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Juggling Words, Terms and Idioms to Advance Political Agenda in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania: Profiling the Electioneering and Referendum Discourse
Moses Olenyo James Malande, Hilda J k Masiolo
International Journal of Language and Literature, 1(1), 06-14.

Abstract
The study focuses on the multilingual terms that have developed in East African post-electoral period. Some of the political terminologies, idioms, phrases and colour words are presented as deliberate word choices by political operators. Unraveling the meanings and semantic shifts inherent in the East African political operators’ linguistic choices at the syntactic, lexical and semantic levels informs the basis of this study

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Malande, Olenyo James Moses., & Masiolo, J k Hilda. (2013). Juggling Words, Terms and Idioms to Advance Political Agenda in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania: Profiling the Electioneering and Referendum Discourse. International Journal of Language and Literature, 1(1), 6-14.

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Moses Olenyo James Malande
Head of Department and Lecturer
Department of Languages, Literature and linguistics
St. Augustine university of Tanzania
BED (Arts), MA (English and Linguistics)
PHD (Candidate) at Kenyatta University

Hilda J k Masiolo Department of Kiswahili and African languages
Kenyatta University-Kenya
BED (Arts), MA-Candidate (Kiswahili Linguistics)