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Rethinking Memory in Valerie Cuthbert's The Great Siege of Fort Jesus
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Wafula Yenjela --- Department of English, Stellenbosch, South AfricaThis article explores memory as remembered and re-presented by Valerie Cuthbert (1970) in The Great Siege of Fort Jesus: an Historical Novel. In the article, I reflect on the significance of memory in the novel as agency that foregrounds excluded... -
Popular, Commercial or Didactic? Some Notes on Fasihi Pendwa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Mikhail Gromov --- School of Humanities and Social Sciences, KenyaThe purpose of this article is to outline a number of specific traits intrinsic to a literary phenomenon that is known as fasihi pendwa (relative Kiswahili equivalent of the term “popular literature”). The article uses as research material popular writing... -
The Archiving of Siti Binti Saad and her Engagement with the Music Industry in Shaaban Robert’s Wasifu wa Siti Binti Saad
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Imani Sanga --- Department of Creative Arts, TanzaniaThis essay discusses the representation of a Zanzibari legendary taarab female singer, Siti Binti Saad, in Shaaban Robert’s Wasifu wa Siti Binti Saad [Biography of Siti Binti Saad]. It examines the role Robert’s Wasifu plays in the archiving of Siti... -
Converting Achebe’s Africa for the New Tanzanian: Things Fall Apart in Swahili Translation
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Meg Arenberg --- Princeton Institute of International and Regional Studies, USAGiven the centrality of Chinua Achebe’s work in the early debates surrounding language choice in African fiction and Achebe’s own claims about the necessary transformation of English in representing African reality, what happens when his most acclaimed and archetypal novel... -
In Search of Poem-Maps of the Swahili Seas: Three Sea Poems by Haji Gora Haji
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor --- Independent Scholar, KenyaTo what extent can a text borne in memory give texture, perspectives, meaning, dimensionality and sense to a place? Where is the locus of meaning in such a case? Can this locus be mapped? Questions about Swahili navigational poetry (poem-maps)... -
Ushairi Msemele na Ubidaa wa Euphrase Kezilahabi Katika Dhifa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Ahmad Kipacha --- The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology,Euphrase Kezilahabi ameingia katika kundi la wabidaa wa kishairi ulimwenguni. Makala haya yanathibitisha hoja hiyo kupitia ushahidi wa ubunifu wa vipengele msemele katika diwani yake ya Dhifa (2008). Vipengele msemele vimechipuzwa ili kuwashawishi wasomaji wake wakubaliane na mabadiliko ya kifikra... -
Mchango wa Waandishi wa Kazi za Kubuni katika Uendelezaji wa Kiswahili
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Ernest Sangai Mohochi --- Chuo Kikuu cha Rongo,Makala hii ililenga kuchunguza mchango wa waandishi wa kazi za kubuni katika uendelezaji wa Kiswahili. Hili lilichochewa na ukweli kuwa waandishi ni miongoni mwa makundi muhimu katika ukuzaji wa lugha, mengine yakiwa: wanaisim, walimu, watafiti, wachapishaji, na wapenzi wa lugha... -
The Role of Fiction Writers in the Development of Kiswahili
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Ernest Sangai Mohochi [cor1]This paper analyses fiction writers’ contribution to the development of Kiswahili language. The paper is anchored on the assumption that writers play a big role in the development of language. The contribution of fiction writers has not been widely investigated... -
Gnomic Poetry and Innovation in Euphrase Kezilahabi’s Dhifa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Ahmad Kipacha --- The Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science & Technology, TanzaniaEuphrase Kezilahabi can be truly regarded as belonging to that category of poets in the world of creative writing who is innovative. This paper seeks to affirm that assertion by providing evidence of creativity and innovation in ‘gnomic’ poetry in... -
Online Performance of Swahili Orature: The Need for a New Category?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Angelus Mnenuka --- University of Dar es Salaam, TanzaniaThis paper discusses the concept of the online performance of oral literature. The central argument advanced in this discussion arises out of the contemporary categorisation of literature, notably the distinction between oral and written literature based on their forms of... -
Mozambique Island, Cabaceira Pequena and the Wider Swahili World: An Archaeological Perspective
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Diogo V. Oliveira --- , MozambiqueWhen the Portuguese reached Mozambique Island at the end of the fifteenth century, they encountered a populated coast of diverse communities integrated within a wider Swahili world. Swahili society was in its fundamental nature cosmopolitan, and incorporated arts, cultures, peoples,... -
Kiswahili-medium and English-medium primary schools: Teacher views on key contrasts
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Danstan Dioniz --- University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Mwajuma Vuzo --- University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Jafari Abdala --- University of Dar es Salaam, TanzaniaIdeally, Kiswahili-medium primary schools and English-medium primary schools should only differ in the languages that are used as the media of instruction. It is expected that when parents enrol their children for primary education, they should choose between Kiswahili-medium primary... -
Memory and Swahili Aesthetics in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By The Sea
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Ephantus Kamuhuro --- University of Embu, Kenya Justus Kizito Siboe Makokha --- Kenyatta University, KenyaAbdulrazak Gurnah’s novel By the Sea (2001) is a remarkable work of art wrought out of a diasporic location on the old East African Coast; particularly Zanzibar, an island in the Indian Ocean that is part of the United Republic... -
Lexical borrowing and semantic changes in the Chasu speech community of Tanzania
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Rafiki Yohana Sebonde --- University of Dodoma, TanzaniaIn Same District, Kilimanjaro, in Tanzania, there is a long-lasting contact situation with Chasu, Kiswahili and English languages. As a result, Chasu has frequently borrowed new terms and concepts from Kiswahili and English. Other studies on Chasu have concentrated on... -
A morpho-syntactic analysis of qualifiers in Bantu languages
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Rivalani Xenon Masonto --- University of Zululand, South Africa Elliot Mthembeni Mncwango --- University of Zululand, South AfricaThe aim of this article is to comparatively analyse qualifiers in Bantu languages for structural positioning and syntactic functions. It focuses specifically on Xitsonga, isiZulu, Northern Sotho, and Swahili. Qualitative methods were employed. Data were collected through interviews and document...