4 must-read books from east Africa in 2023: from Tanzanian masters to Ugandan queens
EAST African literature continues to grow and reshape itself in exciting new ways – and 2023 was no exception. The world really did take notice of the region when Tanzanian-British author Abdulrazak Gurnah won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2021. Interest in Gurnah’s work continued last year when he made a homecoming to East Africa. PETER KIMANI, Professor of Practice, Aga Khan University Graduate School of Media and Communications (GSMC) But it is in Tanzania that Gurnah made a proper homecoming in 2023 – through the first ever Kiswahili translation of Paradise, now out as Peponi. I am an…