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|a MS 380066 |2 SOAS manuscript number |
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|a MS 380066b |2 SOAS manuscript number |
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|a UkLSOA |c UkLSOA |
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|a Shairi la Bwana Kheri Linaloeleza Makosa Yake ya Kumchukuza Mtu Duni (MS 380066b) |h [electronic resource]. |
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|a Knappert Collection : Utenzi wa Muhammad Kijumwa Kumuusia Mwanawe Helewa na mashairi mengine. |
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|a Biographical information: Bwana Kheri was born in Lamu |
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|a Date of Composition: 1921 AD1340 |
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|a Languages: Swahili (Arabic script) |
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|a Dialects: KiAmu |
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|a Poetic Form: Shairi |
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|a Purchased from Dr J. Knappert |
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|a Extent: 4 small pages |
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|a Incipit: Aloutunda mkoko, akauyaa barani, amezengea sumbuko, la milele duniani |
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|a Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Kenya -- Lamu County -- Lamu -- Lamu Island |
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|a Scribe: Faraji Bwana Mkuu |
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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 A poem in which the poet attacks his former lover, a slave girl, and laments his decision to treat her as an equal, arguing that relations between people of different social stations are bound to fail. Bwana Kheri laments his romance with a slave girl, describing how he raised her social status only to be rejected as she enjoyed her new position. He argues that such relations between people of different social classes will always fail, essentially because they are unnatural. The poet describes his situation through the comparisons that are an important characteristic of Swahili poetry. Loving the slave girl was like trying to embrace water or to grow crops in brine; attempting to elevate her social status was like transplanting a coastal bush (mkoko) up-country. Ultimately, Bwana Kheri suggests an excuse for his actions; they were willed for him by God and so could not be avoided. In the kind of clever conclusion common to mashairi, the poet says he is about to depart on a journey and asks for advice: should he prepare his sweets (ladu) for the trip or return to his land and begin to clear it for future efforts? The scribe prefaces the poem with an explanation of Bwana Kheri’s reasons for composing it. |
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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 Kiswahili mashairi. |
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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 Bwana Kheri wa Ali, |e author, primary. |
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|a Faraji Bwana Mkuu. |4 ctb |
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|a Kenya |b Lamu County |d Lamu |g Lamu Island. |
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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 GBR |b SDC |c African Collections |
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|u http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LSMD000296/00001 |y Electronic Resource |
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|a African Collections |
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