It seems relevant in the context of Swahili language and politics to draw attention to Kamara Kusupa’s recently published prison memoir recounting his experience as political detainee in a Tanzanian prison.
George Orwell’s Animal Farm is quite possibly the most politicized text to be translated into the Swahili language. The text first appeared in 1967, the same year as the ujamaa socialist scheme was introduced in Tanzania. It was meant by the…