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| Title: | Special issue: Eastern African literatures and cultures |
| Editors: | Ogude, James Ojwang, Dan |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Periodical: | Africa Today (ISSN 1527-1978) |
| Volume: | 57 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Pages: | 95 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | East Africa Kenya Tanzania Somalia |
| Subjects: | literature music mass media conference papers (form) 2009 |
| About persons: | Nuruddin Farah (1945-) Nanji Kalidas Mehta |
| External link: | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/africa_today/toc/at.57.3.html |
| Abstract: | The articles in this issue were first presented at a conference held at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, on 23-24 October 2009. The aim was to critically reflect on the literary and cultural legacies of Eastern Africa. Annie Gagiano starts with a discussion of women in a context of despotism on the basis of Nuruddin Farah's 'Sardines' (1981, Somalia). Joseph Basil Okong'o draws attention to how 'ohangla' music among the Luo of Kenya is defined by intertextuality and parody. With a focus on post-World War II letters to the editor and rhyming poems on 'dansi' (urban jazz and ballroom dancing) in the government controlled 'Mambo Leo', Maria Suriano shows how Africans confronted colonial modernity in Tanganyika. Dan Ojwang's article considers the autobiography of an early Indian Gujarati entrepreneur in East Africa, Nanji Kalidas Mehta (1888-1969). Finally, George Ogola maps the ways in which the shifting terrain of Kenya's postindependence political economy has contributed to the making of the country's media landscape for close to fifty years. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
