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Written with many features taken from the oral tradition, this play is about the attempts of women to heave the “mother- pillar,” which symbolizes peace and prosperity for women. Their attempts fail due to lack of unity and tenacity.

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This work consists of correspondence written by Shaaban Robert to his half-brother, Yusuf Ulenge. The letters were collected and published posthumously, over forty years after Robert’s death. As stated in the note of the KU catalog record, the…

Shaaban Robert was, above all, a poet. As noted on the back cover of this volume, “. . . the poems appearing here cover the entire spectrum of human existence: youth and old age, morality and religion, politics, the beauty and signification of…

A socio-politically committed play that criticizes some of the shortcomings of the ujamaa village scheme, particularly the dishonesty of the leaders and laziness of some of the villagers.

Call Number: PZ90.S94 N45

Translation of Caitani mutharaba-ini , originally written in Kikikuyu by the well-known Kenyan author, Ngugi wa Thiong’o.

Call Number: PL8379.9 .N4 C319 1997

Julius Nyerere's speech on freedom and progress.

Call Number: DT448.2 .N94 1967

Julius Nyerere's speech on the importance of the socialist scheme he introduced into Tanzania during his presidency.

Call Number: DT448.2 .N94 1967

Includes essays on development, progress, work, and freedom, also published under the English title, Man and Development.

Call Number: DT448.2 .N8819

This autobiographical work, a sequel to the previously published "Maisha yangu", was written when Robert was 50 years of age, just a few years before his death in 1962. Robert frequently interspersed passages of poetry into his prose texts. In this…

A praise poem commemorating the life and accomplishments of the Zanzibari Taarab musician, Siti binti Saad.

Also included in the exhibit from this series are Insha na mashairi v. 5; Utubora mkulima v.8; Siku ya watenzi wote v. 9.

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