Poetry

Swahili Poetry

Abdulaziz, Mohamed H.  Muyaka, 19th century Swahili popular poetry.  Nairobi : Kenya Literature Bureau, 1979. (340 p.)
     Watson Stacks: PL8704.A2 A33 1979

Allen, J. W. T., et al, ed.  Poem concerning the death of the prophet Muhammad = Utendi wa kutawafu Nabii : a traditional Swahili epic, with transliteration, translation, and notes on the reading of Swahili manuscripts in Arabic script for advanced students. Lewiston : E. Mellen Press, c1991. (161 p.)
     Watson Stacks: PL8704 .U76 E5 1991                                  

__________.  Tendi; six examples of a Swahili classical verse form / with translations & notes by J. W. T. Allen.  New York : Africana Pub. Corp., [1971] (504 p.)
     Watson Stacks: PL8704.A2 A4

Biersteker, Ann Joyce.  Mashairi ya vita vya Kuduhu : war poetry in Kiswahili exchanged at the time of the Battle of Kuduhu.  East Lansing : Michigan State University, 1995. (254 p.)
     Watson Stacks: PL8704.A2 B54 1995

Buhriy, Hemedi bin Abdallah.  Utenzi wa Abdirrahmani na Sufiyani = the history of Abdurrahman and Sufian, by Hemed Abdallah Saidi Abdallah Masudi el Buhry el Hinawy.  Dar es Salaam : East African Literature Bureau, 1961.  (132 p.)
     Watson Stacks: PL8704 .B82 1961

Cory, Hans, ed.  Sikilizeni mashairi. [Listen to poems]  Mwanza : Lake Printing Works Ltd., 1966.  4th ed.  (42 p.)
     Watson Stacks: PL8704.A2 S55 1966

Dumila, Faraj O.  Wasifu wa Moi. [Biography of Moi]  Nairobi : Kenya Literature Bureau, 1978.  (52 p.)
     Watson Stacks: PL8704.A2 W33

Harries, Lyndon.  Swahili poetry.  Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1962.  (326 p.)
     Watson Stacks: PL8704.A2 H3

Jahadhmy, Ali Ahmed.  Anthology of Swahili poetry = Kusanyiko la mashairi.  London : Heinemann, 1977.  (92 p.)
     Watson Stacks: PL8704.A2 A53 1977

Jamaliddini, Abdul Karim Bin, et al.  Utenzi wa vita vya Maji Maji. [Poem about the Maji Maji uprising in Tanganyika]   [S.l. : s.n.], 1957.  (72 p.)
     Watson Stacks: PL8704.J35 J84 1957

Knappert, Jan, ed.  An anthology of Swahili love poetry.  Berkeley : University of California Press, 1972.  (202 p.)
     Watson Stacks:  PL8704.A2 K54 1972

__________.  Four centuries of Swahili verse : a literary history and anthology.  London [etc.] : Heinemann Educational, 1979.  (323 p.)
     Watson Stacks : PL8703.5 .K4

__________.  A survey of Swahili Islamic epic sagas.  Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, c1999.  (169 p.)
     Watson Stacks: PL8703.5 .K55 1999

__________.  Traditional Swahili poetry : an investigation into the concepts of East African Islam as reflected in the Utenzi literature.  Leiden : E. J. Brill, 1967.  (264 p.)
     Watson Stacks: PL8704 .K6

Lesso, Zuberi Hamadi.  Utenzi wa zinduko la ujamaa. [Poem about the origin/awakening of Ujamaa (socialism)]   Nairobi :
     Watson Stacks: PL8704.L43 U8

Mahimbi, E. M.  Utenzi wa Chama cha Mapinduzi.  [Poem about the revolutionary party –CCM]   Dar es Salaam : Tanzania Pub. House, [1968]  (63 p.)
     Watson Stacks:  PL8704.M317 U8 1981

Mbega, Hassan Mwalimu.  Utenzi wa mfalme muadilifu.  [Poem about  a righteous King]   Nairobi : Kenya Literature Bureau, c1985.  (222 p.)
     Watson Stacks: PL8704.M356 U84 1985

Mloka, Charles.  Diwani ya Mloka. [Anthology of Mloka]   Dar es Salaam : Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, c2002.  (92 p.)
     Watson Stacks: PL8704.M56 D59 2002

Mnyampala, Mathias E.  Utenzi wa zaburi. [Poem of psalter hymns/psalms]   [Ndanda?] : Ndanda Mission Press, [1965?]  (105 p.)
     Library Annex: PL8704 .M58 U84 1965

Muhammad, Saleh.  Utenzi wa jingo lenye itifali : baiti 334 = The structure of harmony.  Kampala : East African Literature Bureau, 1974.  (68 p.)
     Watson Stacks: PL8704.M77 U8

Muyaka bin Haji, al-Gassaniy.  Diwani ya Muyaka bin Haji al-Ghassaniy; pamoja na khabari za maisha yake.  [Anthology of Muyaka bin Haji al-Ghassaniy; together with information about his life]  Johannesburg : University of Witwatersrand Press, 1940.  (115 p.)
     Watson Stacks: PL8704 .M8

Mwaruka, Ramadhani.  Utenzi wa Jamhuri ya Tanzania. [Poem about the Republic of Tanzania]   Nairobi : East African Literature Bureau, [1968]  (64 p.)
     Watson Stacks: DT444 .M9

Rashid, Ali Mwalim, et al.  Tenzi za nasaha. [Poem of advice]   Zanzibar : [s.n.], 2009.  (62 p.)
     Watson Stacks: PL8704.A2 T464 2009

Robert, Shaaban.  Almasi za Africa : with English translations.  [Diamonds of Africa.]   Tanga, Tanganyika : Art and Literature Private Bag, [1960?]  (77 p.)
     Library Annex: PL8704.Z95 E5 1960

__________.  Diwani ya Shaaban.[Anthology of Shaaban Robert’s works.]   [Dar es Salaam] : Nelson, [1967-72]  14-vol. set.
     Watson Stacks:  PL8704.R54 1967KU holdings: v. 1-6, 8-10, 13

__________.  Utenzi wa vita vya uhuru, 1939 hata 1945. [Poem about the events of World War II from 1939-1945]  Nairobi : Oxford University Press, 1967.  (250 p.)
     Watson Stacks: PL8704.R54 U84 1967

__________.  Wasifu wa Siti binti Saad. [Biography of Siti binti  Saad]   Dar es Salaam : Mkuki na Nyota, 1991.  (75 p.)
     Watson Stacks: PL8704.R54 W38 1991

Tolmacheva, Marina.  The Pate chronicle : ed. and trans. from MSS 177, 321, 344, and 358 of the Library of the University of Dar es Salaam. East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 1993.  (607 p.)
     Watson Stacks: DT434.P38 P38 1993

Utenzi wa Mkunumbi , mhariri Lyndon Harries; pamoja na tafsiri ya Kiingereza na maelezo ; pamoja na maandishi ya Kiarabu yaliyoandikwa na Yahya Alo Omar.  [Poem of Mkunumbi, edited by Lyndon Harries; together with English translation and Arabic explanations, written by Yahya Alo Omar]   Dar es Salaam : East African Literature Bureau, [1967]
     Watson Stacks: PL8704 .U77

Utenzi wa Vita vya Uhud = The Epic of the Battle of Uhud.  Collected and compiled by Haji Chum, ed., with a translation and notes by H.E. Lambert. Dar es Salaam:  East African Literature Bureau, 1962.  (97 p.) 
     Watson Stacks: PL8704 .U8