Ken Walibora Waliaula
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Item Namwomboleza Profesa Ken Walibora: Jagina wa Fasihi ya Kiswahili(Kibabii University, 2020-04-16) Ipara, Isaac O.Item A friend in need is a friend indeed: Ken Walibora’s novel kufa kuzikana(2007) Walibora, Ken Waliaula; BERTONCINI-ZÚBKOVÁ, ELENAItem Kidagaa Kimemwozea(arget Publications, 2012) Walibora, Ken WaliaulaToleo la Shule "Kila kazi kuu ya fasihi huwa imejengwa katika misingi ya sitiari ya safari; na katika riwaya hii ya mawanda ya kiepiki, Ken Walibora katupatia mojawapo ya kazi hizo kuu za fasihi. Kidagaa Kimemwozea imejaa ucheshi sambamba na majonzi. Ni riwaya iliyojaa mijadala mizitomizito ya masuala ya kijamii, iliyojificha katika ucheshi, sitiari, taswira, na tashtiti. Kwa kupitia mbinu kadhaa za kisanaa, ikiwemo ya vitabiri na mara mojamoja virejeshi, Ken Walibora kaonyesha tena ufundi wake mkubwa wa kutuchorea hali halisi za wanyonge wanyongwao. Ha, hawa ni wanyonge ambao hatimaye wanaamua liwalo na liwe. Kidagaa Kimemwozea ni riwaya ambayo anwani yake inatuachia maswali mengi: Nani huyo ambaye kidagaa kimwemwozea? Jina la riwaya hii linatufanya tujiulize je, huyo ambaye kidagaa kimemwozea, kimemwozea vipi wakati si rahisi kwa dagaa kuoza? Kwa namna gani,na kwa nini? Hi kuyajibu maswali haya, inatubidi tuungane na wahusika wake kwenye safari ya kujisaka,turudi nyuma na kuanza kuisoma tena upya riwaya hii ambayo ukianza kuisoma huwezi kuiweka chini. "Riwaya ya Kidagaa Kimemwozea ni miongoni mwa riwaya bora zaidi za Kiswahili zilizowahi kuandikwa. Kwa mara nyingine tena katika lugha tamu na kwasi Ken Walibora ameoanisha fani na maudhui kwa umahiri wa aina yake. Almuradi riwaya hii imesukwa ikasukika, ikapikwa ikapikika na kuandikwaItem The Asian ‘other’(2012) Walibora, Ken WaliaulaItem "Negotiating local knowledge II: Kiswahili and attitudes toward disability"(Disability Studies Quarterly, 2009) Walibora, Ken WaliaulaItem Narrating Prison Experience: Human rights, self, society, and political incarceration in Africa(Common Ground Publishing, 2013-09-01) Walibora, Ken WaliaulaItem Prison, poetry, and polyphony in Abdilatif Abdallah Santi ya Dhiki(Indiana University Press, 2009) Walibora, Ken WaliaulaThis article is a study of the prison poetry of Abdilatif Abdalla, one of the most talented twentieth-century Swahili poets. Abdalla penned his col lection of poems Sauti ya Dhiki while serving a prison term for sedition during the Jomo Kenyatta regime in postindependence Kenya. Prison as a site for writing had tremendous influence on the form and content of his poetical productions. In this regard I suggest that, for the most part, the terribly unpleasant prison conditions that the poet experienced, enabled, and enhanced the occurrence in his poetry of a psychic or philosophical journey, which may or may not have been therapeutic, and the articula tion of a whole range of 'Voices/' I undertake a close reading of Sauti ya Dhiki, exploring the symbolic journey and the polyphony that characterizes Abdalla's reaction to his incarceration by what Achille Mbembe would call the "postcolonial potentateItem Women characters in the novels of Ken Walibora: Victims or winners?(Journal of African Women’s Studies Center, University of Nairobi, 2015-12) Walibora, Ken WaliaulaKen Walibora, one of the most known and promising authors in the new generation of Swahili writers in Kenya, may well be considered as a male-centric writer, since his novels published from 1996 to 2012 feature men as their main figures. However, in all his books women characters play roles of growing importance not only in the lives of the main personages, but also in the author‟s views on the social situations described in his novels. Women in Walibora‟s books are almost exclusively portrayed as victims of cruel and unfair patriarchal society-but it is their state of victim that motivates them towards the effort to elevate themselves above their second rate condition. In Siku Njema (Nice day, 1996) the main character Kongowea is inspired for life by the character of his mother, a famous singer, as well as by his school .friend Vumilia, whose human virtues shape his own character when in his journeys after his mother‟s untimely death he meets a young girl Amina, driven by social calamities to the state of a prostitute, and later-his dead friend‟s bride, who is rejected by the society as a “virgin widow”; these young women nevertheless manage to overcome the ostracism of patriarchal society and build their own lives. In Ndoto ya Almasi (Almasi‟s dream, 2006) most of the women characters are victims of the social order; however, the hope is vested in main woman character Chebosio, who, being impregnated by her own father-in-law, nevertheless manages to construct a living with the support of her husband. A new type of a woman character is drawn in Kidagaa kimemwozea (His small fish has caught a rot, 2012); Imani, a girl of a destitute background, rebels against the current social order, helping her sweetheart Amani to topple the dictatorial regime in an imaginary African country. This close bond between genders (female characters „salvaged‟ or assisted by the male ones) appears as the author‟s vision of the new type of gender relationship, which will help African women in reaching self-empowerment and equity