Shakespeare in Swahililand: Adventures with the Ever-Living Poet
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Edward Wilson-Lee. Shakespeare in Swahililand: Adventures with the Ever-Living Poet
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
PRELUDE
1. THE LAKE REGIONS
2. ZANZIBAR
3. INTERLUDE: THE SWAHILI COAST
4. MOMBASA
5. NAIROBI
6. KAMPALA
7. DAR ES SALAAM
8. ADDIS ABABA
9. PANAFRICA
10. JUBA
Appendix
Picture Section
A Note on Sources and Further Reading
Acknowledgements
References
Index
About the Publisher
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Title Page
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John Baptist can confirm that the UMCA mission house was at Mambo Msiige, and that it later became (among other things) an embassy and part of the government telegraph office. Though it is still standing, he doubts that I am likely to find anything there; it is currently an empty shell, marooned in a legal battle over whether its proprietors should be allowed to convert another Zanzibari heirloom into a luxury hotel. He tells me not to expect too much in the archives or museum records: at independence in 1963 the new officials carted the records out of offices all over town in wheelbarrows and set fire to them on the front lawns, intent that the New Zanzibar should not be burdened by the clutter of the past. Much of Stone Town was appropriated under the subsequent socialist programmes of President (and Shakespeare translator) Julius Nyerere, given over to tenants who had no funds to maintain the merchant palaces in which they squatted.
I am shown the dozens of photograph albums John Baptist was given by a member of a Goan photographic dynasty, days before he was murdered in the looting that followed independence. John Baptist has since acquired more photographs and postcards of Zanzibar from visits to specialist fairs near Paddington railway station, which seems to be the only reason for which he leaves the island. The albums contain page after page of bug-eyed Victorian official portraits, as well as pictures of the town during the latter part of Steere’s life and a surprising number of louche pictures of all-male theatricals and costume parties on board navy vessels anchored off the island. Among the pictures is an old picture postcard depicting the UMCA mission House on Mambo Msiige, where Shakespeare first became Swahili in the thin pamphlet of stories. John makes a gift to me of the postcard, and, slugging the cardamom sugar at the bottom of my mug, I leave him to his afternoon nap.
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