Tamthilia mbili za Kifaransa are translations into Kiswahili of two
French plays by Victor Hugo (1802-1855), Le Rois siamuse and Jean Luc
Lagarce (1957 - 1995), Les regles du savoir vivre dans la societe
moderne. The translations are done in Kiswahili as it is spoken in the
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), one of Swahili language's distinct
dialects (Kingwana) which is spoken by possibly the second or third
largest population of Kiswahili speakers outside Tanzania, where the
so-called Kiswahili Sanifu (Standard Swahili) is spoken. The translator,
Marcel KALUNGA MWELA-UBI, is a Professor at Lubumbashi and Kalemie
Universities in DRC where he teaches Kiswahili among other subjects.