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Euphrase Kezilahabi

Died in 2020

Euphrase Kezilahabi was born in 1944 on the Tanzanian island of Ukerewe. A graduate of the University of Dar es Salaam in 1970, then a doctor of the University of Wisconsin, he taught in Tanzanian secondary schools, in the Swahili department of the University of Dar es Salaam, then at the University of Botswana. A novelist, poet and academic, he was the first to break with classical metre in Swahili. He died in 2020 in Dar es Salaam.

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