Download or read book Baba Pesa written by Meja Mwangi and published by HM Books Intl.. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brutish Baba Pesa, 'The Father of Money', owns 300 acres of prime farm land, yet he covets the meager plot of his poverty-stricken neighbor, Baru, who barely scratches out an existence. But Baba Pesa is up against his son, Juda, a drunk, who has declared war on his father's greed and taken to lecturing his fellow villagers on the greater values in life

Download or read book Striving for the Wind written by Meja Mwangi and published by East African Publishers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cheeky Fictions written by Susanne Reichl and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2005 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining postcolonial transcultural practice from a range of disciplinary and methodological perspectives, this study seeks to analyse laughter and the postcolonial in their complexity. It gathers a group of international specialists in postcolonial transcultural studies to analyse the functions of humour in a wide range of cultural texts.

Download or read book Kenya National Assembly Official Record Hansard written by and published by . This book was released on 1982-06-08 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official records of the proceedings of the Legislative Council of the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya, the House of Representatives of the Government of Kenya and the National Assembly of the Republic of Kenya.

Download or read book Culture in Africa written by Raoul Granqvist and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 1993 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pacific Automobilism written by Gijs Mom and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beginning of the 21st century has seen important shifts in mobility cultures around the world, as the West’s media-driven car culture has contrasted with existing local mobilities, from rickshaws in India and minibuses in Africa to cycling in China. In this expansive volume, historian Gijs Mom explores how contemporary mobility has been impacted by social, political, and economic forces on a global scale, as in light of local mobility cultures, the car as an ‘adventure machine’ seems to lose cultural influence in favor of the car’s status character.

Download or read book The Cockroach Dance written by Meja Mwangi and published by HM Books Intl.. This book was released on 2013-08-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dusman Gonzaga lives in an old apartment building overrun by cockroaches and squalor. The building, Dacca House, is owned by Tumbo Kubwa, a mindless slum lord, and occupied by a strange mix of characters; from garbage collectors to hawkers, from con men to witch doctors from genii to mad men. In this crazy world of wild adventures and appalling poverty, Dusman tries to organize the tenants to boycott paying rent in a desperate move to force the landlord to listen to their woes.

Download or read book Blood Brothers written by Meja Mwangi and published by HM Books Intl.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Urban Obsessions Urban Fears written by John Roger Kurtz and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kurtz's analysis the development of the Kenyan novel in English emphasizes the historical contingencies affecting the production of literature in Kenya, and how succeeding generations have drawn from and expanded the thematic repertoire established by the 'first generation' of works in the 1960s.He explores the relationship between the novel and the city, and how obsessions and fears about the urbanization have been expressed and represented through different generations of Kenyan writers. Kurtz has also put together the first annotated bibliography of all the anglophone Kenyan novels that have appeared since Ngugi wa Thiong'o wrote Weep Not, Child.Ngugi's Weep Not, Child made an immediate impact on its publication in 1964. Since then hundreds of novels by Kenyans have been published. This is a comprehensive introduction to the postcolonial novel in English. Three broad areas are identified: -- the first generation of the sixties -- the 'golden age' of the seventies -- and the years after Kenyatta in the 80s and 90sA unifying feature is an uneasy but marked emphasis on the city-particularly Nairobi. The city is used by novelists as both the site and the symbol for a range of obsessions and fears about postcolonial society. There is particular emphasis on the changing ways in which the city has been portrayed since Ngugi's first novel, the relation of popular literature to the city, the portrayal of women in the city and the special status of Meja Mwangi's urban novels.

Download or read book The Rienner Anthology of African Literature written by Anthonia C. Kalu and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ?This excellent anthology is to be welcomed, both for the excellence of its material and for the fact that it will fill a growing need. I congratulate Anthonia Kalu and all whose work is in the volume for their contributions.? ?Dennis Brutus. University of Pittsburgh and University of KwaZulu-Natal?Dr. Kalu has assembled the best of the oral and written traditions of African literature into an anthology comprehensive in scope.... The Rienner Anthology is great news for African literature, and a boon to literature lovers.? ?Tanure Ojaide, University of North Carolina at Charlotte?Hongera to Professor Kalu and the publisher for accomplishing the important task of making African literature more accessible to more people.... This very good and wide-ranging collection brings together a valuable sampling of classic African works. It occupies a uniquely definitive position in the field.??Simon Lewis, College of CharlestonRanging from ancient cultures to the present century, from Africa?s rich oral traditions to its contemporary fiction, poetry, and drama, this long-awaited comprehensive anthology reflects the enduring themes of African literature.The selections, drawn from the length and breadth of the continent, reveal the richness of African creativity. Readers will find myths and epics, works by such well-known figures as Chinua Achebe, Miriama Ba, Bessie Head, Tayeb Salih, Wole Soyinka, and Ngugi wa Thiong?o, and fiction and poetry by myriad new writers. The pieces are organized chronologically within geographic region and enhanced by both introductory material and biographical notes on each writer. An author/title index and suggestions for further reading are also included.Anthonia C. Kalu is professor of black studies at the University of Northern Colorado. Her numerous publications on African literature include Women, Literature and Development in Africa, and she is also author of a collection of short stories (Broken Lives and Other Stories) and a novel in progress.

