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- Permanent Link:
- http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LSMD000291/00001
Notes
- Abstract:
- This poem represents a wife’s lament on learning that her husband has married a second, young wife. Thematically similar to ‘Mke na Mume’ of MS 380743, it is shorter and more disjointed than that poem. The versions share just two lines: ‘Uodhe nke nsichana/ na mahari ni wako nchundo.’ Yet this similarity, combined with the thematic agreement and the oral nature of the poem, permits identification of the manuscripts as two versions of the same. As with MS 380059b, this poem is judged by its collector to be essentially unrelated to the kimai of MS 380059a. Unlike ‘Makame na Midhe’ of MS 380059b, ‘Mke na Mume’ lacks even perfunctory reference to the sea. ( en )
- General Note:
- Date of Composition is unknown
- General Note:
- Languages: Swahili (Arabic script)
- General Note:
- Dialects: KiGunya; KiTikuu and KiBajuni
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- Poetic Form: Utumbuizo (bipartite long-measure verse)
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- Extent: 2 pages
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- Incipit: Kijunba shubiri moya, nivavene vachu ndani
- General Note:
- T’ikuu is a reference to the Bajuni Islands. T'ikuu, or Tikuu, alternately Tikulu, means 'islander'
- General Note:
- Kizingitini is also sometimes spelled Kisingitini
- General Note:
- See also SOAS University of London manuscript MS 380743
- General Note:
- Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Somalia -- Lower Juba Region -- Bajuni Islands
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- Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Kenya
- General Note:
- Purchased from Dr. J. Knappert, August 1979
- General Note:
- Scribe: Ali Omar, Yahya, 1924–2008
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- SOAS University of London
- Holding Location:
- Archives and Special Collections
- Rights Management:
- This item is likely protected by copyright. Its status has yet to be assessed.
- Resource Identifier:
- MS 380059 ( SOAS manuscript number )
MS 380059c ( SOAS manuscript number )
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