{"id":520,"date":"2022-07-26T14:34:35","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T14:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.r-prins.com\/?p=520"},"modified":"2022-07-26T14:34:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T14:34:36","slug":"swahili-hip-hop-in-translation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.r-prins.com\/?p=520","title":{"rendered":"Swahili hip-hop in translation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I translated three Swahili hip-hop songs by my frequent collaborator Sloter and his legendary duo LWP Majitu, and they are up today on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asymptotejournal.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/26\/translation-tuesday-three-hip-hop-songs-from-the-swahili\/\">&#8220;Translation Tuesdays&#8221;<\/a> feature of <em>Asymptote<\/em>&#8216;s blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No matter what language you&#8217;re speaking, hip-hop has been a vehicle for some of the best verse of the last few decades, and Tanzania is no exception. Though I&#8217;ve spent much of the last year focused on the classical 19th century poetry of Muyaka bin Haji al-Ghassaniy, I am continually struck by the myriad ways in which LWP echoes his humorous and satirical portraits of daily life, whether it&#8217;s 19th century Mombasa or modern day Dar es Salaam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several of my translations of Muyaka have also appeared recently &#8211; and several more are forthcoming. You can simply click the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.r-prins.com\/?page_id=110\">&#8220;Swahili Translation&#8221;<\/a> tab above to continue perusing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I translated three Swahili hip-hop songs by my frequent collaborator Sloter and his legendary duo LWP Majitu, and they are up today on the &#8220;Translation Tuesdays&#8221; feature of Asymptote&#8216;s blog. No matter what language you&#8217;re speaking, hip-hop has been a vehicle for some of the best verse of the last few decades, and Tanzania is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.r-prins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.r-prins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.r-prins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.r-prins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.r-prins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.r-prins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":521,"href":"http:\/\/www.r-prins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions\/521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.r-prins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.r-prins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.r-prins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}