Mukoma S Marriage And Other Stories

Author : Sigauke, Emmanuel
Publisher : Booklove Publishers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780797456600

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Mukoma's Marriage and other Stories by Sigauke, Emmanuel Pdf

The stories in Mukoma's Marriage and Other Stories capture the lives of Zimbabwean men and the women they marry, and the lives of women and the men they fall in love with, each revealing the complexities of cultural and gender expectations against the backdrop of a changing country (war in the 1970s, political uncertainty in the 1980s and economic structural adjustment in the 1990s). Fati sets out to tell Mukoma's story, but ends up also telling his wives' stories. By telling his brother's story, and that of his women, he ends up telling his own story. Fati is a new and interesting protagonist in Zimbabwean literature with a voice at times innocent, yet increasingly incisive, humorous and engaging. These stories are deeply personal yet universal in their treatment of human relationships, ambitions, and misplaced cultural and gender expectations. Whether he is telling the story of his brother's first marriage, or remembers his brother's fights at a Parents Day event at Mhototi School, whether he recalls the night Mukoma took him to see a new baby in the alleyways of Glen View, Fati renders these stories with a measured, composed voice which doesn`t fail to delight with its unusual humour.

Author : Emmanuel Sigauke
Publisher : Munyori Literary Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0990907104

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Mukoma's Marriage by Emmanuel Sigauke Pdf

The stories in Mukoma's Marriage and Other Stories capture the lives of Zimbabwean men and the women they marry, and the lives of women and the men they fall in love with, each revealing the complexities of cultural and gender expectations against the backdrop of a changing country (war in the 1970s, political uncertainty in the 1980s and economic structural adjustment in the 1990s). Fati sets out to tell Mukoma's story, but ends up also telling his wives' stories. By telling his brother's story, and that of his women, he ends up telling his own story. Fati is a new and interesting protagonist in Zimbabwean literature with a voice at times innocent, yet increasingly incisive, humorous and engaging. These stories are deeply personal yet universal in their treatment of human relationships, ambitions, and misplaced cultural and gender expectations. Whether he is telling the story of his brother's first marriage, or remembers his brother's fights at a Parents Day event at Mhototi School, whether he recalls the night Mukoma took him to see a new baby in the alleyways of Glen View, Fati renders these stories with a measured, composed voice which doesn`t fail to delight with its unusual humour.

Author : Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781847010841

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In the Name of the Mother by Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo Pdf

Alongside the impact of his early novels and plays, and his more recent memoirs, these essays give new insights into Ngugi's and other writers' responses to colonialism - there is new material here for students of literature, politics and culture. Renowned worldwide, as novelist and dramatist, Ngugi wa Thiongo's contributions to the body of critical writing on African literature, politics and society have been highly significant. His best known critical work is Decolonising the Mind, which since publication in 1986 has profoundly influenced other writers, critics, scholars and students. These latest essays reflect Ngugi's continuing interests and enthusiasms. His choice of writers is original. He makes us look again at their novels to address his lifelong concerns with the ways to independence, the meanings of colonialism and the takeover by neo-colonialism, and the functions of literature in political as well asliterary terms. They will appeal not only to his international band of supporters. They will also introduce his views to young people discovering African and Caribbean literature. Ngugi wa Thiong'o is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. Ngugi is renowned for his essays, including the seminal Decolonising the Mind (James Currey 1986); his plays, which led to his detentionin Kenya; his novels - the most recent works being The Wizard of the Crow (2007, translated into English from Gikuyu) and his memoirs Dreams in a Time of War and In the House of the Interpreter East Africa [Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda]: EAEP

Author : Mukoma Wa Ngugi
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781612190075

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Nairobi Heat by Mukoma Wa Ngugi Pdf

A cop from Wisconsin pursues a killer through the terrifying slums of Nairobi and the memories of genocide IN MADISON, WISCONSIN, it’s a big deal when African peace activist Joshua Hakizimana—who saved hundreds of people from the Rwandan genocide—accepts a position at the university to teach about “genocide and testimony.” Then a young woman is found murdered on his doorstep. Local police Detective Ishmael—an African-American in an “extremely white” town—suspects the crime is racially motivated; the Ku Klux Klan still holds rallies there, after all. But then he gets a mysterious phone call: “If you want the truth, you must go to its source. The truth is in the past. Come to Nairobi.” It’s the beginning of a journey that will take him to a place still vibrating from the genocide that happened around its borders, where violence is a part of everyday life, where big-oil money rules and where the local cops shoot first and ask questions later—a place, in short, where knowing the truth about history can get you killed.

