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Female Characters Contesting Maasai Traditional Cultural Practices and Materialism in H.R. Ole Kulet’s Blossoms of the Savannah and Daughter of Maa
(European Centre for Research Training and Development, United Kingdom, 2018)This paper examines how the Kenyan writer H.R. Ole Kulet portrays female characters vis-à-vis Maasai traditional practices in Blossoms of the Savannah and Daughter of Maa. It proceeds from the premise that characterization ... -
Phantoms of Hysteria ‒ Novelistic Phantasmagoria in Lesego Rampolokeng’s Whiteheart: Prologue to Hysteria
(Cogent OA, 2018)This article examines how the narrator in Lesego Rampolokeng’s Whiteheart: Prologue to Hysteria (Hereafter designated as W/ H) deploys spectres of hysteria as a novelistic phantasmagoria to challenge the subject in the ... -
The Significance, For Readers in the Twenty-First Century, Of the Character of Safie in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
(Cultural Association Littera Aperta, 2016)This paper presents a critical look at one of the characters in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Safie, through the lenses of a female African scholar in the twenty-first century. A close look at the narrative structure leads ... -
The Construction of Feminine Psychology in Swahili Women’s Nuptial Poetry-Unyago
(Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2017)This article examines the construction of feminine psychology in Swahili women nuptial poetry-unyago. Unyago poetry is composed and performed by Swahili women. Swahili is a community located along the coastal region of ... -
Internal Dialectical Contradictions in Soyinka's Novel: Acquisitive Physical Appetites and the Quest for Spiritual Values
(IJAR, 2016)All things contain within themselves internal dialectical contradictions, which are the primary cause of motion, change, and development in the world. Dialectical contradiction is not about simple opposites or negation. ... -
Representation of Individual Will as the Agent of Social Transformation in Wole Soyinka’s Novels
(IJAR, 2016)This study focuses on representation of individual will as the vehicle of social transformation in Wole Soyinka’s novels. The Interpreters and Season of Anomy constitute the study population and the main sources of primary ... -
Brave new world – a reading of the unbroken spirit and the verdict of death
(2015)This is a stylistic analysis of two novels published in Africa in the twenty-first century. Fifty years ago, when the publishing apparatus was controlled by the European colonial regime, an African writer not only had to ... -
Marriage and sexuality in the indigenous Kenyan Film.
(Africa Regional Sexuality Resource Centre (ARSRC) and Kenya Association of Professional Counselors (KAPC), 2005-06) -
Representations of the postcolonial state in the childhood metaphor in selected postcolonial texts
(ASD Publisher, 2015)In the analysis of postcolonial literature, there is no systematic construction of a framework to factor in childhood as a metaphor. Postcolonial criticism has not been engaged further in the enterprise of literary analysis, ... -
Imagi(ni)ng people with special needs through literary artistry: an analysis of the oral narrative motif of the princess who could not smile.
(Science Journal Publication, 2012)This paper is developed from research in the oral narratives of the Agikuyu. The paper revisits the portrait of persons with special needs in a selected thematic area in Oral Literature, the motif of The princess who ... -
Land as Story and the Place o f The Story: A Contemporary Kenyan Illustration of Landscape as Text
(2012)The discussion of this paper seeks to contribute to the growing body of wide ranging stud ies which seek to analyse the diffusion of the core concepts regarding ‘places’ and ‘landscape’ as texts of social, anthropological ... -
“Nothing but ogre”: Problems in the Conception and Practice of Folklore in Kenya
(2005)I n my days as a Graduate Assistant in the literature department where I now work, I registered students for their courses. Few students voluntarily signed up to study oral literature.1 Common objections included: “besides ... -
Multilingualism, language policy and creative writing in Kenya
(Springer, 2014)Language use and creative writing go hand in hand. In the process of exploring language, we also engage in the study of literature. An engagement with literature is, indeed, a continuing process of improving our capacity ... -
Ethnic Identities and Gender Themes in Contemporary East African Literature
(2011)Diese Dissertation untersucht Werken von Gegenwartsschriftstellern aus Ostafrika, die entweder dort oder im Ausland leben. Der Textkorpus umfasst neue Romane und Kurzgeschichten in englischer Sprache aus Kenia als ein ...
