Marvel of Shaaban, a literary paradox who traversed the genres with style

A market scene at darajani, Zanzibar.

You must be envied if you have not read Shaaban Bin Robert’s Wasifu wa Siti Binti Saad.

Beautiful soul raising and mind opening reading awaits you. Ustadh Shaaban Bin Robert was, of course, one of the first two East Africans to get published when, in 1952, Kielezo Cha Insha rolled off the press. It was the same year that Jomo Kenyatta published Facing Mount Kenya, making them pioneers of modern East African writing.