Professor Mohamed Hyder: ‘Ishi sana ufe Sana’.
On Thursday 23rd April 2020, we lost a dear friend, a parent, mentor, a brilliant scholar, a visionary, Professor Mohamed...
SLF: Swahili Identities & The Swahili Commemorative Hall
The form which the Swahili Literary Festival has assumed is such that we cannot talk of Swahili Identities without talking...
Swahili Literary Festival: Building a Generation of Critical Thinkers
The annual Swahili Literary Festival happened from 4th to 8th March 2020 under the theme “Identity Politics”, seeking...
FUAD NAHDI: AN APPRECIATION
By Professor Mohamed Bakari
Fuad Nahdi (1957-2020), a prominent British Muslim journalist, died in London on the 21st...
Swahili Literary Festival 2020: Identity Politics on the Swahili Coast
The Swahili Literary Festival, an annual event entering its second year, is a celebration of the rich intellectual, cultural...
Tea Tales Reading Club: Building a Sustainable Reading Ecosystem in the Swahili Coast.
It has been long propagated, erroneously I may add, that people from the Coast do not read. In a previous article, we...
HAI Book Hub: The Online Duka is open for business
Knowledge is created then disseminated through various methods, and bookstores play a vital role in the knowledge economy....
THE LATE PROF. ALI A. MAZRUI’S IMPACT ON OUR GENERATION OF SCHOLARS
This lecture, “THE LATE PROF. ALI A. MAZRUI’S IMPACT ON OUR GENERATION OF SCHOLARS”, was delivered by Professor...
Swahili Literary Festival 2019: Looking Back
March 2019 marked the first instalment of the annual Swahili Literary Festival, the inaugural theme being “Celebrating...
Maalim Shihab and identity politics in the Swahili Coast.
To read Latifa Chiragdhin’s ‘Shihabuddin Chiraghdin: Life Journey of a Swahili Scholar’, (available on Amazon) a biography...