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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Ngugi wa Thiong'o"”.
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An analysis of the land issue as portrayed in selected novels by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
This study looks at the land issue in Ngugi Wa Thiongo 's novels. It looks at four novels only, namely: Weep Not Child (1962), The River Between (1965), A Grain of Wheat (1967), and Petals of Blood (1977), analyzing how Ngugi uses form to present land as a bone of contention between white settlers …
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Decolonizing the Mind with Ngugi Wa Thiong'o and Chinua Achebe: Searching for a Voice in Postcolonial African Literature
… history of colonialism throughout Africa. Ngugi wa Thiong’o claims there are “broad affinities” among the diverse peoples of sub-Saharan Africa which allow for a broad discussion of the common experiences of colonialism, but it is necessary to complement these broad affinities with specific …
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A comparative study of ideology and aesthetics in the novels of selected South African isiXhosa-language writers and Kenyan African authors in English
… English. The authors chosen for this purpose are Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Meja Mwangi from Kenya, and A.C. Jordan, P.T. Mtuze and R Siyongwana from South Africa. The methodology is grounded in the materialist ideological analysis of the Marxist theorist Frederic Jameson. It incorporates a strong …
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Reforming reformed church polity in South Africa's Black Reformed Churches (RCSA) : an African decolonial approach
… matter. The study's population of interest was comprised of individuals dyads groups organisations or other churches who seek to comprehend the present system and to whom the study outcomes can be extrapolated or applied. Given that the study was theoretical and interpretive in nature it is …
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Subjectivities in Decolonisation: The Post-Independence Film and Novel in Africa and South Asia
… and films emerged. Although they were in many ways “literatures of disillusionment”, they also exposed neocolonialism to ask if, and how, resistance was possible. I propose the conceptual node of subjectivity as a polytonal but comprehensive means to read and interpret African and South Asian …