Abdilatif Abdalla. Poet in politics

Cover
 Title page
 Copyright page
 Contents
 Preface and Acknowledgements
 Section 1 --
Poet in Politics
 'Deep Language' Crossing Borders3
 A Symposium
 'Deep Language' Crossing Borders
 Conclusion
 References
 Abdilatif Abdalla and the Voice of Prophecy
 Siwati
 References
 Abdilatif Abdalla: Poet and Activist. Voice of the Discontented, Voice of Humanity
 Kenya: Twendapi? (1968)
 Sauti ya Dhiki (1973)
 The Writer and Poet in Society (1976 & 1978)
 The Right and Might of a Pen (1985)
 Peace, Love and Unity: for Whom? (1989
 poem)
 A Political Address (1994). Risala kwa Washiriki Katika Tamasha la Kitamaduni la Lamu (2009)In Conclusion
 References
 Whither Swahili Literature? Translation and the World Recognition of Abdilatif Abdalla's Sauti ya Dhiki
 Wither Swahili Literature?
 Sauti ya Dhiki and the Idea of Breakthrough
 Never Will I Let Go
 Impasses
 Translation
 Concluding Remarks
 Works Cited
 The Poetics of Abdilatif Abdalla's Agony
 Doing Things with Words in Prison Poetry
 But can words alone bring down a tyrant?
 The Multiple "I"-s and Speaking in Tongues
 Why Write
 Swahili Prosody and Poetry as Autobiography
 Masking the Message. A Range of Miscellaneous VoicesReferences
 The Urgency of Memory in an Age of Greed
 Section 2 --
Selected Works of Abdilatif Abdalla
 Kenya Twendapi Facsimile pages
 Wajibu wa Mshairi Katika Jamii Yake
 Matatizo ya Mwandishi wa Jamii Katika Afrika Huru
 The Right and Might of a Pen
 Section 3 --
Contexts
 Hope and Despair in Kenyan Politics During and After Independence
 Existentialism and Swahili Literature
 Introduction
 Existentialism as a Philosophy and as a Literary Programme
 Existentialist Writing in Swahili Literature
 Existentialism without Programme: Swahili Poetry. An Existentialist Reading of Swahili LiteratureBibliography
 Language in Africa Between the Local and the Global: How Political are 'Dialects'?
 Introduction
 What is 'Deep Language'?
 Are 'Dialects' Political --
or rather: How 'Political' Can Dialects Be?
 Language in Africa between the Local and the Global
 References
 Section 4 --
Congratulatory Texts
 Kwa Abdilatif Abdalla
 Kumsherehekea Abdilatif Abdalla
 Dear Abdilatif, dear friends and colleagues, ladies and gentlemen
 Ndugu wote
 Kumkumbuka Bwana Abdilatif Abdalla -Mwalimu Wetu
 List of Contributors
 Back cover.