<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>New titles ASC Leiden</title><description>ASC Leiden RSS feed</description><link>http://www.asclibrary.nl/rss/NewtitlesASCLeiden.xml</link><item><category>Book</category><link>https://catalogue.leidenuniv.nl/permalink/31UKB_LEU/s5ab2f/alma9940719968802711</link><title>The nga'phandileh whisperer / Eugen Bacon.</title><description><![CDATA[[Los Angeles, California] : Stars and Sabers, [2025] Abstract: "When Chant'L, a young and precocious Guardian in New Inku'lulu--an elite space outpost of planet Zeze&#769;pfeni--misuses her sound magic, the Guardians punish her by stripping away her magical ability, and exiling her to Savage Mound, a sound island on another planet, Wiimb-o&#769;. The Guardians have a vital role to secure a secret border--the Hogiiri Hile Halah, a proactive invisible wall--protecting the federation of planets from the Nga'phandileh, creatures of unreality. But imprisoned Chant'L discovers that sound magic is inborn--never truly lost or taken. She channels energy from two spirit moons and, in an act of revenge, summons a creature of unreality to wreak havoc on the planets. Only her magic is flawed and she gets more than she bargained for when a trinity of Nga'phandileh slips from unreality, and is more uncontained than anyone could have imagined. Now the Guardians in Sector Z find themselves with a bigger problem they must not only keep secret, but resolve. A glossary of Bantu, Afrocentric and made-up words complements this genre-bending, cross-cultural novella"--Publisher's description.  ASC Subject Headings: Tanzania. ; science fiction literature (form) ; novellas (form) ; ]]></description><category>Tanzania.</category><category>science fiction literature (form)</category><category>novellas (form)</category><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 09:15:49 +0000</pubDate></item><item>
<link>https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14725843.2026.2712917?af=R</link>
<title>Diaspora, identity, citizenship, and nation-building: the political and social contributions of people of Indian origin in postcolonial Tanzania</title>  <source url="https://www.tandfonline.com/feed/rss/cafi20">tandf: African Identities: Table of Contents</source>
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<link>https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/ajis/vol18/iss2/3</link>
<title>Designing and Evaluating a Human-Centered FAQ Chatbot for Public Service Delivery: A Case Study of the Tanzania Ports Authority</title>  <source url="https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/ajis">The African Journal of Information Systems</source>
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<![CDATA[Chatbots are increasingly used in public service delivery, yet many remain difficult to use because their scope, conversational flow and persona are poorly designed. This study evaluates whether a human-centered design (HCD) approach can improve the usability of a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) chatbot developed for the Tanzania Ports Authority (TPA). The chatbot was designed iteratively through stakeholder consultation and expert input, with explicit attention to scope clarity, error handling, multi-turn flow and transparent persona design. Usability was assessed through heuristic evaluation, task-based testing and post-use questionnaires with 15 domain experts. The chatbot achieved a 95.1% weighted task success rate, decreasing task completion times across repeated sessions and high satisfaction ratings. The findings show that integrated attention to core chatbot design issues can improve public-service chatbot usability and provide a practical model for similar African and resource-constrained contexts.]]>
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<link>https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23277408.2026.2674412?af=R</link>
<title>Towards Improving the Wellbeing of PWDs in Tanzania: Unveiling Ableism in Identified Songs&#8217; Lyrics</title>  <source url="https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/real20?af=R">tandf: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies: Table of Contents</source>
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