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The Procrustean Bed: The Fallacy of Accentual Metrics in Swahili Poetry. A Manifesto for Data-Driven Models for the Utenzi, Wimbo, and Shairi Meters (Mathieu Roy, DL2A Buluu Publishing, 2026; ISBN 978-1-291-70670-3; 582 pages) is a monograph on the meters...

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Tag(s) : #Mathieu Roy, #English Books, #Ushairi, #Kenya, #Kiamu, #Tanzania, #Swahili language--Versification, #Poetics, #Metrics and rhythmics, #Open Science, #Science Ouverte - Open Access, #Syllabic meter, #Utenzi, #Wimbo, #Shairi, #Vina na Mizani

🇬🇧🇹🇿 Step back in time to the Zanzibar of the 1950s with this heartfelt collection of poems and stories by Issak Ismail Issak. A sequel to his beloved "My Grandpa's Garden," this volume continues to explore the cherished memories of a childhood spent...

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Tag(s) : #Swahili Books, #Zanzibar, #Bilingual Books, #English Books, #Swahili - English Translations, #Issak Esmail Issak, #Muhammed Marhuby

🇬🇧 Crying, Laughing, Dancing Pots highlights a smooth historical undertaking of Zanzibarisation, par excellence. It offers a comprehensive exploration of the Kumbhar community, a group that migrated from Kutch, India, to Zanzibar, approximately 300 years...

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Tag(s) : #Zanzibar, #English Books, #History, #Diaspora, #India, #Khumbars, #Ahmed Rajab, #Mohamed Ahmed Saleh, #Issak Esmail Issak

🇬🇧 My Grandpa's Garden, Zanzibar Poems A presentation of a collection of poems, coupled with artistic photographs, produced by a brilliant Zanzibar-born artist, photographer, author and theatrical producer, Issak Esmail Issak. What started as individual...

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Tag(s) : #Zanzibar, #Poetry, #Issak Esmail Issak, #Muhammed Marhuby, #English Books

🇬🇧 A Zanzibar architect’s unsung legacy The story of Ajit Singh Hoogan Architect, Artist, Philanthropist, followed by Sportsman and MP, The story of Parmukh Singh Hoogan Ajit Singh, a Zanzibar architect who also was a painter, a man of the arts, whose...

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Tag(s) : #English Books, #Zanzibar, #Issak Esmail Issak, #Architecture, #History

🇹🇿 🇬🇧 Haji Gora Haji, born in 1933 on the island of Tumbatu, Zanzibar, represents a living archive of poetic and philosophical knowledge, which is transformed into verses with a characteristic voice enriched by dialectal features (from Tumbatu and Unguja)....

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Tag(s) : #Haji Gora Haji, #Swahili Books, #English Books, #Swahili - English Translations, #Aiello Flavia, #Irene Brunotti, #Nathalie Arnold Koenings, #Abdilatif Abdalla, #Sauda Ali Issa Barwani, #Ridder H. Samsom, #Zanzibar, #Poetry, #Swahili poetry, #Ushairi

🇬🇧 This cyber Law book determines the position of cyber security, prevention and detection in Tanzania against cyber crimes. Actually, by looking at the Cyber Crime Act No.14 of 2015 on how the concepts above have been provided and implemented. Cet essai...

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Tag(s) : #English Books, #Asherry Magalla, #Law

🇹🇿 🇬🇧 Common Mistakes in Swahili is a grammar book specifically for second language users. It gives you the a, b, c, d's of Swahili language. It goes further by explaining grammatical stuffs that are important in learning Swahili language. It gives common...

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Tag(s) : #Elizabeth Godwin Mahenge, #Learn Kiswahili, #Swahili Books, #English Books

🇹🇿 🇬🇧 Nasema Kiswahili “I speak Swahili”, is a fully integrated Kiswahili language learning manual from the Beginner level to the Intermediate and the Advanced levels. The grammar of the language is well and clearly described. Each chapter is enriched...

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Tag(s) : #Elizabeth Godwin Mahenge, #Swahili Books, #English Books, #Learn Kiswahili