本文译自坦桑尼亚斯瓦希里文版《民族主义者》报。作者恩加莱逊·莫沙(Nga-layson Mosha)一九六二年毕业于达累斯萨拉姆大学,现在坦桑尼亚斯瓦希里语协会任职。这篇短篇小说用第一人称的手法,通过孤儿莫萨悲欢离合的故事,对官场人物保罗·雷之流依仗权势,诬陷好人,制造冤狱等行为,加以嘲讽和揭露,并以同情的文笔,描述了莫萨这个无辜的年轻人,被莫须有的罪名投进监狱,惨遭迫害,最后得到昭雪,走向新的生活的经历。坦桑尼亚有一句著名的谚语“强盗的日子只有四十天”,类似我国的俗语“善有善报,恶有恶报”。这篇小说强调说明正义会得到伸张,搞阴谋者要受到惩罚,这是有一定的现实意义的。但是,小说的结尾安排主人公依靠岳父的引荐,当上了经理,而且审判长也公正地对诬陷者给予法律制裁,这仿佛给人一种印象:主人公所受的遭遇只是个别坏人所造成的,而那个社会还是主持公道的。这就难免削弱了作品的教育意义。尽管如此,这篇作品还是表达了人民伸张正义的善良愿望,值得一读。 This article is from the Swahili edition of the Nationalist newspaper in Tanzania. Author Nga-layson Mosha graduated from the University of Dar es Salaam in 1962 and now serves as the Swahili Association in Tanzania. This short story uses first-person tactics to mock and reveal innocent people and create unjust imprisonment through the story of the joys and sorrows of orphan Moeza and his satire on the official figures Paul Ray, Mosa, an innocent young man, was jailed for unwarranted charges and persecuted. Finally, he gained the experience of turning snow into a new life. Tanzania has a well-known proverb, “The Bandits have only forty days,” akin to our common saying that “there are good and good, evil and bad.” The novel emphasizes that justice will be done and that conspirators will be punished. This is of some realistic significance. However, at the end of the novel, the protagonist relies on the introduction of father-in-law to become the manager and the presiding judge fairly imposes legal sanctions on the framed people. This seems to give the impression that the protagonist suffered only from the bad guys, And that society is still fair. This will inevitably weaken the educational significance of the work. Nevertheless, this work still expresses the good wishes of the people for justice and is worth reading.