his father's several names, the others being Selemani and Ufukwe] Sheikh Shaaban Robert succeeded in writing essays, books, prose and poems and some of his literature is part of school curricula and higher education reading. Some of his books included Maisha Yangu na Baada ya Miaka Hamsini, Kusadikika, and Wasifu wa Siti binti Saad. His works are still being discovered and published. To date he has 24 known works. Legacy Eponyms Shaaban Robert Secondary School, Dar es Salaam Shaaban Robert Street, a street in the Dar es Salaam CBD Bibliography Robert, Shaaban (trans.): Omar Khayyam Kwa Kiswahili London: Macmillan, 1952, (Swahili translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, translator's pref. (in Swahili) dated Tanga, 1948.) Bin Robert, Shaaban: Utubora Mkulima (Diwani Ya Shaaban 8) Nelson, London, 1968 Robert, Shaaban: Koja La Lugha Oxford Univ, Nairobi, 1969 Further reading Lyndon Harries: Swahili Poetry. Oxford, 1962 Jan Knappert: Traditional Swahili Poetry. Mouton, The Hague, 1968 Edgar C. Polome: Swahili Language Handbook, 1967 Wilfred H. Whiteley: Swahili: The Rise of a National Language, 1969 Mulokozi, M.M. (ed). Barua za Shaaban Robert 1931–1958 (Shaaban Robert's Letters 1931–1958), Institute of Kiswahili Research, Dar es Salaam, 2002. References External links Shaaban Robert, Tanzania's Forgotten Hero Shaaban Robert: A legendary poet and freedom fighter Shaaban Robert: Father of Kiswahili literature 1909 births 1962 deaths Tanzanian poets Swahili-language writers People from Tanga Region Members of the Order of the British Empire 20th-century poets Tanzanian Muslims