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African Politics and the Struggle for the Artist's Freedom: viewpoints from Kenya
Outa, GO (Department of Literature, Faculty of Arts, University of Nairobi, 1997)Kenya is one of the three East African Countries (the others are Uganda and Tanzania). It has a population of over 24 million people and has been independent, at least nominally, from Britain, since 1963. (It is the home ... -
Lysistrata in Nairobi: performing the power of womanhood in the post‐colony
Outa, GO (Department of Literature, Faculty of Arts, University of Nairobi, 1999)This paper is based on my personal experience of adapting and producing the ancient Greek comedy Lysistrata1 in Nairobi, Kenya. Originally written by Aristophanes in the fifth century BC, the play gives voice to the ... -
Speaking with Vampires : Rumor and History in Colonial Africa, Luise White : book review
Outa, GO (Department of Literature, Faculty of Arts, University of Nairobi, 2001)Extracted from text ... 241 BOOK REVIEWS Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa. By Luise White. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2000. 352 pp. ISBN 05 20217 047. 'I call this transnational ...