Dholuo Grammar For Beginners

This volume brings together a collection of 18 papers that look into the expression of modality in the grammars of natural languages, with an emphasis on its manifestations in naturally occurring discourse. Though the individual contributions reflect a diversity of languages, of synchronic and diachronic foci, and of theoretical orientations — all within the broad domain of functional linguistics — they nonetheless converge around a number of key issues: the relationship between 'mood' and 'modality'; the delineation of modal categories and their nomenclature; the grounding of modality in interactive discourse; the elusive category 'irrealis'; and the relationship of modal notions and categories to other categories of grammar.

The author is a Don at the School of Law, University of Nairobi Kenya and a development consultant with various NGOs and other international bodies in Eastern Africa region and Italy. He is a researcher and writer of articles and texts on matters concerning law and culture. Dr. Onyango is an expert in modern legal science with wide knowledge of law ranging from comparative legal system, international public law, ethics, philosophy, theology, sociology, mass media and social realities today. He is currently teaching Social Foundations of Law, Customary Law, International Public Law and International Relations at the University of Nairobi and he is a part-time lecturer at St. Pauls University. Among his publication are Cultural Gap and Economic Crisis in Africa and, Dholuo Grammar for Beginners.

This Beginners book in English and Dholuo is intended for use as a tool for beginners learning Dholuo. This book will enable the learner to easily master the basic conversations, words and sentence structures in the Dholuo language.The book is divided into categories covering most of the basic vocabulary we use in our daily activities. This facilitates understanding and makes it easy for the learner to find specific words and related expressions. It simplifies the use for most of the words and expressions in each category in the form of dialogues or sentences at the beginning of each chapter.To enhance the primary focus in developing the learners' abilities in speaking and listening skills, this e-book could also be used hand in hand with its complete audio version recorded by native speakers. With the audio, the learner will be able to read, listen, repeat, practice and speak in this language. The audio book is downloadable at www.amazon.com, www.itunes.com and other websites.Learning of a new language has never been made this easy!

This highly illustrated and definitive dictionary, by two renowned biologists - one Kenyan, one Canadian - contains extensive coverage of the flora, fauna and animals of the Lake Victoria region of East Africa occupied by the Luo community, and is based on ten years of research by the authors. It is an expansion of the 1972 publication Luo-English Botanical Dictionary of Plant Names and Their Uses and now provides more botanical entries and an additional section consisting of a zoological dictionary. The individual entry comprises Luo terminology, its botanical/zoological equivalent, common name (when applicable), physical description, its prevalence, and its respective economic use.

Contains 3,500 entries, representing almost 700 African languages and over 200 dialects, spanning over 400 years of African lexicographical writing and research.