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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...