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You can now access the special issue on @AdhiamboKE's works. @GodwinSiundu has written a terrific introduction to this special issue with contributions on "Weight of Whispers" (2006), Dust (2014) and The Dragonfly Sea (2019)
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This poem has a special place in my heart.
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I'm always torn between wishing @samuelpoetry's talent and wanting to simply marvel at the beauty of his poetry.
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We're also seeking personal essays.
Do you have a story that feels too strange, too sensitive, or too difficult to tell?
Shape it into a compelling essay and send it our way.
Tell others. ♻️
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My important announcement: I will be hosting a Q&A session with @echenduka on his third poetry book, Jazz Negotiations, and I want you guys to be present!
🤭 Come, let’s dissect his book together! You can get a physical copy or read the e-copy on the Masobe app.
Will you guys be there?
Where are the poets here? I need you all.
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We are pleased to announce this year's Public Lectures, featuring Robin D.G. Kelley (June 8th), Ariella Aïsha Azoulay (June 9th), Jack Halberstam (June 10th), and Glen Coulthard (June 12th). Registration in advance is required for each lecture separately (see below for links).
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That's an interesting crossover! Zilizopendwa's impact is profound, spanning decades and borders. Have you explored how it intersects with Kenyan music? It's fascinating how these songs can bridge cultures and generations!
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Vincent Ogoti gives us a poignantly beautiful piece on 'why photographers and curators aestheticize violence and how this shapes photography’s capacity to function as a medium of public memory and peace' via a reading of two Kenyan photo series
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From 'once-loved' to 'golden oldies' - we cross over to Tanzania to continue the discussion on Zilizopendwa, with reflections on Zilizopendwa songs from two decades: the 1990s and 2010s. Another must read! By Justin Williams & Shani Mchepange
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A must read: How are some songs classified as 'once loved' and others not? How have performance practices evolved in the Kenya Music Festival scene? Thro' an appraisal of Zilizopendwa, Tabitha Osoro asks these questions and more.
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Hot off the press: read Wafula Yenjela's article on precarious citizenship in Kenya via a critical appraisal of Yusuf Dawood's novel One Life Too Many tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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1/2 Saturday was pure magic. ✨🎙️
Macondo citizens experienced Turkana through poetry at @chechebooks! A warm thank you to everyone who joined us. Stay tuned as we share more from the event in the coming days!
#MacondoNiNairobi #TurkanaNaturePoetryRetreat
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5 spots still left in my Character Interiority class. Happening this Saturday, online, from 5-7pm East African time. academy.lolwe.org/class/char… Only £25.
Come, let's deep dive into all the different ways you can write the interior of your character.
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While working toward my MA in Literature, I came across Peter Nazareth's "In a Brown Mantle", which was taught under Afro-Asian experiences, and the struggle for the establishment of the Afro-Asian identity in Ugandan political history.
Peter has transitioned.
Travel well!
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Swahili Colloquium @unibt was the perfect place to launch my first monograph🥳❤️ & I'm thrilled because I had the privilege of doing it with Grace Musila 🙌
Many years of labour, but labour that I thoroughly enjoyed @GodwinSiundu @KWabende @Wasamba1 @umaruZW @jmkwanya @Samdenno
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9 days left to apply for this exciting writing workshop and mentoring programme. Dear ECRs, please apply and see you in Nairobi in August!
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"The paradisiacal images of the West in postcolonial African migration hatch from the postcolonial limitations that it imagines to respond to, but is refuted by intersectional postcolonial forces in the aspired ideal." Tantalizing, isn't it? Read more:
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Postcolonial & decolonial scholarship has a huge repository on 'alternative' be it history, epistemology, methodology, etc. But is this category tenable? Thro' a reading of the SF sub-genre Alternate History, J Stier of @UPTuks delves into this question
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Our editor Tina Steiner gave a keynote speech at last years Mashariki Conference @UdsmOfficial
We have now published it, and you can read it here:
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On behalf of his family & friends, I am deeply saddened to announce the passing of Professor Ali Jimale Ahmed. His family was around him when he died in New York. He was the most revered of all Somali scholars. He will be sorely missed in Area Studies but also in Global Studies.
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