Dr. Mary Zacharia Charwi

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Dr. Mary Zacharia Charwi

Academic Rank
Senior Lecturer

Department
Languages and Literature

Biography

Biography

Dr. Mary Zacharia Charwi is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Languages and Literature within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. She holds a Ph.D. in African Linguistics from the University of Bayreuth. She completed both her undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the University of Dar es Salaam. Her teaching areas include Swahili morphology, syntax, semantic, pragmatics and lexicography. Her research interests and scholarly work focus on Bantu Linguistics, (specifically Bantu morphology, syntax, morphosyntax, semantics, and pragmatics), onomastics, language, gender and culture, indigenous knowledge, and ethnolinguistics. 

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Research Interest
African Linguistics, Bantu Linguistics, onomastics, language, gender and culture, indigenous knowledge, and ethnolinguistics.

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  1. Charwi, M. Z. (2025). Language and Social Transformation in Nyumbantobhu: A Gendered Perspective. Journal of Transcultural Communication. https://doi.org/10.1515/jtc-2025-0001

  2. Charwi, M. Z. (2025). Semantic expressions of conflict and emotion in African religious prayers: a cross-tradition analysis, Cogent Arts & Humanities, 12:1, 2489859, DOI: 10.1080/23311983.2025.2489859

  3. Charwi, M. Z. (2024). Indigenous Kuria Names and Naming Practices. Utafiti, 19(1), 115-128. https://doi.org/10.1163/26836408-15020095

  4. Charwi, M. Z., Kacholi, D. S., & Mogha, N. G. (2023). Ethnomedicinal study of medicinal plants used for treatment of urinary tract infections in Mara region, Tanzania. Ethnobotany Research and Applications, 26, 1–14. Retrieved from https://ethnobotanyjournal.org/index.php/era/article/view/5349

  5. Charwi, M. Z. (2023). Lugha ya Kiswahili na Maendeleo ya Tanzania [Mchapange na Buberwa (eds)] Kiswahili katika Nyanja za Kimataifa, uk.188 -224 TUKI. 

  6. Charwi, M. Z., Mogha, N. G., Muluwa, J. K., & Bostoen K. (2023): Indigenous Knowledge and Use of Medicinal Plants Among the Kuria Communities in the Tarime and Serengeti Districts of Mara Region, Tanzania, Journal of Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants, DOI: 10.1080/10496475.2022.2163734

  7. Charwi, M. Z. (2021). Chanzo cha Tofauti za Kileksika na Maana zake Tanzania Bara na Visiwani na Athari zake kwa Watumiaji wa Lugha ya Kiswahili. MULIKA. Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam. Vol. 40(2) Uk. 42-59. 

  8. Charwi, M. Z. (2021). Language and Culture as Tools of Gender Inequality among the Kuria.  Journal of University of Namibia Language Centre. Volume 6, No. 1, pp. 24-35. 2021 (ISSN 2026-8297)

  9. Charwi, M. Z. (2019). Viambishi Nafsi katika Muundo wa Kitenzi cha Kikuria (E43). University of Dar es Salaam, UTAFITI; 14(12): 2 339-352.

  10. Charwi, M. Z. (2019). “A Semantic Analysis of Personal Names in Datooga Society,” ETHNOLOGIA ACTUALIS, Vol. 19, pp. 90-105.

  11. Charwi, M. Z. (2019). The Argument and Argument Structure in Kuria Sborník z 16. mezinárodního setkání mladých lingvistů, Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, Vol. 16 pp. 115 – 128. 

  12. Charwi, M. Z. (2017). Morphosyntactic and Semantic Aspects of Verb Extension Systems in Bantu Languages: A Case Study of Kuria (E43) in Tanzania. Bayreuth: University of Bayreuth.

  13. Charwi M.Z. (2013). Unyambulishaji wa Vitenzi vya Kikuria na Athari zake Kisintaksia, KIOO CHA LUGHA JOURNAL, Vol. 11: 58-77

  14. Charwi M.Z. (2012). Vowel Harmony in Kuria, Journal of Education, Humanities and Sciences (JEHS), Volume 1, No. 2, 2012: 105-114

  15. Zacharia, M. (2011). Verb Extensions in Kuria Language: Co-occurrence and Ordering Restrictions. (Unpublished Master's Dissertation), University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam.