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| Author | : Binyavanga Wainaina |
| Publisher | : Kwani Archive Online |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 2003-12 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9789966983602 |
Kwani? is arguably Africa's most exciting and varied literary initiative of recent years. Describing itself as ?a magazine of ideas, [that] seeks to entertain, provoke and create?, Kwani? commissions and publishes stories, poetry, art and photography ?from all around the African continent and the diaspora'. Rejecting artificial divisions of high and low art and literary snobbery, it is dedicated to the flourishing of literature in Kenya and the of African cultural values. Kwami? 01 is widely available outside Africa for the first time. The volume features the writings of numerous prize-winners. It includes the short story, ?The Weight of Whispers?, by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, which won The Caine Prize for African Writing in 2003. Yvonne Owuor is also a screenplay writer, and Executive Director of the Zanzibar International Film Festival. Other contributions are from Parsilelo Kantai, who was short-listed for the Caine Prize in 2004;drawings from Gaddo, one of East Africa's foremost political cartoonists; photographs from the photo-journalist Marion Kaplan; and interviews with ?ghetto youths? conducted by the editor.
| Author | : Doreen Strauhs |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 2015-12-11 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1137330902 |
Proposing the novel concept of the "literary NGO," this study combines interviews with contemporary East African writers with an analysis of their professional activities and the cultural funding sector to make an original contribution to African literary criticism and cultural studies.
| Author | : Binyavanga Wainaina |
| Publisher | : Kwani Archive Online |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2008-12-31 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9789966983626 |
From the critical and commercial success of Kwani? 01 came the next edition, kwani? 02, in 2004. This edition features contemporary literary Kenyan concerns themed on the question of identity. Building on the first issue, kwani? 02 offers all that kwani? 01 did and mirrors the post-millennial angst of young Kenyan writers, poets, cartoonists and photographers. Once again, kwani? featured in the Caine Prize for African writing 2004 when Parselelo Kantaiís Comrade Lemma and the Black Jerusalem Boys Bandwas runner up. Uwem Akpanís An Xmas Feast has since been re-worked and published in the New Yorker magazine ñ the first time an African writer has been featured in that prestigious magazine.
| Author | : Richard Onyango |
| Publisher | : African Books Collective |
| Total Pages | : 70 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Artists |
| ISBN | : 9966700854 |
This Kwani-ni? edition tells a street-to-canvas bildunsroman of one of Kenya's most successful artists, inspired by a great love of his life. Richard Onyango tells his coming of age story; from his beginnings as a musical apprentice at the Coast, to lover of Drossie, to his emergence as a force in the international art world.
| Author | : Billy Kahora |
| Publisher | : African Books Collective |
| Total Pages | : 140 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Political corruption |
| ISBN | : 9966700897 |
In April 1992, David Sadera Munyakei, a newly employed clerk at the Central Bank of Kenya started noticing irregularities in the export compensation claims he was processing. On July 31st 2006, Kenya's biggest whistleblower passed away in rural obscurity, 14 years after exposing the Goldenberg scandal, Kenya's biggest economic scandal to date, estimated at over USD 1 billion. Billy Kahora recounts his story.
| Author | : Moradewun Adejunmobi |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 543 |
| Release | : 2019-03-13 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1351859374 |
The turn of the twenty-first century has witnessed an expansion of critical approaches to African literature. The Routledge Handbook of African Literature is a one-stop publication bringing together studies of African literary texts that embody an array of newer approaches applied to a wide range of works. This includes frameworks derived from food studies, utopian studies, network theory, eco-criticism, and examinations of the human/animal interface alongside more familiar discussions of postcolonial politics. Every chapter is an original research essay written by a broad spectrum of scholars with expertise in the subject, providing an application of the most recent insights into analysis of particular topics or application of particular critical frameworks to one or more African literary works. The handbook will be a valuable interdisciplinary resource for scholars and students of African literature, African culture, postcolonial literature and literary analysis. Chapter 4 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
| Author | : Wambui Mwangi |
| Publisher | : African Books Collective |
| Total Pages | : 56 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Kenyan fiction (English) |
| ISBN | : 9966700889 |
In this story, Seth Karanja, Madam's professional driver, is having an extremely bad day. Tribe has risen against tribe and his niece, Wacera, has fallen pregnant. To do Madam's bidding, move from place to place and think calmly of a solution to his niece's pregnancy, Seth has to watch out for the machetes on the street. Wambui Mwangi revisits a Nairobi under siege after the 2007 elections, and presents a day in the life of this character as Kenya burns.
| Author | : Ondego (Mzee, Enock) |
| Publisher | : African Books Collective |
| Total Pages | : 52 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Biography |
| ISBN | : 9966718206 |
Mzee Ondego, Kenya's greatest choirmaster and Kenyatta confidante tells the story of his relationship with Kenya's founding father. Unknown as the man behind one of Kenya's most influential songs - the haunting dirge that played on during those fateful days after the death of Kenya's first president, Mzee Ondego remembers a time that has become part of Kenya's living memory.
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| Total Pages | : 394 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Africa |
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| Author | : Keiko Takemura |
| Publisher | : African Books Collective |
| Total Pages | : 270 |
| Release | : 2021-03-13 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9956553514 |
The book provides novel perspectives towards conceptualisation of African Potentials. It explores diverse and dynamic aspects of linguistic communications in Africa, ranging from convivial multilingual practices to literal and musical arts. The book reflects the diversity and ever-changing dynamism in the African sociolinguistic sphere, that is, metalinguistic discourse in East Africa, sociolinguistic dynamism in Angola, conflict reconciliation speech performed in Ethiopia, and syncretic urban linguistic code called Sheng in Kenya. The volume also explores multi-dimensional relationships between literary arts and the society by investigating such topics as traditional Swahili poetry, publication of children books in Benin, and transformation and reconstruction of Yoruba popular music. The book elucidates dynamic process of creation through mixing of traditional and foreign elements of culture.
