A Farm Called Kishinev

Author : Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye
Publisher : East African Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789966254184
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Farm Called Kishinev written by Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye and published by East African Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1903, the British offered Uasin Gishu as a sanctuary and national home for Jews escaping persecution in Eastern Europe. But in the event, this was never put into effect; and instead of refugees, Afrikaner and British officers established themselves in the area. This novel explores the experiences and feelings of an ordinary Jewish settler family in twentieth century East Africa, considering the complex interplay between international politics, colonial dominance, and anti-Semitic and anti-African racist ideologies.

Author : M. Kruger
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230116418
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women’s Literature in Kenya and Uganda written by M. Kruger and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-01-03 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly a decade, writers' collectives such as Kwani Trust in Kenya and Femrite , the Ugandan women writers' association, have dramatically reshaped the East African literary scene. This text extends the purview of postcolonial literary studies by providing the long overdue critical inquiry that these writers so urgently deserve.

Author : Ng'ang'a Wahu-Muchiri
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472221140
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing on the Soil written by Ng'ang'a Wahu-Muchiri and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2023-05-08 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across contiguous nation-states in Eastern Africa, the geographic proximity disguises an ideological complexity. Land has meant something fundamental in the sociocultural history of each country. Those concerns, however, have manifested into varied political events, and the range of struggles over land has spawned a multiplicity of literary interventions. While Kenya and Uganda were both British colonies, Kenya's experience of settler land alienation made for a much more violent response against efforts at political independence. Uganda's relatively calm unyoking from the colonial burden, however, led to a tumultuous post-independence. Tanzania, too, like Kenya and Uganda, resisted British colonial administration—after Germany's defeat in World War 1. In Writing on the Soil, author Ng’ang’a Wahu-Mũchiri argues that representations of land and landscape perform significant metaphorical labor in African literatures, and this argument evolves across several geographical spaces. Each chapter's analysis is grounded in a particular locale: western Kenya, colonial Tanganyika, post-independence Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Anam Ka'alakol (Lake Turkana), Kampala, and Kitgum in Northern Uganda. Moreover, each section contributes to a deeper understanding of the aesthetic choices that authors make when deploying tropes revolving around land, landscape, and the environment. Mũchiri disentangles the numerous connections between geography and geopolitical space on the one hand, and ideology and cultural analysis on the other. This book embodies a multi-layered argument in the sphere of African critical scholarship, while adding to the growing field of African land rights scholarship—an approach that foregrounds the close reading of Africa’s literary canon.

Author : Grace Ogot
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9966566112
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Promised Land written by Grace Ogot and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 1991-06-15 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young farmer and his wife who have migrated to Tanzania from Kenya become embroiled in issues of personal jealousy and materialism, and a melodramatic tale of tribal hatreds ensues. The novel explores Ogot's concept of the ideal African wife: obedient and submissive to her husband; family and community orientated; and committed to non-materialist goals. The style is distinctively ironic giving the story power and relevance. Grace Ogot has been employed in diverse occupations as a novelist, short story writer, scriptwriter, politician, and representative to the UN. Some of her other works include The Island of Tears (1980), the short story collection Land Without Thunder (1988), The Strange Bride (1989) and The Other Woman (1992). The Promised Land was originally published in 1966, and has since been reprinted five times.

Author : Grace Ogot
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9966566163
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Land Without Thunder written by Grace Ogot and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 1988-06-15 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of short stories from Kenya's foremost woman novelist. Twelve stories bring alive the author's feeling for the macabre and fantastic - reminiscent of the tragedy in The Promised Land.

Author : Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0195382072
Total Pages : 3382 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of African Biography written by Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong and published by . This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 3382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pharaohs to Fanon, Dictionary of African Biography provides a comprehensive overview of the lives of the men and women who shaped Africa's history. Unprecedented in scale, DAB covers the whole continent from Tunisia to South Africa, from Sierra Leone to Somalia. It also encompasses the full scope of history from Queen Hatsheput of Egypt (1490-1468 BC) and Hannibal, the military commander and strategist of Carthage (243-183 BC), to Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana (1909-1972), Miriam Makeba and Nelson Mandela of South Africa (1918 -).

Author : N. Kahende
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9966566031
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book David Livingstone: The Wayward Vagabond in Africa written by N. Kahende and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Livingstone: The Wayward Vagabond in Africa is an expression of doubt about the rason detre concerning the 19th Century explorers and missionaries in Africa. Led by David Livingstone, the Scottish explorer and missionary, they are said to have come to civilise backward Africans, which the author creatively re-imagines, arguing that it is far from the truth. Instead, their actions gave impetus to colonialism proper. In this book the omniscient narrator, Everywhere, is Gods special envoy mandated to witness history with far-reaching consequences for humanity. His investigation is to help nail David Livingstone on Judgment Day, much the same way St Peter chronicles events in the Book of Life. Read about how, Everywhere, the spirit rides on wind, walks on water, enters into his characters stream of consciousness and even discerns how they interpret the world around them. The novel retraces Livingstones early life, from his deprived childhood in Blantyre, Scotland; his ideological evolution and training in London and his dramatic sojourn in Monomotapa kingdom, which he half-believes is his destiny. The satirical tone in the novel aptly captures that delusional aspect of Livingstones God-ordained mission to the world.

Author : Macgoye, Marjorie Oludhe
Publisher : University of Nairobi Press
ISBN 13 : 9966846832
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creative Writing In Prose written by Macgoye, Marjorie Oludhe and published by University of Nairobi Press. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creative Writing In Prose is centered on novel writing but touches on other prose forms. It covers the process from the germination of the story to the submission of the manuscript for publication. Plot, narrative methods, the recording of dialogue and the subtle relationship between story and theme are all examined.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book World Literature Today written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye
Publisher : East African Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789966463623
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Street Life written by Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye and published by East African Publishers. This book was released on 1987 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Street Life, Simon Oluoch, a Standard Six pupil of promise in Nyakach in Wesy Kenya, loses his legs in a road accident in Nairobi. He is henceforth condemned to a life of penury in a bustling city street, with a flute as his only asset. You'll meet familiar street characters with their varied, often conflicting cares, but with at least one common goal, "trying to live 'decently' on the pavement". Marjorie makes an incisive visit into the minds, lives and times of the desolate of our society in their dire strife for survival in a callous world.