... into the precolonial Swahili poetic genre of the utendi . In contrast to previous analyses that have highlighted the appropriation of text to fit local discourses of identity, Vierke argues that the relationship between the Swahili translation and the previous Arabic text is basically aesthetic. Drawing on the concept...

... and styles are historiographic texts into the precolonial Swahili rendered meaningful, to a crucial extent through poetic genre of the utendi. She shows how poets are their ability to provide “multisensorial experiences “eager to highlight the foreign origin of a previous of a range of ‘elsewheres...