This study examines the problems of excessive drug abuse and addiction among the Kenyan youths as represented in young adult fiction written by Kenyans. The study is motivated by works of a few popular fiction ...

This article examines how legendary representations enable reinterpretation of the histories of women in Africa. It shows that ascribing heroic and revolutionary qualities to re-membered African women seeks to significantly ...

This article articulates novelists’ constructions of prostitutes’ humanity in the city’s complex spaces that are both enabling and problematic. Through a reading of selected novels in tandem with Kenyan social histories, ...

This article investigates how Lesley Nneka Arimah‟s short stories in What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky (2017) engage in social commentary on parenting. The study used a qualitative research design, employing ...

This article reads two 18th Century classical Swahili epics of war as coded critiques of empire. Here, Empire refers not only to Europe but also the Arab world’s conquest histories on the Indian Ocean seaboard. The epics: ...

This article reads Kenyan novels that catalogue the trauma of the Luo veterans of World War I and II. The focus is on Grace Ogot’s The Promised Land (1966), Margaret Ogola’s The River and the Source (1994), Marjorie Macgoye’s ...