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....
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...
IPA Seminar: Africa Rising.
The thought of speaking before an audience numbering a thousand or more filled me with an equal amount of excitement...
The Hunters of Akebu-lani
Thousands of our kinds were killed that time, but history won’t remember a single one. We arrived at Mutara wa Tsatsu...
Traveling Story
“Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can’t remember who we are or why we’re here.” —...
Article one: African fabrics and the role of Khanga in Swahili cultural preservation
“…For literature to remain a veritable tool and agent of social change, it must continue to reflect the conflicts...
Amarula, a play: Thematic plurality.
There is nothing like a live performance. You can look at things on television, and you can look at things on YouTube,...
The Ghosts of 1589
As the sun plunges into the westerly end of the ocean in slow motion, basketball-like, beyond the weather-beaten skyscrapers...
Strangers in their own land.
Webs of lines are etched deeply into his face. A set of languid, deeply burrowed eyes tell the tale of a man tortured...