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Zanzibar’s Nobel Laureate
Afterlives – His Latest BookAuthor: Abdulrazak Gurnah Reviewer: Karen Rothmyer When I started reading one of Abdulrazak Gurnah’s…
History is Written by the Victors ……They Say
I grew up, and lived the greater part of my life, in Mombasa which like the rest of…
Finding My Own Story – By The Sea
Books come into your life for a reason. My first encounter with By the Sea was seven years ago.…
Zanzibar Stories
We take vicarious pleasure and pride in the achievements of those we love: family and friends, naturally. Beyond…
On Being Swahili In Gurnah’s Fiction: A Brief Note
The identity of the Swahili has long been a subject of discussion and debate among the peoples…
Abdulrazak Gurnah The ‘Nobelist’
Zanzibar borne British novelist Abdulrazak Salim Gurnah, active in England, won the Nobel Prize in Literature for the…
The Meaning Of A Man By The Sea: Ruminations
I met Professor Abdulrazak Gurnah, through literature. Bookstop Kenya’s iconic Chan, had selected ‘By the Sea’ for me…
Abdulrazak Gurnah – Something Inside Him, So Strong … As the Song Goes.
I read Paradise in 1995 and then again in 2009 just before I went to Zanzibar to make…
Cosmopolitanism and Identity on The East Coast of Africa
At a recent discussion hosted by the University of Kent,[1] Abdulrazak Gurnah touched on the issue of identity…