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Kenya's Kiswahili guru Professor Ahmed Sheikh Nabhani is dead

Professor Ahmed Sheikh Nabhani

Lamu, Kenya: Leading Swahili researcher and poet Professor Ahmed Sheikh Nabhani has died of complications related to old age.

The self-taught language guru was 90 years old and took the final bow this morning and was buried at Matondoni Muslim Cemetery hours later in accordance with muslim custom.

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