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- Permanent Link:
- http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LSMD000176/00001
Material Information
- Title:
- Utenzi wa Mwana Kupona (MS 34882a)
- Series Title:
- Hichens Collection :
- Creator:
- Mwana, Kupona, 1810-1860 ( Author, Primary )
- Publication Date:
- [n.d.]
- Language:
- Swahili
- Materials:
- Paper ( medium )
- Technique:
- Handwritten manuscript : In red and black ink on ruled paper, in a blue exercise book
Notes
- Abstract:
- This manuscript of the Utenzi wa Mwana Kupona differs significantly from the version published by J.W.T. Allen (1971). The scribe utilises Arabic script without the modifications that are sometimes used to designate consonants (such as ‘p’ and ‘v’) and vowels absent in Arabic. Because some words cannot be represented precisely, familiarity with the utenzi and comparison with another version of the poem may assist the reader. ( en )
- General Note:
- Biographical information: Mwana Kupona binti Msham, 1790-1860, was a native of Pate who lived in Lamu. She married Bwana Mataka, who belonged to an old Siu family; he was the son of Sheikh Baraka bin Muhammadi bin Omari. On her deathbed, Mwana Kupona dictated her poem to her only daughter, for whose instruction it was composed. Her daughter, who was known in Lamu as Mwana Heshima binti Sheikh, lived from 1841 to 1933.
- General Note:
- Date of Composition: 1858 AD1275
- General Note:
- Languages: Swahili (Arabic script)
- General Note:
- Poetic Form: Utenzi
- General Note:
- Extent: 9 pages
- General Note:
- Incipit: Negema wangu binti, mchachefu wa sanati, upulike wa siati, asaa ukazingatiya
- General Note:
- See SOAS University of London manuscript MS 53508c
- General Note:
- VIAF (name authority) : Mwana, Kupona, 1810-1860 : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/55052255
- General Note:
- Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Kenya -- Lamu County -- Pate -- Pate Island
- General Note:
- Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Kenya -- Lamu County -- Lamu -- Lamu Island
- General Note:
- Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Kenya -- Lamu County -- Shela
- General Note:
- Purchased from Mrs Ashton, 14 May 1938
- General Note:
- Publication information: Allen, J.W.T. 1971. Tendi. London: Heinemann Educational, pp. 55-78.
- General Note:
- Publication information: Biersteker, Ann. 1991. Language, poetry and power: a reconsideration of Utendi wa Mwana Kupona. In Faces of Islam in African Literature, ed. by Kenneth Harrow, pp. 59-77. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Heinemann; and London: James Currey.
- General Note:
- Publication information: Harries, Lyndon. 1962. Swahili Poetry. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 70-86.
- General Note:
- Publication information: Hichens, William and Alice Werner. 1934. Advice of Mwana Kupona upon the Wifely Virtue. Medstead, Hampshire: Azania Press.
- General Note:
- Publication information: Sheikh, Amina Abubakar and Ahmed Sheikh Nabhany (eds). 1972. Utendi wa Mwana Kupona na Utendi wa Ngamia na Paa. (Sanaa Ya Utungo I). Nairobi: Heinemann.
- General Note:
- Publication information: Mulokozi, M.M. 1999. Tenzi Tatu za Kale. University of Dar-es-Salaam Press.
- General Note:
- Publication information: Khatib, M.S. 1985. Utenzi wa Mwana Kupona. Mulika, 17, 46-52.
- General Note:
- Publication information: Senkoro, F.E. M. K. 1988. Mwana Kupona Nana: Utenzi wa Mwana Kupona. In Ushairi: Nadharia na Tahakiki. Dare-es-Salaam University Press
- General Note:
- Publication information: Werner, Alice. 1917. The Utendi of Mwana Kupona. Harvard African Studies 1: 147-181
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- SOAS University of London
- Holding Location:
- Archives and Special Collections
- Rights Management:
- This item may be in the public domain. Its status has yet to be assessed.
- Resource Identifier:
- MS 34882 ( SOAS manuscript number )
MS 34882a ( SOAS manuscript number )
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