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Maisha ya Haji Gora : msanii atayedumu milele / Ally Saleh.
Van Pelt - Zilberman Family Center for Global Collections PL8704.H25 Z746 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Saleh, Ally, author.
- Language:
- Swahili
- Subjects (All):
- Haji, Haji Gora.
- Poets, Tanzanian--Biography.
- Poets, Tanzanian.
- Swahili poetry--Tanzania--Zanzibar--Biography.
- Swahili poetry.
- Swahili poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
- Tanzania--Zanzibar.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 124 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- Toleo la pili.
- Other Title:
- Haji Gora
- Place of Publication:
- Zanzibar : Emerson's Zanzibar Foundation, Agosti 2016.
- Language Note:
- In Swahili.
- Summary:
- About the life and times of Haji Gora, a Swahili poet from Tumbatu, Zanzibar. While making a living from the sea as a fisherman, porter in the harbour, sailor and transporter of cloves, he has been composing, since 1955, a large amount of ngoma and taarab songs, riddles, tenzi and mashairi.
- ISBN:
- 9789976895384
- 9976895380
- OCLC:
- 974566780
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