List of Tanzanian writers

This is a list of Tanzanian writers.

• Agoro Anduru (1948–1992), short story writer^{[Killam & Rowe]}
• Mark Behr (1963– ), fiction writer also connected with South Africa
• Chachage Seithy Chachage (1955–2006), sociologist and Swahili novelist^[1]
• Abdulrazak Gurnah (1948– ), novelist and critic^{[Gikandi] [Killam & Rowe]}
• Ebrahim N. Hussein (1943– ), playwright, essayist, poet and translator^{[Gikandi] [Gikandi & Mwangi] [Killam & Rowe]}
• Prince Kagwema (1931– ), novelist^{[Killam & Rowe]}
• Euphrase Kezilahabi (1944– ), novelist, poet and scholar
• Jacqueline Kibacha, poet^[2]
• Aniceti Kitereza (1896–1981), novelist
• Elieshi Lema (1949– ), novelist, children's author and publisher^[3]
• Amandina Lihamba (1944– ), playwright^[4]
• Ismael R. Mbise, novelist and academic^[Gikandi]
• Penina Mlama, playwright^[5]
• Sandra A. Mushi, poet^[6]
• Elvis Musiba ( –2010), businessman and Swahili novelist^[7]
• Godfrey Mwakikagile (1949– ), writer and specialist in African studies
• Christopher Mwashinga (1965–), poet, Christian non-fiction writer, and essayist
• Ras Nas, musician and poet
• Julius Nyerere (1922–1999), politician and writer^{[Gikandi & Mwangi]}
• Peter Palangyo (1939–1993), novelist^{[Gikandi] [Gikandi & Mwangi] [Killam & Rowe]}
• Hammie Rajab, Swahili novelist^[8]
• Shaaban Robert (1909–1962), Swahili novelist and poet^[Gikandi]
• Gabriel Ruhumbika (1938– ), novelist and short story writer^{[Gikandi] [Killam & Rowe]}
• Edwin Semzaba, novelist, playwright, actor and director
• Robert Bin Shaaban (1902–1962), poet, author and essayist
• Shafi Adam Shafi, Swahili novelist^[9]

See also

• List of African writers by country
• List of Tanzanians

References

1. Chachage Seithy L. Chachage (9 July 2006). "Michigan State University Press: Chachage Seithy L. Chachage". Msupress.msu.edu. Retrieved 2011-11-11.
2. Jacqueline Kibacha, social justice poet and activist.The AfroNews, 15 December 2009.
3. "Elieshi Lema (Tanzania)". Centre for Creative Arts. Retrieved 2015-08-30.
4. 'Lihamba, Amandina', in Simon Gikandi & Evan Mwangi, The Columbia Guide to East African Literature in English Since 1945, pp. 94–5.
5. Lee Nichols, Conversations with African Writers: interviews with twenty-six African authors, 1981, pp. 139ff.
6. Profiled in Soma Magazine
7. Judica Tarimo, EA Community mourns Musiba, IPP Media, 4 November 2010.
8. Mikhail D. Gromov, Swahili Popular Literature in Recent Years, Swahili Forum 15 (2008):5–13
9. Xavier Garnier, Le roman swahili: la notion de littérature mineure à l'épreuve, 2006, p. 122.

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1. [Gikandi] Simon Gikandi, ed., Encyclopedia of African Literature. Routledge; 2002. ISBN 978-0-415-23019-3
2. [Killam & Rowe] Douglas Killam & Ruth Rowe, eds., The Companion to African Literatures. James Currey & Indiana University Press; 2000. ISBN 0-253-33633-3