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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | Towards a literary history of East Africa: the emergence of Kiswahili |
Author: | Gerard, Albert S. |
Year: | 1978 |
Periodical: | Kiabārā: Journal of the Humanities |
Volume: | 2 |
Pages: | 7-34 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | East Africa |
Subject: | literary history |
Abstract: | Schematic outline of the course of events in the history of East African literature - the beginnings and development of Kiswahili literature, the emergence of written literatures in other indigenous languages, and the birth of a literature (or perhaps, more correctly, of several literatures) in English. Notes. |