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Shaaban bin Robert, also known as Shaaban Robert (1 January 1909 – 20 June 1962), was a Tanzanian poet, author, and essayist who supported the preservation of Tanzanian verse traditions. [2] Robert is celebrated as one of the greatest Tanzanian Swahili thinkers, intellectuals and writers in East Africa and has been called "poet laureate of ...
Tanzania's written literary tradition has produced relatively few writers and works; Tanzania does not have a strong reading culture, and books are often expensive and hard to come by. [1] Most Tanzanian literature is orally performed or written in Swahili, and a smaller number of works have been published in English. [ 1 ]
Shaaban Robert (1909–1962), Swahili novelist and poet; Emily Ruete (1844–1924), Princess of Zanzibar; Gabriel Ruhumbika (b. 1938), novelist and short story writer [Killam & Rowe] Edwin Semzaba, novelist, playwright, actor and director; Robert Bin Shaaban (1902–1962), poet, author and essayist; Shafi Adam Shafi, Swahili novelist [9]
Siti kept up her musical pursuits well into old life. She met the well-known author and poet Shaaban Robert not long before she died. He interviewed her for a biography he was writing for a book he called "Wasifu wa Siti binti Saad." Tanzanian secondary schools teach this biography, which is regarded as some of the country's best writing.
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Nagy, Géza Füssi, The rise of Swahili literature and the œuvre of Shaaban bin Robert (Academic journal) Topan, Farouk, Why Does a Swahili Writer Write? Euphoria, Pain, and Popular Aspirations in Swahili Literature (Academic journal) Lodhi, Abdulaziz Y. and Lars Ahrenberg (1985) Swahililitteratur - en kort šversikt. (Swahili literature: a ...