Uta Reuster-Jahn
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Uta Reuster-Jahn is a lecturer in Swahili language and literature at the University of Hamburg, Germany. She obtained her certificate of Higher Swahili in Tanzania in 1987 while living in the country. She has translated the novel Titi la Mkwe (1972) by Tanzanian author Alex Banzi (1945–2021) into German (Versuchung, 2016). In addition, she has widely published on the topics of translation of Swahili literature and Swahili popular culture.