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The medicine man: Swifa ya Nguvumali;

Title: The medicine man: Swifa ya Nguvumali; edited and translated by Peter Lienhardt.
Author: Hasani Bin Ismail.
Publication: Oxford, London, Clarendon Press, 1968.

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Additional Authors

Lienhardt, Peter.

Description

vii, 208 p.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Oxford library of African literature

Alternative Title

Swifa ya Nguvumali.

Subject

Note

Introd. and appendix in English; poem in English and Swahili.
"This modern Swahili ballad tells of a murder investigation in Tanzania ... In the introduction Peter Lienhardt discusses the social and cultural background of the poem." - Dust jacket.

Call Number

Sc 496.3-H (Hasani Bin Ismail. Medicine man)

ISBN

0198151217

LCCN

68102665

OCLC

Author

Hasani Bin Ismail.

Title

The medicine man: Swifa ya Nguvumali; edited and translated by Peter Lienhardt.

Imprint

Oxford, London, Clarendon Press, 1968.

Series

Oxford library of African literature

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Lienhardt, Peter.

Added Title

Swifa ya Nguvumali.

Research Call Number

Sc 496.3-H (Hasani Bin Ismail. Medicine man)

D 18-2618