Kongolas work can be understood as both hegemonic, in that its Swahili language discourse legitimizes the authority of the nation, and counter hegemonic, in that it preserves the distinctly local and intimate.
Kongolas autobiography is told as a moral exhortation for discipline and perseverance.
Kongolas writings are based on a genre of clan histories that he performs orally at funerals and which he prepares through his own research.
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