Ebrahim Hussein

Tanzanian playwright and poet (born 1943)

Ebrahim Hussein (born 1943 in Lindi, Tanganyika Territory) is a Tanzanian playwright and poet. His first play, Kinjeketile (1969), written in Swahili, and based on the life of Kinjikitile Ngwale, a leader of the Maji Maji Rebellion, is considered "a landmark of Tanzanian theatre". Hussein's work stands in a literary tradition expressed in the national language Swahili following the country's independence from the United Kingdom in 1961.

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