Chambi

"Alikamilisha kufanya masahihisho ya kitabu...katika hali ya maumivu makali sana Jijini London wakati akipata matibabu katika Hospitali ya St. Thomas na mauti yalipomkuta, alikuwa amemaliza. Kilichomsukuma Mwalimu kudhamiria kutafsiri kitabu hiki ilikuwa nia aliyokuwa nayo kuwa kitabu hiki kiwe kimechapishwa kabla ya uchaguzi wa mwaka 2005, ambao alihisi ungekuwa na utitiri wa wagombea....na kuwa kungetokea misukosuko mingi nchini. Alitamani sana kuuandaa umma wa Tanzania kuchagua kiongozi bora siyo bora kiongozi" - Dibaji

"In this book I am interested in how collective memory associated with the violence of the Zanzibar Revolution, and the complex political assemblages—in particular, how national identities came to be shaped by social processes and structures —that endured in its aftermath have paved the way for novel expressions of Ibadhi identity in the postcolonial and postrevolution period" - Author

“In this book, I describe the innovative practices of discards workers in Dar es Salaam, not as a normative story that focuses on depicting them as perpetrators or victims of pollution…The stories presented here aim to bring forward [their] practices and the agency … as important actors against the backdrop of those normatively celebrated in late capitalism, which are driven by liberal logics of individualism and material accumulation”- Author

“First banned, Euphrase Kezilahabi’s wonderful novel Rosa Mistika is now required reading...." Teresa Svoboda, winner of the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize; “A tremendously important novel" (Abdulrazak Gurnah, winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature); “This cutting-edge translation of a book that has continuously stirred the Swahili literary scene gives us access to a world and contradictions that are rarely available in the West, at a time when we question what is translated, how, and why” (Ida Hadjivayanis, SOAS)