Hyenas
...
While on safari
(Kiswahili for 'trip')
in Tanzania
over the horizon in a downward slip
across the savannah
the sun had begun to set
thought I'd seen it all
and yet
out on the endles...
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Categories:
kiswahili, africa, animal, fun, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
AMINA
...Ameituliza nafsi yangu
Mkuu wa yote duniani
Iwapo nitapoteza njia
Najua penzi lake 'tanipata
Anivite kwake, aniite wake...
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Categories:
kiswahili, god,
Form: Acrostic
REMEMBER YOUR ROOTS
...Know your roots
Sometime when you hear
about the big population of Wayao
in Eastern and Southern Africa
with many kind chiefs
and one king.
You will say
They are so wise ,
With a stron...
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Categories:
kiswahili, africa, culture, history,
Form: Free verse
Origin of the Name Swahili and Language, Bantu Name
...Origin of the name Swahili
Or " Kiswahili" ,
One person said , " Iswa ile"
Another person said," Iswa iyi "
Swahili is one of the Bantu
Languages
Like isiZulu , Kifuliru,
Kinyindu, ...
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Categories:
kiswahili, 12th grade, africa, arabic,
Form: Other
Swahili Praise
...English verse>
gimme sum mutual praise
gimme sum mutual praise
gimme sum mutual praise
All them there people's of the world;
Coastal dwellers praising; All day long, all the day long;
Rejoicing...
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Categories:
kiswahili, appreciation, community, endurance, engagement,
Form: Lyric
Shoga Atoka Ulaya
...Juzi juzi tulikuwa tunakutana
Kwenye mishwari tulipitana
Hili na lile tuliambiana
Menzangu ukaenda majuu
Kufika kule ukajiona wewe mungu
Uliotuacha huku nyuma ukatufananisha na vyungu
Haya y...
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Categories:
kiswahili, emotions, environment,
Form: I do not know?
A Girl In the Chamber
...A girl in the chamber
They know Kiswahili
Speaking it
To their localities
A girl in the chamber!
Is thy family
Like that of an egg
Realizing no space
Entrance of oxygen Is?
A girl in th...
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Categories:
kiswahili, girl,
Form: I do not know?
Not Yet Sir
...At nineteen and eighteen
he said I couldn’t be seen
his reasons being:
too old, too sold, too mould for a being.
So the young and toddler, to that world of pleasure
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Categories:
kiswahili, abuse, age, teen,
Form: Rhyme