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Heavenly drops: the image of water in traditional Islamic Swahili poetry
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Iba Ndiaye Diadji, a Senegalese professor of aesthetics, sees water as intrinsic to African ontology. He also argues that water is the most important substance to inspire African artists. (Diadji 2003: 273–275.) Water certainly has a significant role in Swahili poetry, written traditionally by people living on the coast of the Indian Ocean. Swahili poems have used aquatic imagery in expressing different ideas and sensations, in different contexts and times. Water imagery can be found in hundreds of years old Islamic hymns as well as in political poetry written during the colonial German East Africa. This article discusses water imagery in traditional Islamic Swahili poetry.
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Swahili; Versdichtung; Deutsch-Oastafrika; Symbolik; Wasser <Motiv>
islamische Swahili-Poesie, Wassersymbolik, Kolonialzeit, Deutsch-Ostafrika
Islamic Swahili Poesie, imagery water, colonial times, German East Africa
Ranne, Katriina
Universitiy of London
Universität Mainz
2012-08-16
2010
Swahili Forum 17 (2010), S. 58-81
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