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The world really did take notice of the region when Tanzanian-British author Abdulrazak Gurnah won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2021. Interest in

The party is entangled in leadership contest that saw two camps emerge

Swahili readers who have not encountered Abdulrazak Gurnah’s work in other languages are in for a great treat.

It was a day full of fan and jubilation at the Kabaka's palace in Mengo on the official Buganda Kingdom new year fanfare. This is the official celebration at which the Kabaka officially ushers in...

Over 103 years ago, to this day, a Colonial Annual Report on the Uganda Protectorate was released. It covered a period of nine months, from the 1st April the December 31 1920, as the financial...

In her memoir, published earlier this year, the Nnaabagereka recounts her journey from New York, where she spent most of her childhood, to her unconventional courtship with the Kabaka

East African literature continues to grow and reshape itself in exciting new ways – and 2023 was no exception. The world really did take notice of the region when Tanzanian-British author Abdulrazak Gurnah won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2021. Interest in Gurnah’s work continued last year when he made a homecoming to east Africa. But it is in Tanzania that Gurnah made a proper homecoming in 2023 – through the first ever Kiswahili translation of Paradise, now out as Peponi.

Highlights range from the masterful Gurnah to stunning newcomers, a bold biography to a pacy memoir.

East African literature continues to grow and reshape itself in exciting new ways - and 2023 was no exception. The world really did take notice of the region