Vol. 49, No. 1, Interrogating the Postnation in African Literary Writing: Localities and Globalities (Spring 2018), pp. 117-144 (28 pages) This essay interrogates the “postnation” in contemporary ...

Abdulrazak Gurnah, the Zanzibari-born 2021 Nobel Literature laureate's grand homecoming was punctuated by the translation of his masterpiece, Paradise, into Kiswahili. His publisher, Mkuki Bgoya, ...

The Kenyan author Ken Walibora who was buried last week left behind a generation of fans who read his books in Swahili classes, including the BBC's Basillioh Mutahi. Prof Walibora was renowned for ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article traces the history of the Swahili novel in its development from realism to experimental prose and follows the experimental phase ...

July 7 has so much significance for Swahili and Swahili speakers. Besides the Saba Saba civil disobedience proposed by the opposition, the name itself is a Swahili phrase to mean the seventh day of ...