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标题：Swahili songs of defiance and mockery
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作者：J. Knappert
期刊名称：Afrika Focus
印刷版ISSN：0772-084X
电子版ISSN：2031-356X
出版年度：1987
卷号：3
期号：3-4
页码：165-193
出版社：Gents Afrika Platform, Afrika Brug
摘要：The aim of this publication is mainly to make known to fellow students of African oral traditions the literary achievements of the Swahili people. Songs of mockery and defiance are known in many languages, but so far none to my knowledge had been published from East Africa. The present article will, it is hoped, fill that lacune. It demonstrates that there are, and always have been, numerous songs of mockery and defiance in Swahili, while new ones are still being composed and sung. These songs form today a part of the healthy democratic process in East Africa.
关键词：Oral Literature ; Swahili ; East Africa