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Uani Is a backyard , often with an enclosure traditionally designated as women's space of exclusion and safety from men's spying eyes , It is often associated with homes. There
ua n (nyua), U-N-, mzizi mauaNyuma ya Nyumba, Uzio Context: Relating to Swahili Homes. Traditionally a backyard, often with an enclosure, and designated as women’s space (of ‘seclusion’ and ‘safety’
ua n (nyua), U-N-, mzizi mauaNyuma ya Nyumba, Uzio Muktadha: Inahusu nyumbani Uswahilini. Kimila, uani kawaida kuna uzio, na pametengwa kama sehemu maalum ya wanawake (ya ‘faragha’ na ‘salama’ mbali
Asteria Malinzi Baridi la Ufukweni, 2021Picha, video na sauti.(Video Poem was produced in collaboration with Ngollo Mlengeya) Umekwishaonywa. Mchecheto usiomithilika unaikodolea milele zote zinavyotiririka mithili ya vijito. Umekwishaonywa; kwa wepesi
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These poems by Issa Shivji, lawyer, activist and Tanzanian public intellectual, were written at different times in different circumstances. They give vent to personal anguish and political anger. Mostly originally written in Kiswahili, and here accompanied by English translations, they are intensely personal and political. Poems are clustered under several headings to provide a context. The first Shivji combines personal agony at the loss of comrades and friends with poems about love and affection for living one. The second is about robberies of freedom, resources, and dignity and the loss of justice under neoliberalism. The third section, entitled Hopes and Fears, comprise short poems tweeted over the last five years expressing despair, fear and hope in the human capacity for freedom. The last section are poems, concerned with Shivji’s period in South Africa in 2018, reflect on the emergence of neo-apartheid with its wanton and shameless exploitation of the majority. Wonderfully translated by Ida Hadjivayanis
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