Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences - Institute of Asian and African Studies

Publications

 

Monographs

(in pre-paration). The Swahili Novel Beyond the Boundaries. A Dialogical Reading of Euphrase Kezilahabi’s and Said Ahmed Mohamed’s Novels.
2007 Die Ausweitung der Gesellschaftskritik in den swahilisprachigen Romanen von Euphrase Kezilahabi und Said Ahmed Mohamed. Dissertation, Universität zu Köln. Köln: Selbstverlag.

 

Editorial work

Collections of essays

2015 (with Frank Schulze-Engler). Habari ya English? What about Kiswahili? East Africa as a Literary and Linguistic Contact Zone. (Matatu 46). Leiden & Boston: Brill/Rodopi.
2014 (with Hannelore Vögele, Uta Reuster-Jahn & Raimund Kastenholz). From the Tana River to Lake Chad: Research in African Oratures and Literatures. In memoriam Thomas Geider (Mainzer Beiträge zu Afrikaforschung 36). Köln: Köppe.

 

 

Journals

since 2000  Co-editor Swahili Forum. Universities of Köln, Mainz, Leipzig (since 2013). International peer-reviewed open access journal with a focus on transdiciplinary Swahili studies: <http://afrikanistik.gko.uni-leipzig.de/swafo/>.
1999-2002 Co-editor Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere (AAP). Institut für Afrikanistik, Universität zu Köln.

 

Articles in journals and collections of essays

(accepted) Uwaridi kwani? (‘Why ‘Uwaridi’?’). Digital Literary Networks and the App-Propriation of Swahili Popular Novels. Postcolonial Text, Special Issue: Literary Networks and Digital Media in Contemporary African Literatures, edited by Aurélie Journo.
(under press) Maua yenye Fumbo, Njozi Zilizopotea na Wahenga Waliofufuka. Ukaribiano na Uanuwai wa Riwaya ya Kiswahili (Mysterious Flowers, Lost Dreams and Ancestors Risen from the Dead. Convergence and Diversity in 50 Years of Post-Independence Swahili Novels). Flavia Aiello Traoré & Roberto Gaudioso (eds). Lugha na Fasihi. Essays in Honour of Elena Bertoncini-Zúbková. Napoli: Università de Napoli “L’Orientale”.
2018 Good-Bye Book, Welcome App? Some Observations on Current Dynamics of Publishing Swahili Novels. Africa Today 64/4, Summer 2018, Special Issue: African Artistic Practices and New Media: Intersections, Volatilities, Futures, edited by Beth Buggenhagen & Maria Grosz-Ngaté. 31-50.
2018 Postrealist, Postmodernist, Postnation? The Swahili Novel 1987-2010. Research in African Literatures 49/1, Spring 2018, Special Issue: Interrogating the Postnation in African Literary Writing: Localities and Globalities, edited by Madhu Krishnan. 117-144.
2017 Leaving Parched Gardens and Discussing Narration with the Reader. Metatextualities in the Contemporary Swahili Novel. Research in African Literatures 48/1, Spring 2017, Special Issue: Reading Closely: Investigating Textuality in Afrophone Literatures, edited by Flora Veit-Wild & Clarissa Vierke. 24-43.
2016 Dunia Yake. An Appraisal of Said Ahmed Mohamed's Novels. Gudrun Miehe, Gabriele Sommer & Clarissa Vierke (Eds.). Dunia Yao – Utopia/ Dystopia. Imagining Society in Swahili Fiction. Selected papers, symposium in honour of Prof. Said Ahmed Mohamed Khamis, University of Bayreuth, May 17-19, 2012. Köln: Köppe. 31-57.
2015 Bwanamvinyo, Protean Nyerere, and the Battleground of Ideas. The Contribution of Swahili Novels to East African Intellectual History. Arno Sonderegger (Ed.). African Thoughts on Colonial and Neo-Colonial Worlds. Facets of an Intellectual History of Africa. Berlin: Neofelis. pp. 103-121.
2015 (with Frank Schulze-Engler). Introduction: Habari ya Contact Zone? East African Literature Revisited. Diegner & Schulze-Engler (Eds.), see above, pp. 1-22.
2014 The Kenyan Challenge (?) – Dis/Continuities in the Swahili Novel 50 Years after Independence. Vögele, Kastenholz, Reuster-Jahn & Diegner (Eds.), s.o., pp. 341-356.
2011 Mwaka Mpya – Año Nuevo. Un cuenta del artista popular Freddy Macha de Tanzania. Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger (ed.) Historias Enredadas. Representaciones asimétricas con vista al Atlántico. Berlin: tranvía. pp. 134-135. [Übersetzung aus dem Englischen ins Spanische von Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger]
2008 Literary Answers to Glocalization. Aspects of Production and Reception in the Swahili Novels Makuadi wa Soko Huria (2002) and Bina-Adamu! (2002). Anja Oed & Uta Reuster-Jahn (Eds.). African Languages Literatures: Production, Mediation, Reception. Proceedings of the International Conference on African Languages Literatures (8th Janheinz Jahn Symposium). 17-20 November 2004. Johannes Guten- berg Universität, Mainz. Köln: Köppe.
2005 Intertextuality in the Contemporary Swahili Novel: Euphrase Kezilahabi's Nagona and William E. Mkufya's Ziraili na Zirani. Swahili Forum 12: 25-35. <http://www.qucosa.de/fileadmin/data/qucosa/documents/9122/12_03_Diegner.pdf>
2002 Allegories in Euphrase Kezilahabi’s Early Novels. Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere 72: Swahili Forum IX: 43-74. <http://www.qucosa.de/fileadmin/data/qucosa/documents/9137/9_06_diegner.pdf>

