DAR ES SALAAM UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
A constituent College of the University of Dar es SalaamBiography
Biography
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Postal: P. O. Box 2329, Taifa Road, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Contacts
Email:
Email Address
amani.lusekelo@udsmac.tz
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Research Interest
Research Interest
Ethnolinguistics, Expression of Information Structure, Language Contact, Linguistic Landscapes, Morphosyntax, Onomastics, and 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, Felix Ameka & Devos Maud. Seed-Grant EUR 15,000 to Szeb 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.
Publications
Publications
Lusekelo, Amani (in press). Names of the days in the seven-day week in Bantu languages of Tanzania. South African Journal of African Languages, 45(2).
Lusekelo, Amani (in press). 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 & 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).
Lusekelo, Amani & Paschal Mdukula (in press). Do Bottled water meant for elites alone? Socio-linguistic and socio-economic profiling in Tanzania. Utafiti Journal of African Perspectives, vol 20(2).
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.