Abstract
This article is motivated by recent debates regarding the place of the Swahili esoteric novel. The debates provoked a position which I take, and attempt to clarify here. Some scholars view the Swahili esoteric novel, referred elsewhere as ‘experimental’, ‘new’, ‘polymorphic’ (Bertoncini, 2001, p.125,) as dead. Dead in the sense that experimentators of this genre, have halted writing it altogether. I argue in this paper by presenting two presuppositions. Firstly, that the esoteric novel is indeed evolving. Secondly, that the Swahili esoteric novel is in perpetual oscillation. In this paper, ‘esoteric’ and ‘experimental’ are used interchangeably.
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