The Collaborative International Dictionary
Kob \Kob\, Koba \Ko"ba\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of African antelopes of the genus Kobus, esp. the species Kobus sing-sing.
Wikipedia
Koba may refer to:
- Koba (sweet), a confectionery sweet
- Koba, a character from the 1883 novel The Patricide by Alexander Kazbegi
- Koba, a nickname used by Joseph Stalin
- Koba the Dread, a 2002 non-fiction book by Martin Amis
- Koba (play), a play by Raymond Williams, based on Stalin's life
- Kutama Old Boys Association, Zimbabwe
- Koba, Indonesia, a town in Bangka-Belitung, Indonesia
- Koba, Faranah, Guinea
- Koba, Kindia, Guinea
- Fitzroy Island (Queensland), originally Koba, an island off the coast of Far North Queensland, Australia
- Koba, a character from the 2011 film Warrior
- Koba, a character from the films Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Koba drama was written in 1958-59 by Raymond Williams. It was published in the 1966 edition of Modern Tragedy. The 1979 edition of Modern Tragedy does not include it.
The play involves fictitious characters, but parallels the life of Joseph Stalin. Characters include Peter, Max and George, along with Joseph - later Koba - and Jordan, based on Vladimir Lenin. It takes a mixed view of the Stalin-character:
LUKE: What we have really to face is how all this happened, how we became strong.
MARK: It was not only Koba. In many ways he made us weaker.
LUKE: But in other ways stronger.
(Act Two, Scene VII).
Raymond Williams's later thoughts on the play and the wider question of the Soviet Union can be found in Politics and Letters; Part V, Chapter 3.
Category:British plays
Koba is a sweet made from ground peanuts, brown sugar and rice flour. Koba hawkers are common in many Asian countries, and is a traditional food of Madagascar (where it is also known as kobindravina), especially in the highlands. In marketplaces and gas stations one may find vendors selling koba akondro, a sweet made by wrapping a batter of ground peanuts, mashed bananas, honey and corn flour in banana leaves and steaming or boiling the small cakes until the batter has set.
Usage examples of "koba".
Halfway through the telling, Koba came to squat beside them in the snow, to listen without comment, his eyes gleaming.
Though he retained in his brain the structure of every committee and sub-committee and steering group in the jellyfish tentacles of the Communist Party, he couldn't recall where he went to school, what his boyhood dog's name was or who it was that Koba had first killed: was he a little man with a black moustache?
Vosterov what happened on that night to him and the robber seemed like one of the old legends that were told about Koba, the Georgian Robin Hood.
In that case you, Boday, will be the warrior slave Koba and you, Charley, will be the courtesan slave Yssa, as before, and no torture, no spell, will prevail to get your true identity.
And so the great Koba had spent his energy not looking forward, not looking outward, but looking down.