{"id":432,"date":"2015-07-25T11:28:18","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T18:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/?page_id=432"},"modified":"2015-08-18T17:12:13","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T00:12:13","slug":"shaaban-robert","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/?page_id=432","title":{"rendered":"Shaaban Robert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shaaban Robert is probably the best known and celebrated modern East African poet. \u00a0He was born January 1, 1909 in the village of Vibamba south of the Tanzania town of Tanga. \u00a0He\u00a0died in a close-by village of Machui on June 20, 1962. \u00a0His poems have been widely published and republished in numerous publications. \u00a0His works have been the subject of critical analysis by East African academics; some of these works are listed in the Bibliography.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Shaaban_bin_Robert.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-439\" src=\"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Shaaban_bin_Robert-179x300.jpg\" alt=\"Shaaban_bin_Robert\" width=\"179\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Shaaban_bin_Robert-179x300.jpg 179w, http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Shaaban_bin_Robert.jpg 384w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 179px) 100vw, 179px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>His poems so far studied here are:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Amina (Amina, his wife&#8217;s name)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shaaban Robert is probably the best known and celebrated modern East African poet. \u00a0He was born January 1, 1909 in the village of Vibamba south of the Tanzania town of Tanga. \u00a0He\u00a0died in a close-by village of Machui on June 20, 1962. \u00a0His poems have been widely published and republished in numerous publications. \u00a0His works &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/?page_id=432\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shaaban Robert<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":60,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-432","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440,"href":"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/432\/revisions\/440"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}