East and Central Africa

Introduction

Like previous years’ lists, biographies and related life stories continue to dominate this year’s output on East and Central Africa. An interesting twist to this trend is the increasing interest in what can be termed “biographies of places and institutions”. These are represented here by, among others, Kwani Trust’s Nairobi: An Exploration of a City by Photographers and Writers [see Auto/biographies] and Stephen Mills’ The Norfolk: The Hotel That Built a Nation [see Auto/biographies]. The latter makes a fascinating addition to the region’s library, especially given the Norfolk Hotel’s complex location as a historical institution in Kenyan public memory, stretching back to colonial Kenya’s painful racist histories. Similar entries include Ian Parker’s The Last Colonial Regiment: The History of the Kenya Regiment; Michael Sparrow’s Mission in Mombasa: Ninety Years of Caring for Seafarers at Kilindini, Julius Gathogo’s Mutira Mission: An African Church Comes of Age in Kirinyaga, Kenya 1912-2012 and Hany Longwe’s Christians by Grace, Baptists by Choice: A History of the Baptist Convention of Malawi [see Auto/biographies]. Missionary histories and memoirs continue to be a regular feature in the region’s catalogue. In addition to these entries on Christian missions in Kenya and Malawi respectively, the reader of the bibliography will also find several missionaries’ biographies, including A.H. Jong’s Father Michael Witte of Kabaa High School: Missionary and Educationalist, Vincent Donovan and Brian McLaren’s Missionary Letters of Vincent Donovan and Steven Pass’ Johannes Rebmann: A Servant of God in Africa before the Rise of Western Colonialism [see Auto/biographies].

A related trend under the auto/biographies category are childhood memoirs, most of which look back nostalgically at a gone era in the region’s histories. Among these are Christine Stephanie Nicholls’ A Kenya Childhood and David Webster’s Mishkid: A Kenyan Childhood. Two notable additions in this category are Zimbabwean writer Alexander Fuller’s Cocktail Hour under the Tree of Forgetfulness and Binyavanga Wainaina’s One Day I Will Write about This Place. Fuller traces her mother Nicola Fuller’s life across East and Central Africa while Wainaina’s long-awaited debut paints a powerful portrait of a Kenyan childhood in Nakuru – a rather underexplored landscape in the region’s literary canvas – against a backdrop of rapid cultural and political changes in the region. Another notable entry is Hannah Njenga’s I Am Human Too: Social Perceptions of Albinism, which is a timely reflection on the question of albinism, particularly given the depths of discrimination and fetishization of albinism in the region in recent years. Increasingly, too, the list continues to feature what can be termed “bio-profiles” in the form of collections of self-portraits of various categories “in their own voices”. This year, this trend is represented by Susan Wakhungu-Githuku’s Life Journeys: Conversations with High Achieving Men in Kenya and James Mwaura Wamuhiu’s The Widows of Africa: Daughter of Muti, and Christina Clark-Kazak’s Recounting Migration: Political Narratives of Congolese Young People in Uganda [see Auto/biographies].

The list also features several entries from old voices such as playwright Francis Imbuga’s The Return of Mgofu [see Drama: Kenya] Jack Mapanje’s And Crocodiles Are Hungry at Night: A Memoir [see Auto/biographies: Malawi] and Elieshi Lemma’s In the Belly of Dar es Salaam [see Fiction: Tanzania]. But it is in the fiction category that we see an exciting widening of the imaginative canvas. Among the more adventurous titles is British journalist and crime-fiction writer Nick Brownlee’s Snakepit which takes on the topical question of Somali piracy and the attendant scourge of kidnapping which has haunted the Indian Ocean waters in recent years [see Fiction: Kenya]. In the novel – the fourth in the Jake and Jouma series – Mombasa-based detective Daniel Jouma and ex-British Flying Squad member Jake Moore find themselves on a fishing trip gone wrong when they are kidnapped by Somali pirates. Similarly, Michael Oren’s political thriller, The Dallas Mercenary [see Fiction: Kenya], is a brave fictional revisiting of the 2007 post-election violence in Kenya. Equally adventurous are Matthew Glass’ Trigger Point and Kyle Mills’ The Ares Decision, both political thrillers set in Uganda [see Fiction: Uganda]. Trigger Point uses fiction to imagine the potential tensions that can be sparked off by China’s increasing influence in the region. The novel imagines an East African landscape under firm Chinese influence and a military face-off between the United States and China over the region. But it is Kyle Mills’ The Ares Decision which takes this political tension to intriguing heights. The story is set in Northern Uganda, a space that has attracted global interest in recent years, thanks to the Lords’ Resistance Army and Joseph Kony. Here, however, Mills imagines a scenario in which the otherwise peaceful Northern Ugandan farmers dabble in biological weaponry and decimate an American special unit, thereby attracting the attention of an Iranian Intelligence operative, keen on this biological weapon. As the story unfolds, there is deep suspicion that the resurgence of this lethal parasite, which has been dormant in the region for centuries, might have more to do with Washington than the USA has let on.

