Inventory of the M.G. Vassanji fonds
Moyez G. Vassanji (1950-), author and nuclear physicist, was born on 30 May 1950 in Nairobi, Kenya and raised in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Fonds consists of research material, notes, drafts, and edited manuscripts of his novels “The gunny sack,” “No new land,” “The book of secrets,” “Amriika,” and “The in-between world of Vikram Lall,” as well as the short story collection “Uhuru Street.” It also contains examples of his early writing in the form of unpublished drafts of poems and draft fragments of stories. It includes correspondence with publishers, copies of articles related to his work and publicity material related to his writing and to awards associated with it. The fonds contains material that documents his academic and professional work as a nuclear physicist including course outlines, notes, essays, and offprints of articles authored or co-authored by Vassanji. Records donated in 2008 include: draft scripts for an unfinished television project, “The Abdullah quartet”
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It is unfortunate that Moyez Vassanji’s television project “The Abdullah quartet” never aired. I truly hope that his draft project script will eventually make it to the TV screen.
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