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Zanzibar leader Hussein Ali Mwinyi said, \u201cWe fondly recognize your writings that are centered on discourses related to colonialism. Such landmarks bring honor not only to us but to all humankind.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Swedish Academy was also generous with praise, calling the book an \u201cuncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based in Britain and writing in English, Gurnah\u2019s 10 novels include &#8220;Paradise&#8221;, set in colonial East Africa during World War I and short-listed for the Booker Prize for Fiction, and &#8220;Desertion.&#8221; Though Swahili was his first language, English became Gurnah&#8217;s literary tool when he began writing at the age of 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I dedicate this Nobel Prize to Africa and Africans and to all my readers,\u201d the 72 year old Gurnah tweeted after the announcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the Nobel award has ignited a vigorous debate in the author\u2019s birthplace, with long and passionate discussions about belonging and identity, observes Sammy Awami in the online edition of Aljazeera . The relationship between Zanzibar and the mainland (Tanzania) has not always been rosy &#8211; even though Zanzibar is semi-autonomous, with its own president and parliament, he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The contentious union of Zanzibar and Tanganyika in April 1964 was driven by U.S. and UK fears of a Zanzibari Cuba in Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gurnah left Zanzibar as a refugee for the United Kingdom in late 1967, three years after a revolution which sought to end the political dominance of the minority Arab population over the African majority. The following months and years were dominated by deep division, tensions and vengeance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Writes social scientist Aikande Kwayu: \u201cThe debate about the \u201cTanzanian\u201d identity of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/prizes\/literature\/2021\/gurnah\/facts\/\">Abdulrazak Gurnah<\/a> should be an awakening call &amp; a trigger to our government to think of the following: (i) Justice; (ii) Dual Citizenship; (iii) Union matters; (iv) quality education and teaching \u2013 how do we do in writing &amp; literature?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Till today, the cosmopolitan island remains divided over issues of identity and its political union with Tanzania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Ida Hadjivayanis, lecturer of Swahili studies in London and a Zanzibari native, is currently translating his 1994 novel Paradise into Swahili. Pointing out that many in Tanzania are yet to read this writer\u2019s books, she called on the government to include his works in the school curriculum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/africaglobalnews.com\/\">Africa Global News Publication<\/a><\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lisa Vives Out of 118 Nobel Prize laureates between 1901 and 2021, only six have gone to African writers with only two to Black Africans. 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