Regina Minael Fupi is a native speaker of Kiswahili (Swahili), born and raised in Tanzania, East Africa. She holds an MA in Linguistics from the University of Dar es Salaam and an MA in Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She brings over a decade of experience teaching Kiswahili to non-native speakers across North America, with a focus on second language acquisition, cultural immersion, and real-world communication.
She currently serves as Lecturer of Kiswahili in the African Languages and Translation Program at The Africa Institute in Sharjah, UAE. Previously, she taught as a Kiswahili Language Instructor at the School of Linguistics and Language Studies at Carleton University (2010–2015) and as a Kiswahili Lecturer at Stanford University’s Language Center (2008–2009) through the prestigious Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) program. Her students included both undergraduate and graduate learners at all proficiency levels (Elementary to Advanced). Fupi is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in Education, Curriculum, and Learning at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. She is passionate about advancing inclusive and culturally rich language education.
Fupi’s scholarly interests include translation studies, Kiswahili pedagogy, Bantu linguistics, the representation of Black history in educational resources in the Western world (particularly North America), and the phenomenological experiences of people of African descent in the diaspora.
Her current research critically examines how Black history is presented in Canadian curriculum materials, with particular attention to the extent to which these resources incorporate the historical narratives, cultural contributions, and lived experiences of Black communities.
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