{"id":13,"date":"2013-05-07T21:42:33","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T21:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.r-prins.com\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2026-06-09T14:54:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T14:54:47","slug":"prose","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.r-prins.com\/?page_id=13","title":{"rendered":"Prose"},"content":{"rendered":"

Book<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brain Flavour: A Lyric History of Swahili Hip Hop<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(No University Press 2026)<\/p>\n

Anthology<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Because: An Etiology” in The Best American Essays 2024\u00a0<\/em>(Mariner Press)<\/p>\n

Journals<\/strong><\/p>\n

“On Swahili Hip Hop and the Insufficiency of Translation”<\/a> in\u00a0Hopscotch Translation<\/em><\/p>\n

“Because: An Etiology” in\u00a0Potomac Review\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

“The Dance of the Spinning Top: Translating Resistance in the Poetry of Muyaka”<\/a> in Swahili Forum<\/em><\/p>\n

“The Lapsed Vegetarian” in\u00a0Potomac Review<\/em><\/p>\n

“Ten Days To Hold You” in Yemassee<\/em> as a Monthly Spotlight<\/p>\n

“Letter To America”<\/a> in\u00a0Terrain.org<\/em><\/p>\n

“Teach Me How To Fight”<\/a> in Terrain.org<\/em><\/p>\n

“My Hangover Killed Lou Reed<\/a>” in\u00a0jmww<\/em><\/p>\n

“Down and Up in Dar es Salaam”<\/a> in Witness <\/em>(also listed as “Notable Travel Writing” in The Best American Travel Writing 2020<\/em>)<\/p>\n

“Already Yesterday”<\/a> in jmww<\/em><\/p>\n

“Harm Reduction in Dar es Salaam”<\/a> in Tahoma Literary Review<\/em><\/p>\n

“Safari Lager and Swahili Hip-Hop”<\/a> in\u00a0The Forge Literary Magazine<\/em>, along with an interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Devil Got My Woman” in Harpur Palate<\/em><\/p>\n

“Love and Death in Dar es Salaam” in\u00a0Southern Indiana Review<\/em><\/p>\n

“Finished Sentences in Dar es Salaam” in\u00a0Portland Review<\/em><\/p>\n

“Crying For the Razor in Dar es Salaam” in\u00a0Transition Magazine\u00a0<\/em>(also listed as a\u00a0“Notable Essay” in The\u00a0Best American Essays 2014<\/em>)<\/p>\n

“Native Freak”<\/a> in\u00a0New York Peristalsis<\/em><\/p>\n

“The Sixth Borough”<\/a> in\u00a0decomP Magazine<\/em><\/p>\n

“The Chaperone” in\u00a0kill author<\/em><\/p>\n

“The Mzungu” in\u00a0Night Train<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Book Brain Flavour: A Lyric History of Swahili Hip Hop\u00a0(No University Press 2026) Anthology “Because: An Etiology” in The Best American Essays 2024\u00a0(Mariner Press) Journals “On Swahili Hip Hop and the Insufficiency of Translation” in\u00a0Hopscotch Translation “Because: An Etiology” in\u00a0Potomac Review\u00a0 “The Dance of the Spinning Top: Translating Resistance in the Poetry of Muyaka” in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.r-prins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.r-prins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.r-prins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.r-prins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.r-prins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.r-prins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":765,"href":"http:\/\/www.r-prins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.r-prins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}