For its part, the critical studies category suggests a wide range of concerns for the region’s literary scholarship, ranging from a rich special issue of Research in African Literatures on East and South African Asian literatures [see General Studies] to Nicole Tami’s Romancing Strangers: The Intimate Politics of Beach Tourism in Kenya [see General Studies]. Equally interesting is J.K.S. Makokha and Jennifer Wawrzinek’s Negotiating Afropolitanism: Essays on Borders and Spaces in Contemporary African Literature and Folklore, an ambitious collection of essays spanning various texts and regions across the continent.

Bibliography: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Malawi

Research Aids

Regional

Global Masculinities and Manhood Ronald Jackson 232pp Illinois Univ Press (Urbana).

India in Africa: Changing Geographies of Power 225pp Emma Mawdsley and Gerard McCann Pambazuka Press (Cape Town).

Kenya

Kenya: Between Hope and Despair, 1963-2011 Daniel Branch 366pp Yale Univ Press (New Haven).

Poetry

Kenya

Foulds, Adam The Broken Word: An Epic Poem on the British Empire in Kenya and the Mau Mau Uprising against It 60pp Penguin (New York) [2008].

Siele, Newton Life’s Prescription: A Journey of Inspiration through Poetry 144pp Bluebay (Nairobi).

Wachinga, Hillary and Mike Weche Dreamy Realities: Poetic Expression of Love and Other Feelings 100pp Aura (Nairobi).

Wangai, Wangechi Wondrous Contemplations: Inspirational Poems and Reflections 84pp W Wangechi (Nairobi).

Malawi

Sambalikagwa, Mvona and Aipira Hoffman The Time Traveller of Malavi: New Poetry from Malawi 224pp Malawi Writers Union (Blantyre).

Malewezi, Q. The Road Taken 59pp Mbidzi Pub (Lilongwe).

Drama

Kenya

Imbuga, Francis The Return of Mgofu 71pp Longhorn (Nairobi).

Newton, Babior The Betrayed Nation 121pp Virtue (Nairobi).

Woodcock, Sally Fanta Orange 96pp Oberon Books (London).

Fiction

Kenya

Arruda, Suzzanne Middendorf Stalking Ivory 368pp Charnwood (Leicester) [2007].

— Mark of the Lion 352pp Charnwood (Leicester) [2006].

Basil, Priya The Obscure Logic of the Heart 512pp Black Swan (London) [2010].

Brownlee, Nick Snakepit 352pp Piatkus Books (London) [2010].

Erapu, Laban Angels Never Die 163pp EAEP (Nairobi).

Ford, Mackenzie The Clouds Beneath the Sun 683pp Magna (Long Preston).

Lynn, Michell White Lies 350pp Linen (Edinburgh).

Gatara, Timothy Henry The Poverty of Mind 364pp Olive (Nairobi).

Gadsby, June The Red Earth 264pp Thorpe (Leicester).

Geteria, Wamugunda Nice People 193pp African Artefacts (Nairobi) [1992].

Hancock, Carl Girl with the Golden Voice 410pp Sid Harta (Victoria).

Ikonya, Philo Kenya, Will You Marry Me? 240pp Langaa (Bamenda).

Kabue, Samuel Disability, Society and Theology: Voices from Africa 465pp Zapf (Limuru).

Kairo, Carol Journey to Mombasa 134pp EAEP (Nairobi).

Kap-kirwok, Jason Telling It to the Birds 160pp Acacia (Nairobi).

Keating, Stephanie and Barbara Keating In Borrowed Light 608pp Vintage (London) [2010].

MacCall, Michaela Promise the Night 262pp Chronicle Books (San Franscisco).

