Euphrase Kezilahabi Explained

Euphrase Kezilahabi
Birth Date:	April 13, 1944
Birth Place:	Ukerewe Island
Death Date:	January 9, 2020
Death Place:	Dar es Salaam
Nationality:	Tanzanian

Euphrase Kezilahabi (13 April 1944 – 9 January 2020)^[1] was a Tanzanian novelist, poet, and scholar.^[2] Born in Ukerewe, Tanganyika (now in Ukerewe District of Mwanza Region in Tanzania), he last worked at the University of Botswana, as an associate professor at the Department of African Languages (now African Cultural Department).^[3]

He wrote in Swahili, and delivered talks on subjects such as 'Aesthetic Ambivalence in Modern Swahili' and 'The Concept of the Hero in African Fiction'.

Works

• Stray Truths: Selected Poems of Euphrase Kezilahabi (Translations by Annmarie Drury) - 2015^[4]
• Mzingile - 1991
• Nagona - 1990
• Karibu Ndani - 1988
• Rosa Mistika - 1988
• Dunia Uwanja wa Fujo (2007)
• Kichwamaji (1974)
• Gamba la Nyoka (2006)
• The Concept of the Hero in African Fiction - 1983
• Translations by the Poetry Translation Centre.^[5]

Influenced

• Vincent R. Ogoti

References

1. Web site: Professor Kezilahabi, 'Mayai Waziri Wa Maradhi' writer, is dead . Vincent . Asibabi . 10 January 2020. 11 January 2020.
2. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/315981/Euphrase-Kezilahabi Bio
3. http://lang.nalrc.wisc.edu/reports/alta/2003.html NALRC
4. Web site: MSU Press Stray Truths. Michigan State University Press. en-US. 2020-01-18.
5. Web site: Euphrase Kezilahabi. www.poetrytranslation.org. 2016-03-24.