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The Role of Translation in Swahili Literature

1996
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Swahili Epic Literature

Africa, 1950
The Swahili people are unique among the Bantu of East Africa in possessing an heritage of written literature of considerable range and antiquity. The earliest reasonably authentic examples consist of mashairi, song-poems, attributed to Liongo Fumo, prince of Ozi, c. A.D. 1150–1200.
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World Visions in Swahili Literature

Journal of World Literature, 2019
Abstract Probably because of its relationship with a coastal culture, Swahili literature seems very aware of its position in the world. Through a reading of Swahili poems and novels across a range of genres, this paper explores the ways in which Swahili writers have engaged in a dialogue with the whole world, from the colonial period to the ...
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The Emergence of an African Regional Literature: Swahili

African Studies Review, 1977
Some scholars feel that an African, or, more properly, Pan-African literature is developing in Africa. This literature is seen as continent wide and is written in the various colonial languages. It is seen as a unified literature responsive to a simultaneously emerging African society (Roscoe 1971: 252; Joyaux 1972: 313-14).
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Language, Culture, Literature Intertwined: The Swahili Perspective

2023
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Social and Moral Concepts in Swahili Islamic Literature

Africa, 1970
Opening ParagraphIn this paper I shall attempt to set out the ideas of morality and of the structure of society in so far as they can be found reflected in Swahili Islamic literature. This literature is of two kinds. Firstly the didactic literature, mainly in prose, in which rules of conduct are given by Islamic teachers; secondly the narrative ...
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Outline of Swahili Literature

Journal of Religion in Africa, 1988
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Islam, Swahili Language, and Literature

2021
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Globalectical Swahili literature

Journal of African Cultural Studies, 2015
Rémi Armand Tchokothe
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Whither Swahili Literature?

2016
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