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Book Series No.139, Year 2025, Boithuto, Ntlafatso, Poloko le Ntshetsopele ya Puo ya Sesotho: Malebela ka Ditsebi; Buka ya Bobedi Boithuto, Ntlafatso, Poloko le Ntshetsopele ya Puo ya Sesotho: Malebela ka Ditsebi Buka ya bobedi ke ntšetsopele ya diphuputso tse fapaneng mabapi le puo, botjhaba le thu...

Book Series No.138, Year 2025, Microvariation Analysis of the Phonology, Morphology, and Syntax of Lungu, Mambwe, and Namwanga Languages This authoritative work challenges long-held assumptions regarding linguistic distinctiveness and the singularity of Lungu, Mambwe, and Namwanga. They are traditionally classifi...

Prof Christopher Stroud, Emeritus Linguistics Professor, proves his world-class researcher standing Prof Christopher Stroud, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics and former Director of the Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research, is amongst the world's top 2% most...

Prof Sisanda Nkoala, Lecturer in the Linguistics Department and holder of the Chair in Media Inclusion and Diversity, achieves two rare achievements in 2024. Prof Nkoala was the first runner-up in the Distinguished Young Women Researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences category for her "outstanding contribution to buildin...

Monograph No. 267, Year 2024, A Common Orthography and Short Grammar of Lungu, Mambwe and Namwanga Languages Author: Pethias Siame & Felix Banda ISBN: 978-1-920447-07-6 Cost: R57.50 The LuMana languages are at the periphery of the Northern and North-East part of Zambia whose a...

UWC is changing the narrative through Transmedia Storytelling Phase one of the pilot phase of the Transmedia for the Creative Economy programme came to an end in George, in the Western Cape, last week. Over the past six months, the Univers...

Book Series No.135, Year 2023, Plant Nomenclature and Ethnobotany of the Hadzabe Society of Tanzania Author: Amani Lusekelo ISBN No: 978-1-920447-05-2 Cost: 215.00 This book takes into consideration the subject matter from several disciplines. Basically, it would have been cate...

Book Series No.130, Year 2019 Theoretical and Applied Aspects of African Languages and Culture; Festschrift in Honour of Professor Mildred Nkolola-Wakumelo Synopsis Author: Felix Banda (ed.) ISBN No: 978-1-920294-25-0 Cost: 250.00 These papers in honour of Professor Mildred Nkolola-Wakumelo's sterling contributions to the resea...

Book Series No.129 Year 2018, A Grammatical Sketch of Cilambya; The Malawian Variant Synopsis Author: Atikonda Akuzike Mtenje-Mkochi ISBN No: 978-1-920294-24-3 Cost: 150.00 Cilambya is a variety that is on a dialect continuum with Cisukwa and Cindali. It is also...

Apply now: DVC: Research and Innovation Postgraduate Bursary The call for applications for the DVC: Research and Innovation Postgraduate Bursary is now open. PURPOSE The aim of the DVC: Research and Innovation Postgraduate Bursary i...

Selected presentations of the Dit is ‘n Noord-Kaap ding colloquium are now available Dit is ‘n Noord-Kaap ding (It is a Northern Cape thing) colloquium was founded in 2021 by Dr Lorato Mokwena, an academic from the University of the Western Cape. It is a u...

Dit is ‘n Noord-Kaap ding colloquium - Day 1 Dit is ‘n Noord-Kaap ding (It is a Northern Cape thing) colloquium was founded in 2021 by Dr Lorato Mokwena, an academic from the University of the Western Cape. It is a u...

Dit is ‘n Noord-Kaap ding colloquium - Day 2 Dit is ‘n Noord-Kaap ding (It is a Northern Cape thing) colloquium was founded in 2021 by Dr Lorato Mokwena, an academic from the University of the Western Cape. It is a u...

The Broken String is on Cape Town TV It gives us great pleasure to announce that The Broken String is on Cape Town TV! The Broken String is a documentary that offers a sombre reflection of past and current injustic...

Obituary: PhD Linguistics student, Mr Sabelo Sawula Dear UWC Community The Faculty of Arts and Humanities by the passing of our PhD student in Linguistics, Mr Sabelo Sawula. He passed on recently in a hospital in the Easte...

UWC Documentary highlighting Oppression of the Bushman to be Screened Online The Broken String is a documentary film that repurposes the title of a poem by Dia!kwain (aka David Hoesaar). The original poem was recited in the now extinct /Xam language whic...