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Journal articles on the topic "Kenya, fiction"

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Mũrĩithi, Wairimũ. "Fragments Towards an Impossible (Domestic) Genre of the Human in Kenyan Crime Fiction." English in Africa 47, no. 3 (2021): 99–119. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/eia.v47i3.6s.

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Extrajudicial executions and other forms of police violence in Kenya have always been an issue of significant concern in local and international media and human rights organisations. Reflective of this, scholarly interest in crime fiction in Kenya has grown significantly in recent years. However, the gendered implications of criminality – from sex work to errant motherhood to alternative modes of investigation – are still largely overlooked in postcolonial literary fiction and criticism. As part of a larger study on how women writers and characters shape crime fiction in Kenya, this paper crit

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Spencer, John, and David Maughan-Brown. "Land, Freedom, and Fiction: History and Ideology in Kenya." American Historical Review 93, no. 1 (1988): 206. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1865810.

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Crow, Brian, and David Maughan-Brown. "Land, Freedom and Fiction: History and Ideology in Kenya." International Journal of African Historical Studies 20, no. 2 (1987): 374. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/219883.

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Ukpokodu, I. Peter. "Theatre and Political Discord: Theatre Rebels of Zimbabwe and Kenya." Theatre Research International 23, no. 1 (1998): 38–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307883300018198.

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Though the world is aware of the political activities of the Nigerian playwright, Wole Soyinka, it might be difficult to find a better example of the relationship between a nation in a state of socio-political chaos and the arts in an African country than that of Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Kenya as exemplified in Matigari:Matigari, the main character [in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Matigari], is puzzled by a world where the producer is not the one who has the last word on what he has produced; a world where lies are rewarded and truth punished. He goes round the country asking questions about truth and justi

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Opoku-Agyemang, Kwabena. "Digital cities and villages: African writers and a sense of place in short online fiction." Journal of African Media Studies 15, no. 2 (2023): 217–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jams_00101_1.

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This article analyses how young African writers challenge stereotypes about the continent through their imagination of places in online short stories. These stories appear on the literary websites Brittle Paper, Jalada, Saraba, Flash Fiction Ghana, Adda and African Writer Magazine with a focus on cities and villages. Authored by ten writers from Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Malawi and Egypt, the stories contain elements of fiction that risk perpetuating negative stereotypes about Africa as they imagine their respective settings. However, textual analysis supported by an appreciation of context revea

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Kopf, Martina. "Encountering development in East African fiction." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 54, no. 3 (2017): 334–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989417707801.

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In this article I address how East African writers have responded to and conceptualized the encounter with development in works of fiction. The article combines two lines of enquiry: first, a historical perspective on “development” as a history of changing and conflicting meanings and practices in planning and controlling social and economic change, and, second, a narrative studies perspective on fiction as a source of knowledge in social and political research. The article presents an analysis of two novels and a short story from Uganda and Kenya: Akiki Nyabongo’s The Story of an African Chie

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Michael M. Kamau, Collins Auta Wagumba;. "Determining the Context of Television Serial Drama Viewership in Nairobi, Kenya." Editon Consortium Journal of Media and Communication Studies 2, no. 1 (2020): 115–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.51317/ecjmcs.v2i1.163.

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The study sought to determine the context of television serial drama fiction viewership in Nairobi, Kenya. Watching of television serial drama fiction/soap operas is popular among Nairobi audiences. The research is anchored on uses and gratification and cultural proximity theories. The study employed a mixed-method design approach and used simple random, purposive and systematic sampling techniques to determine the population sizes. The study is further organised at two levels. In the first phase, 422 interview guide questionnaires were administered to respondents in households in three random

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Ogola, George. "The Idiom of Age in a Popular Kenyan Newspaper Serial." Africa 76, no. 4 (2006): 569–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/afr.2006.0075.

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AbstractThis article examines the narratives constructed around age in Kenya. Noting the ‘spatial crossings’ of the Kenyan subject, who is as much attuned to the village ethos as he is to the globalized world, the article problematizes our approach to the study of age in Africa. It discusses the multiple narratives now constructed around age within the context of a society in rapid flux, especially underscoring its relationship to authority. The article proposes that there are multiple ways – some new, others merely reinvented – in which social and political relationships are now (re)construct

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Ihidero, Victor Osae. "Terror thrillers and tradition: a postcolonial reading of selected African cinema." EJOTMAS: Ekpoma Journal of Theatre and Media Arts 7, no. 1-2 (2020): 153–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ejotmas.v7i1-2.10.