 

Review

2004 Review: Kyallo Wadi Wamitila. 2004. Kamusi ya Fasihi. Istilahi na Nadharia. Nairobi: Focus Publications. Swahili Forum 11: 235-237. http://www.ifeas.uni-mainz.de/SwaFo/SF11Review_Wamitila_Diegner.pdf

 

Entries in dictionaries (in German)

2017 “Mkangi, Katama”, “Mkufya, William”, “Shafi, Adam” (Biogramme); “Mkangi, Katama, Walenisi”, “Mkufya, William, Ziraili na Zirani”, “Shafi, Adam, Vuta N’kuvute” (Werkartikel). Heinz Ludwig Arnold & Christiane Freudenstein-Arnold (Hg.). Kindlers Literatur Lexikon Online. Aktualisierung November 2017. <www.kll-online.de>
2013 “Wamitila, Kyallo Wadi” (Biogramm); “Wamitila, Kyallo Wadi, Bina-Adamu!” (Werkartikel). Heinz Ludwig Arnold & Christiane Freudenstein-Arnold (Hg.). Kindlers Literatur Lexikon Online. Aktualisierung März 2013. <www.kll-online.de>
2009 “Kezilahabi, Euphrase”, “Mohamed, Said Ahmed” (Biogramme); “ Kezilahabi, Euphrase, Kichomi”, “ Kezilahabi, Euphrase, Nagona / Mzingile”, “ Kezilahabi, Euphrase, Rosa Mistika”, “Mohamed, Said Ahmed, Amezidi”, “ Mohamed, Said Ahmed, Asali Chungu”, “Mohamed, Said Ahmed, Babu Alipofufuka” (Werkartikel). Heinz Ludwig Arnold (Hg.). Kindlers Literatur Lexikon. Stuttgart & Weimar: Metzler.

 

Reviews of literary works

2003

Fünf Gutachten zu Swahili-Romanen für die UNESCO-Website Literature & Translation, bereitgestellt von der Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Literatur aus Afrika, Asien und Lateinamerika, Frankfurt am Main. http://www.litprom.de/literature-translation. Titel der Gutachten: Kezilahabi, Euphrase: Nagona [a woman's name]/ Mzingile ('Labyrinth'); Mohamed, Mohamed Suleiman: Kiu ('Thirst'); Mohamed, Said Ahmed: Babu alipofufuka ('When Grandfather came to Life again'); Mtobwa, Ben R: Dar es Salaam Usiku ('Dar es Salaam by Night'); Robert, Shaaban bin: Kusadikika ('A Trustful Place'). A Country in the Sky.

 

Translations

(in pre-paration) Kezilahabi, Euphrase. Nagona; Irrgarten [deutsche Übersetzung der Romane 'Nagona' und 'Mzingile' aus dem Swahili]
(in pre-paration) Kezilahabi, Euphrase. Querkopf [deutsche Übersetzung des Romans 'Kichwamaji' aus dem Swahili]
(in pre-paration) Kezilahabi, Euphrase. Gedichte. [deutsche Übersetzung aus dem Swahili]
2011 (mit Britt Düker und Martha Torres). Macha, Freddy. 2011. Año Nuevo. Pernambués, Salvador, Brasil, diciembre de 1993. Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger (ed.) Historias Enredadas. Representaciones asimétricas con vista al Atlántico. Berlin: tranvía. pp. 136-144. [Spanische Übersetzung einer Swahili-Kurzgeschichte]

 

Literary works

2012 Wasifu wa Siti Maua Binti Wazi – Life and Times of Siti Maua binti Wazi. Julius Heinecke, Hilmar Heister, Tobias Robert Klein & Viola Prüschenk (Eds.). Kuvaka Ukama – Building Bridges: A Tribute to Flora Veit-Wild. Heidelberg: Kalliope. pp. 375-377. [Swahili poem with translation]

 

Interviews with Swahili writers (in Swahili)

(in pre-paration) Kezilahabi, Euphrase. Mazungumzo na Lutz Diegner juu ya Riwaya za Mwandishi na Uandishi wake kwa ujumla.
(in pre-parationg) Ruhumbika, Gabriel & Lutz Diegner. Mazungumzo na Gabriel Ruhumbika juu ya Uandishi wake.
2011 Shafi, Adam & Lutz Diegner. 2011. Mazungumzo na Adam Shafi juu ya Uandishi wake wa Riwaya. Swahili Forum 18: 37-68. <http://www.qucosa.de/fileadmin/data/qucosa/do-cuments/9837/18_04_Shafi_Diegner.pdf>
2005 Mkufya, William. 2005. Mazungumzo na Lutz Diegner juu ya Riwaya ya Ziraili na Zirani (1999). Swahili Forum 12: 37-62. <http://www.qucosa.de/fileadmin/data/qucosa/documents/9826/12_04_Mkufya.pdf>
2005 Wamitila, Kyallo Wadi. 2005. Mahojiano Mafupi na Lutz Diegner juu ya Riwaya ya Bina- Adamu! (2002). Swahili Forum 12: 95-97. <http://www.qucosa.de/fileadmin/data/qucosa/documents/9828/12_07_Wamitila.pdf>
2004 Chachage, Chachage Seithy L. 2004. Mahojiano na Chachage Seithy L. Chachage juu ya Riwaya yake Makuadi wa Soko Huria (2002) (Lutz Diegner). Swahili Forum 11: 227- 234. <http://www.qucosa.de/fileadmin/data/qucosa/documents/9825/11_15_ Diegner_ MahojianoChachage.pdf>