Ebrahim Hussein

Ebrahim Hussein was born in 1943 in Lindi, a port on the Swahili coast, into a family of Arab descent. A pupil at the Aga Khan high school in Dar es Salaam, he studied French literature and dramatic art at the university of that city, then defended at Humboldt University in East Berlin a thesis on East African theatre and its development. He wrote about ten plays, taught dramatic art in Dar es Salaam and made Swahili a language of learned theatre. Gradually pushed aside from the official stage, he stopped publishing in the nineties and lived in retirement in the same city.

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• TheatreKinjeketileEbrahim Hussein · 1969Literature