‘Literature can be a tool to fight oppression’

He is seldom heard, he seldom speaks in public. The last time he gave a speech in front of a crowd was at the poetry prize giving event that has been named in his honour, Ebrahim Hussein Poetry Prize for Kiswahili writing.

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

11 years ago

AllAfrica.Com

24 Jul

Campaign Begins in Zanzibar As Tool to Fight Gender Violence

Campaign Begins in Zanzibar As Tool to Fight Gender Violence
AllAfrica.com
AN upsetting story happened recently about partners who gave away an infant because they did not want to raise the kid born outside marriage. A man, father of the baby, from Dodoma and a Zanzibari lady, fell into love and unexpectedly had pregnancy!

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

29 Aug

INSIGHT: Oppression of African women -- The origins

Unbeknown to many, most of human history took place in Africa, where women were equal, if not superior, to men. For thousands of years, African societies were matriarchal and they prospered. By bringing an oppressive form of Colonial Christianity to Africa, Europeans replaced millennia of prosperous matriarchy with oppressive patriarchy.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

28 Jan

She loves African literature

Fausta Musokwa is a programme officer at a non-profit civil group, HakiElimu, which is devoted to promoting educational equity, creativity and critical thinking in Tanzania.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

01 Apr

Why we are not reading our local literature

I do not like to read books, starts Mbeya City Librarian Ms Sophia Liboke. “I only read because this is my job,” she adds. As you look around the library, located in a city of more than 700,000 people, you see a lot of dusty English books

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

11 Aug

Semzaba talks about Tanzanian literature

While driving back from Mlandizi town inside his five-door Suzuki Vitara, Edwin Semzaba was told to pull over by some six traffic police officers manning the coastal lane.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

08 Jul

A moment with top publisher of African literature

Becky Ayebia Clarke is a Ghanaian Publisher based in Oxfordshire. She set up Ayebia Clarke Literary Agency & Publishing Limited in 2003 with her husband David.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

07 Jan

COVER: Shaaban Robert: Father of Kiswahili literature

>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.

 

5 years ago

The Citizen Daily

03 Mar

From novice writer to winner of prize in Kiswahili literature

From novice writer to winner of prize in Kiswahili literature  The Citizen Daily

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

11 Jun

Mass media: A tool for PR?

Dar es Salaam. I wrote a few weeks ago in this very column about the unhealthy relationship between the mass media and the government and other power elements.

 

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