Browsing RP-Department of Literature by Title
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African Literature in a Structural and Linguistic Jail: Acknowledging, Apprehending and Advocating for Prison Break
(International Journal of Humanities & Social Science, 2012-11)The author describes how works by some African writers that entail literary experimentation have not been seen as serious literature. He mentions how the society have refused to grow and still believe in three Eurocentric ... -
Afrofuturism and Quest for Black Redemption in Nnedi Okorafor’s The Book of Phoenix
(2022)Nnedi Okorafor’s TheBook of Phoenix follows the trajectory of many Afrofuturist texts in the exploration of the Black fortunes in the contested futuristic space. Using science fiction, fantasy, and speculative ... -
Analysis of Phonological Errors Made by Grade 4 Learners with Communication Difficulties in Kieni East Sub-County
(KCRD, 2023)Inclusive education in Kenyan primary schools brings together learners with special needs and their peers without special needs in the mainstream classroom. Some learners in inclusive classrooms have challenges that hinder ... -
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 ... -
Beautiful Dreams: Deconstructing Discourses of Redemption in Darko’s Beyond the Horizon (1995), Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street (2009), Adichie’s Americanah (2013) And Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers (2016)
(Royallite Global, 2022)This paper entails an analysis of how in their different particularities, Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon, Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street; Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah and Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers ... -
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 ... -
Changing Trends in Bedtime Story Reading Habits of Children: A Comparative Study of African and European Children’s Literature
(Royallite Global, 2020)Children are often inspired by tales, rhymes and songs of various kinds globally. Mostly, children in developed countries are exposed to cartoons online and puzzles that tell stories. Before the emergence of modern ... -
The Commodification of the Female Body in the Akamba Pop Music
(EAST AFRICAN NATURE & SCIENCE ORGANIZATION, 2022-10)This paper interrogates the objectified and commodified images of women constructed in the Akamba pop songs, especially those selected for this study. It analyses how these construed femininities offer a gender imbalance ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Exploring the motifs of death and immortality
(Journal of Language, Technology & Entrepreneurship in Africa, 2009)Felt threatened by the eventuality of death, inculcating in them a fear so great that all possible strategies are engaged in the search for an avenue that would prepare them for this eventuality. A careful exploration ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Filmmaking in Kenya: The Voyage
(American Research Institute for Policy Development, 2015)World over, there is a new trajectory that apprehends the significance of filmmaking and forward-looking nations have swiftly embedded film in their national culture and psyche, with the resultant effect of tremendous ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
