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and the tar baby. Most are cautionary tales warning against jealousy, disobedience and seduction and exhorting loyalty, courage and kindness. The author has retold them in a clear and engaging manner that both children and adults will enjoy. For the student, they provide a valuable insight into East
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As a child I lived among the Hehe and shared a lot of their social and communal activities. Much of what I learnt in those years is reflected in this collection of tales and the happy times I spent with friends at Ilula and Balali are crystalized here...When my parents moved to live among my own
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The tales are fantasies full of magic, mystery and frequently grotesque details of cannibalism, murder and sorcery. Several are love stories, some are just-so stories and some are animal tales, including a
Tanzanian version of
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Department of Education at the University of Dar es Salaam, Mvungi rose to the position of senior lecturer in 1982. In the same year she completed her PhD thesis,
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Her student writing continued with a biography of
Lulapangilo Zakaria Mhemedzi, a resident of her home village of Kidugala whom she interviewed in 1970.
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I have been in the school business all my life, starting as lecturer and teacher. I had always in my mind to set up a quality school.
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Mvungi's first published writing appeared in 1970 under her maiden name Martha V. Mlagala. 'Was it an illusion?' featured in
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people, the Bena, I heard even more variations of these same stories although the basic structures had not changed.
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She went on to publish six books between 1975 and 2003, in both
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Heinemann published Mvungi's first, and only, book in
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is a collection of folktales. Mvungi was the second
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Mlagala Mvungi (born Martha V. Mlagala; 19 January 1943 - 24 June 2017) was a
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Language Policy in Tanzanian Primary Schools with Emphasis on Implementation.
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447:(in Swahili). Dar es Salaam: Shudutonya Publishing Enterprise.
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village. There she finds fulfilment as a schoolteacher.
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438:(in Swahili). Dar es Salaam: Tanzania Publishing House.
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734:. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press.
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412:"The Traveller: Lulapangilo Zakaria Mhemedzi"
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