The African Epic Controversy: Historical, Philosophical and Aesthetic Perspectives on Epic Poetry and Performance
Mugyabuso M. Mulokozi
ISBN 9976 686 29 X; 2003; 550pp TShs. 25,000.00
Mulokozi discusses African epic poetry from a context-performance perspective, and asserts that oral epic poetry is a living and lived events, besides being a literary text. As a whole, the study reaffirms the existence of the African epic, and generates new definitions and theoretical approaches taking forward scholarly debate on epic poetry in Africa.

Mr. Myombekere and His Wife Bugonoka, Their Son Ntulanalwo and Daughter Bulihwali: The Story of an Ancient African Community
Aniceti Kitereza
Translated from Kikerewe by Gabriel Ruhumbika
ISBN 9976 686 389; 2003 687pp; Tshs. 25,000
Aniceti Kitereza’s Mr. Myombekere and His Wife Bugonoka, Their Son Ntulanalwo and Daughter Bulihwali, is an extraordinary and moving book inspired in the author’s own words by “a deeply felt desire to preserve the customs and way of life of our ancestors, such as they actually lived them...Fearing this great way of life of our ancestors and the principles that governed them would one day disappear and be completely forgotten,
I felt I had to write them down, otherwise further generations of our people would lose their rightful heritage of the customs and traditions of
their ancestors.”

Malangatana
I. F. Malangatana
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Being Maasai
Thomas Spear and Richard Waller (eds.)
ISBN 85255 217 6 1993 336pp TShs. 8500.00
Historians, anthropologists and linguists examine how Maasai identity has been created, evoked, contested and transformed from their earliest settlement in East Africa.

Ebrahim Hussein: Swahili Theatre and Individualism
Alain Ricard
ISBN 9976 973 010 Pb 2000 160pp TShs. 5000.00
This is an engaging study on Tanzania’s most complex literary personality that will certainly generate debate about the man and his work.

From Ritual to Modern Art: Tradition and Modernity in Tanzanian Sculpture
Manfred Ewel and Anne Outwater (eds.)
9976 973 85 3 Pb Cp 2001 138pp TShs. 12000.00 (PB) Tshs. 20000.00 (HB)
For the first time, it can be shown that Tanzania, which had not figured prominently on the map of African art before, has brought forward a rich sculptural tradition of numerous styles and functions in the cultures of its many ethnic groups.

Mashindano: Competitive Music Performance
in East Africa
Frank Gunderson
ISBN 9976 973 829 2000 468pp TShs. 16000.00

Swahili Origins
James De Vere Allen
ISBN 0-85255-075-8 (PB) TShs. 8,500.00
0-85255-076-6 (HB) 272pp
Kiswahili has become the lingua franca of eastern Africa. Yet there can be few historic peoples whose identity
is as elusive as that of the Swahili. Some have
described themselves as Arabs, as Persians or even, in one place, as Portuguese. It is doubtful whether, even today, most of the people about whom this book is written would unhesitatingly and in all context accept
the name Swahili.

novels

A Wreath for Father Mayer
S.N. Ndunguru
9976 973 34 9 Pb 1997 176pp TShs. 3500.00
A cholera epidemic at a catholic mission station. A murder. A priest determined to solve the mystery. A series of fast action events at the station, in England, and at the Mission of St. Ottilien in Germany where Fr. Mayer, founder of the mission station, lies buried. Dreams, prayers and shrewed investigations lead to the arrest of the murderer. A moving and tough first novel.

Divine Providence
S.N. Ndunguru
ISBN 9976 973 53 5; 1999; 118pp; TShs. 3000.00
When Richard left his unfaithful wife and moved
to a new job in the capital, he never expected to become embroiled in a murder case at the Harbours Authority. Nor did he realise that the series of coincidences following his impulsive rescue of an English professor from drowning would lead to a reconciliation that could only have come through divine providence.

Salma’s Spirit
A.M. Hokororo
ISBN 9976 973 33 0; 1997; 140pp; TShs. 3000.00
The spiritual world is the backdrop of this fictional account of events believed to have taken place in Dar es Salaam. A boy meets a girl and the mystery starts. They go to the cinema and dinner, but when the boy calls at the girl’s house he finds that the Salma he was with has been dead for three years. The gripping story unfolds as Salma’s spirit appears and disappears making life unbearable for the boy and her grieving father.

Spared
Severin N. Ndunguru
ISBN 9987 417 04 3; 2004; 172pp; TShs: 3,500.00
Spared is a thriller. The story unfolds as Tanzanian officials, Chris and Tom, chat in the office about a forthcoming official mission to Sweden. When they get to Sweden, Linda, a daughter of a Swedish billionare is kidnapped. Chris who is a friend of the daughter’s father is determined to rescue the girl. Chris will succeed but, how and what happened thereafter? An unforgetable story that is well crafted and well written.