Martha Mvungi’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro Tanzanian writer
Was Writer 
From Tanzania 
Type Literature 
Gender female
Birth 19 January 1943
Death 24 June 2017
(aged 74 years)
Star sign Capricorn
Education
University of Edinburgh

Martha Mvungi, née Martha V. Mlangala is a Tanzanian writer in both Swahili and English.

Life

Martha V. Mlangala was born in Kidugala, Njombe, Southern Tanzania. She was educated at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Dar es Salaam. After a career teaching at various levels, she joined the Department of Education at the University of Dar es Salaam.

Three Solid Stones (1975) was a collection of Hehe and Bena folk tales in English translation.

Since 1995 Mvungi has been the Director of a school, Ecacs Schools, which she founded on the outskirts of Dar es Salaam.

Works

English
  • ‘Was It an Illusion?’, Darlite, IV, 2 (1970), 34-38
  • Three Solid Stones, 1975. London: Heinemann Educational. African Writers Series 159.
  • Yasin’s Dilemma, 1985
  • Yasin in Trouble, 1990
Swahili
  • Hana hatia, 1975
  • Chale Anatumwa sokoni, 1982
  • Lwidiko, 2003
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