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Mayai-waziri wa maradhi: magic realism in Euphrase Kezilahabi\'s long time unpublished short story

This article will present a short story which appeared in the newspaper Mzalendo on the 15th January 1978, but it took twenty-six years before it was published in a book. Presumably it was written in the same period as both the play Kaputula la Marx and probably also as some of Kezilahabi’s poems from the second collection Karibu ndani (1988). It is a period of his most critical works. In Mayai – Waziri wa Maradhi the author blames, in a highly symbolic manner, the leading classes of his country who became rich at the expense of common citizens during ten years of Independence, symbolized by ten emaciated ghostly children.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:11484
Date January 2004
CreatorsBertoncini-Zúbková, Elena
ContributorsUniversity of Naples, Universität Mainz
Source SetsHochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typedoc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text
SourceSwahili Forum 11 (2004) S. 39-44
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Relationurn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-91576, qucosa:11539

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