Names and memories in Kiyovu, Kigali

The data contain texts, with transcriptions of recordings, conducted in the Kiyouvu and Nyamirambo areas of the Nyarugenge District in central Kigali, Rwanda, during the period 2022- 2024. The data are provided by the researchers Jean de Dieu Amini Ngabonziza, University of Rwanda, and Tove Rosendal, University of Gothenburg. Uploaded data contain 3 sets of datafiles: • Transcriptions in Kinyarwanda of walk-along interviews with 30 participants • Transcriptions in Kinyarwanda of 2 focus groups. • Transcriptions with translations: Contains transcriptions in Kinyarwanda along with translations into English - side by side- of selected walk-along interviews and two focus group interviews. ‘Go-along interviews` (Kusenbach, 2003), often labelled walking interviews, were conducted and used to investigate local people’s reception of new street names introduced in 2012, how people navigate in the streets, and non-official naming of the urban environment. They also contain memories linked to the non-official names they use. The participants were asked to go to and stop at places where they knew old or present names or had memories tied to a street, a building or an area. This resulted in several short recordings of each participant, most of them targeting different streets and places. Following the walking interviews, two focus group discussions were recorded: one with the group of older participants and one with the group of younger participants. The purpose of the discussions was to facilitate a more in-depth discussion of the participants' ideas, perceptions and feelings. All recorded data were anonymized, transcribed and subsequently translated into English. As many recordings overlapped, the dataset Transcriptions with translations only contain selected, central recordings that were important for the research. The translations are focused on the content and are not annotated. File folder naming conventions: All data are pseudonymized, with a number- and letter system. However, it is possible to identify the age- and gender category of the interviewees from the file code: YF (Young woman), YM (Young man), OF (Old woman) and OM (Old man), added at the end of the pseudonymization code. The dataset “Transcriptions in Kinyarwanda of walk-along interviews”: This zipped folder contains walk-along interviews in the streets of Kigali with 30 participants, from 2 age groups: Young (below the age of 30) and older (older than 50). The files in the folder are named with the pseudonymization code. In the transcriptions, which are in Kinyarwanda, there are indications in English about places/themes that the informant talks about in the left column, and also to the corresponding sound file, which is not deposited. Dataset “Transcriptions in Kinyarwanda of focus group discussions”: This dataset contains transcription in Kinyarwanda of focus group discussions: Focus group 1: Young (below the age of 30) and Focus group 2: old (older than 50). The set “Transcriptions with translations”: This set contains zipped files with transcriptions in Kinyarwanda and translations in English, totally 8 files: 6 files with transcriptions from walk-along interviews and 2 with transcriptions of focus group discussions (Focus group 1 with older participants and Focus group 2 with younger participants).