Kenyan fiction

Call for Book Chapters: Cultural Archives of Atrocity, Deadline for Abstracts: 21st August 2016

By Africa in Words on 27 July , 2016 • ( 1 )

Call for Book Chapters CULTURAL ARCHIVES OF ATROCITY: ESSAYS ON THE PROTEST TRADITION IN KENYAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY New deadline for abstract submission: 21st August 2016 INTRODUCTION In Kenya, studies on atrocity have taken different discursive dimensions from history, political… Read More ›

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s ‘Weep Not, Child’ – 50 Years On

By Africa in Words Guest on 10 November , 2014 • ( 2 )

AiW Guest Sarah Jilani This year marks the 50th anniversary of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Weep Not, Child. When the novel was originally published in 1964 by Heinemann’s African Writers Series, its author James Ngugi was a young Kenyan student at… Read More ›