Dua
- Authors: Kaluta Amir Bin Abedi , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Kigoma f-tz
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179400 , vital:43060 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR160-04
- Description: "I seek refuge with the Lord. That I may be safe from the troublesome one who whispers in the heart. The devil who is stoned." The poet and reciter (Staharaki) is a moslem missionary and is headmaster of the Moslem school at Tabora. Mashairi sung poems
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Dua
- Authors: Kaluta Amir Bin Abedi , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Kigoma f-tz
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179408 , vital:43059 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR160-04
- Description: "I seek refuge with the Lord. That I may be safe from the troublesome one who whispers in the heart. The devil who is stoned." The poet and reciter (Staharaki) is a moslem missionary and is headmaster of the Moslem school at Tabora. Mashairi sung poems
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Mawaidha
- Authors: Kaluta Amir Bin Abedi , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Kigoma f-tz
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179415 , vital:43061 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR169-05
- Description: "With the name of the Lord I should begin. And with his name I should finish. That I may compose them evenly with good things exultingly." Much of the Mashairi poetry, they say, is religious in nature. The African authors demonstrate the extent to which Arab culture has penetrated along the old trade routes. The speaker was fluent in Arabic and his Swahili appears to be more 'classical' than usual. Mashairi sung poems
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950