Maisha ya Haji Gora
Subtitle: msanii atayedumu milele
By: Ally Saleh
Edition: Toleo la pili.
Publisher: Emerson's Zanzibar Foundation
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Zanzibar
Language: swa
Number of pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9789976895384
Subjects: Tanzanian Poets; Biography; Swahili poetry; History and criticism
Other titles: Haji Gora
Description: About the life and times of Haji Gora, a Swahili poet from Tumbatu, Zanzibar. While making a living from the sea as a fisherman, porter in the harbour, sailor and transporter of cloves, he has been composing, since 1955, a large amount of ngoma and taarab songs, riddles, tenzi and mashairi.
Notes: In Swahili.