By Simon Gikandi
The Columbia advisor to East African Literature in English when you consider that 1945 demanding situations the normal trust that the English-language literary traditions of East Africa are limited to the previous British colonies of Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. as an alternative, those traditions stretch some distance into such neighboring nations as Somalia and Ethiopia.
Simon Gikandi and Evan Mwangi gather a really inclusive checklist of significant writers and tendencies. they start with a chronology of key old occasions and an outline of the emergence and transformation of literary tradition within the sector. Then they supply an alphabetical checklist of significant writers and short descriptions in their matters and achievements.
Some of the writers mentioned contain the Kenyan novelists Grace Ogot and Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Ugandan poet and essayist Taban Lo Liyong, Ethiopian playwright and poet Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin, Tanzanian novelist and diplomat Peter Palangyo, Ethiopian novelist Berhane Mariam Sahle-Sellassie, and the novelist M. G. Vassanji, who portrays the Indian diaspora in Africa, Europe, and North the United States.
Separate entries inside this checklist describe thematic issues, corresponding to colonialism, decolonization, the black aesthetic, and the language query; the expansion of genres like autobiography and well known literature; very important pursuits like cultural nationalism and feminism; and the effect of significant forces resembling AIDS/HIV, Christian missions, and urbanization.
Comprehensive and richly exact, this advisor bargains a clean point of view at the position of East Africa within the improvement of African and global literature in English and a brand new realizing of the ancient, cultural, and geopolitical limitations of the region.
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In Zanzibar, political conflict tended to be racialized, as Arabs, Africans, and Indians sought to develop the most profitable relationship with the colonizer. The economic collapse triggered by the Great Depression (1929–1933) tended to aggravate political conflict. World War II and its aftermath had a profound influence on the character of East African politics. Most directly affected were the northern areas, namely Ethiopia and Somalia. Ethiopia had managed to retain its independence during the whole of the colonial period, while parts of Somalia were under Italian control.
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M. Kariuki’s Mau Mau Detainee (1963), Tom Mboya’s Freedom and After (1963), and Mugo Gatheru’s A Child of Two Worlds (1964), previously taboo subjects such as Mau Mau could be represented by those who had witnessed the struggle for Kenyan independence from detention camps (Kariuki), the trade-union movement (Mboya), or the perspective of the squatters of the “White Highlands” (Gatheru). This writing, which came from the anticolonial front lines, provided in dramatic ways an alternative to the kind of writing produced at Makerere.