Enchengeria
The EkeGusii Dictionary This is a complete EkeGusii-Kiswahili-English dictionary that provides definitions for EkeGusii words. The work has been compiled for over fourteen years of collecting lexemes from the native speakers of the language. These respondents who provided the raw data range from former teachers of EkeGusii as a mother tongue to indigenous knowledge experts in the Gusii community. Linguists with expertise in lexicography, phonetics, and translation and interpretation drawn from the Linguistics department, Kisii University, worked on the technical details. Herein lies the uniqueness of this work: it presents more than mere definitions of word tokens. This edition serves as a template for further exploration, future expansion, and development of orthographic conventions in the language.The dictionary has the following: ● Meanings of EkeGusii words with KiSwahili, and English translations● Abbreviations and proper nouns● Concise sentences serving as illustrative examples in EkeGusii.● Broad transcription of words using IPA to serve as a guide to pronunciation ● Coverage of grammatical constructions
Akama, John S.: - John S. Akama holds a Ph.D. in Geography from Southern Illinois University, USA. For over 15 years, he taught at Moi University in Kenya, where he rose from the position of lecturer to the rank of Professor. While at Moi University, he taught students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Over the years, Prof. Akama has researched and published widely in culture, sociology, tourism, and wildlife management. Currently, Prof. Akama is the Vice Chancellor of Kisii University, Kenya, where he was first appointed as founding Principal when the institution was a Constituent College of Egerton University before being made Vice-Chancellor when the institution acquired its Charter in 2013 to become a full-fledged University.
Mecha, Evans G.: - Evans Gesura Mecha, Ph.D. (circa. 1974) is a lecturer at Kisii University for Theoretical Linguistics in the Department for Languages, Linguistics and Literature. He has authored three books in Linguistics, Kenyan English (2021), Information Structure (2014), Reduplication in EkeGusii: An Optimality Theoretic Approach (2017), and two Poetry Collections: Window into Worlds (2022) and Coronach to Ophir and other Poems (2020).
Otieno, Peter N.: - Peter Nyansera Otieno, Ph.D., (circa. 1976) is a linguist with the Department of Languages Linguistics and Literature, at Kisii University. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the areas of Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, and Communication Skills. Nyansera is an interdisciplinary scholar. He has research interests in Acoustic Phonetics, Bantu vowel systems, Socio-Phonetics, lexicography, Language impairment, Natural Language Processing, Linguistic Anthropology, Language endangerment, and Language Documentation. He is a crusader for Gusii culture revitalization. He also writes poetry and short stories from his rich EkeGusii oral literature background. He is also the patron of the Bobasi Chapter of the AbaGusii Cultural and Development Council.
