Tololwa Marti Mollel
“Tololwa M. Mollel, an Arusha Maasai from Tanzania, grew up on his grandfather’s coffee farm, an hour’s drive from Mount Kilimanjaro. After receiving a BA in Literature and Theatre at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Mollel left for Canada in 1966 to complete his master’s degree at the University of Alberta*”, where he served as President of the Writers Guild in the late 1990s. He worked as an actor and university theatre director both in Tanzania and Canada. He has also worked extensively with theatre and arts groups, schools and libraries as performer, presenter and storyteller.
As children’s author, dramatist, and storyteller, he has written seventeen internationally published books, and several plays and stories, some of which he adapted for performance. Some of his works include: Rhinos for Lunch and Elephants for Super, My Rows and Piles of Coins and Big Boy (which won the Writers Guild of Alberta R. Ross Children’s Prize in 1996). His works have been published in several places including Canada, the US, England, and have been translated into some European, South African and his native Kiswahili languages. Mollel lives in Edmonton, Canada.
* Subira Subira, available at Amazon.com, (accessed: August 6, 2021)
Sources:
Official website (accessed: August 6, 2021);
fitzhenry.ca (accessed: August 6, 2021);
Amazon.com (accessed: August 6, 2021).
Bio prepared by Eleanor A. Dasi, University of Yaounde I, wandasi5@yahoo.com
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