Add this copy of Traditional Swahili Poetry: an Investigation Into the to cart. $93.00, new condition, Sold by Kenya Books - Kenya & Africa rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Brighton, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1967 by E.J. Brill.
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New in New jacket. viii + 264pp. NEW, mint condition. Light blue boards with gilt titles and device in NEW pictorial dustjacket. Parallel texts English/Swahili, with footnotes relating to cultural and linguistic elements in the texts. An anthology of some of the finest pieces of Swahili poetry, in which the author endeavours to reconstruct the concepts of life and death, the outlook on the world and other aspects of the Weltanschauung of the Swahili, from their traditional literature. A beautiful unmarked copy.