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024 7    |a MS 53508 |2 SOAS manuscript number
024 7    |a MS 53508g |2 SOAS manuscript number
040        |a UkLSOA |c UkLSOA
245 00 |a Modern Mashairi from Tanganyika (MS 53508g) |h [electronic resource].
260        |c circa 1930 AD (circa 1349 A.H.).
490        |a Hichens Collection : Swahili Poetry.
500        |a Date of Composition is unknown
500        |a Languages: Swahili (Roman script)
500        |a Dialects: Southern
500        |a Poetic Form: Shairi
500        |a Purchased from Kegan Paul, 6 October 1948
500        |a Extent: 44 leaves
500        |a Incipit: Awali Bismillahi, kuu ni jina la Mungu, Jina lisilofanana, na yote ya walimwengu
500        |a Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Tanganyika
506        |a This item may be in the public domain. Its status has yet to be assessed.
520 3    |a This section contains a small collection of modern poems from Tanganyika, written in the southern Swahili dialects, during 1920s-1930s. The authors are named at the end of most poems, and they include K Rajabu Sudi from the Usambara mountains area, Edi Hamisi, John Ahmad, M.A. Kaffidiya, as well as the famous Shabban Robert. No further biographical information is provided. Most poems were published in the newspaper ‘Mambo Leo’ as it is noted in Stanzas 3 and 4 of the first poem entitled ‘Shairi la kuwaombea dua Baba na Mama wazazi’. The author of this poem calls the audience to pray and pay respect to father and mOther. It is a religious poem as stated in Stanza 1. Later poems concern social issues and social behaviour. After the section of relatively long modern poems, we find a small collection of old short songs, as in previous items in this MS, all entitled ‘Qala’ meaning ‘The poet said’.
533        |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.
535 1    |a Archives and Special Collections.
650        |a Modern Swahili poetry.
650        |a Traditional poetry.
650    0 |a Songs.
650        |a Oral literature.
650    0 |a Oral tradition in literature.
650    0 |a Folk poetry.
650    0 |a Swahili poetry.
655    4 |a Poem.
655    4 |a Shairi.
655    7 |a Poetry |2 LCTGM
655    4 |a Shayari.
700        |a K. Rajabu Sudi, |e author, primary.
700 1    |a Hamisi, Edi. |4 ctb
752        |a Tanganyika.
830    0 |a SOAS Digital Collections.
830    0 |a African Collections.
830    0 |a Swahili Manuscripts Collections.
830    0 |a Tanzania Collection.
830    0 |a Bantu Collections.
830    0 |a William Hichens Collection.
852        |a GBR |b SDC |c African Collections
856 40 |u http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LSMD000248/00001 |y Electronic Resource
992 04 |a http://digital.soas.ac.uk/content/LS/MD/00/02/48/00001/00_likelyPUBLICdomainthm.jpg
997        |a African Collections


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