Kiswahili Oral Literature

This course provides knowledge in oral literature to students and it covers the following topics: theoretical background, oral artist as a marker and his/her place in society, oral performance, oral artist and the audience, stylistic oral literature and theatre, oral literature and musicology, different types of Kiswahili compositions and musical instruments, poetric Kiswahili as oral literature, malumbano, vijarabu, vitendawili and narrative oral literature.