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Human Rights and Displacement in Literature: The Case of M. Mwangi’s Kill Me Quick and K. Kombani’s The Last Villains of Molo
(Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies, 2018-12)This work aims to explore the relationship between literature and human rights with a hypothesis that literature is a vehicle for enhancing human rights through its condemnation of violations, and thus, the focus is on ... -
Towards Afrocentricism in Africa: Is Afro – Language an Antidote to Africans’ Double - Consciousness?
(Journal of Education and Social Sciences, 2020)Commonwealth countries were forced to adopt English as language to use in most if not all government engagements with its citizen. This has, together with economic status of its native speakers, propelled it to the status ... -
Mother Supremacy Motif in Chinua Achebe’s Novels: Empowering Women to propel Education through Religion
(SAUT multi-disciplinary journal of education, 2019-11)There has been an intense debate with regards to Chinua Achebe’s (mis)representation of women in his creative works, especially his early novels. This point of view has been augmented by feminists who posit that the belief ... -
Female Assertion as an Antidote to Male Dominance: Mother Archetypes in Achebe’s Novels—Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, and A Man of the People
(Editon Consortium Publishing, 2019-04)There has been an intense debate with regards to Chinua Achebe’s (mis)representation of women in his creative works, especially his first four novels. Some scholars have argued that Achebe is a patriarchal writer who has ... -
Transmutation and Temporality: Shifting Figures of African Women in Jennifer Makumbi’s Historical Novel Kintu (2014)
(International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation (IJLLT), 2021-02-02)The role of African women writers in employing the unique style of presenting several generations of women characters in the same historical novel to narrate how the world of women has been transformed across time cannot ... -
Three Regions, One Message: A Comparative Analysis of Poems from Africa, the United States of America and British Guiana
(International Journal of Current Research, 2019-09-30)Comparative Literature brings about a sense of the unity of knowledge. for understanding and adaptation without necessitating elimination of opposing views or the absolute privileging of one theoretical position, thus ... -
Ideographs of Resistance and Identity Construction in the Kenyan Political Autobiography
(Coretrain Journal of Languages, Humanities, Social Sciences and Education, 2018-01)The avalanche of autobiographies that are produced in postcolonial Kenya calls for sustained interrogation and analysis of the narratives created to elucidate those murky aspects of the colonial past and post-colonial ... -
Subalternity and Resistance in the Kenyan Political Autobiography: A Critical Look at Not Yet Uhuru and The Flame of Freedom
(Scholars Middle East Publisher, 2018-10-30)An interrogation of the autobiographies by leaders who write from the margins of power show that subaltern political autobiographies inhabit a privileged position that enable one to see the effect of power on subaltern ... -
Contesting the Subaltern Narrative: The Trickster Trope in the Kenyan Political Autobiography
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-03-21)This article is a critique of the idea of subalternity1 as it is used in the Kenyan political autobiographies of leaders who have reigned but never ruled.2 The study is largely located within postcolonial theory, with ... -
Nexus/Busara and the Rise of Modern Kenyan Literature
(Taylor & Francis, 2021)This paper examines the role of Nexus/Busara as one of the foundational literary magazines in Kenya. Founded in the late 1960s by literature students at the University College, Nairobi, the journal was immersed in the ... -
“Sexing African Time and Space”: the Fetish of the Colonial Gender
(Journal of Law and Social Sciences, 2020)This article examines how Alain Mabanckou uses sexual allegories in his novel Broken glass (2010) to express (neo)-colonial realities in which Africa is charmed by the West into assuming the role of the sexual subaltern. ... -
Anatomy of Contemporary Storytelling: Performing National Culture in Kenya
(International Journal of Law, Humanities & Social Science, 2018-10)Throughout time, performance has been the domain of celebrating the process of being and becoming by rejecting, affirming and consolidating identities and cultures. This article argues that contemporary storytelling ... -
Otherness and the Fragmented Self: A Review of The Return by Hisham Matar
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-04-14)Existing models in writing reviews underscore the form and content of works of art with scarce attention to the philosophical maxims upon which the works are based. Most adopt journalistic models that are more or less ... -
Why and to Where does Ajany Run? Culture and Femininity in Yvonne Owuor’s Dust
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-09-09)Launched around the time Kenya was marking fifty years of independence, Yvonne Owuor’s Dust has been described as a ‘cultural inheritance.’ It portrays a collection of colourful characters who laugh at themselves in ... -
COVID-19: A Blessing or Curse on Affected Countries and its Citizens
(Royallite Global, 2020)The emergence of COVID-19, the deadly global virus brought in its wake, both positive and negative results on the general lives of citizens in the affected countries. While many countries, families and ...
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Towards Afrocentricism in Africa: Is Afro – Language an Antidote to Africans’ Double - Consciousness?