Menezes, Braz Just Matata: Sins, Saints and Settlers 291pp Matata Books (Toronto).

Mochama, Tony Princess Adhis and the Naija Coca Broda 113pp No Boundaries (Nairobi).

Morara, Anderea The Sting 128pp EAEP (Nairobi).

Ndegwa, DN Walking in Kenyatta Struggles 664pp Kenya Leadership Institute [2006].

Ng’ang’a, Mbugua Different Colours 260pp Big Books (Nairobi).

Ogot, Bethwell My Footprints in the Sands of Time 580pp Trafford (Victoria, BC) [2003].

Oren, M. E. The Dallas Mercenary 330pp River Lake (Hempstead).

Penny, Sarah The Lies We Shared 339pp Penguin (Johannesburg).

Safaa, Chilufiya Stay the Night 288pp Dafina (New York)[2010].

Shreve, Anita A Change in Altitude 334pp Little Brown (New York)[2010].

Waihenya, Waithaka The Vendor 168pp Oxford Univ Press (Nairobi; New York).

Wa Ngugi, Mukoma Nairobi Heat 204pp Melville House (New York) [2010].

Winther, Barbara The Leopard Sings 205pp B Winther (New York).

Zeigler, Mikha’elah To Steal a Mummy 96pp Sakal Media (Nairobi).

Malawi

Chilera, Reuben Men in White Collar 109pp R H Chilera (Lilongwe).

Kalitera, Aubrey The Cement Slab Grave 112pp Sweet Surprise Books (Blantyre).

Kambalu, Samson Jive Talker 342pp Zurich (Unionsverl) [2010].

Mtitima, John Powers of Culture: Dilemma of Maya 132pp Kachere Series (Zomba).

Sambalikagwa, Mvona An Arrow for Maraka 224pp Likhula Pub (Blantyre).

Tanzania

Cussler, Clive and Grant Blackwood Lost Empire 497pp Berkeley Books (New York).

Ejersbo, Jacob Exile 334pp MacLehose Press (London).

Lemma, Elieshi In the Belly of Dar es Salaam 185pp E & D (Dar es Salaam).

London, Andrew A Man out of Season 389pp PublishAmerica (Baltimore).

Phororo, Opolang Joy Comes in the Morning 178pp Mkuki na Nyota (Dar es Salaam)

Scholes, Katherine Lioness 333pp Michael Joseph (Camberwell).

Uganda

Brown, Douglas Creating the Uganda Nation: An Historical Novel 470pp Douglas Brown (Nedlands, W.A).

Lewis, Clive Rebel without a Gun 132pp Fountain (Kampala).

Glass, Matthew Trigger Point 412pp Atlantic Monthly Press (New York).

Mills, Kyle Robert Ludlum’s the Ares Decision 426pp Grand Central (New York).

Auto/biography

Regional

Martin, James This Is Our Exile: A Spiritual Journey with the Refugees of East Africa 240pp Orbis Books (Maryknoll)[1999].

Kenya

Barcott, Rye It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine’s Path to Peace 352pp Bloomsbury.

Bomer, Ellen and Mary McNeil Miss Gloria: A Survivor of Terrorism 146pp WinePress (Washington).

Breed, Natasha From Ox Cart to Email: The Kenya Story of Delia Craig 354 pp Book Guild (Sussex).

Chol, Abraham Biar No Wings to Fly 223pp Xlibris (US).

Cornwall, Andrea and Ian Scoones Revolutionizing Development: Reflections on the Work of Robert Chambers 313pp.

Dudziak, Mary Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall’s African Journey 263pp Princeton Univ Press (Princeton).

Firstbrook, P. L. The Obamas: The Untold Story of an African Family 333 Crown (New York).

Fitzjohn, Tony Born Wild: The Extraordinary Story of One Man’s Passion for Lions and for Africa 336pp Viking (London)

Fratkin, Elliot Laibon: An Anthropologist’s Journey with Samburu Diviners in Kenya 179pp AltaMira Press (Lanham).

Fuller, Alexandra Cocktail Hour under the Tree of Forgetfulness 338pp Penguin (New York).

Gari, Anthony Kaingu Beyond the Grave: A Biography of Emmanuel Kazungu Dosa 135pp Weekly Eye (Nairobi).

Gathogo, Julius Mutira Mission: An African Church Comes of Age in Kirinyaga, Kenya 1912-2012 185pp Zapf (Limuru).

