Ahmed Sheikh Nabhany
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Late Ahmed Sheikh Nabhany was born on 27 November 1927 in Matondoni on Lamu Island. His parents died when he was a child, and he was raised by his grandmother Amina Abubakar Sheikh.[1][2] Ahmed Sheikh Nabhany was one of the most well known swahili poets and scholars from Kenya and his first wife Khadija was also a poet as well[3].
Death of Ahmed Sheikh Nabhany
He died of complication of old age at his house in Matondoni. He was buried at Muslim Cemetery at Matondoni in Lamu Island.[4] The death of Ahmed Sheikh Nabhany represents a tragic loss it's a terrible on in both our intellectual and moral lives. Ahmed Sheikh Nabhany leaves behind a widow and three children.
Education Background
Late Ahmed Sheikh Nabhany had no other formal education, he attended a local Islamic school at Riyadha Mosque in Lamu, Late Ahmed Sheikh Nabhany was regarded as a Kiswahili poet and a scholar. He studied Islam in Lamu and learnt poetry from his grand mother Amina Abubakar Sheikh.[1]
Nabhany was a self-trained scholar who has assisted many academics in their research and worked through various fields of Swahili cultural knowledge. While in Mombasa he also attended evening classes in English language, Nabhany was also passably fluent in conversational Arabic.
Contribution
[5]Ahmed Sheikh Nabhany Moved in Mombasa where he worked as a government official, as a civil servant for district commissioner. He taught many Kiswahili students from several European universities who frequented his residence in old town, while undertaking their research and thesis. Ahmed Sheikh Nabhany was the brain behind the establishment of the National Museums of Kenya and operated the Research institute of Swahili studies of eastern Africa. The institute's focus is to develop speaking, listening, reading and writing skills for beginners. He also contributed to the development of the Kiswahili language and was a visiting professor at university in the US and German, among other countries[4]. His poems and anthologies have been published since the early 1970s in a local and journals at home and abroad. His distinct contribution to the Swahili language has been formally acknowledged by Kenyatta University in Nairobi.
Awards
Nabhany was one of the scholar recognized for his Key role in the development of African Literature.[6] Ahmed Sheikh Nabhany was also credited with assisting in the collection of Swahili and Arabic manuscripts for the university of Dar es salam as well as the translation of Swahili Arabic manuscripts for the Hamburg University in Germany. He was awarded honorary doctorate at the Islamic university of Mbale in Uganda, where he taught repeatedly as a lecturer. He also won several high-profile scholarship for his visit to German and US( such as DAAD and Fulbright).
Publications
Nabhany uses poetry for documentary and storing cultural knowledge, he has composed many poems that deal with or play upon a certain aspect of swahili life. Nabhany has published long didactic poems on religious practice known as Mwangaza wa Dini 1976 in Kiswahili Language, on peculiar kind of sailing ship he wrote a poem Sambo ya Kiwandeo 1979[7] and on the importance of coconut tree of swahili life he wrote a peom known as Umbuji was mnazi,1985[8].
References
- ^ a b Jumbe, Ishaq. "Kenya's Kiswahili guru Professor Ahmed Sheikh Nabhani is dead". The Standard. Retrieved 2024-05-06.
- ^ Nabhany, Ahmed Sheikh (1979). Miehe Schadeberg, Gudrun and Thilo C. (ed.). Sambo ya Kiwandeo. Afrika-Studiescentrum, Leiden. pp. XI.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Kresse, Kai (May 16,2007). Philosophising in Mombasa Knowledge, Islam and intellectual practice in the Swahili Coast. Edinburgh University Press. p. 288. ISBN 9780748631735.
{{cite book}}: Check date values in:|date=(help)CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ a b "Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed Nabhany takes final bow". Nation. 2020-06-28. Retrieved 2024-05-06.
- ^ Swahili Poetry Anthology. Vol. 1. Translated by Shariff and Fiedel, Ibrahim Noor and Jan. Mascat Sultan of Oman: Horizon Art. 2020. p. 7. ISBN 978-99969-4-640-0.
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{{cite web}}:|first=has generic name (help) - ^ Nabhany, Ahmed Sheikh; Miehe, Gudrun; Schadeberg, Thilo (1979-01-01). Sambo ya Kiwandeo. African Studies Centre Leiden.
- ^ El-Maawy, A. A. A.; Nabhany, Ahmed Sheikh (1985-01-01). Umbuji wa Mnazi.