Utenzi wa Mwana Kupona (MS 380548b)
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Title:
Utenzi wa Mwana Kupona (MS 380548b)
Series Title:
Knappert Collection : Al-Inkishafi, Utenzi wa Mwana Kupona, Mashairi ya Liyongo and other poems
Creator:
Mwana, Kupona, 1810-1860 ( Author, Primary )
Abdalla ba Sheikh ( contributor )
Publication Date:
Language:
Swahili
Materials:
Paper ( medium )
Technique:
Handwritten manuscript : In blue ink on ruled paper, with notes in red. The ink has been smeared in places

Subjects

Subjects / Keywords:
Islam ( LCSH )
Gender role
Sex role ( LCSH )
Marriage ( LCSH )
Religious belief
Religious practice
Social structure ( LCSH )
Education of women
Swahili poetry ( LCSH )
Imani za kidini
Uislamu
Kiswahili mashairi
Faith ( LCSH )
Elimu ya wanawake
Mazoezi ya kidini
Islam -- Customs and practices ( LCSH )
Women -- Education ( LCSH )
Mwana Heshima binti Sheikh
Genre:
Poem
Utenzi
Poetry ( LCTGM )
Spatial Coverage:
Africa -- Kenya -- Lamu County -- Eastern Africa -- Pate -- Pate Island
Coordinates:
-2.13753 x 40.99714

Notes

Abstract:
This manuscript of the Utenzi wa Mwana Kupona has 103 stanzas. It contains a fair number of errors and also legitimately disagrees in places with the version published in Allen (1973). ( 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 Hishima binti Mataka lived from 1841 to 1933. She married Abdallah Kombo.
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Date of Composition: 1858 AD (1275 A.H.)
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Languages: Swahili (Arabic script)
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Poetic Form: Utenzi
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Extent: 22 small pages
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Incipit: Negema wangu binti, mchechefu wa sanati, upulike wa swiyati, ‘asaa ukazingatiya
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See SOAS University of London manuscript MS 53508c
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Archival history: The scribe records that this is a copy of a manuscript held by Ahmed Sheikh Mohammed Nabhany
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VIAF (name authority) : Mwana, Kupona, 1810-1860 : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/55052255
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Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Kenya -- Lamu County -- Pate -- Pate Island
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Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Kenya -- Lamu County -- Shela
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Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Kenya -- Lamu County -- Lamu -- Lamu Island
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Donated to SOAS [date uncertain]
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Scribe: Abdalla ba Sheikh
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Publication information: Allen, J.W.T. 1971. Tendi. London: Heinemann Educational, pp. 55-78.
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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.
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Publication information: Harries, Lyndon. 1962. Swahili Poetry. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 70-86.
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Publication information: Hichens, William and Alice Werner. 1934. Advice of Mwana Kupona upon the Wifely Virtue. Medstead, Hampshire: Azania Press.
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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.
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Publication information: Mulokozi, M.M. 1999. Tenzi Tatu za Kale. University of Dar-es-Salaam Press.
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Publication information: Khatib, M.S. 1985. Utenzi wa Mwana Kupona. Mulika, 17, 46-52.
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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
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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 380548 ( SOAS manuscript number )
MS 380548b ( SOAS manuscript number )