Abdilatif Abdalla Poet In Politics

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Abdilatif Abdalla Poet In Politics

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Author : Beck, Rose Marie
language : en
Publisher: Mkuki na Nyota Publishers
Release Date : 2015-11-03

Abdilatif Abdalla Poet In Politics written by Beck, Rose Marie and has been published by Mkuki na Nyota Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-03 with Literary Criticism categories.

Abdilatif Abdalla: Poet in Politics ­celebrates the work of Abdilatif Abdalla, one of Kenya’s most well-known poets and a committed political activist. It includes commentary essays on aspects of Abdilatif Abdalla’s work and life, through inter-weaving perspectives on poetry and politics, language and history; with contributions by East African writers and scholars of Swahili literature, including Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Said Khamis, Ken Walibora, Ahmed Rajab, Mohamed Bakari, and Sheikh Abdilahi Nassir, among others. Abdalla became famous in 1973, with the publication of Sauti ya Dhiki (Voice of Agony), a collection of poems written secretly in prison during three years of solitary confinement (1969-72). He was convicted of circulating pamphlets against Jomo Kenyatta’s KANU government, criticizing it as ‘dictatorial’ and calling for political resistance in the pamphlet, 'Kenya: Twendapi?' (Kenya: where are we heading?). His poetry epitomizes the ongoing currency of classic Swahili form and language, while his work overall, including translations and editorships, exemplifies a two-way mediation between ‘traditional’ and ‘modern’ perspectives. It makes old and new voices of Swahili poetry and African literature accessible to a wider readership in East Africa, and beyond. Abdalla has lived in exile since 1973, in Tanzania, London, and subsequently, until now, in Germany. Nevertheless, Swahili literature and Kenyan politics have remained central to his life.

Abdilatif Abdall Poet In Politics

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Author : Alfred Fisher
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-05-18

Abdilatif Abdall Poet In Politics written by Alfred Fisher and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-18 with categories.

Abdilatif Abdalla: Poet in Politics �celebrates the work of Abdilatif Abdalla, one of Kenya's most well-known poets and a committed political activist. It includes commentary essays on aspects of Abdilatif Abdalla's work and life, through inter-weaving perspectives on poetry and politics, language and history; with contributions by East African writers and scholars of Swahili literature, including Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Said Khamis, Ken Walibora, Ahmed Rajab, Mohamed Bakari, and Sheikh Abdilahi Nassir, among others. Abdalla became famous in 1973, with the publication of Sauti ya Dhiki (Voice of Agony), a collection of poems written secretly in prison during three years of solitary confinement (1969-72).

The Imaginative Vision Of Abdilatif Abdalla S Voice Of Agony

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Author : Abdilatif Abdalla
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2024-01-30

The Imaginative Vision Of Abdilatif Abdalla S Voice Of Agony written by Abdilatif Abdalla and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-30 with History categories.

First English literary translation of Abdilatif Abadalla's influential Voice of Agony

The Imaginative Vision Of Abdilatif Abdalla S Voice Of Agony

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Author : Abdilatif Abdalla
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024

The Imaginative Vision Of Abdilatif Abdalla S Voice Of Agony written by Abdilatif Abdalla and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with Swahili poetry categories.

"The extraordinary Swahili poetry collection Sauti ya Dhiki, in English Voice of Agony, is a collection of prison poems composed by Abdilatif Abdalla between 1969 and 1972. He originally wrote the poems on toilet paper while incarcerated by the government of Jomo Kenyatta for sedition as a result of his political activism. Imaginative Vision is the first complete literary translation into English—translated by the late Kenyan novelist and scholar Ken Walibora Waliaula and edited by Annmarie Drury—of one of the most esteemed and influential collections of Swahili poetry of the twentieth century. Yet 'Imaginative Vision' is also something more. Even as it centers in a literary translation of a singularly beautiful and influential book of poetry, it tells English-language readers the story of that book. Supporting materials illuminate the circumstances of its inception when Abdilatif, aged 22, was arrested and tried. They explore what the volume meant to its first readers and its affiliations with subsequent extraordinary works of prison literature by Alamin Mazrui and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. They trace its links to literary art of the past, including of the nineteenth-century poet Muyaka bin Haji, and to writing that followed. And they explain social and historical aspects of the Swahili coastal world that nurtured Abdilatif’s political engagement and stunning verbal art. Under the editorship of scholar, translator, and poet Annmarie Drury, contributors bring insights from their diverse backgrounds to present contextualizing material that illuminates the poems at the heart of this book.

Poetry And The Politics Of Change In East Africa 1950 80

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Author : Clement Lupyano Ndulute
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984

Poetry And The Politics Of Change In East Africa 1950 80 written by Clement Lupyano Ndulute and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Political poetry (Swahili) categories.

African Literatures As World Literature

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Author : Alexander Fyfe
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2022-11-03

African Literatures As World Literature written by Alexander Fyfe and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-03 with Literary Criticism categories.