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Nigeria, Kenya and Somalia are few of the countries in Africa faced with terrorism and militancy. The rise and expansion of terrorist groups such as Al-Shabaab, Boko Haram, the Niger-Delta Volunteer Force, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) and recently, the Avengers, has risen to vent terror on the peoples of Nigeria, Kenya and Somalia. Whilst each of these countries has its own distinct challenges that led to the formation of such terrorist groups, the emergence of terrorism in Nigeria remains complex. One of the ways an explicit explanation has been given to these complexes in N

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Khatun, Most Umme Atia. "Post-Independent Kenya in Ngugi’s A Grain of Wheat and Petals of Blood: A Neo-Colonial Study." International Journal of Culture and History 9, no. 2 (2022): 143. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ijch.v9i2.20587.

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For most of the colonized nations, the achievement of independence turned an illusion with the perpetuation of disguised imperialism which most of the postcolonial critics have termed as “neocolonialism”. Neocolonialism can be defined as the deliberate and continued survival of the colonial system in independent states by turning them into victims of political, psychological, economic and social domination carried out through subtle means that exclude direct violence. An inspiring advocate for freedom, justice, and human rights for the downtrodden peoples of the world, Kenya’s most celebrated

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Kenya, fiction"

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Erapu, Laban Omella. "A study of Ngugi wa Thiong'o's later novels to assess his adaptation of dramatic techniques and Gikuyu oral traditions to the requirements of fiction." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002278.

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This thesis examines Ngugi wa Thiong'o's later writings in order to establish the nature of his quest for a people's literature. It illustrates how the author attempts to break the barriers between traditional oral forms and the relatively new written forms in addressing a basically "illiterate" audience. The research begins with an exploration of Gikuyu oral literature as an essential background to Ngugi's later dramatic and fictional writings as distinct from his earlier literary works in which he initiates the dominant quest for a more just society. Ngugi's return to these roots constitutes

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Gromov, Mikhail D. "Mahojano na Ben R. Mtobwa." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-98342.

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Mahojiano haya yamefanyika tarehe 11 Januari 2008, mjini Mainz, Ujerumani, wakati wa Kongamano la Tisa la Janheinz Jahn “Beyond ‘murder by magic’: investigating African crime fiction” lililofanyika Chuo Kikuu cha Mainz.

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Wakarindi, Jane Wangari. "Young adult fiction in Kenya: a genre struggling to be born." Thesis, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/25907.

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Lepine, Richard Marshall. "Swahili newspaper fiction in Kenya the stories of James I. Mwagojo /." 1988. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/18434811.html.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1988.<br>Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 404-413).

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Muriungi, Agnes. "Romance, love and gender in times of crisis: HIV/AIDS in Kenyan popular fiction." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/255.

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PhD - Arts<br>The emergence of HIV/AIDS has changed how society perceives and deals with issues of sex, sexuality, and gender. The writers studied in this thesis raise important questions pertaining to HIV/AIDS and gender, love, romance, sex and sexuality in present day Kenya. Their writing demonstrates that HIV/AIDS has changed the ways in which people understand these issues. This thesis sought to explore, through an analysis of fiction, how human social behaviour has been affected by a pandemic disease. The changes in sexual and gender relationships that are reflected in this literatu

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Muriungi, Colomba Kaburi. "Emerging trends in Kenyan children's fiction: A study of Sasa Sema's Lion books." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/2087.

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Student Number : 0204500X - PhD Thesis - School of Literature and Language Studies - Faculty of Humanities<br>This thesis is a study of the Sasa Sema’s Lion Series of biographies written for young readers. The Sasa Sema project is concerned with archiving the stories of famous historical figures and contemporary heroes. The research examines the shifts or the trends these biographies take as compared to what has been in existence in discourses on children’s writing in Kenya in the past. I argue that the issues that these biographies are concerned with are a novelty in Kenyan children’

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Ogola, George Otieno. "Stirring whispers: fictionalising the 'popular' in the Kenyan Newspaper." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/262.

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PhD - Arts<br>Popular fiction columns have been among the most resilient and versatile of the newspaper sub-genres in Kenya. Since the 1970s, these columns have remained a permanent feature in the Kenyan newspapers. Among the most popular of these columns is Whispers, a satirical column written by one of Kenya’s most talented writers of the 1980s—90s decades, Wahome Mutahi. At a time when the state had all but monopolised public sites of expression in the country, Whispers kept the Kenyan popular media porous, opening up spaces for the discussion of social and political issues that could on

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(8816804), Kelsey Lefever. "The Tenth Daughter." Thesis, 2020.

