Muhammed Said Abdulla

Muhammed Said Abdulla was born on 25 April 1918 in Zanzibar. After ten years as an inspector in the colonial health service, he turned to journalism: editor-in-chief of a newspaper on the island in 1948, then assistant editor of several others, he edited from 1958 until his retirement, in 1968, an agricultural journal in Swahili. He then gave the same detective six more novels, increasingly complex, in which the hero fights ignorance and superstition, and his books are read in schools in the region. He died in March 1991.

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• NovelMzimu wa Watu wa KaleMuhammed Said Abdulla · 1960not translated into EnglishLiterature