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Eliah Sibonike Mwaifuge

Professor

Literature

Biography

Eliah S. Mwaifuge is an Associate Professor of Literature in the Department of Literature, College of Humanities, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He was the Head of the Department of Literature from 2015 to 2021. He earned  his degrees at the University of Dar es Salaam. He was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Western Michigan USA in 2000.  in 2012.  He was also a recipient of of the African Humanities Program (AHP). He was placed at the Center for African Studies in Senegal for developing his book. 

His book Politics and Ideology in Tanzania Prose Fiction in English provides critical reading of the neglected field of Tanzania's fiction in English. 

Research Interest

  1. William Shakespeare and the Contemporary World

2. Tanzanian Literature in English

3. Literature, Culture, Politics and Pedagogy in Tanzania

Contacts

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Projects

  1. Contemporary Poetry in English and Language

2. Militarism and The Devil in God's Land

Publications

1.“Julius Nyerere’s Translation of Julius Caesar: A Question of Political Relevance” in African Shakespeare: Subversions, Appropriation, Negotiations. Ifeoluwa  Aboluwade, Serena Talento, Pepetual Mforbe Chiangong, and Oliva Nyambi (eds), 2025. Routledge, pp.         ISBN 9781032487809 (to be released this January 2025)

2. Beliefs and the Spiritual World: Socio-cultural and Material Conditions of Tanzania Occult Fiction.” 2018, Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies, DOI:10.1080/23277408.2018.1462933. pp.1-21 ISSN: Print 2327-7408/Online: 2327-7416

3. “The Troubled Image of Africa in Shilia Kaaya’s Poetry” 2017, Contemporary Journal of African Studies, Vol 5, No. 1, 113-136. http:dx.doi/10.4314/contjas.v5i1.5. ISSN: 2343-6530

4.“Dramatizing Aborted Ritual: Postmodernist Imaginings in Wole Soyinka’s Death            and the Kings Horseman.” (shared with Morufu B. Omigbule). 2017, English Academy Review: Southern African Journal of English Studies, Vol. 34 No. 2,  pp. 22-34. DOI:1080/10131752.q017.1411559

5.    “Interrogating the Link between History and Literature: Insights from Things Fall Apart, Kinjeketile and ‘Stanley Meets Mutesa.’” 2017, Tanzania Zamani, A Journal of Historical Research and Writing, Vol. IX No. 1, pp. 79-113 

6.  “Patriarchy and Social Determinism: Interrogating Feminist Agenda in Tanzania’s Neglected Poetry.” 2017, Marang: Journal of English Language and Literature, Vol. 28, pp. 72-89 

7. “The Subversion of Patriarchy and Women’s Empowerment in Henry Ole   Kulet’s Blossoms of the Savannah.” 2016, Journal of Education, Humanities and Sciences, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 17-30