Hadzabe: By the Light of a Million Fires

Daudi Peterson

Richard Baalow

Mkuki Na Nyota Publishers

This is the first cookbook with recipes for authentic Tanzania cuisine. As is known to all, spices are what distinguishes one recipe from another. Tanzania is abundantly endowed with numerous spices, most of which are available in their fresh state. Names of the spices in the book are given in both English and Swahili for those who want the freshest from sokoni (the local vegetable market) and for those who are near good vegetable markets elsewhere. 
This book will introduce you to locally available ingredients rich with local flavours. With the recipes provided by this book, you can prepare meals for a single person, several family members even a large gathering where good food is a prime component. They are also a great reminder of mama's cooking prepared with love. If you are away from her, you no longer need to stress about what to prepare-just turn to any page of the cookbook and start cooking.

Eva Pendaeli's Original Tanzania Cookbook (Tanzania Political Economy Series, 4, 4)

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Pendaeli-Sarakikya, Eva

Regional & International

Mirathi ya Hatari (Swahili Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Mung'ong'o, C. G

Genre Fiction

This story unfolds amidst the traditional social and cultural life of the people inhabiting Ukerewe in northern Tanzania. It tells of the lives of Mr Mr Myombekere and his wife Bugonoka whose love survives despite their failure to conceive children in a polygamous society where sterility is stigmatised, bearing children is a central source of meaning in life, and a man is expected to marry additional women until he produces a child. This couple remain committed only to one another and search for a cure to their ailment. Their actions strengthen their relationship, and they become an exemplary couple in their society, finally rewarded by the birth of a son and daughter. The genesis and evolution of Kitereza's epic novel and its context is as perhaps as remarkable as the work itself. Kitereza was born in Ukerewe in 1896 and wrote at the height of colonial rule, in part to preserve a culture threatened with extinction. He wished to keep alive the relationships of a people with one another and the land, and the spirit of cooperation on which their social life was based. He chose to write in his native Kikerewe because 'above all, I wanted this to be a way of preserving the language of our ancestors, by showing the reader how beautifully they spoke to each other'. This classic Tanzanian story was written in Kikerewe in 1945, but to this day, remains unpublished in this language. Failure to find a publisher for the Kikerewe work persuaded Kitereza to translate his work into Swahili in 1969, which was then published in 1980 and widely acclaimed. Previously only available in the author's own Kiswahili translation, this is the first complete translation into English. The translator, Gabriel Ruhumbika is a writer, professor of literature and descendant of Kitereza. He had unique access to the author's manuscripts and diaries. Ruhumbika also provides a comprehensive introduction and explanatory notes on the text.

Mr. Myombekere and His Wife Bugonoka, Their Son Ntulanalwo and Daughter Bulihwali: The Story of an Ancient African Community

Kitereza, Aniceti

Literary

Mapenzi Bora (Swahili Edition)

Robert, Shaaban

Poetry

Kusadikika (Swahili Edition)

Ramatoulaye, mwanamke Msenegali ameolewa na Mody, mtu mzito serikalini. Baada ya miaka mingi ya ndoa Modu anaoa mke mwingine, msichana mdogo mwenye umri sawa na wa binti yake. Ramatolaye anasahauliwa; pesa na mapenzi vinahamia kwa mke mdogo. Modu anakufa katika ajali ya gari. Nani atakayerithi mali za marehemu? Halafu kuna umati uliokuja kwenye kilio ambao “lazima ulishwe na upewe pesa kwa heshima ya marehemu”. Mariana Ba, mwandishi wa riwaya hii, alikuwa wa kwanza kupewa tuzo ya Noma mwaka 1980. Riwaya hii imetafsiriwa katika lugha kumi na nane na umaarufu wake unazidi kukua.
Originally published in French as Une si longue lettre this book, written by the great Senegalese writer Mariama Ba, is the Swahili translation from the English, by the late Professor Maganga. Une si longue letter is a classic of the African canon it won the first Noma Award for Publishing in Africa in 1980, and has been translated into 17 other languages.

Barua Ndefu Kama Hii (Swahili Edition)

Bâ, Mariama

An economic strategy for the second liberation of Africa

Babu, Abdul Rahman Mohamed

Vuta n' kuvute (Swahili Edition)

Shafi, Shafi Adam

'Mashindano' - from Kiswahili, Kushindana (to compete) - is a generic term for any organised competitive event. Here it relates to popular entertainment activities within which cultural groups competing for recognition by their communities, as leaders in their fields. Nineteen leading scholars contribute new studies on this little researched area, making a long overdue contribution to musical scholarship in East Africa, with a focus on Tanzania. The authors address key questions: What are the various roles played by competitive pratices in musical contexts? How do music competitions act as mechanisms of innovation? How do music competitions act as mechanisms of innovation? How do they serve their communities in identity formation? And what, specifically, do competitive music practices communicate, and to whom? Local dance contests, choir competitions, popular entertainment, song duels, and sporting events are all described. Work is drawn from ethnomusicology, history, musicology, anthropology, folklore, and literary, post-colonial, and performance studies.

Mashindano! Competetive Music Perfforman

Arts & Photography

Music

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