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Shafi Adam Shafi

Shafi Adam Shafi, whom the French editions name Adam Shafi Adam, was born in 1940 in Zanzibar. In the early sixties, after a long journey through Kenya, Uganda, Sudan and Egypt, he studied economics in East Germany, then journalism in Czechoslovakia, and worked in the seventies for the Tanzanian socialist press. He wrote all his novels in Swahili, chaired from 1998 to 2002 the association of authors of Tanzania, then the country's book council, and continues to publish fiction and essays.

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