Download or read book Going Down River Road written by Meja Mwangi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After an exhausting day of hard labour, Ben finds oblivion in the seedy bars and clubs of River Road – anything to leave his cockroach-infested rooms and ignore the reality of living paycheck to paycheck. At times, it's difficult to remember that it wasn't always this way. Somehow, he went from a promising career as a soldier to a disgraceful dismissal and a steady decline into poverty. Now the only thing Ben has left to lose is hope. Writing with colourful realism, Meja Mwangi paints an unforgettable depiction of life in Nairobi's slums – drawing attention to the hardships of the working poor and their disillusion with uncaring politicians. '[Mwangi is] among the leading Kenyan writers.' New York Times 'Riveting.' Guardian 'The finest African novel ever.' Professor Ibrahim Bello Kano

Download or read book Canciones populares y literatura de frica Oriental written by Aaron Louis Rosenberg and published by El Colegio de Mexico AC. This book was released on 2013 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este estudio es un replanteamiento de la relación entre canciones y literatura en África oriental. Se examinan, en términos comparativos, las obras literarias y musicales de esta parte del continente con el fin de determinar y describir los caminos a partir de los cuales tales formas de la expresión creativa reflejan y transforman caminos prevalecientes y medios de formación de identidad de las personas cuyas vidas se extienden a través de varias "fronteras" y que desarrollan sentidos "superculturales" de sí mismos. El autor se basa en una extensa investigación de campo, así como en una multitud de entrevistas. La lectura atenta de las canciones y la literatura hace de este libro un estudio convincente para estudiantes de música y literatura africanas, y el análisis de las identidades africanas puede ser realmente para los estudiosos del nacionalismo tanto en África como en el mundo.

Download or read book Readings in African Popular Fiction written by Stephanie Newell and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... a useful introduction to an important field of African creative writing that has been invisible for the most part in North America and Europe." --Eileen Julien Readings in African Popular Fiction explores the social, political, and economic contexts of popular narratives by bringing together new and classic essays by important scholars in African literature and eight primary texts. Excerpts from popular magazines, cartoons, novellas, and moral and instructional pamphlets present African popular fiction from all areas of the continent. Selections include essays on Hausa creative writing, the influence of Indian film in Nigeria, Onitsha market literature, writing and popular culture in Cameroon, Kenyan romances, Swahili literature, art and cartoons, works by South African writers of the 1950s, and popular crime thrillers in Malawi. Stephanie Newell's introduction engages themes and trends in popular fiction in contemporary Africa. Contributors are J. C. Anorue, Misty Bastian, Felicitas Becker, Richard Bjornson, William Burgess, Michael Chapman, Don Dodson, Dorothy Driver, Roger Field, Bodil Folke Frederiksen, Graham Furniss, Raoul Granqvist, Paul Gready, Ime Ikiddeh, J. Roger Kurtz and Robert M. Kurtz, Alex La Guma, Brian Larkin, Bernth Lindfors, Charles Mangua, Gomolemo Mokae, Ben R. Mtobwa, Njabulo Ndebele, Nici Nelson, Stephanie Newell, Sarah Nuttall, Donatus Nwoga, Alain Ricard, Lindy Stiebel, and Balaraba Ramat Yakubu.

Download or read book Woman in the Academy written by Seiyifa Koroye and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dealing with Evils written by Annie Gagiano and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Kikuyu Gender Norms and Narratives written by Inge Brinkman and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proefschrift Rijksuniversiteit Leiden. Onderzoek naar de rol en betekenis van gender normen in de mondelinge en geschreven literatuur van de Kikuyu in Kenya.

Download or read book Kenya National Assembly Official Record Hansard written by and published by . This book was released on 1994-07-20 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official records of the proceedings of the Legislative Council of the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya, the House of Representatives of the Government of Kenya and the National Assembly of the Republic of Kenya.