Mathias Mnyampala

Mathias Mnyampala was born in 1917 at Ihumwa, near Dodoma. A schoolteacher, then an employee of the administration and a liwali, he spent most of his career in the judiciary, where he was a specialist in inheritance law. A Swahili-language poet, essayist and jurist, author of more than twenty-five books, he published in 1954 a history of the Gogo and their customs and founded the association of Swahili poets of Tanzania, the Ukuta. He died in 1969 in Dodoma.

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• PoetryDiwani ya MnyampalaMathias Mnyampala · 1963not translated into EnglishLiterature