Kujibizana: Questions of Language and Power in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Poetry in KiswahiliMichigan State University Press, 1996 - 368 pages The author argues that reading poetry in Kiswahili provides important insights into questions of language and power, as well as into discussions of socialist practice in East Africa and East African resistance to colonialism and neo-colonialism. Includes the text of numerous poems and footnotes. |
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... Language Literature : Tragedy and Hope , " 9 . Shaaban Robert's poem promoted opposition to colonial socio - linguistic Chapter I ( Kupambana ) 31 Poems as Ideological Texts: Envisioning Kiswahili Speaking Communities/Nation.
... Language Literature : Tragedy and Hope , " 9 . Shaaban Robert's poem promoted opposition to colonial socio - linguistic Chapter I ( Kupambana ) 31 Poems as Ideological Texts: Envisioning Kiswahili Speaking Communities/Nation.
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... linguistic work , his translations and editions are considered respectable , if not as elegant and as precisely reliable as those of Allen . Whiteley worked from A. Lorenz's earlier edition ( A. Lorenz , " Gedicht vom Majimaji ...
... linguistic work , his translations and editions are considered respectable , if not as elegant and as precisely reliable as those of Allen . Whiteley worked from A. Lorenz's earlier edition ( A. Lorenz , " Gedicht vom Majimaji ...
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... Linguistic Indigenization of African Literature , " Race and Class , 28 , i ( 1986 ) 67 , pp . 63-71 . Mazrui , Alamin . Kilio cha Haki . Nairobi : Longman , 1981 . Mazrui , Alamin M. and E. K. Kazungu . " Kujibizana : Questions of ...
... Linguistic Indigenization of African Literature , " Race and Class , 28 , i ( 1986 ) 67 , pp . 63-71 . Mazrui , Alamin . Kilio cha Haki . Nairobi : Longman , 1981 . Mazrui , Alamin M. and E. K. Kazungu . " Kujibizana : Questions of ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
Uhuru na Kutungamana | 23 |
Ujamaa kwa Vitendo Dialogue | 95 |
Copyright | |
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