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Swahili literature. Swahili literature is literature written in the Swahili language, particularly by Swahili people of the East African coast and the neighboring islands. It may also refer to literature written by people who write in the Swahili language. It is an offshoot of the Bantu culture. [1]
The first lines of Utendi wa Tambuka (Utenzi wa Hirqal) in a 19th-century manuscript from SOAS collection. Utend̠i wa Tambuka, also known as Utenzi wa Tambuka [notes 1] ("The Story of Tambuka"), Utenzi wa Hirqal or Kyuo kya Hereḳali (the book of Heraclius), is an epic poem in the Swahili language by Bwana Mwengo wa Athman, dated 1728. [1]
Jan Knappert. Jan Knappert (January 14, 1927, Heemstede – May 30, 2005, Hilversum, Netherlands) was a well-known expert on the Swahili language. He was also an Esperantist, and he wrote an Esperanto -Swahili dictionary. [1]
Utenzi wa Shufaka. Utenzi wa Shufaka ( Swahili: "Poem of Mercifulness") is an utenzi (classical narrative poem) in Swahili literature. It is composed of 285 stanzas of four lines of eight-syllables each. The poet-narrator of utenzi offers details of his lineage but never identifies himself. The only old manuscript of the poem known is held in ...
Utenzi or utend̠i is a form of narrative poetry in Swahili. Its name derives from the fact that it usually describes heroic deeds, like the medieval European gesta (lit. "deeds"). [ 1] Utendi, plural tendi, meaning "act" or "deed", is derived from the Swahili verb ku-tenda "to do". Well-known examples of utenzi are the Utendi wa Tambuka by ...
Swahili may be described in several ways depending on the aspect being considered. It is an agglutinative language. It constructs whole words by joining together discrete roots and morphemes with specific meanings, and may also modify words by similar processes. Its basic word order is SVO.
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.
Fumo Liyongo. 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.