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Ameriketako Ametsa
(Mendebalde Kultura Alkartea,, 2001-11-15) Walibora, Ken; Ormazabal, Manu
This story published in 2001 won the 2003 Jomo Kenyatta Prize organized by the Kenya Publihers Association. Issa, a Kenyan village boy, tells us the story of his life. “Itxoin eta egingo duk amets Amerikarekin. Orduan prest egongo haiz harantz abiatzeko” (‘Wait and you’ll dream of America. Then you’ll be ready to go.’), his friend told him. And Issa will have that dream. In Nairobi the two of them, together with a third “friend, will make plans for America. There will be lessons to learn from their adventures.
Reviewed Work(s): Women in Taarab
(Research in African Literatures, 2008-08-15) Waliaula, Ken Walibora
Disenchantment with the State of the Nation in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road, Orhan Pamuk’s Snow and Rashid al Daif’s Passage to Dusk
(Journal of the African Literature Association, 2008-11-15) Waliaula, Ken Walibora
Negotiating Local Knowledge II: Kiswahili and Attitudes toward Disability
(Disability Studies Quarterly, 2009-11-15) Waliaula, Ken Walibora
Reviewed Work(s): A New Generation of African Writers: Migration, Material Culture and Language by Brenda Cooper
(Canadian Journal of African Studies, 2010-11-15) Walibora, Ken Waliaula
Uhalisia na Uhalisiamazingaombwe
(Swahili Forum, 2010-11-15) Waliaula, Ken Walibora
Je, kuna uhusiano gani kati ya Euphrase Kezilahabi wa Tanzania na Gabriel García Marquez wa Kolombia, au kati ya Kyallo Wadi Wamitila wa Kenya na Juan Rulfo wa Meksiko ama kati ya Günter Grass wa Ujerumani na Said Ahmed Mohamed wa Zanzibar? Waandishi hawa waliotengwa kitaifa na kilugha wanaunganishwa na uamuzi wao wa kuandika riwaya kwenye mtindo usiokuwa wa kawaida, mtindo wa uhalisiamazingaombwe
Reviewed works: East African literature: Essays on Written and oral Tradition
(RESEARCH IN AFRICAN LITERATURES, 2011) Waliaula, Ken Walibora
Reviewed work(s): The African Diaspora and the Disciplines by Tejumola Olaniyan and James Sweet.
(African Studies Quarterly, 2011-08-15) Waliaula, Ken Walibora
Reviewed Work(s): The Oral and Beyond: Doing Things with Words in Africa by Ruth Finnegan
(Canadian Journal of African Studies, 2011-11-15) Waliaula, Ken Walibora
Reviewed Work(s): The politics of language and nation building in Zimbabwe
(Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2012-07-24) Waliaula, Ken Walibora
Remembering and Disremembering in Africa
(The Thoughtful Museum, 2012-11-20) Waliaula, Ken Walibora
In remembering the attainment of political emancipation, post-independence African countries have learned to narrate the official national narrative and to forget other stories. Commemoration of the nation’s past almost always goes hand in hand with officially decreed national amnesia. Therefore, the story of the nation has to be narrated and remembered by forgetting certain aspects of the colonial past. By implication the dual act of remembering and forgetting sets the pattern for how the postcolonial African nation narrates itself in the postcolonial moment. Focusing on Kenya as an example, this paper argues that the national commemoration of political emancipation from colo nial rule tends to silence narratives of opposition and political incarceration that emerge in the post-colonial moment. The outcome is a remembering-and-forgetting battle that has implications for how diverse individuals conceive of themselves collectively as a nation and how they forge or fail to forge a coherent collective memory
Reviewed Work(s): Riwaya ya Mbali na Nyumbani ya Adam Shafi
(2013-01-29) Waliaula, Ken Walibora
The State of Swahili Studies: Remembering the Past, Present, and Future
(Studies in Literature and Language, 2013-11-15) Waliaula, Ken Walibora
It would be erroneous to conclude that Irish novelist Joyce Cary’s dismissal of Swahili language for supposedly having a narrow epistemic range in 1944 typifies attitudes toward the language. Indeed there were, have been, and will always be diverse attitudes and approaches within Swahili Studies. In tracing the path Swahili Studies as a field of enquiry has trodden over the years, this paper demonstrates these divergent views and opinions, and speculates about the future and its concomitant possibilities and challenges. In short, Swahili studies may be said to have traveled through three main historical and discursive phases, namely; 1) the colonial phase; 2) the nationalist phase; and 3) the post nationalist phase. However, it bears clarifying that categorizing Swahili studies into phases does not occlude or ignore the propensity for overlap between these phases. This paper will trace by way of example and in broad terms some of the key questions asked in the past and present and their implications for the future of Swahili Studies
The Female condition as double incarceration in Wambui Otieno's Mau Mau daughter
(East African Literary and cultural studies, 2014-11-15) Waliaula, Ken Walibora
