From across the ocean: considering travelling literary figurations as part of Swahili intellectual history.
A history of knowledge production and transmission necessarily needs to take into account the cultural patterns of dissemination of ideas. While Swahili poetry has been recognized as an important domain of scholarly discourse on the East African coast, there has been little reflection on how ideas a...
| Publicado en: | Journal of African Cultural Studies Vol. 28; no. 2; pp. 225 - 241 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jun2016
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