Oral poetry and Somali nationalism

Description:

"This is a study of the use of oratory and oratorical techniques as a tool to obtain political power in a traditional African society ... [with] focus on the political oratory of Sayyid Maḥammad ʻAbdille Ḥasan, the poet, mystic and warrior leader of the Somali anti-colonial movement at the turn of the century"--p. ix.

subjects: History and criticism,  Maxamad Cabdulle Xasan' Rebellion, Somalia, 1900-1920,  Political oratory,  Somali Folk literature,  Somali Revolutionary poetry,  Maxamad Cabdulle Xasan's Rebellion, Somalia, 1900-1920,  Revolutionary poetry, history and criticism,  Somali poetry, history and criticism,  Oratory

People: Maxamad Cabdulle Xasan (1864-1920)

Places: Somalia