54:(or Siyu), with whom she had two children. Mataka died in 1856; two years later, Mwana Kupona wrote her famous poem, dedicated to her 14-year-old daughter Mwana Heshima. Mwana Kupona died around 1865 of uterine
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238:Mwana Kupona: Poetess from Lamu
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349:19th-century Kenyan writers
207:Is one thousand two hundred
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20:Mwana Kupona binti Msham
180:The author of this work
127:Ni gharibu mwenye hamu
122:Mwenye kutunga nudhumu
63:Utendi wa Mwana Kupona
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26:, died c. 1865) was a
219:References in culture
189:The Lord will forgive
329:Kenyan women writers
232:published in 2000 a
183:is a sorrowful widow
167:Ni alifu wa miyateni
162:Tarikhiye kwa yakini
287:Daughters of Africa
204:The date in reality
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132:Na ubora wa ithimu
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245:See also
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86:Biblical
82:mystical
74:marriage
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226:Kenyan
45:sheikh
257:Notes
224:The
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