Download or read book Kujibizana written by Ann Joyce Biersteker and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kujibizana presents a series of arguments for reading poetry in Kiswahili by providing a history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century political poetry that focuses on the reading and writing of poetry within resistance movements.

Download or read book Of Worlds and Artworks written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-04-04 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume brings together contributions which explore artworks – including literature, visual arts, film and performances – as dynamic sites of worlding. It puts emphasis on the processes of creating or doing worlds, implying movement as opposed to the boundary drawing of area studies. From such a processual perspective, Africa is not a delineated area, but emerges in a variety of relations which can reach across the continent, but also the Indian Ocean, the Atlantic or Europe. Contributors are: Thierry Boudjekeu, Elena Brugioni, Ute Fendler, Sophie Lembcke, Gilbert Ndi Shang, Samuel Ndogo, Duncan Tarrant, Kumari Issur, CJ Odhiambo, Michaela Ott, Peter Simatei, Clarissa Vierke, Chinelo J. Enemuo.

Download or read book Global Conceptual History written by Margrit Pernau and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influential readings contained in this volume combine conceptual history - the history of words and languages - and global history, showing clearly how the two disciplines can benefit from a combined approach. The readings familiarize the reader with conceptual history and its relationship with global history, looking at transfers between nations and languages as well as the ways in which world-views are created and transported through language. Part One: Classical Texts presents the three foundational texts for conceptual history, giving the reader a grasp of the origins of the discipline. Part Two: Challenges focuses on critiques of the approach and explores their ongoing relevance today. Part Three: Translations of Concepts provides examples of conceptual history in practice, via case studies of historical research with a global scope. Finally, the book's concluding essay examines the current state and the future potential of conceptual history. This original introduction provides the students of conceptual, global and intellectual history with a firm grasp of the past trajectories of conceptual history as well as its more recent global and transnational tendencies, and the promises and challenges of writing global history.

Download or read book African Print Cultures written by African Print Cultures Network. Meeting and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broad-ranging essays on the social, political, and cultural significance of more than a century's worth of newspaper publishing practices across the African continent

Download or read book In This Fragile World written by Ustadh Mahmoud Mau and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-02-06 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Global Worlds of the Swahili written by Roman Loimeier and published by Lit Verlag. This book was released on 2006 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multidisciplinary volume challenges established ideas about "the world of the Swahili," proposing a perspective that highlights the transitory, shifting, and plural character of East African coastal societies, worldviews, and identities. The contributors give inside accounts of the broad spectrum of local perceptions of the world in the wider Swahili context. They demonstrate how these perceptions have been shaped by the interconnections of the East African coast with other geographical spaces and cultural spheres (especially Arabia, the Indian Ocean, and Europe). Offering new insights into the interaction of local culture, Islam, colonialism, the postcolony, and globalization, the volume shows that the "Swahili" belong to many worlds and continue to cultivate the interfaces between these worlds. The book is the outcome of several years of collaborative research, academic meetings, and individual paper presentations coordinated by the editors under the umbrella of the Collaborativ

Download or read book Shuwari written by Haji Gora Haji and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Kiswahili written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Swahili Beyond the Boundaries written by Alamin Mazrui and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa is a marriage of cultures: African and Asian, Islamic and Euro-Christian. Nowhere is this fusion more evident than in the formation of Swahili, Eastern Africa's lingua franca, and its cultures. Swahili Beyond the Boundaries: Literature, Language, and Identity addresses the moving frontiers of Swahili literature under the impetus of new waves of globalization in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. These momentous changes have generated much theoretical debate on several literary fronts, as Swahili literature continues to undergo transformation in the mill of human creativity. Swahili literature is a hybrid that is being reconfigured by a conjuncture of global and local forces. As the interweaving of elements of the colonizer and the colonized, this hybrid formation provides a representation of cultural difference that is said to constitute a "third space," blurring existing boundaries and calling into question established identitarian categorizations. This cultural dialectic is clearly evident in the Swahili literary experience as it has evolved in the crucible of the politics of African cultural production. However, Swahili Beyond the Boundaries demonstrates that, from the point of view of Swahili literature, while hybridity evokes endless openness on questions of home and identity, it can simultaneously put closure on specific forms of subjectivity. In the process of this contestation, a new synthesis may be emerging that is poised to subject Swahili literature to new kinds of challenges in the politics of identity, compounded by the dynamics and counterdynamics of post-Cold War globalization.

Download or read book Translocal Connections across the Indian Ocean written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book describes the worlds where Swahili is spoken as multi-centred contexts that cannot be thought of as located in a specific coastal area of Kenya or Tanzania. The articles presented discuss a range of geographical areas where Swahili is spoken, from Somalia to Mozambique along the Indian Ocean, in Europe and the US.

Download or read book Culture Performance and Identity Paths of Communication in Kenya written by Kimani Njogu and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2008 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together essays which cover a number of key areas: Gender, Disability, Media, Sports, Literature, Religion, Land and Youth, Music. Through an examination of the situation in Kenya, the essays opens new ways of understanding forms of local.

Download or read book Research in African Literatures written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 1- , spring 1970- , include "A Bibliography of American doctoral dissertations on African literature," compiled by Nancy J. Schmidt.

Download or read book Utenzi War Poems and the German Conquest of East Africa written by José Arturo Saavedra Casco and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Journal of the Institute of Swahili Research written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Habari ya English What about Kiswahili written by and published by Hotei Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Domesticating the World written by Jeremy Prestholdt and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-01-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “ Ingeniously stands the study of globalization and trade on its head.”—Edward Alpers, Chair of Department of History, UCLA