Title: 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
Places: Somalia
People: Maxamad Cabdulle Xasan (1864-1920)