(Journal of Education and Social Sciences, 2020)Commonwealth countries were forced to adopt English as language to use in most if not all government engagements with its citizen. This has, together with economic status of its native speakers, propelled it to the status ... -
Mother Supremacy Motif in Chinua Achebe’s Novels: Empowering Women to propel Education through Religion
(SAUT multi-disciplinary journal of education, 2019-11)There has been an intense debate with regards to Chinua Achebe’s (mis)representation of women in his creative works, especially his early novels. This point of view has been augmented by feminists who posit that the belief ... -
Female Assertion as an Antidote to Male Dominance: Mother Archetypes in Achebe’s Novels—Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, and A Man of the People
(Editon Consortium Publishing, 2019-04)There has been an intense debate with regards to Chinua Achebe’s (mis)representation of women in his creative works, especially his first four novels. Some scholars have argued that Achebe is a patriarchal writer who has ... -
Transmutation and Temporality: Shifting Figures of African Women in Jennifer Makumbi’s Historical Novel Kintu (2014)
(International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation (IJLLT), 2021-02-02)The role of African women writers in employing the unique style of presenting several generations of women characters in the same historical novel to narrate how the world of women has been transformed across time cannot ... -
Three Regions, One Message: A Comparative Analysis of Poems from Africa, the United States of America and British Guiana
(International Journal of Current Research, 2019-09-30)Comparative Literature brings about a sense of the unity of knowledge. for understanding and adaptation without necessitating elimination of opposing views or the absolute privileging of one theoretical position, thus ... -
Human Rights and Displacement in Literature: The Case of M. Mwangi’s Kill Me Quick and K. Kombani’s The Last Villains of Molo
(Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies, 2018-12)This work aims to explore the relationship between literature and human rights with a hypothesis that literature is a vehicle for enhancing human rights through its condemnation of violations, and thus, the focus is on ... -
Ideographs of Resistance and Identity Construction in the Kenyan Political Autobiography
(Coretrain Journal of Languages, Humanities, Social Sciences and Education, 2018-01)The avalanche of autobiographies that are produced in postcolonial Kenya calls for sustained interrogation and analysis of the narratives created to elucidate those murky aspects of the colonial past and post-colonial ... -
Subalternity and Resistance in the Kenyan Political Autobiography: A Critical Look at Not Yet Uhuru and The Flame of Freedom
(Scholars Middle East Publisher, 2018-10-30)An interrogation of the autobiographies by leaders who write from the margins of power show that subaltern political autobiographies inhabit a privileged position that enable one to see the effect of power on subaltern ... -
Contesting the Subaltern Narrative: The Trickster Trope in the Kenyan Political Autobiography
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-03-21)This article is a critique of the idea of subalternity1 as it is used in the Kenyan political autobiographies of leaders who have reigned but never ruled.2 The study is largely located within postcolonial theory, with ... -
Nexus/Busara and the Rise of Modern Kenyan Literature
(Taylor & Francis, 2021)This paper examines the role of Nexus/Busara as one of the foundational literary magazines in Kenya. Founded in the late 1960s by literature students at the University College, Nairobi, the journal was immersed in the ... -
“Sexing African Time and Space”: the Fetish of the Colonial Gender
(Journal of Law and Social Sciences, 2020)This article examines how Alain Mabanckou uses sexual allegories in his novel Broken glass (2010) to express (neo)-colonial realities in which Africa is charmed by the West into assuming the role of the sexual subaltern. ... -
Anatomy of Contemporary Storytelling: Performing National Culture in Kenya
(International Journal of Law, Humanities & Social Science, 2018-10)Throughout time, performance has been the domain of celebrating the process of being and becoming by rejecting, affirming and consolidating identities and cultures. This article argues that contemporary storytelling ... -
Otherness and the Fragmented Self: A Review of The Return by Hisham Matar
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-04-14)Existing models in writing reviews underscore the form and content of works of art with scarce attention to the philosophical maxims upon which the works are based. Most adopt journalistic models that are more or less ... -
Why and to Where does Ajany Run? Culture and Femininity in Yvonne Owuor’s Dust
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-09-09)Launched around the time Kenya was marking fifty years of independence, Yvonne Owuor’s Dust has been described as a ‘cultural inheritance.’ It portrays a collection of colourful characters who laugh at themselves in ... -
COVID-19: A Blessing or Curse on Affected Countries and its Citizens
(Royallite Global, 2020)The emergence of COVID-19, the deadly global virus brought in its wake, both positive and negative results on the general lives of citizens in the affected countries. While many countries, families and ... -
Struggle for Survival: Female Masculinisation as Presented in Macgoye’s Coming to Birth and Victoria and Murder in Majengo
(Royallite Global, 2020)In the patriarchal world,courage, vigor and strength are qualities often ascribed to men. In her two novels,Coming to Birthand Victoria and Murder in Majengo, Marjorie Oludhe MacGoye seeks to demystify this ... -
Portrayal and Effects of Disobedience through Drama in Works of Aidoo and Fiawoo: A Comparative Study
(Royallite Global, 2020)Culture as a collective norm behooves members of a community whose identity is related to adherence to a specific culture, thus guaranteeing a cultural preservation and protection. In other words, there is a marked-off ... -
The irony in funeral of two religious sects in Ghana: A comparative study in Islam and Christianity
(Royallite Global, 2020)This study examines the irony in the two religions, Christian and Islamic with respect to the organization and patronage of funerals in Ghana. Data was collected in four communities across Ghana comprising two Christian ... -
The Language of Kikuyu Popular Artists as “Community Spokespersons” On Ethnic Cleansing in Kenya
(Royallite Global, 2019)This paperfocuses on popular songs that were performed on the Kenya’s mega historical period of 2007/2008. The country experienced socio-political conflict precipitated on the winner of the Presidential race, ... -
Cultural Essentialism: A Sordid Boon at the Shores of Sub-Saharan Africa
(Royallite Global, 2018)In our Gikuyu tradition, it is the lead woman who urges the husband to marry again. “Get me a companion.” […] The management of a polygamous household is a matter of individual liberty. Each woman has her own hut…entirely ...
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