THE PRESENT STATE OF SWAHILI LITERATURE AS AN ARTISTIC AND SOCIAL PHENOMENON

Mikhail D. Gromov

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Mikhail D. Gromov, United States International University Kenya

Mikhail D. Gromov is the Assistant Professor of Literature at the United States International University in Nairobi. MA in African literature and Swahili language at Moscow Lomonosov State University (1989); Ph.D. (1993) and Dr. Lett. (2005) at Gorky Institute of World Literature (Moscow). Published a number of works on modern Swahili literature. Areas of interest: literatures of Eastern and Southern Africa in English and indigenous languages, Swahili literature, comparative literatur.

Mikhail D. Gromov

United States International University Kenya

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This study is aimed at giving an overall picture of present state of creative writing in the language of Swahili in the Eastern part of the African continent, i.e. its condition after the year 2000.

Key words: Kiswahili, literature, East Africa, novel.

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