‘Killing’ Shaaban Robert books: Big social crime

Bila shaka Mtanzania yeyote ambaye amesoma shule ameshawahi kusikia jina la Sheikh Shaaban Robert. Hii ni kwa sababu amefahamika sana kutokana  na vitabu alivyoandika ambavyo vimekubaliwa na Wizara ya Elimu katika wakati tofauti kuwa ni vitabu vya kiada kwa somo la Kiswahili katika shule.

Shaaban ni maarufu, kwa wanalugha nchini, Alikuwa ni mrefu, mwembamba wa wastani, Na leo tunamsifu  mchango wake Shaabani Mungu amlaze pema, mahali pema peponi.  

Na Profesa Mbele
Jina la Shaaban Robert ni maarufu miongoni mwa wa-Tanzania na wengine wa nchi zingine wanaokijua ki-Swahili. Lakini, tujiulize ni wa-Tanzania wepi ambao wamesoma angalau vitabu vichache vya Shaaban Robert. 

Ni wangapi wamesoma au wanasoma mashairi yake, tenzi zake, insha zake, barua zake, na riwaya zake?
Ni wangapi wamesoma vitabu vyake vingine, kama vile Wasifu wa Siti Binti Saad, Maisha Yangu na Baada ya Miaka Hamsini, na tafsiri yake ya mashairi ya Omar Khayyam? Kama hatuna...

Shaaban Robert kamwe hatasahaulika katika kumbukumbu za wapenzi wa Kiswahili. Jina la gwiji huyu linapotajwa na kugonga masikioni mwa wakereketwa wa Kiswahili, hisia za aina yake huibuka.

>Generations of students studied his epic novel Kusadikika, an allegorical work of an imaginary state in which injustices are perpetrated against all notions of justice, law and humanity.

Tanzania na Afrika zina mashujaa wengi. Baadhi yao hawatajulikana kwa sababu habari zao hazikutangazwa. Walitenda mema wakaondoka zao. Wengine tunao humu mitaani na vijijini, wanafanya mazuri kimya kimya.

Libyan author Mansour Bushnaf says Libya does not have much of reading culture because under Col Muammar Gaddafi, people were afraid of books.

Africa's security threat as more services go online

Sir Emeka Offor Foundation and Books For Africa (BFA) to Donate 20000 Books ...
GlobeNewswire (press release)
ABUJA, Nigeria, March 12, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Sir Emeka Offor Foundation, a non-governmental, philanthropic organization focused on youth employment, widows cooperative, education, healthcare and infrastructural development, is set to ...