Kezilahabi, Euphrase

Kezilahabi, Euphrase

▪ Tanzanian author
born April 13, 1944, Ukerewe, Tanganyika [now in Tanzania]

      Tanzanian novelist, poet, and scholar writing in Swahili.

      Kezilahabi received his B.A. from the University of Dar es-Salaam in 1970, taught in various schools throughout his country, and then returned to the university to take graduate work and teach in the department of Swahili. He later completed his graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin in the United States.

      Kezilahabi's first novel, Rosa Mistika (1971 and 1981), which dealt with the abuse of schoolgirls by their teachers, was a popular success and, though at first banned for classroom use, was later adopted as a standard book for secondary schools in Tanzania and Kenya. His later novels included Kichwamaji (1974; “Waterhead”), Dunia Uwanja wa Fujo (1975; “The World Is a Chaotic Place”), and Gamba la Nyoka (1979; “The Snake's Skin”). The recurrent theme of Kezilahabi's fiction is the difficulty of an individual's integration into a society that is undergoing the stresses brought on not only by development and urbanization but also by the Tanzanian experiment with African socialism (ujamaa), begun in the late 1960s.

      Kezilahabi's poems, such as those in Kichomi (1974; “Stabbing Pain”), stirred some controversy on the Swahili literary scene. He broke with the formal traditions of Swahili poetry and argued and demonstrated the legitimacy of the use of blank verse in the language, becoming the first Swahili writer to attempt such innovation.

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