l'Afrique

États-Unis d'Amérique

Emeritus Professor of English, Comparative Literature and African Studies

Indiana University

jack.rollins4@gmail.com

812-825-6196
812-360-8911

Swahiliphone Africa

BA, MA, MFA, MA, PhD ( Arabic and Swahili)

Swahili and Arabic Prose literature

former CEO of Trade Africa International, exclusive licensee for Warner Brothers, MGM/UA, Columbia Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Orion, Disney, Fox-Lorimar, Marvel, Turner Pictures, and others. First licensed American company to replicate and distribute original video cassettes in thirty-one coountries in Africa.

African Languages and Cultures

A History of Swahili Prose, Part 1: From Earliest Times to the End of the Nineteenth Century
1983 Early 20th century Swahili prose narrative structure and some aspects of Swahili ethnicity

Towards African Authenticity, Language and Literary Form, 49-68 7 1985
Varieties of Gnomic Literature: The Arabian" Ḥikma" and the Islamic Ethos of Shaaban Robert's" Neno la Hekima"

Research in African Literatures, 1-15 2 1979
Medical chimera: the anniversary of an allograft

Journal of Medical Humanities 20 (3), 177-190 1 1999
Literary Theory in Africa: A Rapproachment Between Linguistics and Literary History: The Case of the Swahili'Hadithi'

Interdisciplinary dimensions of African literature 8, 129 1 1985
Towards African authenticity: language and literary form

With J Riesz, RL Taylor, AD Johnson
Bayreuth University 1 1985
The origins of Swahili prose genres

University Microfilms 1 1979
Master Roasters, Roast Masters and Poets

Tea and Coffee Trade Journal 171 (April), 61-70 1999
Borders, Bakehouse(s), Bloomingfoods, Bathtubs, and Quigley

Tea and Coffee Trade Journal 170 (9 (september)), 36-42 1998
NEW YORK TIMES Opinion Will Organ Donation Change After Mantle?

New York Science Times, Opinion Page 1996
The Customs of the Swahili People: The "Desturi za Waswahili" of Mtoro bin Mwinyi Bakari and Other Swahili Persons

Research in African Literatures 15 (4), 619-24 1984
Swahili

New York Times, Opinion PageNew York Time 1982
The East African Experience: Essays on English and Swahili ( Review)

Research in African Literatures 15 (4), 541-47 1981
A Note on the Arabic Etymology of Nabokov

The Vladmir Nabokov Research Newsletter 6, 6-7 1981
A Note on the Arabic Etymology of Nabokov

The Vladmir Nabokov Research Newsletter 6, 6-7 1981
The King of Lions is a Lion: A Novel in Progress

University of Iowa. 1969
ARABIC, SWAHILI & SHENG: THE POWER OF ORTHOGRAPHIC CODE SWITCHING