Background
Abdalla, Abdilatif was born on April 14, 1946 in Mombasa, Coast Province, Kenya.
literature and language professor writer
Abdalla, Abdilatif was born on April 14, 1946 in Mombasa, Coast Province, Kenya.
Degree, Takaungu Primary School, Kilifi, Kenya, 1963.
Accountants clerk Mombasa Municipal Council, Kenya, 1965—1968. Senior research fellow Institute Kiswahili Research, University Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1972—1979. Programme assistant, broadcaster British Broadcasting Corporation World Service (Kiswahili), London, 1979—1986.
Editor-in-chief Africa Events, A Monthly Current Affairs Magazine, 1986—1994. Lecturer kiswahili language and literature Institute African Studies, University Leipzig, Germany, 1995.
Married Betgen Same, August 28, 1963. Children: Shunu Abdilatif, Abdulhaq Abdilatif, Shamsa Abdilatif, Abdilahi Abdilatif, Ziyana Abdilatif, Ali Abdilatif, Muyaka Abdilatif.