Bio

Personal Information

Date of Birth: 14th August, 1969
Nationality: Kenyan
Native Language: Luo
Marital Status: Married
Next of Kin: Pauline Nkatha Mathiu-Olali
No.of Children: Three
Height/Weight: 6 feet/85 Kg

Publications

2019

Olali, T.  2019.  Ritual and Spectacle: The Grandiloquent Display of Paradoxical Metamessage during the Lamu Maulidi Festival, 17 May. Institutions of African Literature: Future, Present, Past. , Columbus, Ohio, USA
Olali, T.  2019.  Ritual and Spectacle: The Grandiloquent Display of Paradoxical Metamessage during the Lamu Maulidi Festival. Asian Journal of African Studies. 46:111-137.
Olali, T, Rufus K, Mwangi I.  2019.  Software Localization: An Exploration of the Problems Encountered by Localizers in Transferring Messages from English into Kiswahili. Mwanga wa Lugha. 4(1):45-59.
Olali, T, Karani R.  2019.  Analyzing the Perspectives and Strategies in Localizing Software in Kiswahili. International Journal of Applied Linguistics and Translation. . 5(1):15-20.

2018

Olali, T.  2018.  Ecology as thematic foci: The identity of Swahili Poetry and Ecocriticism experiment, 25 May. Environments of African Literature. , Marriott Wardman Park, Washington, D.C, USA
Olali, T.  2018.  Hedonistic Overflow of Leisure and Pecuniary Sense: Performer as Labourers during the Lamu Festival. African Languages and Literature in a Globalized World. , Seoul: Dahae Publishing Co. Ltd

2017

T, O, A K.  2017.  “The Triplex Mundus as a Global Trope in Euphrase Kezilahabi’s Rosa Mistika.” . Contemporary African Societies and Cultures. , Seoul: Dahae Publishing Co.Ltd
T, O, L M.  2017.  “Language Learning Catastrophe? Crisis and Impediments in the Free Primary Education (FPE) in Kenya” International Journal of Science Arts and Commerce.. 2(10):38-48.
T, O, M E.  2017.  Religiosity and Hybrid Identity: Contradictions and Ambiguities in the Obama and Othello Persona. International Journal of Foreign Studies. 9(1):1-17.
Olali, T.  2017.  " A Critical Exposition of Jihad Trope as a Religious Philosophy in the Epic of Rasi'l Ghuli (1850-1855), 17 June. African Literature Association. , Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Olali, T.  2017.  " Mchango wa Mohammed Abu Bakari Omar al-Bakry Kijumwa katika Utamaduni wa Amu". Mulika. 33(12):15-35.

2016

Olali, T.  2016.  " English Drama Get Lost! A Concise History and Exploration of the Development of the Kiswahili Drama since 1957 to 2014", 29 October. Rethinking Diversity in African Socities and Cultures: Beyond Homogeneous Boundaries. , Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul
Olali, T.  2016.  " The (Re) Invention of Lamu Maulidi Festival in Kenya: A Kaleidoscope of Tradition and the Paradox of Modernity". The Asian Journal of African Studies. 39(1):89-121.

2015

T, O.  2015.   “Pilgrimage, Ceremony and Carnival: The Hybridization of the Lamu Maulidi Festival”. 2015(ISSN 2303-9868, Print); (Online) pp. International Research Journal. No.9 (40):69-75.
Olali, T.  2015.  " Trends and Development of the Swahili Drama Since 1957 to 2014". International Journal of Humanities Social Sciences and Education. 2(10):1-7.
Olali, T.  2015.  " Pilgrimage, Ceremony and Carnival: The Hybridization of the Lamu Maulidi Festival". International Research Journal. 9(40):69-75.
Olali, T.  2015.  " Kaleidoscopic Setting as a Style in Magical Realism in a Swahili Polymorphic Novel: A Critical Analysis of Babu Alipofufuka (Said Ahmed Mohammed)". International Journal of Foreign Studies. 8(1):24-40.
Olali, T.  2015.  " I regret the death of the Swahili esoteric novel: Is it real, evolving or in a perpetual oscillation?" International Journal of Foreign Studies. Vol.8(2):23-38.
Olali, T.  2015.  "Performing the Swahili Hamziyyah and the Pyeongtaek Nongak: A Comparative Analysis of Community Dance and Rituals". American Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. 1(2):43-48.
Olali, T.  2015.  Mashetani wa Alepo. , Nairobi: Jomo Kenyatta Foundation

