SWAHILI FORUM

Swahili Forum 14 (2007)

edited by Rose-Marie Beck/ Lutz Diegner/ Thomas Geider/ Uta Reuster-Jahn/ Clarissa Vierke

ISSN 1614-2373

Gudrun Miehe
In Memoriam Andrej Aleksejevič Zhukov	3
Natalya Frolova
The “Renovated” Poetry of Theobald Mvungi and Said Ahmed Mohamed: On Mechanisms of Transformation of Traditional Swahili Verse	5-15
Xavier Luffin
On the Swahili Documents in Arabic Script from the Congo (19^th Century)	17-26
Clarissa Vierke
Of Plants and Women. A Working Edition of Two Swahili Plant Poems	27-80
D. Okoth Okombo & John Hamu Habwe
Pragmatic Strategies in the Use of Kiswahili Demonstratives	81-88
Alena Rettová
Lidství ni Utu? Ubinadamu baina ya Tamaduni	89-134
Vilém Řehák
Kazimoto and Meursault: “Brothers” in Despair and Loneliness. Comparing Kezilahabi’s Kichwamaji and Camus’ L’Etranger	135-151
Elena Bertoncini-Zúbková
A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed: Ken Walibora’s Novel Kufa Kuzikana	153-163
Said A. M. Khamis
The Swahili Novelist at the Crossroads: The Dilemma of Identity and Fecundity	165-180
Flavia Aiello Traoré
Women’s Taarab Lyrics in Contemporary Zanzibar	181-195
Steven Elisamia Mrikaria
Fasihi Simulizi na Teknolojia Mpya	197-206
Maria Suriano
‘Mimi ni msanii, kioo cha jamii’. Urban Youth Culture in Tanzania as seen through Bongo Fleva and Hip-Hop	207-223
Uta Reuster-Jahn
Let’s go Party! Discourse and Self-Portrayal in the Bongo Fleva-Song Mikasi	225-244
James Ogola Onyango
Masculinities in Kiswahili Children's Literature in Kenya	245-254
List of Contributors