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Vituko Duniani
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Published January 29, 1973
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August 23, 2026
This is the first Swahili book I've read in a long time and I intend for it to be the first of many to come. It was pretty strange at first since I haven't read anything this lengthy and well written in Swahili since high school, but the entertaining tales reeled me in and had me reminiscing about high school inshas and set books.
Since there's virtually no information about this book on Goodreads, and I've been unable to add any details or a description, here's a brief history/blurb?:
Vituko Duniani is a series of 8 short and fascinating stories in Swahili first published in 1970. The stories actually originated from East African BBC listeners who, in 1967, were invited (by the Idhaa ya Kiswahili ya BBC) to write and submit stories for broadcast. The audience so loved the idea that they submitted about 600 stories which aired between 1967 and 1968. And listeners also enjoyed them so much that they requested the stories to be compiled into a book. Ergo, Vituko Duniani was born.
Now, more on the actual stories. In a fashion reminiscent of my high school reading and writing days, we've got:
• A cops and robbers story (Mbio za Sakafuni by E. R. Mtegwa)
• A story on the excesses of anasa (Maisha Yalimwendea Kombo by B. G. Isaakwisa)
• A heartbreaking tale of early marriage and patricide (Ajuta Majuto ya Mjukuu by John Ndeti Somba)
• A bizarre tale questioning the existence of genies and spirits (Jini ni nini by Hassan Marshad)
• Something on bravery featuring a super powerful snake (Kisimba Shujaa by Mohamed Salim)
• A brief and strange story on courageously facing death and... is it cannibalism if you're eating a corpse? (Ujana ni Moshi Ukienda Haurudi by Ismail Ally Kirigha)
• A dash of witchcraft inside a love story, or is it vice versa? (Matokeo Yasubiriwa by Fabian M. Khukhula)
• Even more witchcraft, grief, chronic illness... and a happily ever after (Mwana Hamrithi Babaye by S. S. Suleiman)
P.S. This book is the second in a series. The first, Mapenzi ni Kikohozi features some allegedly funny but tragic? Love stories. I look forward to getting my hands on it.
Since there's virtually no information about this book on Goodreads, and I've been unable to add any details or a description, here's a brief history/blurb?:
Vituko Duniani is a series of 8 short and fascinating stories in Swahili first published in 1970. The stories actually originated from East African BBC listeners who, in 1967, were invited (by the Idhaa ya Kiswahili ya BBC) to write and submit stories for broadcast. The audience so loved the idea that they submitted about 600 stories which aired between 1967 and 1968. And listeners also enjoyed them so much that they requested the stories to be compiled into a book. Ergo, Vituko Duniani was born.
Now, more on the actual stories. In a fashion reminiscent of my high school reading and writing days, we've got:
• A cops and robbers story (Mbio za Sakafuni by E. R. Mtegwa)
• A story on the excesses of anasa (Maisha Yalimwendea Kombo by B. G. Isaakwisa)
• A heartbreaking tale of early marriage and patricide (Ajuta Majuto ya Mjukuu by John Ndeti Somba)
• A bizarre tale questioning the existence of genies and spirits (Jini ni nini by Hassan Marshad)
• Something on bravery featuring a super powerful snake (Kisimba Shujaa by Mohamed Salim)
• A brief and strange story on courageously facing death and... is it cannibalism if you're eating a corpse? (Ujana ni Moshi Ukienda Haurudi by Ismail Ally Kirigha)
• A dash of witchcraft inside a love story, or is it vice versa? (Matokeo Yasubiriwa by Fabian M. Khukhula)
• Even more witchcraft, grief, chronic illness... and a happily ever after (Mwana Hamrithi Babaye by S. S. Suleiman)
P.S. This book is the second in a series. The first, Mapenzi ni Kikohozi features some allegedly funny but tragic? Love stories. I look forward to getting my hands on it.
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