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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Mirroring the Subtext: Postmodernism in Ngugi wa Thiongo's Wizard of the Crow
(Journal of Language, Technology and Entrepreneurship in Africa, 2007)
This reading of Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Wizard of the Crow attempts to place the text in the postmodern writing tradition. We point out how surrealistic features are utilized
to enhance the themes, style, and the author's ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...