Multimedia Journalist. Poet. Author

A renowed contemporary Swahili poet, multimedia journalist and novelist, Mohammed Ghassani was born in Zanzibar in 1977.

As a Journalist

Mohammed Ghassani is a professional multimedia journalist working with the Swahili Services of Deutsche Welle in Germany, where he moved from Zanzibar since 2010.

As a Poet

His poetry book, N’na Kwetu: Sauti ya Mgeni Ugenini earned him the inaugural award from the Mabati Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature in 2015.

As an Author

Mohammed Ghassani has so far published seven books, six of which are of poetry and the last one is a novella called Mja wa Laana (The Cursed)

Mohammed Ghassani trained as a language teacher and translator and is a devoted pioneer of Swahili language and Swahili culture.

Natukaye Matangani – Ghassani The Poet

Tutandikeni matanga, tukusanyane wafiwa Tuwalilie wahanga, roho changa zilotwawa Walokatwa kwa mapanga, na risasi za vifuwa Wa Nungwi na Kangangani, wa Tumbe na Madaniwa Walofatwa majumbani, vichwa vikafumuliwa Walotupwa majiani, hali washanyofolewa Tulilie mashahidi, ndugu walodhulumiwa Dhuluma iloshitadi, ilovitanda visiwa Itendwayo makusudi, lengo la kutukomowa Tukaye tuomboleze, makiwa haya makiwa Machozi tumiminize, kwa waliokashifiwaTuliye tusinyamaze, tuliye kwa kutambuwa -Kwa kutambuwa ambacho, chatugeuza wafiwa Wapendwa kitupokacho, na mwetu kunajisiwa – Ni hichi tuaminicho, cha uhuru wa visiwa Kwa kutambuwa hatuna, wa kutuhani wakiwa Si Wazungu, si Wachina, wala si Bara AsiaBasi atosha Rabbana, Atosha kutegemewa Bonn30 Oktoba 2020<img src="data:image/svg+xml,%3csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' xmlns:xlink='http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink' viewBox='0 0 16 16'%3e%3cdefs%3e%3clinearGradient id='a' x1='50%25' x2='50%25' y1='0%25' y2='100%25'%3e%3cstop offset='0%25' stop-color='%2318AFFF'/%3e%3cstop offset='100%25' stop-color='%230062DF'/%3e%3c/linearGradient%3e%3cfilter id='c' width='118.8%25' height='118.8%25' x='-9.4%25' y='-9.4%25' filterUnits='objectBoundingBox'%3e%3cfeGaussianBlur in='SourceAlpha' result='shadowBlurInner1' stdDeviation='1'/%3e%3cfeOffset dy='-1' in='shadowBlurInner1' result='shadowOffsetInner1'/%3e%3cfeComposite in='shadowOffsetInner1' in2='SourceAlpha' k2='-1' k3='1' operator='arithmetic' result='shadowInnerInner1'/%3e%3cfeColorMatrix in='shadowInnerInner1' values='0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.299356041 0 0 0 0 0.681187726 0 0 0 0.3495684 0'/%3e%3c/filter%3e%3cpath id='b' d='M8 0a8 8 0 00-8 8 8 8 0 1016 0 8 8 0 00-8-8z'/%3e%3c/defs%3e%3cg fill='none'%3e%3cuse fill='url(%23a)' xlink:href='%23b'/%3e%3cuse fill='black' filter='url(%23c)' xlink:href='%23b'/%3e%3cpath fill='white' d='M12.162 7.338c.176.123.338.245.338.674 0 .43-.229.604-.474.725a.73.73 0 01.089.546c-.077.344-.392.611-.672.69.