Cristina Nicolini. Clash of Epistemes: Knowledge of HIV/AIDS in Swahili Literary Genres. 2022

Flavia Aiello works as an Associate Professor at the University of Naples “L’Orientale” (Department of Asian, African and Mediterranean Studies). She is the author of numerous publications on Swahili oral and written genres and of translations of modern Swahili literature. She has produced for the Italian-reading audience Separazione (“Detachment,” Soveria Mannelli, Iride Edizioni, 2005) – a translation of the Swahili novel Utengano by Said Ahmed Mohamed – and, together with Roberto Gaudioso, Ushairi na Uhuru: poesie scelte di Abdilatif Abdalla e Euphrase Kezilahabi (“Poetry and Freedom: selected poems by Abdilatif Abdalla and Euphrase Kezilahabi;” Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale,” 2017).

She can be reached at: faiello@unior.it