{"id":6302,"date":"2025-03-05T16:06:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T16:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/primolevicenter.org\/printed-matter\/?p=6302"},"modified":"2025-12-18T11:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T11:36:07","slug":"primo-levi-in-swahili","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primolevicenter.org\/printed-matter\/primo-levi-in-swahili\/","title":{"rendered":"Primo Levi in Swahili"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>A new translation of If This is a Man into Swahili is available on the site of the International Center of Primo Levi Studies in Turin and can be downloaded freely<\/h5>\n<div class=\"node-body\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.primolevi.it\/it\/nuova-traduzione-swahili-se-questo-uomo-disponibile-liberamente-scaricabile-sito-centro\">Download <em>If This Is a Man<\/em> in Swahili.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Primo Levi\u2019s &nbsp;<em>If This is a Man<\/em> is one of the most read and most appreciated books written about the Nazi extermination of people during World War II. As time has gone by, it has become a classic of contemporary literature. The book\u2019s translations have extended first into English and then into German, the language of the persecutors, and then eventually into the languages of various European countries, of North and South America, and, more recently, of Asia. By now, the book has been translated into almost fifty different languages.&nbsp; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">A new translation into Arabic was published a few months ago. This makes the book available to the Middle East, to a great area in Africa, but also to the extensive Arabic-speaking communities in various areas of the world, including, first of all, Europe, where the great migratory movements of our times have pushed&nbsp; more and more numerous populations to settle in. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">In this way, a narrative of a crucial event in the history of the twentieth century has become available to a very broad section of the public&nbsp; through its memorable sequences that can speak to people of different origins and cultures. This has happened thanks, in the first place, to Levi\u2019s ability to place value upon the human and universal dimension of a boundless tragedy. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Eighty years after the liberation of Auschwitz, it was still impossible to make this extraordinary opportunity for knowledge and reflection available to people in a large part of Africa, which has by now powerfully entered the network of cultural exchanges that are bringing together the world we live in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">It is exactly for this reason that the International Center for Primo Levi Studies,&nbsp; thanks to the availability of Einaudi publishers in collaboration with Silvio Zamorani publishers and with the contribution of the Committee for the Celebration of the Centenary of Primo Levi\u2019s Birth, has decided to sponsor a translation of <em>If This is a Man<\/em> into Swahili, a language spoken in a great part of eastern, central, and southern Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-separator type-thin\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>How Swahili became Africa\u2019s most spoken language<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/profiles\/john-m-mugane-1319588\" rel=\"author\"><span class=\"fn author-name\">J<\/span><\/a><span class=\"fn author-name\">ohn M<\/span><span class=\"fn author-name\">. <\/span><span class=\"fn author-name\">Mugane (<\/span>Harvard University) for <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-story-of-how-swahili-became-africas-most-spoken-language-177259\">The Conversation<\/a>, <\/span>2022<\/p>\n<p>Once just an obscure island dialect of an African Bantu tongue, Swahili has evolved into Africa\u2019s most internationally recognised language. It is peer to the few languages of the world that boast over 200 million users.<\/p>\n<p>Over the two millennia of Swahili\u2019s growth and adaptation, the moulders of this story \u2013 immigrants from inland Africa, traders from Asia, Arab and European occupiers, European and Indian settlers, colonial rulers, and individuals from various postcolonial nations \u2013 have used Swahili and adapted it to their own purposes. They have taken it wherever they have gone to the west.<\/p>\n<p>Africa\u2019s Swahili-speaking zone now extends across a full third of the continent from south to north and touches on the opposite coast, encompassing the heart of Africa.<span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"> <a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-story-of-how-swahili-became-africas-most-spoken-language-177259\"><strong>Read<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new translation of If This is a Man into Swahili is available on the site of the International Center of Primo Levi Studies in Turin and can be downloaded&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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