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SEHEMU ZA
BIBLIA
KWA WATOTO
Swahili Children's Bible
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Swahili literature
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Swahili literature is, generally speaking, literature written in the Swahili language particularly by Swahili people of the East African coast and the neighboring islands. It may also refer to literature written by people who
write in Swahili language. It is an offshoot of the Bantu culture.

The first literary works date back to the beginning of the 18th century, when all Swahili literature was written in the Arabic script. Jan Knappert considered the translation of Arabic poem Hamziya from the year 1652 to be
the earliest Swahili written text. Starting in the 19th century, missionaries and orientalists introduced the Roman alphabet for recording Swahili language.

Contents [hide]
1 Characteristics
2 Classification
3 Fiction
4 Poetry
5 Notable literary people
6 See also
7 External links
8 Bibliography
9 References and notes

Characteristics
Swahili literature has been an object of research by many western scholars since the 19th century. There is a debate whether there was objectivity on those researches as a few scholars tried to establish a canon of
Swahili writing [1].

One of the main characteristics of the Swahili literature is the relative heterogeneity of the Swahili language. One can find works written in Kiamu, Kimvita, Kipemba, Kiunguja, Kimrima, Kimtang'ata, Ki-Dar-es-salaam
and Ki-Nairobi which are considered varieties of Swahili.[2]

Swahili literature has been sometimes characterized as Islamic by some western scholars such as Jan Knappert. This approach was criticized by some experts such as Alamin Mazrui and Ibrahim Noor Shariff [3]. In
fact, Swahili poetry has produced many secular works by such poets as Muyaka bin Ghassany and Muhammad Kijuma [4].

Because of this orientalist exploration and interest in the Swahili culture and language, it should be noted that most of the thesis made on the Swahili literature has been done outside of the native place. [5].
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