Description
Set in the Asian neighborhoods of Dar es Salaam, this luminous collection of linked stories follows the lives of people who make their living on and around Uhuru Street—shopkeepers, servants, dressmakers, and the street-wise young who learn survival by watching everything. With M.G. Vassanji’s signature blend of irony, humour, and delicate empathy, each vignette reveals how community ties, private dreams, and everyday compromises shape what it means to belong. As the younger generation reaches for new destinies and the older generation clings fiercely to memory and tradition, the book becomes a moving portrait of change—how it arrives, who it displaces, and what it costs. Through themes of migration, identity, class, and the fragile boundaries of family and duty, Uhuru Street captures the bittersweet moment of leaving home while knowing home will never be the same.
Available Editions
paperback
McClelland & Stewart
Published Sep 4, 2012
165 pages
ISBN: 9781551997087
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Details
First Published
1991
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Uhuru Street by M.G. Vassanji.