King'ei, Kitula Osore, MiriamNjogu, Gladys Wanjiru2019-03-272019-03-272014http://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/19319Tasnifu hii Imetolewa Katika Idara ya Kiswahili na Lugha za Kiafrika Katika Chuo Kikuu cha Kenyatta kwa Ajili ya Kutosheleza Baadhi ya Mahitaji ya Kutunzwa Shahada ya Uzamili Katika Kiswahili. 2014These research is about the concept of life and death in selected Kiswahili novels Nagona and Mzingile. The research has been guided by three basic questions. First, we have researched on how Kezilahabi has used the concept of life and death as a mystery. Two, the research has looked at the outcome of life and death in the two novels and astly, we have researched on different ways of viewing life and death. The tenets of archetypical and magical realism theories were used so as to meet the objectives of the research. Data analysis was done in the library through intensive reading of books and different materials. These research has been divided into five chapters. The first chapter gives the summary of the whole research. The second chapter gives the history and the philosophies of E. Kezilahabi. The third chapter has looked at different themes of life and death in in Nagona through different images. the fourth-chapter gives the themes of life and death in Mzingile. The fifth chapter concludes these research by giving the summary, contribution, outcome and problems of the research.The outcome of the research is that life is not a straight line but is cyclicKiswahiliThesis