 He later became assistant editor of "Al-Falaq", "Afrika Kwetu", and "Al Mahda".From 1958 to his retirement in 1968 he served as editor of the agricultural magazine "Mkulima".In 1958 fiction work "Mzimu wa Watu wa Kale" (Shrine of the Ancestors) won top honors at the Swahili Story-Writing Competition held by the East African Literature Bureau; in 1960 the work was published as a novel.