The dialogue of an author:

• Main Author: Bulcaen, Chris
• Other Authors: University of Antwerp, Linguistics
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig 2012
• Subjects: Swahili; Kezilahabi; Satire; Literatur; Tansania; Literature; Tanzania; ddc:496; außereuropäische Literatur
• Online Access: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-96426; http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-96426; http://www.qucosa.de/fileadmin/data/qucosa/documents/9642/4_06_bulcaen.pdf

In Swahili Forum III Elena Bertoncini-Zubkova (1996) discussed some of the political criticisms, expressed in the form of literary motifs and imagery, that emerged in the works of the Tanzanian Swahili writer Euphrase Kezilahabi since 1978 onwards. She situates this emergent critique in the new political discoursive context where critical reviews of the Ujamaa policy could now be publicly voiced since President Nyerere himself admitted the failure of Ujamaa in his delivery Azimio la Arusha baada ya Miaka Kumi (The Arusha Declaration Ten Years Later, 1977). According to Bertoncini this admission `clear[ed] the way for critical literary works` of which Kezilahabi satirical play Kaputula la Marx (Marx`s Shorts, 1978) and his short story Mayai- Waziri wa maradhi (Eggs- Minister of Sickness, 1978) were among the first.