Current/Recent Nyakyusa Research and Researchers

History - Anthropology - Archeology.

  • , Freiburg, Germany
    • "Ritual und Identität. Vorkoloniale Geschichte in Unyakyusa von ca.1600 bis 1897", PhD dissertation 1998
  • , Florida, USA
    • "Transforming Obligations, Performing Identity: Making the Nyakyusa in a Colonial Context", PhD dissertation
  • , University of Hamburg, Germany
    • MA thesis "Difference and Identity" at Rungwe Station between 1891-1916. It is a discourse analysis - with particular focus on the categories Volk, class and gender - of missionary reports and letters which are held at the archive of the Moravian Church in Herrnhut, Germany.
    • Currently working on the ethnographic notes of the Moravian missionary Joseph Busse about Nyakyusa religion and magic.

Linguistics

  • , Oslo, Norway
    • Nyakyusa - English - Swahili Dictionary (Mkuki na Nyota, Dar-es-Salaam 1996, ISBN 9976 973 32 2)
    • Nyakyusa Stories
    • Nyakyusa Handbook (funding ??)
  • Universität Bayreuth, Germany
    • Dictionary Project Nyakyusa - German
  • , Bayreuth, Germany
    • Nyakyusa Women's language

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