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The Seamingly Seamless Subversion of Sime
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Abebe Zegeye --- Sociology and Internationalisation and Graduate Studies, EthiopiaThis paper aims to provide a review of Ethiopian artist Elias Sime’s work and places a detailed discussion of some of his main influences and themes in the context of Africa’s perceived position in the global art village. The construct... -
Mau Mau Author in Detention: The Subversive ‘We’ in a Colonial Era Detention Diary
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Ken Walibora Waliaula --- , KenyaIn seeking an answer to the question as to why Kenyan author Gakaara wa Wanjau penned Mau Mau Author in Detention, we may consider the fact that he wrote other works as well — before, during, and after his detention... -
Ngũgĩ's Fictional and Non-Fictional Representations of the Mau Mau War: An Insight from a New Historicist Perspective
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Auson Njunwensi Wincheslaus --- Mkwawa University College of Education,This article investigates the relationship between Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Weep Not, Child, a novel, and Dreams in a Time of War, a childhood memoir, especially, regarding how the Mau Mau War became a dissidence strategy against the containment and subjugation... -
Subversive narratives and protest against apartheid in Mandla Myeko’s Apho Sikhala Khona Isikhwatsha radio drama
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Khaya Gqibitole --- University of Zululand, South AfricaThis article celebrates one hundred years of South African radio broadcasting. It examines the role a Xhosa radio drama played in conscientizing its audience during apartheid. It also demonstrates the value of radio drama as an art form and its...