Gicaga, FJ Surviving the Academic Arena: My Complex Journey to the Apex 204pp Nairobi Univ Press (Nairobi).

Gicigi, Allan Nairobi: An Exploration of a City by Photographers and Writers 193pp Kwani Trust (Nairobi).

Goffard, Christopher You Will See Fire: A Search for Justice in Kenya 320pp WW Norton (New York)

Greitens, Eric The Heart and the Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian 309pp Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Boston).

Harries, Jim Three Days in the Life of an African Christian Villager 54pp AuthorsOnLine (Sandy).

Jacobs, Sally The Other Barrack: The Bold and Reckless Life of President Obama’s Father 297pp PublicAffairs (New York).

Jong, A. H. Father Michael Witte of Kabaa High School: Missionary and Educationalist 247pp Paulines Pub (Nairobi).

Karue, Muriuki Episodes from an MP’s Diary 156ppLesako (Nairobi).

Khamisi, Joe The Politics of Betrayal: Diary of a Kenyan Legislator 379pp Trafford (Bloomington).

Kinyanjui, Teresa and Anne Jackson A Cactus in the Desert 404pp Revival Spring (Nairobi).

Lovell, Mary Straight on Till Morning: The Biography of Beryl Markham 408pp Norton (New York) [1987].

Maitland, Alexander Wilfred Thesiger: The Life of the Great Explorer 528pp Overlook Press (New York).

Martin, James This Is Our Exile: A Spiritual Journey with the Refugees of East Africa 219pp Orbis (New York).

Mills, Stephen The Norfolk: The Hotel That Built a Nation 239pp Mills (Nairobi).

Mombo, Esther and Heleen Joziasse If You Have No Voice Just Sing! Narratives of Women’s Lives and Theological Education at St. Paul’s University 128pp Zapf (Limuru).

Nicholls, Christine Stephanie A Kenya Childhood 200pp C S Nicholls (Oxford).

Njenga, Hannah I Am Human Too: Social Perceptions of Albinism 61pp HM Njenga (Nairobi).

Olang’, Violet Lavender Strength at My Weakest 190pp s.n. (Nairobi).

Omondi, Charles Beating the Odds: The Struggles of a Village School 70pp Big Books (Nairobi).

Parker, Ian The Last Colonial Regiment: The History of the Kenya Regiment 370pp Librario (Kinloss).

Parr, Peter Tribal Origins: A Boyhood in Africa 403pp Old Africa (Kijabe).

Pass, Steven Johannes Rebmann: A Servant of God in Africa before the Rise of Western Colonialism 274pp VKW (Bonn).

Patel, Zarina Maninal Ambalal Desai: The Stormy Petrel 248pp Zand (Nairobi).

Price, Phillip God in the Valley 114pp PB (Ashington).

Rikhoff, Jean Earth, Air, Fire and Water 344pp Iuniverse (S.I).

Seal, Mark Wildflower: The Extraordinary and Mysterious Murder of Joan Root 256pp Orion (New York) [1999].

Shah, Rajnikant Shamji Bapa’s Story 136pp RS Shah (England).

Sparrow, Michael Mission in Mombasa: Ninety Years of Caring for Seafarers at Kilindini 172pp Old Africa (Nairobi).

Spicer, Paul The Temptress: The Scandalous Life of Alice, Countess de Janze 320pp Pocket (London) [2010].

Wainaina, Binyavanga One Day I Will Write about This Place 256pp Graywolf (Minneapolis).

Wakhungu-Githuku, Susan Life Journeys: Conversations with High Achieving Men in Kenya 399pp Footprints (Nairobi).

Wamuhiu, James Mwaura The Widows of Africa: Daughter of Muti 116pp Nairobi Map Service (Nairobi).

Ward, Sheila Beyond White Mischief: Memoirs of a Tea Planter’s Wife 193pp Book Guild (Brighton).

Wa Thiong’o, Ngugi Dreams in a Time of War: A Childhood Memoir 272pp Anchor Books (New York) [2010].

Webster, David Mishkid: A Kenyan Childhood 152pp Aspect (London).

West, Spencer Standing Tall: My Journey215pp Me to We (Vancouver).

Malawi

Buckler, Michael L From Microsoft to Malawi: Learning from the Frontlines as a Peace Corps Volunteer 220pp Hamilton Books (Lanham).

