Browsing Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FoA&SS / FoL / FBM) by Author "Odhiambo, Tom"
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Biography of a Trade Unionist and the Resurrection of the ‘Indian Question’ in Twenty-First Century Kenya
Odhiambo, Tom (2007)The place of Indians/Asians in Kenya's national history remains on the margins. The postcolonial Kenyan nation-state has been reluctant to acknowledge the role that Kenyans of Indian/Asian origin played and continue to ... -
The Black Female Body as a ‘Consumer and a Consumable’ in Current Drum and True Love Magazines in South Africa
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The city as a marker of modernity in postcolonial Kenyan popular fiction
Odhiambo, Tom (Department of Literature, Faculty of Arts, University of Nairobi, 2005)The city is one of the most enduring symbols of modernity in Africa. Owing to its advanced industrial, economic and infrastructural development in relation to other parts of most postcolonial African countries, the city ... -
Governance challenges in East Africa
Odhiambo, Tom; Bubridge, Dominic; Kankindi, Antoinette (2011)This volume collects reflections on issues of governance in eastern Africa, based on papers presented at the conference 'Governance challenges in East Africa', organized by the Strathmore Governance Centre (SGC) in November ... -
Holding the Traveller's Gaze Accountable in Shiva Naipaul's North of South: An African Journey
Odhiambo, Tom (Faculty of Arts, 2004)Travelogues are partly based on what is witnessed, observed and noted about the places and people visited and what is already known in advance, mainly from an existing archive. The archive, therefore, is an important element ... -
Inventing Africa in the Twentieth Century: Cultural Imagination, Politics and Transnationalism in Drum Magazine
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Journeying into Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies
Siundu, Godwin; Odhiambo, Tom (2014) -
Juvenile delinquency and violence in the fiction of three Kenyan writers
Odhiambo, Tom (Faculty of Arts, 2007)This essay is a preliminary examination of crime and violence in postcolonial Kenyan fiction. It examines how three Kenyan writers have dealt with the themes of crime and violence in their fiction. Through examination of ... -
Kenyan Popular Fiction in English and the Melodramas of the Underdogs
Odhiambo, Tom (Faculty of Arts, 2008)The postcolonial urban landscape, especially in Africa, remains a place defined by an inchoate relationship between the different social classes occupying it. This essay is a brief analysis of the relationship between the ... -
Lost African Childhoods: Two Narratives of War and Slavery from Africa in Mende Nazer's "Slave" and Senait Mehari's "Heart of Fire"
Odhiambo, Tom (2009)Are human rights discourses adequate to address instances of rights abuses in Africa? Would human rights discourses and practices address inadequacies of state governance or even in situation where the state is complicit ... -
The Romantic Detective in Two Kenyan Popular Novels
Odhiambo, Tom (Faculty of Arts, 2004)Fiction meant for light reading or writing that is ostensibly intended for entertainment can also be a vehicle for critical political, cultural and social commentary. Popular genres such as the thriller or romance indeed ... -
Sexual Anxieties and Rampant Masculinities in Postcolonial Kenyan Literature
Odhiambo, Tom (Faculty of Arts, 2007)Postcolonial African society has been characterised as one in transition. Institutions, communities and individuals experienced (and some continue to experience) rapid political, social, economic and cultural changes with ... -
Specificities: Troubled Love and Marriage as Work in Kenyan Popular Fiction
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Writing alternative womanhood in Kenya in Margaret Ogola's The River and the Source
Odhiambo, Tom (Faculty of Arts, 2006)Postcolonial Kenya continues to grapple with the problem of gender inequality. Whether through acts of omission or commission and despite notable and significant achievements such as Wangari Maathai winning the 2004 Nobel ...