“Abdulrazak Gurnah, the Zanzibari-born 2021 Nobel Literature laureate’s grand homecoming was punctuated by the translation of his masterpiece, Paradise, into Kiswahili. His publisher, Mkuki Bgoya, speaks about its significance in the Swahili canon.“
Cover image courtesy of Mkuki na Nyota. From left: Abdulrazak Gurnah (author of Paradise), Ida Hadjivayanis (the translator for Peponi), Mkuki Bgoya (Managing Director of the publisher, Mkuki na Nyota) and Walter Bgoya (the founder of Mkuki na Nyota).