Taking a feminist approach to subjects such as motherhood, class, colorism, and the implications of human-caused climate collapse, The Witness of Nina Nvungi and Other Stories by Esther Karin Mngodo i...

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Across the collection, these stories are unforgiving and gut-wrenching, a reminder that reality is often the same.

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The Witness of Nina Mvungi and Other Stories is the first full-length book of fiction by award-winning contemporary Tanzanian author Esther Karin Mngodo. Its seven stories, translated from Swahili, ra...

The first thing every albino learns is that they are rare goods. And I mean “goods” in the literal sense. We don’t need a special cram course to understand we’re precious commodities; people hunt us d...

Winner of the 2025 Loose Translation Award, a collaboration between CUNY Queens and Hanging Loose Press.

A review, and links to other information about and reviews of Rosa Mistika by Euphrase Kezilahabi.

A controversial Swahili classic by one of Tanzania’s most revered writers, banned on publication and finally translated into English   Teenage Rosa lives ...

LIST OF CHARACTERSTHE CHIEFTHE LAME MANTHE BLIND MANTHE BLIND MAN’S FATHERSouthern Africa, in the turbulent years of the Lifaqane (be

JAY BOSS RUBIN <br> To be denied the ability to determine one’s fate and fulfill one’s potential is sometimes a societal theft, sometimes an imperial one, sometimes both. But ambition that holds no…

Majaji wamekwishachuja miswada bora na kuwasilisha orodha teule ya maandishi bunifu katika nyanja za riwaya, ushairi, tamthiliya na hadithi za watoto.