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For the 2018 Swahili language Jordan Riber film she was featured in as "Neema" titled, Hadithi za Kumekucha: Fatuma, also starring Beatrice Taisamo and Ayoub Bombwe, she was nominated and awarded a "Best Actress" award in the Swahili Movies special category at the 2018 Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF).
Fatuma (theatrically as Hadithi za Kumekucha: Fatuma), is a 2018 Tanzanian drama film directed by Jordan Riber and co-produced by director himself with his parents; John Riber and Louise Riber. [1] It is the sequel to its first feature film Hadithi za Kumekucha:TUNU . [ 2 ]
In 2017, he directed Hadithi za Kumekucha: Tunu, [4] and in 2018, Fatuma. [1] [5] In the same year, he directed and produced Bahasha. [6] [7] In the 2018 Zanzibar International Film Festival selected Riber's Bahasha as the opening film for premiering, which together with Fatuma were placed in the "Long Features" category. [8]
Fumo Liyongo or Liongo was a Swahili writer and chieftain on the northern part of the coast of East Africa sometime between the 9th and 13th centuries. [1] He is celebrated as a hero, warrior, and poet in traditional poems, stories, and songs of the Swahili people, many associated with wedding rituals and gungu dances.
Kibaraka is a folktale sourced from the Swahili, published in late 19th century. Linguist Jan Knappert published a very similar tale with the title The Giant Horse, wherein the protagonist is also named Kibaraka. In both, a youth named Kibaraka gets entangled with a cannibal sorcerer and escapes thanks to a giant horse's help; also with the ...
Ahl al-Hadith (Arabic: أَهْل الحَدِيث, romanized: Ahl al-Ḥadīth, lit. 'people of hadith') is an Islamic school of Sunni Islam that emerged during the 2nd and 3rd Islamic centuries of the Islamic era (late 8th and 9th century CE) as a movement of hadith scholars who considered the Quran and authentic hadith to be the only authority in matters of law and creed. [1]
Siku Njema is a Swahili novel written by the Kenyan author, Ken Walibora.The novel was published in 1996 and written in the first person. The book deals with the life of a young man, Msanifu Kombo (nicknamed Kongowea Mswahili) who is born in Tanga, Tanzania and who faces family hardships with his single mother, who is a talented singer of taarab.
[4] [10] His brother continued Kinjikitile's work and the rebellion continued until 1907, with over 100,000 [11] or 200-300,000 Africans killed in the German suppression of the revolt. [5] Present-day Tanzanians consider the failed rebellion to have been the first stirring of nationalism, and Kinjikitile "Bokero" Ngwale a proto-national hero.