Shaaban Robert

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Shaaban Robert .
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Shaaban bin Robert, also known as Shaaban Robert (1 January 1909 – 22 June 1962), was a Tanzanian poet, author, and essayist who supported the preservation of African verse traditions.^[1] He was born in Vibamba in the country's Tanga Region. Robert is thought of as a great Swahili thinker and writer in East Africa and has been called "poet laureate of Swahili" and the "Father of Swahili."<sup>[


2]</sup>Biography
^{Robert was born in the tiny village of Vibamba south of the town of Tanga in northeastern Tanzania (then Tanganyika) in East Africa. The surname Robert is most likely a name his father was given when he went to primary school. Shaaban himself for a time wrote it Roberts rather than Robert. From 1922 to 1926 he was educated in Dar es Salaam, coming in second in a class of 11 to receive the School Leaving Certificate under the then British colonial educational system in Tanganyika.[2]
The capital city of Dar es Salaam is home to a school named after him, the Shaaban Robert Secondary School.}