Four centuries of Swahili verse: A literary history and anthology
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Heinemann
1979
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| Physical Description: | XXI, 323 S.: Kt. |
| ISBN: | 0435917021 |
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| adam_text | Preface vii
Maps viii
Introduction xi
The Purpose of Poetry xiv
Swahili Language and Culture xvi
Political Awareness xvii
Social Structure xviii
Islamic Culture xviii
1 A View of the History of the Swahili i
The Pre-Islarnic Period i
The Islamic Period 4
The Portuguese Period 7
The Arabic Period 16
The Eighteenth Century 18
The Nineteenth Century 26
The Twentieth Century 30
2 The Swahili Language: The Perfect Tool for Poetry 33
Rhyme in Swahili 35
The Metre of Swahili Verse 37
Early Rhymes 3$
Rhyming Word Games 41
Proverb Songs, Rhyming Proverbs and Metrically Structured
Proverbs 4°
The Love Song 50
The Forms of Songs 53
The Quatrain 59
3 The Seventeenth Century: The Birth of Swahili Poetry 66
The Tradition of Liongo 66
4 The Seventeenth Century: The Birth of Swahili Poetry
(Continued) 102
The Creation of the Islamic Tradition 102
Kingozi: the Literary Language of the Swahili 107
5 The Eighteenth Century: The Inception of the Great Epic
Tradition 109
Bwana Mwengo 109
The Epic of the Emperor Heraklios in
Abu Bakari: the Katirifu 114
The Epic of Mwana Fatuma, or Princess Fatima 120
The Inkishafi and the Decline of Pate 127
6 Mombasa in the Early Nineteenth Century 138
Introduction 138
Muyaka Bin Hajji 1776-1837 141
A Poem from Prison, or Muhammad in Fort Jesus 165
Al-Akida 167
7 Lamu: Some Secular Verse and the Creation of a Great
Religious Tradition 181
Satirical and Political Verse 181
Lyrical Poetry 192
Religious Verse 196
8 Tanga, the Genius of a Dynasty 209
Abdu Rahmani 210
The Heroic Battles against the Germans 217
The Saga of Cadi Kasimu 222
9 Mombasa in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth
Centuries 233
W. E. Taylor 233
Muallim Sikujua 239
Ahmed Al-Mambasi 241
Ahmad Basheikh Husein 243
10 The Modern Poets 264
Shaaban Robert 266
Matiasi Mnyampala 275
Amri Abedi 283
Ahmed Nassir Juma 287
Envoi 311
Bibliography 313
Index 317
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