Editing Tanzania (section)

=== Literature ===
{{Main|Tanzanian literature}}

Tanzania's literary culture is primarily oral.<ref name="Otiso"/>{{rp|page 68}} Major oral literary forms include folktales, poems, riddles, proverbs, and songs.<ref name="Otiso"/>{{rp|page 69}} The greatest part of Tanzania's recorded oral literature is in Swahili, even though each of the country's languages has its own oral tradition.<ref name="Otiso"/>{{rp|pages 68–69}} The country's oral literature has been declining because of the breakdown of the multigenerational social structure, making transmission of oral literature more difficult, and because increasing modernisation has been accompanied by the devaluation of oral literature.<ref name="Otiso"/>{{rp|page 69}}

Books in Tanzania are often expensive and hard to come by.<ref name="Otiso"/>{{rp|page 75}}<ref name="Doling">Tim Doling (1999) ''Tanzania Arts Directory''. Visiting Arts</ref>{{rp|page 16}} Most Tanzanian literature is in Swahili or English.<ref name="Otiso"/>{{rp|page 75}} Major figures in Tanzanian written literature include [[Shaaban Robert]] (considered the father of Swahili literature), [[Aniceti Kitereza]], Muhammed Saley Farsy, Faraji Katalambulla, Adam Shafi Adam, [[Muhammed Said Abdulla|Muhammed Said Abdalla]], [[Peter K. Palangyo]], Said Ahmed Mohammed Khamis, Mohamed Suleiman Mohamed, [[Euphrase Kezilahabi]], [[Gabriel Ruhumbika]], [[Ebrahim Hussein]], [[May Balisidya|May Materru Balisidya]], [[Fadhy Mtanga]], [[Abdulrazak Gurnah]], and [[Penina Muhando|Penina O. Mlama]].<ref name="Otiso"/>{{rp|pages 76–8}}
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