Burridge, Gordon and Marian Burridge African Honeymoon: When Malawi Was Nyasaland 450pp G and M Burridge (Maryborough).

Happold, D.C.D. African Naturalist: The Life and Times of Rodney Carrington Wood, 1889-1962 290pp Book Guild (Brighton).

Hepburn, Anne Memories of Malawi and Scotland 106pp Anne Hepburn (Edinburgh).

Longwe, Hany Christians by Grace, Baptists by Choice: A History of the Baptist Convention of Malawi 532pp Kachere Series; Mzuni Press ( Zomba; Mzuzu).

Mapanje, Jack And Crocodiles Are Hungry at Night: A Memoir 435pp Ayebia Clarke; Arts Council (London; M Banbury).

M’tisunge, Michael Phoya and Tony Grogan Walks of Life: The Other Side of Malawi 128pp Central Africana (Blantyre).

Tanzania

Barwani, Naila Gone Is Yesterday 258pp Bright Pen (Sandy).

Christofferson, Andy The Peace Corpse: Misadventures of Love in Africa 352pp A Christofferson (Charleston).

Donovan, Vincent and Brian McLaren Missionary Letters of Vincent Donovan, 1957-1973 234pp Pickwick Pub (Eugene).

Goswami, Chhaya The Call of the Sea: Kachchhi Traders in Muscat and Zanzibar, c. 1800-1880 343pp BlackSwan (New Delhi).

Grant, Richard Crazy River: A Journey to the Source of the Nile 336pp Free Press (New York).

Henderson, Harry The Leakey Family: Unearthing Human Ancestors 152pp Chelsea House (New York).

Meek, Charles Innes and Innes Meek Brief Authority: A Memoir of Colonial Administration in Tanganyika 265pp Radcliffe Press (London).

Nyang’oro, Julius Edo JK: A Political Biography of Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete 352pp Africa World (Trenton) [2010].

Ulrich, Isolde The Romance of Kilimanjaro 251pp Tate Pub (Okla).

Uganda

Brown, Larry Peasants Come Last: A Memoir of the Peace Corps at Fifty 152pp Lucita (Sunnyvale).

Clark-Kazak, Christina Recounting Migration: Political Narratives of Congolese Young People in Uganda 248pp McGill Univ Press (Montreal).

Davis, Katie and Beth Clark Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption 264pp Howard Books (New York).

Jeal, Tim Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure 510pp Faber and Faber (London).

Kaguri, Twesigye Jackson A School for My Village: A Promise to the Orphans of Nyaka 278pp Penguin (New York).

Museveni, Janet Kataaha My Life’s Journey 314pp Fountain (Kampala).

Odonga, Otto Tears of a War Survivor 115pp Ikorom (Kampala).

Thaker, Sam The Crocodile’s Teeth: Tyranny and Terrorism on Two Continents 144pp Memoir Books (London).

Wilts, Ingrid River in the Heart 268pp Verlag Gottfried Bernard (Sollingen).

Anthologies

Kenya

AMKA Fresh Paint: Literary Vignettes 132pp Contact Zones (Nairobi).

Bukenya, Austin and Kithusi Mulonzya The Mermaid of Msambweni and Other Stories178pp Oxford Univ Press (Nairobi) [2005].

Dawson, Emma Man of the House and Other New Short Stories from Kenya 253pp Critical, Cultural and Communication Press (Nottingham).

Muluka, Barrack and Tobias Otieno The Doomed Conspiracy and Other Stories 284pp EAEP (Nairobi).

Malawi

Chiwamba, Vincent Ants: Short Stories from Malawi 120pp Authorhouse (S.I.).

Tanzania

Lewis-Barned, Suzi Tales of Abunuwas 132pp Mkuki na Nyota (Dar es Salaam).

Linn, Julie Wakeman Their Voices, Their Stories: Fiction by Bethsaida Orphan Girls’ Secondary School 52pp Mkuki na Nyota (Dar es Salaam).

Rowher, Rolf Campfire Tales: Stories from Zambia, Tanzania and Elsewhere 156pp Safari Press (Seal Beach, CA).

Uganda

Mushengyezi, Aaron ed Never Too Late 170pp FEMRITE (Kampala).

Criticism

General Studies

Regional

“Asian African Literatures: Genealogies in the Making” Gaurav Desai Research in African Literatures 42(3) v-xxx.

