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Article: Jose A. Saavedra Casco, Utenzi, War Poems, and the German Conquest of East Africa: Swahili poetry as historical source.(Book review)
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JOSE A. SAAVEDRA CASCO, Utenzi, War Poems, and the German Conquest of East Africa: Swahili poetry as historical source. Trenton NJ and Asmara: Africa World Press (pb $29.95--978 1 5922 1378 8). 2007, 336 pp.
In this book Saavedra Casco examines the usefulness of indigenous Swahili poetry from the East African coast as historical source. While considerable bodies of scholarship exist both on the region's social and political history and, in turn, on the form and content of the poetical genres which have survived, it is the author's contention that scholars have failed to recognize or appreciate the art form's relevance and validity as culturally located historical ...
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