The enormous success of writers such as Teju Cole and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie demonstrates that African literatures are now an international phenomenon. But the apparent global legibility of a small number of (mostly Anglophone) writers in the diaspora raises the question of how literary producers from the continent, both past and present, have situated their work in relation to the world and the kinds of material networks to which this corresponds. This collection shows how literatures from across the African continent engage with conceptualizations of 'the world' in relation to local social and political issues. Focusing on a wide variety of geographic, historical and linguistic contexts, the essays in this volume seek answers to the following questions: What are the topographies of 'the world' in different literary texts and traditions? What are that world's limits, boundaries and possibilities? How do literary modes and forms such as realism, narrative poetry or the political essay affect the presentation of worldliness? What are the material networks of circulation that allow African literatures to become world literature? African literatures, it emerges, do important theoretical work that speaks to the very core of world literary studies today.

Mashairi Ya Vita Vya Kuduhu

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Author : Ann Biersteker
language : en
Publisher: MSU Press
Release Date : 1995-04-30

Mashairi Ya Vita Vya Kuduhu written by Ann Biersteker and has been published by MSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-04-30 with Poetry categories.

Mashairi Ya Vita Vya Kuduhu is a presentation and discussion of both manuscript and published versions of poems written by Lamu poets around the time of the Battle of Kuduhu. The poetic dialogue studied in this volume has played a significant role in the history of Swahili poetry, and its primary concern is to inform continued work in this area. The poems contained in this work were transmitted and preserved by speakers of Kiswahili and later collected and preserved by scholars. Chapter One contains the edited poems; Chapter Two consists of the translations. Subsequent chapters include accounts of the Battle of Kuduhu, editing and translating practices, and annotated poems and source versions. This work is presented as an example of the importance of research, fieldwork, and the consideration of available versions and alternative styles of presentation in the study of Swahili poetry.

In This Fragile World

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Author : Ustadh Mahmoud Mau
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-02-06

In This Fragile World written by Ustadh Mahmoud Mau and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-06 with Poetry categories.

The present volume is a pioneering collection of poetry by the outstanding Kenyan poet, intellectual and imam Ustadh Mahmmoud Mau (born 1952) from Lamu island, once an Indian Ocean hub, now on the edge of the nation state. By means of poetry in Arabic script, the poet raises his voice against social ills and injustices troubling his community on Lamu. The book situates Mahmoud Mau’s oeuvre within transoceanic exchanges of thoughts so characteristic of the Swahili coast. It shows how Swahili Indian Ocean intellectual history inhabits an individual biography and writings. Moreover, it also portrays a unique African Muslim thinker and his poetry in the local language, which has so often been neglected as major site for critical discourse in Islamic Africa. The selected poetry is clustered around the following themes: jamii: societal topical issues, ilimu: the importance of education, huruma: social roles and responsabilities, matukio: biographical events and maombi: supplications. Prefaced by Rayya Timamy (Nairobi University), the volume includes contributions by Jasmin Mahazi, Kai Kresse and Kadara Swaleh, Annachiara Raia and Clarissa Vierke. The authors’ approaches highlight the relevance of local epistemologies as archives for understanding the relationship between reform Islam and local communities in contemporary Africa.

Shuwari

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Author : Haji Gora Haji
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2019

Shuwari written by Haji Gora Haji and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with categories.

Haji Gora Haji, born in 1933 on the island of Tumbatu, Zanzibar, represents a living archive of poetic and philosophical knowledge, which is transformed into verses with a characteristic voice enriched by dialectal features (from Tumbatu and Unguja). As a recognition of his life-long commitment to Swahili language and literature, the editors, Flavia Aiello and Irene Brunotti, with Nathalie Arnold Koenings for translation, decided to work hard on conceiving a publishing project of Shuwari, his poetical anthology or diwani, fashioned as a bilingual Swahili-English edition which, along with the poems, could offer some analytical insights into Haji Gora Haji's artistry.

Swahili Muslim Publics And Postcolonial Experience

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Author : Kai Kresse
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2018-12-17

Swahili Muslim Publics And Postcolonial Experience written by Kai Kresse and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-17 with History categories.

Swahili Muslim Publics and Postcolonial Experience is an exploration of the ideas and public discussions that have shaped and defined the experience of Kenyan coastal Muslims. Focusing on Kenyan postcolonial history, Kai Kresse isolates the ideas that coastal Muslims have used to separate themselves from their "upcountry Christian" countrymen. Kresse looks back to key moments and key texts—pamphlets, newspapers, lectures, speeches, radio discussions—as a way to map out the postcolonial experience and how it is negotiated in the coastal Muslim community. On one level, this is a historical ethnography of how and why the content of public discussion matters so much to communities at particular points in time. Kresse shows how intellectual practices can lead to a regional understanding of the world and society. On another level, this ethnography of the postcolonial experience also reveals dimensions of intellectual practice in religious communities and thus provides an alternative model that offers a non-Western way to understand regional conceptual frameworks and intellectual practice.