Fasihi Ya Kiswahili: A really bad language

Fasihi ya Kiswahili ni sehemu ya fasihi ya Kiafrika na fasihi ya Kibantu.

Mwandishi wa kwanza wa Kiswahili alikuwa Fumo Liyongo kutoka kisiwa cha Lamu (leo nchini Kenya) kati ya karne ya 9 na karne ya 10. Fumo Liyongo aliandika kwa Kingozi kilicho lahaja ya Kiswahili. Fumo Liyongo aliandika mashairi mengi kama "Sifa la Uta", "Utungo wa Ndoto" au "Wimbo wa Mapenzi".

Kitabu cha kwanza kilichogundulika kilikuwa Hamziya kwa mujibu wa Jan Knappert.

Fasihi ya Kiswahili inagawanyika katika sehemu nne: ushairi, hadithi, tamthilia na methali.

• Shaaban Robert, Tanzania
• Mwalimu Sikujua, Mombasa
• Abu Bakari, Pate
• Fumo Liyongo, Lamu
• Ahmad Basheikh Husein, Mombasa
• Ahmed Al-Mambasi, Mombasa
• Bwana Mwengo, Pate
• Muyaka bin Hajji, Mombasa
• Farouk Topan, Zanzibar
• Christopher Mwashinga (1965-), Tanzania
• Ebrahim Hussein (1943- ), Tanzania
• Muhammed Said Abdulla (1918-1991), Tanzania
• Fadhy Mtanga (1981 -), Tanzania
• Pera Ridhiwani (1917–1997 ), Tanzania
• May M Balisidya (?- 1987), Tanzania
• Mzee Hamis Akida (22 Novemba 1914 - 13 Februari 2007), Tanzania
• Said Khamis (12 December 1947-), Zanzibar
• Abdilatif Abdalla (14 April 1946-), Kenya
• Adam Shafi Adam (1940-), Zanzibar
• Mohamed Suleiman Mohamed (1945-), Zanzibar
• Professor Ali Alamin Mazrui (1933-2014), Kenya
• Katama Mkangi (1945-2004), Kenya
• Said Ahmed Mohamed
• Kyallo Wadi Wamitilla, Kenya
• John Hamu Habwe, Kenya
• Mwenda Mbatih, Kenya
• Ken Walibora, Kenya

• Knappert, Jan (1982) 'Swahili oral traditions', in V. Görög-Karady (ed.) Genres, forms, meanings: essays in African oral literature, 22-30.
• Knappert, Jan (1983) Epic poetry in Swahili and other African languages. Leiden: Brill.
• Knappert, Jan (1990) A grammar of literary Swahili. (Working papers on Swahili, 10). Gent: Seminarie voor Swahili en de Taalproblematiek van de Ontwikkelingsgebieden.
• Nagy, Géza Füssi, The rise of Swahili literature and the œuvre of Shaaban bin Robert (Academic journal)
• Topan, Farouk, Why Does a Swahili Writer Write? Euphoria, Pain, and Popular Aspirations in Swahili Literature (Academic journal)
• Lodhi, Abdulaziz Y. and Lars Ahrenberg (1985) Swahililitteratur - en kort šversikt. (Swahili literature: a short overview.) In: Nytt från Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, no 16, pp 18–21. Uppsala. (Reprinted in Habari, vol 18(3), 198-.)
• The Political Culture of Language: Swahili, Society and the State (Studies on Global Africa)by Ali A. Mazrui, Alamin M. Mazrui

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