Mwana Kupona binti Msham (born on Pate Island, died c. 1865) was a Swahili poet of the 19th century, author of a poem called Utendi wa Mwana Kupona ("The...
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Mwana is an African name. Notable people with the name include: Mwana Kupona (died c. 1865), Swahili poet Pierre Mwana Kasongo (1938–1986), Congolese football...
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Portuguese fort, but said that the place looked otherwise poor. The poet Mwana Kupona (d. 1860) also lived at Pate Town. By 1892, the number of inhabitants...
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became a literary and scholastic centre. Woman writers such as the poet Mwana Kupona – famed for her Advice on the Wifely Duty – had a higher status in Lamu...
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poet Abdilatif Abdalla (b. 1946), Kenyan poet and political activist. Mwana Kupona (d. c. 1865), Kenyan poet. Ebrahim Hussein (b. 1943) , Tanzanian playwright...
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Kebbedesh Caroline Ntseliseng Khaketla Yelena Khanga Jamaica Kincaid Mwana Kupona Ellen Kuzwayo Alda Lara Nella Larsen Andrea Lee Audre Lorde Elise Johnson...
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include: Bwana Mataka - ruler of Siu (or Siyu) husband of Swahili poet Mwana Kupona Elizabeth Mataka - former United Nations Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in...
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Kupffer (1872–1942, Russian E/Germany, p/nf/d), pseudonym Elisarion Mwana Kupona (died c. 1865, Pate Sultanate (Kenya), p) Yumiko Kurahashi (倉橋由美子, 1935–2005...
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Netherlands: Afrika-Studiecentrum. Sheikh, A. A., Nabhany, A. S. (1972). Utendi wa Mwana Kupona: na Utendi wa Ngamia na Paa. Tanzania: Heinemann Educational Books. Nabhany...
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Netherlands), wr. & painter Margaret Mutu (living, New Zealand), wr. on Maori Mwana Kupona (died c. 1865, Kenya), poet Beverle Graves Myers (b. 1951, United States)...
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Ngugi wa Mirii (1951–2008) Parmenas Githendu Mockerie (1900?–?), writer Mwana Kupona binti Msham (died c.1865), Swahili poet Micere Mugo (1942–2023), playwright...
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Annette M'Baye d'Erneville, Marina Gashe, Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye, Mwana Kupona binti Msham, Micere Githae Mugo, Stella M Chipasula, Shakuntala Hawoldar...
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(1942–2023), playwright, poet, non-fiction writer, educator, activist Mwana Kupona (born c.1865), Swahili poet Christine Nicholls (born 1943), biographer...
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