Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences: Recent submissions
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“Innovation and Change in Social Construction of Gender as Depicted in Gikuyu Songs”
(2015-09)The purpose of this article is to examine the transformations in social construction of gender among the Gikuyu community in Kenya. The article does this by interrogating how modern Gikuyu songs have been modified to remove ... -
Orality and the Written Word in the Age of Globalization: The Case of Ngugi WaThiong’o’s Kikuyu Novels
(2014-11)Ngugi Wa Thiong’o is one of the foremost post-independence novelists in Africa. His novels include, Weep Not Child (1964), The River Between (1965), A Grain of Wheat (1967), Petals of Blood (1977), Devil on the Cross (1983), ... -
‘Identity, Politics and Gender Dimensions in Ngugi Wa Thiongos’s, Wizard of the Crow
(2013-07)This paper provides a critical overview of the treatment of the questions of identity, politics and gender in Kenyan novelist Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s work, The Wizard of the Crow. The issue of identity is explored against the ... -
Representations of Kenyan history in oral literature: 1948-2002
(2013-07)This paper discusses the representation of Kenyan history in oral literature between 1948 and 2002. The paper relied on library and ethnographic data. The ethnographic data included audio recordings of renditions of well ...