“Body as Text: Theorizing Physiological Aesthetics in East African Literature” Jack O Ogembo and Christine Ombaka East African Literature: Essays on Written and Oral Traditions pp27-40 [see this section].

“Broadening Thought on Contemporary East African Literary Criticism” JKS Makokha, Egara Kabaji and Dominica Dipio East African Literature: Essays on Written and Oral Traditions pp11-26 [see this section].

The Bukusu of Kenya: Folktales, Culture and Social Identities Florence Namulundah 200pp Carolina Academic Press (Durham).

The Culture of AIDS in Africa: Hope and Healing in Music and the Arts Gregory Barz and Judah Cohen 500pp Oxford Univ Press (New York).

Defining Moments: Reflections on Citizenship, Violence and the 2007 General Elections in Kenya Kimani Njogu 212pp Twaweza (Nairobi).

Film and the End of Empire Lee Grieveson and Colin MacCabe 302pp Palgrave Macmillan (New York).

Meaning in Music, Culture and the Theology: An Analysis of Legio Maria Church Hymnody in Kenya Shitandi Wilson Ol’Leka 194pp VDM (Le Vergne).

Movements, Borders and Identities in Africa Toyin Falola and Aribidesi Adisa Usman 318pp Rochester Univ Press (New York) [2009].

Negotiating Afropolitanism: Essays on Borders and Spaces in Contemporary African Literature and Folklore Jennifer Wawrzinek and JKS Makokha eds 372pp Rodopi (New York; Amsterdam).

The Politics of Cultural Knowledge NjokiNathani Wane 163pp Kempf (Rotterdam; Boston).

Romancing Strangers: The Intimate Politics of Beach Tourism in Kenya Nicole Tami 352pp Bibliobazaar (SI).

Red Soil and Roasted Maize: Selected Essays and Articles on Contemporary Kenya Rasnah Warah 200pp Authorhouse (London).

Women’s Literature in Kenya and Uganda: The Trouble with Modernity Marie Kruger 272pp Palgrave Macmillan (New York) [2010].

Kenya

“Beyond Auto/Biography: Power, Politics and Gender in Kenyan Asian Women’s Writing” Godwin Siundu Research in African Literatures 42(3) pp117-131.

“Code-Switching in the Contemporary Kenyan Novel after 2000” Alina Rinkanya East African Literature: Essays on Written and Oral Traditions pp85-100 [see General Studies: Regional].

“Diasporic Memories and National Histories in East African Asian Writing” Peter Simatei Research in African Literatures 42(3) pp 56-67.

“‘Eat Pig and Become a Beast’: Food, Drink and Diaspora in East African Indian Writing” Dan Ojwang Research in African Literatures 42(3) pp68-87.

“From Cathartic Function to Confronting Stigma: Theorizing the Conscientization Efficacy of Theatre-Against-AIDS Interventions in Kenya” Mahiri Mwita East African Literature: Essays on Written and Oral Traditions pp434-468 [see General Studies: Regional].

“Impossible Burdens: East African Asian Women’s Memoirs” Felicity Hand Research in African Literatures 42(3) pp100-116.

“Inscribing Memory, Healing a Nation: Post-election Violence and the Search for Truth and Justice in Kenya Burning” Catherine Muhoma and Joyce Nyairo Journal of Eastern African Studies 5(3) pp411-426.

Introducing Ordinary African Readers’ Hermeneutics: A Case Study of the Agikuyu Encounter with the Bible Johnson Kariaku Kinyua 371pp Peter Lang (Oxford).

“Kenyan Soap Operas as Functional Edutainment: Redefining the Role of Television Melodrama for an Active Audience” George Ngugi King’ara pp129-146 in Soap Operas and Telenovelas in the Digital Age: Global Industries and New Audiences eds Diana Isabel Arredondo Rios and Mari Castaneda Peter Lang (New York).

“Museums of Kenya: Spaces for Selecting, Ordering and Erasing Memories of Identity and Nationhood” African Studies 70(2) pp224-245.

“The Political Economy of the Media in Kenya: From Kenyatta’s Nation-Building Press to Kibaki’s Local Language FM Radio” George Ogola Africa Today 57(3) pp7-95.

“The Politics of Love and History: Asian Women and African Men in East African Literature” Stephanie Jones Research in African Literatures 42(3) pp166-186.

