Having discovered his creative calling, Walibora went on to commit many of his ideas in books that now remain as his gift to lovers of literature, especially Kiswahili literature. More helpful, perhaps, is to reflect on some of the issues that Walibora thought of and what they meant to the wider Swahili nation. This became manifest, in my view, in the highly venerated intellectual spaces in which Walibora voiced his ideas. EXPANDING INDUSTRYTranslation, for Walibora, was paradoxically both an enabler and impediment to the growth of the language and its literary thought. Yet, like Ngugi, Said Ahmed Khamis, and Abdilatif Abdalla, Walibora’s belief in the imperative for writing in the Kiswahili language was based on a deep understanding of, and respect for, English.

Source: Daily Nation April 18, 2020 07:07 UTC