夏巴尼·罗伯特(Shaaban Robert,1909—1962),是东非地区最著名的作家和斯瓦希里语语言学家。他出生于坦桑尼亚东部港口坦噶市附近的一个农民家庭,信奉伊斯兰教。他一生用斯瓦希里语创作了二十几部作品,包括诗歌、随笔、小说、自传和寓言,并整理、翻译了好几部东非地区的古代史诗。他的代表作品有:诗文集《随笔与诗歌》,诗集《非洲人之歌》、《夏 Shaaban Robert (1909-1962) is the most famous writer and Swahili linguist in East Africa. He was born in a peasant family near Tanga in the eastern port of Tanzania and is an Islamist. Throughout his life he has written over twenty works in Swahili, including poetry, essays, fiction, autobiography and parable, and has compiled and translated several ancient epics in East Africa. His representative works include: poetry collection “essays and poetry”, poetry “song of Africans”, "summer