Research) and ZAS (Transport & Accommodation) Presentation: Object Marking in Nyakyusa Language: Exploration for Optimality Theory. 

  • Language of Tanzania Project, Workshop XI, Beachcomber, Dar es Salaam, 29.6.2010. Presentation: Expression of cardinal directions in Tanzanian Bantu languages. 

  • International Workshop at the University of Cologne, 10th – 11th June 2010 Expression of Directionality in Grammar and Discourse: Evidence from African Languages. Presentation: Expression of directionality in Tanzanian Bantu languages. 

  • Language of Tanzania project, Workshop X, 22nd - 23rd May 2009/Belinda, Dar es Salaam Presentation: Negation strategies and Tense and aspect in Kinyakyusa. 

  • The Colloquium/Institute for African Studies, University of Cologne, 27th May 2009. Presentation: The structure of the Kinyakyusa noun phrase. 

  • International Workshop on Grammar of Reiteration, University of Paris 8, Rue Pouchet, Paris, 18th - 19th June 2009. Presentation: The syntax and semantics of reduplication in Kinyakyusa. 

  • World Congress on African Languages (WOCAL 6)/University of Cologne, 17th - 21st August 2009. Presentation: The expression of motion events in Swahili: Evidence from Fictional narratives. 

Supervisions 

  1. Kapufi, Daudi Isaac, An Analysis of Metaphoric Use of Names of Body Parts in the Bantu Language Kifipa, Ruaha Catholic University, 2012-2-13

  2. Sarakikya, Samson, The noun phrase of Meru language, Ruaha Catholic University, 2014-2015. 

  3. Alphonce, Chrispina, The structure of the Iraqw noun phrase, University of Dodoma, 2012-2016. 

  4. Makwela, Kaundime, Verb extensions and argument structure in Kihehe, University of Dar es Salaam, 2016-2017. 

  5. Nicholous, Asheli, The semantics of names and naming system in ethnic community languages of Tanzania, University of Dar es Salaam, 2014-2017. 

  6. Kaoneka, Swalehe, Relativisation strategies in Shambala, University of Dar es Salaam, 2014-2018. 

  7. Mpobela, Leah, Word categorization in Runyambo: The case of adjectives and adverbs University of Dar es Salaam, 2015-2018. 

  8. Kisake, Claudia G., University of Dar es Salaam, Nominal derivation in Kihehe, 2018-2019. 

  9. Nyinondi, Onesmo, Expression of modality in Runyambo and Luguru, University of Dar es Salaam, 2018-2020.

  10. Mdoe, Kuria, A morpho-semantic approach to nouns in Datooga, University of Dar es Salaam, 2018-2021. 

  11. Mwakasege, Andwele, Loanwords in Nyakyusa and Ndali, University of Dodoma, 2017-2021.

  12. Rutagwerela Deodatus, Dosari za Kimofofonimiki kwa Ujifunzaji wa Kiswahili kama Lugha ya pili kwa Wanafunzi wa Jamiilugha ya Wahaya, University of Dar es Salaam, 2018-2022. 

  13. Makulilo, Prisca, Productivity of verbal suffixes in Giha, University of Dar es Salaam, 2018-2022.

  14. Kahambi, Abdul, Inflectional information in Akie nouns, University of Dar es Salaam, 2021-2022. 

  15. Waryoba, Waroba, Inflectional information in Luo nouns, University of Dar es Salaam, 2021-2022. 

  16. Ndumiwe, Elishafati, Usimbaji wa fokasi katika Kiswahili, University of Dar es Salaam, 2021-2023. 

  17. Method, John, Place names in Mwanza City, University of Dar es Salaam, 2022-2024. 

  18. Mziray, Peter, Ethnobotany and dialectology of the Chasu language, University of Dar es Salaam, 2021-2024. 

  19. Mwampalile, Obeth, Semantics of compound nouns in selected Bantu languages, University of Dar es Salaam, 2020-2026. 

  20. Boniface, Hilary, Influence of Sukuma on Zinza, University of Dar es Salaam, 2023-2024. 

  21. Abdallah, Amina, Language contact between Alagwa, Burunge and Rangi, University of Dar es Salaam, 2024-2025. 

  22. Bayona, Savera, Language use and access to information at a Hospital in Bukoba Rural, University of Dar es Salaam, 2024-2025.

  23. Kiula, Stella, The manner/result complementarity in Nilamba, University of Dar es Salaam, 2024-2025. 

  24. Venance, Anna, Language choice and customers’ access to information in banking industry in Tanzania, University of Dar es Salaam, 2024-2025.

  25. Nzella, Sayi, Representation of African culture in English language textbooks in Tanzania, University of Dar es Salaam, 2024-2025. 

  26. Habely, Yohana E., Information structure in Cigogo, University of Dar es Salaam, 2025 to-date. 

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