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|a MS 279888-Vol.2 |2 SOAS manuscript number |
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|a MS 305d |2 SOAS manuscript number |
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|a UkLSOA |c UkLSOA |
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|a Risala wa Zinjibari (MS 305d) |h [electronic resource]. |
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|c [n.d.]. |
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|a Allen Collection : Photographic enlargments of M1008 (Swahili and Arabic manuscripts). |
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|a Date of Composition is unknown |
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|a Languages: Swahili (Arabic script) |
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|a Dialects: KiSiu |
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|a Poetic Form: Shairi |
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|a Donated to SOAS in 1982 |
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|a Extent: 2 pages |
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|a Incipit: Risala wa Zinjibari milele utumikao ngia katika bahari umtumai moliwo, nusura ndake ghaffari waja kuwa uwanusuruwo kwa kadha ipisiyeo hayasii mayutowe |
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|a Other copy: SOAS University of London microfilm: M1008, reel 10 |
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|a Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Kenya -- Mombasa County -- Mombasa -- Fort Jesus |
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|a Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Tanzania -- Zanzibar |
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|a Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Tanzania -- Manyara Region -- Siu District |
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|a Publication information: Salim, Ahmed I.1978. People of the Coast: swahili. Evans BrOthers Ltd, Nairobi. ch. 6 |
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|a Publication information: Biersteker, A. 1996. Kijibizana. Michigan State University Press. ch. 5 |
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|a Publication information: Abdulaziz, M.1979. Muyaka.19th century Swahili popular poetry. Kenya Literature Bureau, Nairobi. part 2 |
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|a This item may be in the public domain. Its status has yet to be assessed. |
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|a This section of MS 279888, namely MS 305/4, contains an historical poem in the shairi form. The context of the poem is the time of the war between Zanzibar and Siu, when Sultan Majid of Zanzibar was trying to take over Siu from its ruler, Bwana Mataka. Specifically, the poem narrates the event when Sultan Majid invited Bwana Mataka and Other members of his court [among them there was also the author of this poem] to Zanzibar as a trick to try to imprison him. Sultan Majid was successful in his aim and managed to take Bwana Mataka to Mombasa’s prison at Fort Jesus (Ngome). The author of the poem thus tells the people of Siu of their disgrace and believes that there were collaborators to the Sultan of Zanzibar among the people of Siu who allowed for the success of Sultan Majid and for the imprisonment of their king, Bwana Mataka. Therefore, for the poet this event signs the end of the independence of Siu and the beginning of the control of the Sultanate of Zanzibar. The poem as noted above is written in the Shairi form, in KiSiu dialect. Regarding the prosody of the poem, each verse is made of two mistari (lines) and each mstari is made of four vipande (syllables). The rhyming pattern of each verse ends with ‘hayasii mayutoe’, which is rendered in standard Swahili as ‘hayamaliziki mayuto yake’. |
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|a Electronic reproduction. |b London : |c SOAS University of London, |c Archives and Special Collections, |d 2016. |f (SOAS Digital Collections) |n Mode of access: World Wide Web. |n System requirements: Internet connectivity; Web browser software. |
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|a Archives and Special Collections. |
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|a Swahili poetry. |
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|a Oral history. |
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|a Oral literature. |
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|a Africa, East -- History. |
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|a East Africa -- History. |
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|a Kiswahili mashairi. |
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|a Afrika, Mashariki - Historia. |
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|a Oral tradition in literature. |
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|a Sultan Majid. |
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|a Bwana Mataka. |
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|a Poem. |
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|a Shairi. |
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|a Poetry |2 LCTGM |
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|a Shayari. |
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|a [s.n.]. |4 cre |
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|a Kenya |b Mombasa County |d Mombasa |g Fort Jesus. |
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|a SOAS Digital Collections. |
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|a African Collections. |
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|a Swahili Manuscripts Collections. |
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|a Kenya Collection. |
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|a Bantu Collections. |
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|a John W. T. Allen Collection. |
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|a GBR |b SDC |c African Collections |
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|u http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LSMD000031/00001 |y Electronic Resource |
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