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Kenya has a strong tradition of oral literature, which continues today in several languages. [1] As a result of Kenya's history, including a period where it was a former British colony, Kenyan literature concurrently belongs to several bodies of writing, including that of the Commonwealth of Nations and of Africa as a whole. [1]
Decolonising the Mind: the Politics of Language in African Literature (Heinemann Educational, 1986), by the Kenyan novelist and post-colonial theorist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, is a collection of essays about language and its constructive role in national culture, history, and identity.
Education for a National Culture (1981) [85] Barrel of a Pen: Resistance to Repression in Neo-Colonial Kenya (1983) [85] Writing against Neo-Colonialism (1986) [85] Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (1986), ISBN 978-0852555019; Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedoms (1993), ISBN 978-0852555309
Pan-Africanism is a cultural and political ideology calling for the unification of the various African communities and their diasporadic counterparts for the purpose of empowering each other. [1] The heights of the movement is primarily characterized in the west by the black nationalist struggles of Marcus Garvey , and the push for greater self ...
The emerging national culture of Kenya has several strong dimensions that include the rise of a national language, the full acceptance of Kenyan as an identity, the success of a postcolonial constitutional order, the ascendancy of ecumenical religions, the urban dominance of multiethnic cultural productions, and increased national cohesion" [1]
Mũgo was a political activist who fought against human rights abuses in Kenya. [11] Her political activism led to her being harassed by the police and arrested. [ 11 ] Mũgo and her family (including two young daughters) were forced to depart Kenya in 1982 after the attempted coup of the Daniel Arap Moi government, following which she became a ...
Postcolonialism (also post-colonial theory) is the critical academic study of the cultural, political and economic consequences of colonialism and imperialism, focusing on the impact of human control and exploitation of colonized people and their lands.
Bhakti Shringarpure notes that "the dynamic digital impulses of African creativity have not only changed African literature but have also fundamentally altered literary culture as we know it." [ 25 ] The increasing use of the internet has also changed the way readers of African literature access content, which has led to the rise of digital ...