Focusing on Kenyan freedom fighter Wambui Otieno's narrative Mau Mau's daughter 1998, this article discusses the interplay between incarceration and the female condition. It bears clarifying that Otieno's narrative of confinement was written and published forty years after the fact of her detention. The time of this writing may be relatively recent, the events it evokes are not. The prison life narrative offers useful insights into the treatment of the figurative and literal incarceration incomtemporary African literature by and about women, particularly in regard to life writing genres. Given the passage of time between the narration and the occurrence of the narrated events, there are several possibilities to be deduced here: 1) She could have been too far removed from the actual events to render an accurate account of what really transpired; 2) or the passage of time would have enabled her to see things more lucidly; 3) and more importantly, her perceptions could have been tremendously influenced by the subsequent events and experiences in the intervening decades, shaping and moulding her memory and her interpretation of her detention story. It may well be that the passage of time enabled and enhanced her capacity to tell a story whose telling is like opening an old wound.
Doing thing with words in prison poetry
(Mkuki na nyota, 2016-11-15) Waliaula, Ken Walibora
The African Postcolonial Predicament
(Indiana University Press, 2016-11-25) Waliaula, Ken Walibora
English Translations of the Kiswahili Special Issue of Eastern African Literary & Cultural Studies
(Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies, 2019-01-01) Waliaula, Ken Walibora
Big Data Analytics and Electronic Resource Usage in Academic Libraries: A Case Study of a Private University in Kenya
(2019-05-01) Wakahia; Samuel kairigo
The purpose of the study was to apply Big Data analytics as a tool for evaluating electronic resources usage in the academic library setup in Kenya with reference to the library of one private university. Log files of postgraduate students were mined from the server where the offsite access platform (ezproxy) has been installed. Descriptive statistical techniques such as mean, standard deviation and percentages were computed. Data was transferred to the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software was aided in the analysis. Results revealed that in terms of usage intensity, total URL count was 2,352, the highest user made 283 downloads and the mean URL count was 49 downloads. Further findings revealed that no user utilized more than 5 databases over a period of one year. The mean usage intensity score for respondents who were trained or orientated on e-resource usage was above average at 69.0 while those who had not received training were below average at 29.8. It was concluded that big data analytics is a necessary and powerful tool for investigating electronic resources seeking and usage trends and patterns within Kenyan university libraries. Through big data analysis and data mining, usage patterns and trends such as usage intensity that might not have accurately been revealed through other tools are unearthed. Big data analytics has revealed user preferences and intensity of utilization of various databases and helped in detection of redundant databases. From the usage patterns, it was clear that the level of utilization of the University library’s e-resource platform was very low. Most of the databases accessible through the platform were redundant. Further, only two databases namely e-book central and ebscohost were the most popular among users while the rest were barely being utilized if at all. For most students, just one or two databases were sufficient in meeting their research needs. An integrated data analytics model for investigating university library’s e-resources usage is proposed
Utangulizi wa Mhariri: Mitazamo ya Fasihi Afrika Mashariki
(Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies, 2019-11-15) Waluaula, Ken Walibora
Mau Mau Author in Detention: The Subversive ‘We’ in a Colonial Era Detention Diary
(Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies, 2020-06-30) Waliaula, Ken Walibora
In seeking an answer to the question as to why Kenyan author Gakaara wa Wanjau penned Mau Mau Author in Detention, we may consider the fact that he wrote other works as well before, during, and after his detention. The facticity of his authorship is foregrounded in the title. In other words, Wanjau did what writers do, what was natural for him to do, in prison and outside: write. Yet to say he wrote the diary because he was a writer is a rather facile explanation of the impetus for writing it. Although his prior experience in writing would have been to his advantage in lightening the challenge of writing, he was writing in a detention context, where writing itself constituted defiance of the colonial dispensation. Thus, his diary-writing was clandestine because it was pestilential, replete with risk and danger. In attempting to account for his motivation for writing, one is bound to encounter a curious contest between the individualised ‘I’ and the collectivised ‘we’ as well as subversion of the conventions of diary as a Western literary genre

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