MASAMO YA KISASA: CONTEMPORARY READINGS IN SWAHILI Family Life Fiction and (in an essay that

and (in an essay that inspired both praise and pushback when it first appeared) the White Savior Industrial Complex

in June 2003

The book is the most complete study of the role ritual plays in the lives of African people--and the role it can play for seekers in the West

Morrison’s writing is “so precise

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MASAMO YA KISASA: CONTEMPORARY READINGS IN SWAHILI Family Life Fiction and (in an essay thatMasamo ya Kisasa is designed to enable students at the intermediate and advanced levels to read and understand authentic texts in Swahili. Appropriate for classroom or independent use, this book provides a transition to unassisted reading of journalistic, scholarly, and literary works in Swahili. The lessons in the book include contemporary texts on a wide range of topics from cooking and courtship manuals to politics and poetry. Each lesson includes