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Female Characters Contesting Maasai Traditional Cultural Practices and Materialism in H.R. Ole Kulet’s Blossoms of the Savannah and Daughter of Maa
(European Centre for Research Training and Development, United Kingdom, 2018)This paper examines how the Kenyan writer H.R. Ole Kulet portrays female characters vis-à-vis Maasai traditional practices in Blossoms of the Savannah and Daughter of Maa. It proceeds from the premise that characterization ... -
Phantoms of Hysteria ‒ Novelistic Phantasmagoria in Lesego Rampolokeng’s Whiteheart: Prologue to Hysteria
(Cogent OA, 2018)This article examines how the narrator in Lesego Rampolokeng’s Whiteheart: Prologue to Hysteria (Hereafter designated as W/ H) deploys spectres of hysteria as a novelistic phantasmagoria to challenge the subject in the ... -
The Significance, For Readers in the Twenty-First Century, Of the Character of Safie in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
(Cultural Association Littera Aperta, 2016)This paper presents a critical look at one of the characters in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Safie, through the lenses of a female African scholar in the twenty-first century. A close look at the narrative structure leads ... -
The Construction of Feminine Psychology in Swahili Women’s Nuptial Poetry-Unyago
(Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2017)This article examines the construction of feminine psychology in Swahili women nuptial poetry-unyago. Unyago poetry is composed and performed by Swahili women. Swahili is a community located along the coastal region of ... -
Internal Dialectical Contradictions in Soyinka's Novel: Acquisitive Physical Appetites and the Quest for Spiritual Values
(IJAR, 2016)All things contain within themselves internal dialectical contradictions, which are the primary cause of motion, change, and development in the world. Dialectical contradiction is not about simple opposites or negation. ... -
Representation of Individual Will as the Agent of Social Transformation in Wole Soyinka’s Novels
(IJAR, 2016)This study focuses on representation of individual will as the vehicle of social transformation in Wole Soyinka’s novels. The Interpreters and Season of Anomy constitute the study population and the main sources of primary ... -
Brave new world – a reading of the unbroken spirit and the verdict of death
(2015)This is a stylistic analysis of two novels published in Africa in the twenty-first century. Fifty years ago, when the publishing apparatus was controlled by the European colonial regime, an African writer not only had to ... -
Marriage and sexuality in the indigenous Kenyan Film.
(Africa Regional Sexuality Resource Centre (ARSRC) and Kenya Association of Professional Counselors (KAPC), 2005-06) -
Representations of the postcolonial state in the childhood metaphor in selected postcolonial texts
(ASD Publisher, 2015)In the analysis of postcolonial literature, there is no systematic construction of a framework to factor in childhood as a metaphor. Postcolonial criticism has not been engaged further in the enterprise of literary analysis, ... -
Imagi(ni)ng people with special needs through literary artistry: an analysis of the oral narrative motif of the princess who could not smile.
(Science Journal Publication, 2012)This paper is developed from research in the oral narratives of the Agikuyu. The paper revisits the portrait of persons with special needs in a selected thematic area in Oral Literature, the motif of The princess who ... -
Land as Story and the Place o f The Story: A Contemporary Kenyan Illustration of Landscape as Text
(2012)The discussion of this paper seeks to contribute to the growing body of wide ranging stud ies which seek to analyse the diffusion of the core concepts regarding ‘places’ and ‘landscape’ as texts of social, anthropological ... -
“Nothing but ogre”: Problems in the Conception and Practice of Folklore in Kenya
(2005)I n my days as a Graduate Assistant in the literature department where I now work, I registered students for their courses. Few students voluntarily signed up to study oral literature.1 Common objections included: “besides ... -
Multilingualism, language policy and creative writing in Kenya
(Springer, 2014)Language use and creative writing go hand in hand. In the process of exploring language, we also engage in the study of literature. An engagement with literature is, indeed, a continuing process of improving our capacity ... -
Ethnic Identities and Gender Themes in Contemporary East African Literature
(2011)Diese Dissertation untersucht Werken von Gegenwartsschriftstellern aus Ostafrika, die entweder dort oder im Ausland leben. Der Textkorpus umfasst neue Romane und Kurzgeschichten in englischer Sprache aus Kenia als ein ... -
Influence of gender roles on students pursuing module ii programs in Kenyan public universities.
(Centre for Promoting Ideas, USA, 2011-09)Module II programs in Kenyan Public Universities have grown over the last ten years giving expanded access to many Kenyans hitherto unable to access higher education. Since the programs are being offered in an educational ... -
Restorying” the Maternal Myth of Origin in Zami and Makeba: My Story
(Taylor & Francis, 2008)Myths are particularly important sources of alternative history for groups denied a place in mainstream culture. I have, throughout my private war, been a she, a you, a Donna, a me, and finally, an I. -
Gender In Nascent Module II Programmes In Kenyan Public Universities A Descriptive Survey
(OSSREA, 2009)This study addresses the intersection of issues of gender and the nascent Module II Programmes in public universities in Kenya. The term Module II programmes to refer to all the adult continuing/lifelong education programmes ... -
Gendered Challenges and Opportunities in Module II Programs in Kenyan Public Universities: A Critical Appraisal
(Centre for Promoting Ideas, USA, 2011-12)African countries have, since independence recognized education as a major catalyst of development . Five decades later, this focus has not changed although literacy rates remain low. In Kenya, many initiatives to increase ... -
Power and Gendered Identities: (Re) Configuring the Gendered Self in Kenyan Drama
(International Institute for Science, Technology and Education, Vol.3, No.9, 2013, 2013)Studies of power and gender identity form part of the dominant discourses of various scholars such as Judith Butler, Julia Kristeva, Margaret Hall, Michel Foucault, and Gloria Anzaldua who have explored the concepts of ...
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