{"id":550,"date":"2016-03-31T09:51:35","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T16:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/?page_id=550"},"modified":"2026-05-27T10:48:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T17:48:55","slug":"mussa-ally-salum-bakwila","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/?page_id=550","title":{"rendered":"Mussa Ally Salum Bwakila"},"content":{"rendered":"

 <\/p>\n

Mussa Ally Salum Bwakila, is a journalist, author, and poet from Morogoro who now lives in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. For more of his poetry see his Facebook page.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

.\"SONY<\/p>\n

His poetry:<\/p>\n

Amani unajifia!<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0“Oh Peace you are dying!”<\/span><\/p>\n

Udugu<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong>\u00a0“Brotherhood”<\/span><\/p>\n

Ni bora afaye macho<\/a><\/span> \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/strong>“Better is the\u00a0blind person”<\/span><\/p>\n

Check back for additional poems; they will be included as they are edited and glossaries developed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Mussa Ally Salum Bwakila, is a journalist, author, and poet from Morogoro who now lives in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. For more of his poetry see his Facebook page.   . His poetry: Amani unajifia! \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0“Oh Peace you are dying!” Udugu\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 … Continue reading Mussa Ally Salum Bwakila<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":60,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-550","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/550","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=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":806,"href":"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/550\/revisions\/806"}],"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=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}