"Kiswahili !!": Original Audio Field Recording of the Poem Recited by its Author Sheikh Mahmud Ahmed Abdull Kadir (Ustadh Mau)

This deposit contains the original 2005 audio field recording of the poem "Kiswahili !!", recited by its author, the prominent Lamu poet Sheikh Mahmud Ahmed Abdull Kadir, widely known as Ustadh Mahmoud Mau.

Recorded directly in the Lamu archipelago (Kenya) by Dr. Mathieu Roy, this acoustic archive constitutes the primary source material for the subsequent phonetic (IPA), phonological, and morphological analyses of the Kiamu dialect. Through this vocal performance, Ustadh Mau passionately articulates a Swahili cultural nationalism, reclaiming the language for its native speakers against its broader, non-native continental appropriation.

For exact archival provenance, this specific recording was originally captured and cataloged on the researcher's "Blue" field minidisc (track 2, timestamp 06:53 to 12:20). This unaltered audio file serves as an invaluable primary resource for linguists, anthropologists, and scholars of modern African literature, offering the authentic prosody and phonetic realization of Kiamu poetry by one of its greatest contemporary masters.