{"id":87,"date":"2014-08-02T14:35:38","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T21:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/?page_id=87"},"modified":"2026-05-27T10:48:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T17:48:37","slug":"ahmed-sheikh-nabhany","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/?page_id=87","title":{"rendered":"Ahmed Sheikh Nabhany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_105\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/DSCN2702-Nabhanyat-Fort-Jesus-e1407177402927.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-105 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/DSCN2702-Nabhanyat-Fort-Jesus-e1407177402927-686x1024.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN2702 Nabhanyat Fort Jesus\" width=\"474\" height=\"707\" srcset=\"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/DSCN2702-Nabhanyat-Fort-Jesus-e1407177402927-686x1024.jpg 686w, http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/DSCN2702-Nabhanyat-Fort-Jesus-e1407177402927-201x300.jpg 201w, http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/DSCN2702-Nabhanyat-Fort-Jesus-e1407177402927.jpg 1228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-105\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<h3>Ahmed Sheikh Nabhany Swahili Poet and Scholar<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;\">For a recent biography see\u00a0Wasifu wa Ahmed Sheikh Nabhany by Amira Msellem Said (2012, JC Press). For a list of Nabhany&#8217;s writings see the Bibliography.<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Media presentations:\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lj2eCMc3Tok\">Nabhany on Swahili Poetry 2010<\/a>\u00a0and \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pUKXyl9BW3Y\">Inauguration of Nabhany Biography (Kenyatta University 2012)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/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-87","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87","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=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87\/revisions\/700"}],"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=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}