“Print, Newspapers and Audiences in Colonial Kenya: African and Indian Improvement, Protest and Connections” Bodil Folke Frederiksen Africa 81(1) pp155-172.

“Style and Childcentredness in Five Kenyan Plays” Emmanuel Shikuku Tsikhungu East African Literature: Essays on Written and Oral Traditions pp469-492 [see General Studies: Regional].

“White Man’s Country: Kenya Colony and the Making of a Myth” Will Jackson Journal of Eastern African Studies 5(2) pp344-368.

Malawi

“A Very Antagonistic Spirit: Eliott Kamwana” Henry Donati The Society of Malawi Journal 64(1) pp13-33.

Eastern Central Africa and the Indian Ocean Rudi van Aarde 864pp Marshall Cavendish (New York).

Tanzania

“Across the Language Border: The Case of Bilingual Writers in Tanzania” Negotiating Afropolitanism: Essays on Borders and Spaces in Contemporary African Literature and Folklore pp283-292[see General Studies: Regional].

“Birth of a Market Town in Tanzania: Towards Narrative Studies of Urban Africa” Deborah Fahy Bryceson Journal of Eastern African Studies 5(2) pp274-293.

Community Theatre and AIDS Ola Johansson 179pp Palgrave Macmillan (New York).

“A Comparative Study of Plays on AIDS from Tanzania and USA” Aldin K Mutembei East African Literature: Essays on Written and Oral Traditions pp415-434[see General Studies: Regional].

Cultured States: Youth, Culture and Modern Style in 1960s Dar es Salaam Andrew Ivaska 276pp Duke Univ Press (Durham).

“Indian Ocean World Cinema: Viewing the History of Race, Diaspora and Nationalism in Urban Tanzania” Ned Bertz Africa 81(1) pp68-88.

The Last Slave Market Alastair Hazell 352pp Constable (London).

Live from Dar es Salaam: Popular Music and Tanzania’s Music Economy Alex Perullo 459pp Indiana Univ Press (Bloomington).

“Making the Modern: Contestations over Muziki wa Dansi in Tanganyika, ca. 1945-1961” African Studies 70(3) pp393-414.

“Memory, Oral History and the End of Slavery in Tanzania: Some Methodological Considerations” Jan-Georg Deutsch pp343-360 Slavery in Africa: Archaeology and Memory ed Paul Lane and Kevin MacDonald Oxford Univ Press (Oxford).

“Recovering and Remembering a Slave Route in Central Tanzania” Stephanie Jones pp317-342 Slavery in Africa: Archaeology and Memory ed Paul Lane and Kevin MacDonald Oxford Univ Press (Oxford).

War of Words, War of Stones: Racial Thought and Violence in Colonial Zanzibar Jonathon Glassman 338pp Indiana Univ Press (Bloomington).

Uganda

“Home, Music and Memory for the Congolese in Kampala” Aidan Russell Journal of Eastern African Studies 5(2) pp194-312.

Studies on Individual Writers

Angira, Jared “Metaphor and the Economy of Hope in Jared Angira’s Lament of the Silent & Other Poems” Godwin Siundu East African Literature: Essays on Written and Oral Traditions pp245-258 [see General Studies: Regional].

Dawood, Yussuf and MG Vassanji “Locating Cultural Ambivalence and Afropolitanism: Nairobi and Dar es Salaam as Heterotopia in the Fiction of Dawood and Vassanji” Negotiating Afropolitanism: Essays on Borders and Spaces in Contemporary African Literature and Folklore pp259-282 [see General Studies: Regional].

Gurnah, Abdulrazak “Weaving Exilic Narratives: Homodiegetic Narration and Postcolonial Translocation in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Admiring Silence” Remmy Shiundu Barasa and J.K.S. Makokha Negotiating Afropolitanism: Essays on Borders and Spaces in Contemporary African Literature and Folklore pp215-234 [see General Studies: Regional].

Kaberuka, Jane “The Logic of Sacrifice: Jane Kaberuka’s Silent Patience” Marie Kruger Women’s Literature in Kenya and Uganda: The Trouble with Modernity pp70-82 [see General Studies] [2010].

Kyomuhendo, Goretti “The State’s Blotted Belly and the Power of the Occult: Goretti Kyomuhendo’s Waiting” Marie Kruger Women’s Literature in Kenya and Uganda: The Trouble with Modernity pp129-148 [see General Studies: Regional] [2010].