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<div>In September 2007, Americans Jenna Cook and her daughter, Pia, arrive in Wapendeza Village, Kenya. On the heels of her divorce, Jenna is returning to where she taught in the Peace Corps in fifteen years ago. Jenna and Pia are staying with Jenna’s old friend, Winston, at his property on the beach. Winston’s property, The Mangrove, serves as a job for several dozen workers from the surrounding village who cook, clean, and garden. Jenna teaches at Wapendeza’s primary school, where she befriends a young student, Moni.</div><div><br></div><div>Moni is twelve years old. Her sister, Vivian, is f

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Ross, Elliot. "Reading and Repair: Fictions of "Mau Mau"." Thesis, 2019. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8P28G50.

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This dissertation argues that works of literature offer a valuable critical supplement to historical and legal accounts of colonial violence, due to the common investment of literary texts in thematizing moral complexity and complicity, and by drawing attention to intimate and social forms of harm that might otherwise go unaccounted for. Following the recent successful lawsuit against the British government by elderly Kenyans who survived torture in the 1950s, as well as recent historical scholarship on the colonial government's brutal counterinsurgency, I argue that the paradigmatic anticolon

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Mate, Antony Mukasa. "Interrogating masculinities in selected Kenyan popular fiction." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/23255.

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The purpose of this study is to examine the presentation of masculinity in selected popular works. The novels under discussion include: Henry ole Kulet’s To Become a Man (1972), Yusuf Dawood’s One Life Too Many (1991), Peter Kimani’s Before the Rooster Crows (2002) and David Maillu’s Man from Machakos (2010). The writers are representative of a diversity of Kenyan ethnicities: Dawood (Asian-African), while the rest comprise Kenyan men of black descent though different ethnicities. The study attempts to interrogate the various strands of masculinity in Kenyan society as presented in the s

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Books on the topic "Kenya, fiction"

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Packard, Mary. A visit to Kenya. Western Pub. Co., 1995.

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Johnston, Tony. A Kenya Christmas. Holiday House, 2003.

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ill, Walker Sylvia, ed. A kente dress for Kenya. Scholastic, 1996.

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Bull, Bartle. White Rhino Hotel. Signet, 1993.

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Kenya. Critics Choice Paperbacks/Lorevan Publishing, 1988.

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Halkin, John. Kenya: A Novel. Beaufort Books, 1986.

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Kenya: A novel. Beaufort Books, 1986.

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Kenya. Hachette Children's Books, 2010.

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M, Kaye M. Death in Kenya. Chivers Audio Books, 1996.

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M, Kaye M. Death in Kenya. St. Martin's Minotaur, 1999.

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Book chapters on the topic "Kenya, fiction"

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Ogola, George. "Popular Fiction and the Popular Press in Kenya." In Popular Media in Kenyan History. Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49097-7_4.

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Maranga-Musonye, Miriam. "Migrancy as Trauma: Yvonne Owuor's “Weight of Whispers”." In History and Violence in Contemporary Kenyan Fiction. Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003354895-4.

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Fred Nabutanyi, Edgar. "Surviving the Genocide: The Singularity of Suffering in Yvonne Owuor's “Weight of Whispers”." In History and Violence in Contemporary Kenyan Fiction. Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003354895-3.

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Joseph, Christopher Odhiambo. "Rhizomic Writing and Reading of a Nation Coming to Birth in Yvonne A. Owuor's Novel, Dust." In History and Violence in Contemporary Kenyan Fiction. Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003354895-5.

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Burkeywo, Amos. "Narrating Kenyan Silenced Histories through Fiction in Yvonne Owuor's Dust." In History and Violence in Contemporary Kenyan Fiction. Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003354895-8.

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Kosgei, Jauquelyne. "Swahili Seafarers' Musings and Sensuous Seascapes in Yvonne Owuor's The Dragonfly Sea." In History and Violence in Contemporary Kenyan Fiction. Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003354895-2.

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Mbithi, Esther K., and Julia Njeri Karumba. "Why and to Where Does Ajany Run? Culture and Femininity in Yvonne Owuor's Dust." In History and Violence in Contemporary Kenyan Fiction. Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003354895-7.

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Muchiri, Jennifer. "The Use of Ellipsis as a Narrative Technique in Yvonne Owuor's Dust." In History and Violence in Contemporary Kenyan Fiction. Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003354895-6.

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Steiner, Tina. "Let's Talk About Craft! A Conversation with Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor." In History and Violence in Contemporary Kenyan Fiction. Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003354895-9.

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Siundu, Godwin. "Introduction." In History and Violence in Contemporary Kenyan Fiction. Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003354895-1.

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