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Agoro Anduru (1948–1992), short story writer[Killam & Rowe]
Mark Behr (1963–2015), fiction writer also connected with South Africa
Fadhy Mtanga (1981– ) novelist, poet and photographer
Abdulrazak Gurnah (1948– ), novelist and critic[Gikandi][Killam & Rowe]
Ebrahim N. Hussein (1943– ), playwright, essayist, poet and translator[Gikandi][Gikandi & Mwangi][Killam & Rowe]
Prince Kagwema (1931– ), novelist[Killam & Rowe]
Euphrase Kezilahabi (1944–2020), novelist, poet and scholar
Jacqueline Massawe, poet[1]
Aniceti Kitereza (1896–1981), novelist
Elieshi Lema (1949– ), novelist, children's author and publisher[2]
Amandina Lihamba (1944– ), playwright[3]
Ismael R. Mbise, novelist and academic[Gikandi]
Penina Mlama (1948– ), playwright[4]
Sandra A. Mushi (1974– ), fiction writer, poet[5]
Elvis Musiba (died 2010), businessman and Swahili novelist[6]
Godfrey Mwakikagile (1949– ), writer and specialist in African studies
Christopher Mwashinga (1965– ), poet, Christian non-fiction writer, and essayist
Ras Nas, musician and poet
Julius Nyerere (1922–1999), politician and writer[Gikandi & Mwangi]
Nancy Sumari, children's book author and publisher [7]
Peter Palangyo (1939–1993), novelist[Gikandi][Gikandi & Mwangi][Killam & Rowe]
Hammie Rajab, Swahili novelist[8]
Shaaban Robert (1909–1962), Swahili novelist and poet[Gikandi]
Emily Ruete (1844–1924), Princess of Zanzibar
Gabriel Ruhumbika (1938– ), novelist and short story writer[Gikandi][Killam & Rowe]
Edwin Semzaba, novelist, playwright, actor and director
Robert Bin Shaaban (1902–1962), poet, author and essayist
Shafi Adam Shafi, Swahili novelist[9]
Erica Sugo Anyadike, writer of short stories
Richard Mabala, writer of short stories, Columnist and poet (1949– )[10]
Joseph Marwa, novelist, poet and actor (1999– )[11]
Nahida Esmail, writer of short stories and social activist[12]
^Jacqueline Kibacha, social justice poet and activist Archived 13 March 2011 at the Wayback Machine.The AfroNews, 15 December 2009.
^"Elieshi Lema (Tanzania)". Centre for Creative Arts. Archived from the original on 24 June 2017. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
^'Lihamba, Amandina', in Simon Gikandi & Evan Mwangi, The Columbia Guide to East African Literature in English Since 1945, pp. 94–5.
^Lee Nichols, Conversations with African Writers: interviews with twenty-six African authors, 1981, pp. 139ff.
^Profiled in Soma Magazine
^Judica Tarimo, EA Community mourns Musiba, IPP Media, 4 November 2010.
^MEET THE AUTHOR: Writing for a future generation
^Mikhail D. Gromov, Swahili Popular Literature in Recent Years Archived 29 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Swahili Forum 15 (2008):5–13
^Xavier Garnier, Le roman swahili: la notion de littérature mineure à l'épreuve, 2006, p. 122.
^cfeditoren (27 February 2022). "Mabala's 40 years in Tanzania and advice on Kiswahili". Tanzania. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
^Marwa, Quartzy-Joseph (2022). Irene: The Andromeda. Pencil. ISBN 9-789-356-10584-3. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (help)
^"Award-winning Tanzanian Writer Nahida Esmail". Writers Space Africa. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
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