2014

  2014.  Usambazaji wa Kiswahili Kutoka Chimbuko hadi Mashinani: Jukumu la TUSIMA katika Mradi wa Mwaka Mmoja wa Masomo Ng'ambo. Ukuzaji wa Kiswahili. , Nairobi: Focus
Olali, T.  2014.  " Alawiyya Sufism and the Sufi: Diffusion and Counter-Diffusion of Swahili Islamic Mysticism in the Lamu Archipelago, Kenya". International Journal of Humanities Social Sciences and Education. 1(12):1-11.
Olali, T.  2014.  " Some Impediments in the Adoption and Use of Computer Technology at the University of Nairobi" . International Journal of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education. 1(11):38-44.
Olali, T.  2014.  " Using Idiomatic Expressions as Rhetoric: A Strategy Towards Acculturation by Kenyan Students in China". International Journal of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education. 1(11):38-44.

2012

Olali, T.  2012.  Performing Arts in Lamu. Berlin: Lambert.
Olali, T.  2012.  Watu wa Gehenna. Nairobi: Jomo Kenyatta Foundation.

2011

Olali, T.  2011.  Deciphering the Swahili Panegyric of the Prophet: The Case of the Kasida ya Hamziyyah. Africa, Cradle of Writing. , New York: HSRC
Olali, T.  2011.  The Place and Thematic Function of a Panegyric in Swahili Society: The Case of Sufi al-Busiri's Kasida ya Hamziyya. Rethinking Eastern African Literary and Intellectual Landscapes. , New York: World Press
Olali, T.  2011.  eciphering the Swa hili Panegyric of the Prophet: The Case of the Kasida ya Hamziyyah . Website
Olali, T.  2011.  The Place and Thematic Function of a Panegyric in Swahili Society: The Case of Sufi al-Busiri’s Kasida ya Hamziyya.” In Ogude J, Musila G and Ligaga D(eds) Rethinking Eastern African Literary and Intellectual Landscapes: New York: Africa World Press. Rethinking Eastern African Literary and Intellectual Landscapes. , New York: Africa World Press,
Olali, T.  2011.  Sira ya Mtume Muhammad kama mpomoko wa kasida ya Umm-al-Qura.” The Journal of Research Institute of Swahili Studies in Eastern Africa(RISSEA) . The Journal of Research Institute of Swahili Studies in Eastern Africa. 1
Olali, T.  2011.  CLC 311: Desktop Publishing. Nairobi: CEES,.

2010

T, O.  2010.  . “Structure and Anti-Structure of a Swahili New Novel: A Stylistic Analysis of Babu Alipofufuka.”. The Nairobi Journal of Literature. 6:81-98.
Olali, T.  2010.  “Structure and Anti-Structure of a Swahili New Novel: A Stylistic Analysis of Babu Alipofufuka.”The Nairobi Journal of Literature, No.6, . The Nairobi Journal of Literature. 6

2009

Olali, T.  2009.  Moving Swahili from the Centre to the Periphery: The Role of RISSEA i n the Year Abroad Programme.. Website
Olali, T.  2009.  The Veneration of the Prophet: The Role of Kasida ya Hamziyyah during the Maulidi Festival of the Lamu Archipelago.University of London.

2008

Olali, T.  2008.  The Chinese and Swahili Idiomatic Expressions . Website
Olali, T.  2008.  Performance of a Swahili Poem During the Lamu Maulidi Festival. South Bend: Sahel Publishing Press.
Olali, T.  2008.  An English Rendition of a Classical Swahili Poem. South Bend: Sahel Publishing Press.
Olali, T.  2008.  Mwongozo wa Utengano: Nairobi: Mvule Publishers.

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