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A collection of poems by two poets, Kamange and Sarahani, who lived between the last half of the 19th and early 20th century in Pemba Island.

Swahili poetry

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Proverbs, Swahili. --- Swahili poetry.

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"The extraordinary Swahili poetry collection Sauti ya Dhiki, in English Voice of Agony, is a collection of prison poems composed by Abdilatif Abdalla between 1969 and 1972. He originally wrote the poems on toilet paper while incarcerated by the government of Jomo Kenyatta for sedition as a result of his political activism. Imaginative Vision is the first complete literary translation into English--translated by the late Kenyan novelist and scholar Ken Walibora Waliaula and edited by Annmarie Drury--of one of the most esteemed and influential collections of Swahili poetry of the twentieth century. Yet 'Imaginative Vision' is also something more. Even as it centers in a literary translation of a singularly beautiful and influential book of poetry, it tells English-language readers the story of that book. Supporting materials illuminate the circumstances of its inception when Abdilatif, aged 22, was arrested and tried. They explore what the volume meant to its first readers and its affiliations with subsequent extraordinary works of prison literature by Alamin Mazrui and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. They trace its links to literary art of the past, including of the nineteenth-century poet Muyaka bin Haji, and to writing that followed. And they explain social and historical aspects of the Swahili coastal world that nurtured Abdilatif's political engagement and stunning verbal art. Under the editorship of scholar, translator, and poet Annmarie Drury, contributors bring insights from their diverse backgrounds to present contextualizing material that illuminates the poems at the heart of this book.

Swahili poetry --- History and criticism. --- Abdalla, Abdilatif, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Political and social views. --- Swahili poetry.

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Swahili language --- African literature --- Swahili poetry --- -Swahili literature --- Translations into English --- Africa --- Poetry. --- Swahili poetry. --- Translations into English. --- -Translations into English --- Swahili literature

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Mashairi Ya Vita Vya Kuduhu is a presentation and discussion of both manuscript and published versions of poems written by Lamu poets around the time of the Battle of Kuduhu. The poetic dialogue studied in this volume has played a significant role in the history of Swahili poetry, and its primary concern is to inform continued work in this area. The poems contained in this work were transmitted and preserved by speakers of Kiswahili and later collected and preserved by scholars. Chapter One contains the edited poems; Chapter Two consists of the translations. Subsequent chapters include accoun

Swahili poetry --- War poetry, Swahili --- War poetry, Swahili. --- Swahili war poetry --- Swahili literature --- History and criticism. --- 19th century.