DAR ES SALAAM UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
A constituent College of the University of Dar es SalaamBiography
Biography
Dr. Edith Weseja Bwana is a lecturer in the Department of Languages and Literature within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. She holds a PhD in Literature and specializes in multiracial identity in Tanzania’s diasporan prose. She completed her doctoral studies at the University of Dar es Salaam with a focus on literary representations of race and belonging in Tanzanian narratives.
Her teaching areas include African literature, gender and identity in literature, and modern literary theories. Her research interests and scholarly work focus on race, gender, and minority groups in Tanzanian and African literature, with particular attention to issues of representation, intersectionality, and cultural identity.
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edith.bwana@duce.ac.tz
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Research Interest
Research Interest
Race, Gender, Masculinity, Minority groups, Tanzanian and African literature.
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Publications
Publications
Bwana, Edith W.(2013) Polyphony in Desertion: Creation of multiple stories through the use of focalisation. UDOM Journal of Humanities, Vol 2 (2).
Bwana, Edith W. (2013). Understanding the social changes in Tanzania: Independence and loss of Hegemonic Masculinity in Ruhumbika’s novel Village in Uhuru. JEHS, Vol 2 (2).
Bwana, Edith W. (2018). Intra-Author Intertextuality and the Novels of Vassanji. Fasihi, Lugha na Utamaduni wa Kiswahili na Kiafrika.
Bwana, Edith W. (2018). Literary Cartography: The Mapping of Colonial and Post-Colonial Races in Vassanji’s The Gunny Sack. JEHS, Vol 7 (2).
Bwana, Edith W. (2022). Has Feminism Changed Women’s Realities in Africa? An Interrogation of the Poems of Ogundipe and Shire. JHSS, Vol 11 (2).
Mungáya, Yohana & Bwana, Edith. (2024). Religion, Sexuality, and Power in Singeli Music Genre: A Critical Analysis of ‘Pita Huku’and ‘Mungu Atusamehe’Songs. Umma Journal of Contemporary Literature and Creative Arts, Vol 11 (1.7).