geeraar

style of poetry

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place in African literature

  • Athol Fugard with John Kani and Winston Ntshona
    In African literature: Somali

    …chanted and usually moody, the geeraar, short and dealing with war, the buraambur, composed by women, the heello, or balwo, made up of short love poems and popular on the radio, and the hees, popular poetry. Maxamed Cabdulle Xasan (Mohammed Abdullah Hassan) created poetry as a weapon,

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