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- Permanent Link:
- http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LSMD000205/00001
Material Information
- Title:
- Liongo Saga (MS 53492a)
- Series Title:
- Hichens Collection :
- Creator:
- Hichens, William, -1944 ( Author, Primary )
Liongo Fumo ( contributor )
- Publication Date:
- 1939 AD (1358 A.H.)
- Language:
- Swahili
- Materials:
- Paper ( medium )
- Technique:
- Typescript manuscript : Black ink on paper; photos included; bounded book with blue cover
Notes
- Abstract:
- This manuscript contains the same material as MS 205000 and MS 53493. An extensive description can be found in MS 205000, and here we have divided the volume into two main sections. In this first section, there is an historical description by W. Hichens of the Liyongo saga, with extracts from songs attributed to Liyongo, used as explanation and examples, as well as pictures illustrating the area and the people of the Lamu archipelago. Some pictures refer specifically to the poems discussed. W. Hichens, in the table of contents, divides this section into the introduction and chapters 1 and 2, which he entitles: - Introduction: The Liongo Tradition and its sources - Chapter 1: Liongo, his birth, parentage and early life - Chapter 2: The accession to Shanga; Liongo’s conquests; the plots against him; his assassination and death. In order to provide historical information on the life and works of Liyongo, Hichens uses extracts from Liongo songs and poems, like, for instance, ‘Hadithi ya Liongo’, ‘Sifu Uta Wangu, ‘Dungeon Song’, ‘Wedding songs’, and the ‘Warrior’s Song’. ( en )
- General Note:
- Biographical information: Fumo Liyongo is a mythical Swahili poet and hero, and it is tought that he composed many oral songs and poems narrating about his life time, which is around the 12th and 13th century. For more information on Liyongo, see the field ‘relevant publication’.
- General Note:
- Date of Composition is unknown
- General Note:
- Languages: Swahili (Roman script)
- General Note:
- Dialects: KiAmu
- General Note:
- Poetic Form: Utumbuizo (bipartite long-measure verse)
- General Note:
- Extent: 165 leaves
- General Note:
- Incipit: The Life and Works of Liongo Fumo wa Ba-Uriy, prince, poet and warrior, the national hero of the Swahili people
- General Note:
- See SOAS University of London manuscripts MS 205000 and MS 53493
- General Note:
- Purchased from Kegan Paul, 6 October 1948
- General Note:
- VIAF (name authority) : Hichens, William, -1944 : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/250560982
- General Note:
- VIAF (name authority) : Liongo Fumo : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/225493124
- General Note:
- Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Kenya -- Lamu County -- Shanga -- Shanga Ruins -- Pate Island
- General Note:
- Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Tanzania -- Manyara Region -- Siu District
- General Note:
- Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Kenya -- Lamu County -- Pate -- Pate Island
- General Note:
- Publication information: Muhammad bin Abu Bakr Kijumwa. 196-?. Utenzi wa Fumo Liongo. Dar es Salaam: East African Swahili Committee.
- General Note:
- Publication information: Mbele, Joseph L. 1986. The Liongo Fumo epic and the scholars. Kiswahili 53 (1-2): 128-145.
- General Note:
- Publication information: Werner, Alice. 1928. The Swahili saga of Liyongo Fumo. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 4: 247-255.
- General Note:
- Publication information: Knappert, Jan. 1987. Four Centuries of Swahili Verse. Heinemann Educational Books Ltd, London. pp. 66-101
- General Note:
- Publication information: Knappert, Jan. 1983. Epic Poetry in Swahili and Other African Languages. Ch 6. E.J. Brill, Leiden. pp.142-168
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 53492 ( SOAS manuscript number )
MS 53492a ( SOAS manuscript number )
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