Will Kiswahili poetry survive the whims of spoken language pollution?

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Today, writing helps preserve the richness of poetry, especially from the risk of disappearing when it is shared only orally. With time, the written poems (in paper books) may also become vulnerable, unless they are digitised.

Poetry is beyond rhymes and play of words; it is an art that enables poets to carefully express deeper thoughts and meaningful mental constructions that simple conversational words cannot present sufficiently. It is an art because we enjoy its richness, especially as it informs both the society about itself and the outside world and the world about itself and its relationship with that particular society. This creates an inward and outward dynamic. With language as the vehicle and guardian of poetry’s treasures, it follows that when a language is polluted, the poetry of that language suffers, as does the understanding of the poetic corpus that has endured for generations before such pollution. Dynamics of languages are diverse and are often irreversible if appropriate action is not taken.

Will Kiswahili poetry survive the whims of spoken language pollution?

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