Author : Lingaraja Gandhi
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8126906138

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Connecting the Postcolonial, Ngugi and Anand by Lingaraja Gandhi Pdf

The Present Book Primarily Aims At Tracing Influences Central To Both Ngugi And Anand, Especially Of Marx, Gandhi And Fanon In The Constructions Of Their Fictional Worlds. Also, An Attempt Has Been Made Here To Examine And Present A Comparative Study Of Language Of The Fiction Which These Two Great Novelists Have Employed In Rendering The Chosen Fictional World. Besides Novels, Their Non-Fictional Writings Have Also Been Taken Into Account. The Interviews With Ngugi And Anand As Well As Anand S Letters Have Been Appended In The Book Which Are Sufficient Enough To Give A Glimpse Of The Amazing Concurrence That They Display In Their Approaches To The Problems Of Life And Literature. It Has Been Aptly Remarked On The Contents Of The Present Book: & Your Study Shows Acute Perceptiveness Of Motive Forces Behind My Novels And Ngugi Wa Thiong O Of Kenya...Your Study Will Be Valuable For The New Young Students.

Author : Mukoma Wa Ngugi
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780821445150

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Mrs. Shaw by Mukoma Wa Ngugi Pdf

In the fictional East African Kwatee Republic of the 1990s, the dictatorship is about to fall, and the nation’s exiles are preparing to return. One of these exiles, a young man named Kalumba, is a graduate student in the United States, where he encounters Mrs. Shaw, a professor emerita and former British settler who fled Kwatee’s postcolonial political and social turmoil. Kalumba’s girlfriend, too, is an exile: a Puerto Rican nationalist like her imprisoned father, she is an outcast from the island. Brought together by a history of violence and betrayals, all three are seeking a way of regaining their humanity, connecting with each other, and learning to make a life in a new land. Kalumba and Mrs. Shaw, in particular, are linked by a past rooted in colonial and postcolonial violence, yet they are separated by their differing accounts of what really happened. The memory of each is subject to certain lapses, whether selective or genuine. Even when they agree on the facts—be they acts of love, of betrayal, or of violence—each narrator shapes the story in his or her own way, by what is left in and what is left out, by what is remembered and what is forgotten.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Libraries
ISBN : UIUC:30112112602153

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Kaapse Bibliotekaris by Anonim Pdf

Issues for Nov. 1957- include section: Accessions. Aanwinste, Sept. 1957-

Author : Margaret Jean Hay
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Africa
ISBN : 1555878784

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African Novels in the Classroom by Margaret Jean Hay Pdf

Many teachers of African studies have found novels to be effective assignments in courses. In this guide, teachers describe their favourite African novels - drawn from all over the continent - and share their experiences of using them in the classroom.

Author : W. Somerset Maugham
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547117087

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Up at the Villa by W. Somerset Maugham Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Up at the Villa" by W. Somerset Maugham. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Carole Boyce Davies
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781793612397

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Black Women's Rights by Carole Boyce Davies Pdf

Black Women's Rights: Leadership and the Circularities of Power presents Black women as alternative and transformative leaders in the highest political positions and at grassroots community levels. Beginning with a critique of the assumption of an equivalence between masculinity and political leadership, Carole Boyce Davies moves through the various conceptual definitions, intents, and meanings of leadership and the differences in the presentation of practices of leadership by women and feminist scholars. She studies the actualizing of political leadership in the Presidency of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the historical role of Shirley Chisholm as the first woman to run for presidency of the United States on a leading party ticket, the promise of the Black left feminist leadership of Brazilian Marielle Franco, and the current model of Prime Minister Mia Mottley of Barbados in advancing new leadership models from the Caribbean. This book proclaims the 21st century as the century for Black women's leadership.

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1250 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006357524

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Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Includes Part 1, Number 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals July - December)

Author : Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Kenyan poetry (English)
ISBN : UCSC:32106018713443

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Hurling Words at Consciousness by Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ Pdf

While treating the reader to an expansive range of themes - death, war, life, love, nature, human relationships, personal reflections, art, politics, history, social justice, revolution - Mukoma wa Ngugi also succeeds in making a deeply profound artistic statement. He decorates his intensely reflective utterance with a lacework of images, metaphors and other forms of figurative expression that reveal a keen artist at his craft.

Author : Mukoma Wa Ngugi
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472053681

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The Rise of the African Novel by Mukoma Wa Ngugi Pdf

Engaging questions of language, identity, and reception to restore South African and diaspora writing to the African literary tradition

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1268 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1964-07
Category : American drama
ISBN : UOM:39015085476979

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Catalogue of Title-entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, Under the Copyright Law ... Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Shimmer Chinodya
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781779220585

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Strife by Shimmer Chinodya Pdf

Strife is a rich and densely written novel that provides a dark expos? of the tension between modernity and tradition, and deep insights into culture in Zimbabwe in the 21st century. Chinodya explores the powerful draw that conflicting ideologies exercise over an emerging middle-class that at once yearns for autonomy and unconsciously desires the irresponsibility of an all-pervading destiny. Tracing the Gwanagara's roots back over a century, Chinodya interweaves past and the present, juxtaposing incidents never forgotten or resolved, revealing how memory becomes an actor in lived time. A large family grows up in Gweru. Their father aspires to be an enlightened Christian man; he sees his children through school and college where they do well. But as adults, they are struck by illness. Who is to blame? Who is to cure these ailments? What wrongs have they committed to offend the ancestors? How can atonement be made? Can education, science and medicine provide any solution? Their mother, the moon huntress, seeks out the answers and the cures in traditional beliefs and customs.