I am sitting before my computer a few minutes after the news of the tragicdeath of Ali Nabwa was conveyed to me. I did not know what to do and my firstgut reaction was to prop myself up before the screen to type what I knew of the man.This is the screen of which Nabwa was ignorant of, as he was not man ofcomputers and until his death he used to write his essays by the traditionalway, by scribbling his ideas on paper and we had to do the computer typing.
Tabia ya kuzungumza katika ba’rza imeota mizizi sana Zanzibar. Ni jambo la kawaida mno kiasi ambacho imekuwa ni sehemu ya utamaduni wetu. Na hii hapana shaka inatokana na ule utamaduni wa ujenzi wa kila nyumba ya Mswahili kuwa na bar’za, ila Waswahili wanaojenga mijengo ya kisasa aina ya kasri hilo sio tu halizingatiwi, lakini pia halina nafasi. Karibu kila mtu ana bar’za yake ya mazungumzo.