Traditional Swahili Poetry
Author | : Jan Knappert |
Publisher | : Brill Archive |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Islam |
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Author | : Jan Knappert |
Publisher | : Brill Archive |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Islam |
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Author | : Jan Knappert |
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Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1967 |
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Author | : Jan Knappert |
Publisher | : Brill Archive |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Swahili poetry |
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Author | : Lyndon Harries |
Publisher | : Oxford, Clarendon P |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : English poetry |
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Author | : Jan Knappert |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 157 |
Release | : 2023-12-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004659242 |
Author | : Annmarie Drury |
Publisher | : MSU Press |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2015-11-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1628952415 |
Stray Truths is a stirring introduction to the poetry of Euphrase Kezilahabi, one of Africa’s major living authors, published here for the first time in English. Born in 1944 on Ukerewe Island in Tanzania (then the Territory of Tanganyika), Kezilahabi came of age in the newly independent nation. His poetry confronts the task of postcolonial nation building and its conundrums, and explores personal loss in parallel with nationwide disappointments. Kezilahabi sparked controversy when he published his first poetry collection in 1974, introducing free verse into Swahili. His next two volumes of poetry (published in 1988 and 2008) confirmed his status as a pioneering and modernizing literary force. Stray Truths draws on each of those landmark collections, allowing readers to encounter the myriad forms and themes significant to this poet over a span of more than three decades. Even as these poems jettison the constraints of traditional Swahili forms, their use of metaphor connects them to traditional Swahili poetics, and their representational strategies link them to indigenous African arts more broadly. To date, translations of Swahili poetry have been focused on scholarly interpretations. This literary translation, in contrast, invites a wide audience of readers to appreciate the verbal art of this seminal modernist writer.
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Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Swahili poetry |
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Author | : Ustadh Mahmoud Mau |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2023-02-06 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9004525726 |
The present volume is a pioneering collection of poetry by the outstanding Kenyan poet, intellectual and imam Ustadh Mahmmoud Mau (born 1952) from Lamu island, once an Indian Ocean hub, now on the edge of the nation state. By means of poetry in Arabic script, the poet raises his voice against social ills and injustices troubling his community on Lamu. The book situates Mahmoud Mau’s oeuvre within transoceanic exchanges of thoughts so characteristic of the Swahili coast. It shows how Swahili Indian Ocean intellectual history inhabits an individual biography and writings. Moreover, it also portrays a unique African Muslim thinker and his poetry in the local language, which has so often been neglected as major site for critical discourse in Islamic Africa. The selected poetry is clustered around the following themes: jamii: societal topical issues, ilimu: the importance of education, huruma: social roles and responsabilities, matukio: biographical events and maombi: supplications. Prefaced by Rayya Timamy (Nairobi University), the volume includes contributions by Jasmin Mahazi, Kai Kresse and Kadara Swaleh, Annachiara Raia and Clarissa Vierke. The authors’ approaches highlight the relevance of local epistemologies as archives for understanding the relationship between reform Islam and local communities in contemporary Africa.
Author | : Kai Kresse |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2007-05-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0748631739 |
Philosophising in Mombasa provides an approach to the anthropological study of philosophical discourses in the Swahili context of Mombasa, Kenya. In this historically established Muslim environment, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, philosophy is investigated as social discourse and intellectual practice, situated in everyday life. This is done from the perspective of an 'anthropology of philosophy', a project which is spelled out in the opening chapter. Entry-points and guidelines for the ethnography are provided by discussions of Swahili literary genres, life histories, and social debates. From here, local discourses of knowledge are described and analysed. The social environment and discursive dynamics of the Old Town are portrayed, firstly, by means of following and contextualising informal discussions among neighbours and friends at daily meeting points in the streets; and secondly, by presenting and discussing in-depth case studies of local intellectuals and their contributions to moral and intellectual debates within the community. Taking recurrent internal discussions on social affairs, politics, and appropriate Islamic conduct as a focus, this study sheds light on local practices of critique and reflection. In particular, three local intellectuals (two poets, one Islamic scholar) are portrayed against the background of regional intellectual history, Islamic scholarship, as well as common public debates and private discussions. The three contextual portrayals discuss exemplary issues for the wider field of research on philosophical discourse in Mombasa and the Swahili context on the whole, with reference to the lives and projects of distinct individual thinkers. Ultimately, the study directs attention beyond the regional and the African contexts, towards the anthropological study of knowledge and intellectual practice around the world.
Author | : José Arturo Saavedra Casco |
Publisher | : Africa Research and Publications |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : German East Africa |
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