— “Negotiating Dislocated Identities in the Space of Post-Colonial Chaos: Goretti Kyomuhendo’s Waiting” Emilia Ilieva and Lennox Odiemo-Munara Negotiating Afropolitanism: Essays on Borders and Spaces in Contemporary African Literature and Folklore pp183-204 [see General Studies: Regional].

Lema, Elieshi “Towards the Collapse of Otherising Patriarchal Narratives in Elieshi Lema’s Parched Earth (2001)” Lennox Odiemo-Munara East African Literature: Essays on Written and Oral Traditions pp177-208 [see this General Studies: Regional].

Macgoye, Marjorie Oludhe “Utopian Nations and Dystopian Ghetto’s: Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye’s A Farm Called Kishnev” Marie Kruger Women’s Literature in Kenya and Uganda: The Trouble with Modernity pp107-116 [see General Studies] [2010].

— “The Ethics of Prosperity: Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye’s Chira” Marie Kruger Women’s Literature in Kenya and Uganda: The Trouble with Modernity pp154-166 [see General Studies][2010].

Mehta, Nanji Kalidas “Commerce as Romance: Nanji Kalidas Mehta’s Dream Half-Expressed” Gaurav Desai Research in African Literatures 42(3) pp147-165.

Mukta, Parita “The Story of a ‘White Sadlo’ and a Meal of ‘Bhakhri and Salt’: A Gendered Reading of the Unspoken Narrative of Widowhood in Parita Mukta’s Shards of Memory” Research in African Literatures 42(3) pp88-99.

Mustafa, Sophia “Translating between India and Tanzania: Sofia Mustafa’s Partial Cosmopolitanism” Tina Steiner Research in African Literatures 42(3) pp132-146.

Njau, Rebeka “Symbolism and Subversion of the Tragic Form in Rebeka Njau’s Ripples in the Pool (1975)” John Mugubi East African Literature: Essays on Written and Oral Traditions pp101-120 [see General Studies: Regional].

Obama, Barack Race and Identity in Barack Obama’s Dreams of My Father: A Collection of Critical Essays Michael A Zeitler and Charlene T Evans pp Edwin Mellen (New York).

Ogola, Margaret “Faith in Reason: Margaret Ogola’s The River and the Source” Marie Kruger pp56-76 Women’s Literature in Kenya and Uganda: The Trouble with Modernity [see General Studies] [2010].

— “Margaret Ogola’s Place of Destiny (2005): Empowering Women through Narration” Jairus Omuteche East African Literature: Essays on Written and Oral Traditions pp121-140 [see General Studies: Regional].

Okurut, Mary “The Cycle of Disruption: Mary Okurut’s The Invisible Weevil” Marie Kruger Women’s Literature in Kenya and Uganda: The Trouble with Modernity pp83-100 [see General Studies][2010].

Owuor, Yvonne “Royal Desire and Fratricidal Wars: Yvonne Owuor’s ‘The Weight of Whispers’” Marie Kruger Women’s Literature in Kenya and Uganda: The Trouble with Modernity pp117-128 [see General Studies: Regional] [2010].

Vassanji, MG “Ambiguity Is the Driving Force or the Nuclear Reaction behind My Creativity: An e-Conversation with M G Vassanji” Gaurav Desai Research in African Literatures 42(3) pp187-197.

— “Imagined (Dis)locations: Poetics of Setting in the Early Fiction of M.G. Vassanji” JKS Makokha East African Literature: Essays on Written and Oral Traditions pp155-176 [see General Studies: Regional].

— “No Place to Call Home: Citizenship and Belonging in M G Vassanji’s The In-Between World of Vikram Lall” Nadini Iyer Negotiating Afropolitanism: Essays on Borders and Spaces in Contemporary African Literature and Folklore pp215-234 [see General Studies: Regional].

Wa Thiong’o, Ngugi “Arresting Time, Resisting Arrest: Narrative Time and the African Dictator in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow” Robert L Colson Research in African Literatures 42(1) pp133-153.

— “Digesting the Crow: Reading and Teaching Wizard of the Crow” William Slaymaker Research in African Literatures 42(4) pp8-19.

— “Ngugi wa Thiong’o in/and 2006” Research in African Literatures 42(4) pp124-131.

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Research in African Literatures Special Issue on East and South African Asian Writing 42(3) ed Gaurav Desai 197pp.