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  • TaleSwahili Tales, as Told by Natives of ZanzibarEdward Steere · 1870Tales of the Swahili coast, the cunning hare first among them, collected from the mouths of inhabitants of Zanzibar and printed with their English translation.Literature
  • NovelKusadikika: A Country in the SkyKusadikika, nchi iliyo anganiShaaban Robert · 1951A political fable about a country where one must believe without ever asking, written in Swahili at the height of colonisation.Literature
  • NovelMzimu wa Watu wa KaleMuhammed Said Abdulla · 1960not translated into EnglishA murder solved by a detective in the manner of Sherlock Holmes, transposed into the setting and language of Zanzibar.Literature
  • PoetryDiwani ya MnyampalaMathias Mnyampala · 1963not translated into EnglishThe personal collection of a great classical Swahili poet, in the aftermath of Tanganyika's independence.Literature
  • NovelDying in the SunPeter K. Palangyo · 1968A son's return to the bedside of an unloved father, in a village in northern Tanzania just after independence.Literature
  • TheatreKinjeketileEbrahim Hussein · 1969The 1905 uprising against Germany, brought to the stage in Swahili in the first years of independence.Literature
  • NovelVillage in UhuruGabriel Ruhumbika · 1969A village caught between clan and nation, at the moment when Tanganyika wins its sovereignty.Literature
  • NovelRosa MistikaEuphrase Kezilahabi · 1971The first novel of the great Swahili writer of Tanzania, about a girl left at the mercy of adults' abuses.Literature
  • TheatreHatiaPenina Mlama · 1972not translated into EnglishA young village girl lost in the big city, at a time when ujamaa promised to remake society starting from the villages.Literature
  • CinemaFimbo ya MnyongeAnonymous · 1974The film belongs to Tanzanian production of the 1970s, supervised by the state as part of the cultural policy of ujamaa.Cinema
  • NovelKasri ya Mwinyi FuadShafi Adam Shafi · 1978not translated into EnglishMasters and slaves of a great Zanzibari house, in the last days of the sultanate.Literature
  • TheatreHawala ya fedhaAmandina Lihamba · 1980not translated into EnglishA Swahili play drawn from a story by Sembène, a satire of postcolonial bureaucracy.Literature
  • CinemaArusi ya MariamuRon Mulvihill and Nangayoma Ng'oge · 1985Hospital medicine and the medicine of healers face to face, in the first co-production between Tanzania and the United States.Cinema
  • CinemaMama TumainiSigve Endresen and Martin Mhando · 1986The film belongs to the co-productions between Tanzania and Scandinavian cooperation, important in the country since the 1970s.Cinema
  • CinemaThese HandsFlora M'mbugu-Schelling · 1992A whole day in a quarry near the Tanzanian capital, with Mozambican refugee women who break stone by hand, without a word of commentary.Cinema
  • NovelParadiseAbdulrazak Gurnah · 1994The Swahili coast on the eve of the Great War, when the Europeans are finishing establishing themselves there and the trade with the interior is living its last years.Literature