How Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Shifted from Class Analysis to a Neo-Colonialist Perspective

1994 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 329-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josef Gugler
Keyword(s):  
Second Generation ◽  
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o ◽  
Class Analysis ◽  
East African ◽  
Makerere University ◽  
University College ◽  
African Writer ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
African Writers

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o has established himself as one of the leading second-generation African writers. His first two novels, Weep Not, Child (London, Heinemann, 1964) and The River Between (London, Heinemann, 1965), written while an undergraduate at Makerere University College, Kampala, brought him recognition as the foremost East African writer. His third novel, A Grain of Wheat (London, Heinemann, 1967), established James Ngugi, as he then called himself, as one of the most distinguished literary voices from Africa. There was a long pause before Ngũgĩ published his next novel, Petals of Blood (London, Heinemann, 1977). The change in name signalled that during the intervening years he had developed a radical new perspective on Kenya, the explicit locale of all his writing.

Economic Development Research Project, Makerere University College, Kampala

1965 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-283
Author(s):  
Paul G. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
East African ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Makerere University ◽  
University College

This Project was initiated two years ago with three main objectives: (i) fundamentally, to carry out a coherent set of applied research studies of important economic development problems of the East African countries; (ii) to contribute East African readings and research experience to university teaching of economics; and (iii) to assist the East African Governments in using economic research for development planning. Organisationally, the Project is simply a group of economists working on related topics under the leadership of the director, Professor P. G. Clark. The group forms the economics section of the East African Institute of Social Research (which has similar sections for sociology and anthropology and for political science); the Institute in turn is the social sciences research department of Makerere University College. The four-year project is now in mid-course, and it can be fairly said that at least some progress has been made toward all three objectives.

scholarly journals The African Writer and Commitment in Art: a Critical Discourse of Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s Literature of Commitment, Social Vision and Stylistic Use of Satire in Matigari

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Bie Precious Dumka
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Social Vision ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Close Textual Analysis ◽  
African Writer ◽  
African Writers

<p>African writers like Ngugi Wa Thiong’o have not relented in their portraiture of the dehumanizing plights of the working class. Ngugi is a revolutionary writer conditioned by the colonial, post-colonial and neo-colonial socio-political and economic quagmire and experiences surrounding him, and as such he has no choice than to use art as an avenue of expressing his ideology and vision about the multifaceted problems as pictured in his society. This paper therefore, examines commitment in literature with particular focus on the Kenyan writer, Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s committed literature and social vision, his stylistic use of satire. The conceptual framework is Marxism using Ngugi’s Matigari. The study as a close textual analysis adopts the descriptive design.</p>

Conference on Africa in World Affairs: the next 30 years

1970 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-298
Author(s):  
Hasu H. Patel
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World Order ◽  
The United States ◽  
East African ◽  
East African Community ◽  
Makerere University ◽  
Economic Commission ◽  
The World ◽  
University College ◽  
African Community

This conference was held at Makerere University College under the auspices of the World Order Models Project, in association with the World Law Fund. Those who presented papers came from Canada, Congo-Kinshasa, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, U.S.A., Zambia, the East African Community, and the U.N. Economic Commission for Africa. Distinguished visitors included Professor W. Abraham, the Ghanaian philosopher, and the noted African poet, Okor p'Bitek, who both came from the United States.

scholarly journals The Number and Determinants of Nutrient foramina among dry human femur bones from the East African population: A Cross-section study

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3.3) ◽  
pp. 8091-8096
Author(s):  
Gerald Tumusiime ◽  
◽  
Gonzaga Gonza Kirum ◽  
John Kukiriza ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cross Section ◽  
African Population ◽  
P Value ◽  
Morphometric Characteristics ◽  
East African ◽  
Makerere University ◽  
Human Femur ◽  
Section Study ◽  
Nutrient Foramina ◽  
Portal Of Entry

Background: Nutrient foramina form important landmarks on the femur and other bones as the portal of entry for nutrient arteries. Nutrient arteries are important sources of blood supply for growing bones; and their variations may be due to congenital or acquired causes. These variations are important in anatomical comparisons, orthopaedic surgical practice and forensic medicine. Aims: This study aimed at establishing the number and determinants of the nutrient foramina among dry human femur bones from the East African population. Materials and methods: This was a cross-section study of 333 dry femur bones from the East African population, at the Galloway osteological collection of Makerere University college of health sciences. The number of nutrient foramina on the shaft of each femur, the corresponding demographic, clinical and morphometric characteristics were documented. Data were entered in an Excel sheet and exported to STATA 14 for analysis. Univariate, bivariate and multivariable analyses were performed to obtain the summary statistics and the measures of association. At all levels of analysis, a p-value of less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: Of the 333 femurs, 291 (87.4%) were from males; and 137(50.15%) were right femurs. The age ranged from 20 to 75 years with a mean age of 35 (SD± 12) years. Nutrient foramina ranged from one to four; mean of 1.4 (SD±0.5) and median of 1 (IQR: 1 to 2). Of the 333 femurs, 199 (59.8%) had one foramen, 129 (38.7%) had two foramina, four femurs had three foramina and one femur had four foramina. There was a statistically significant association between the number of nutrient foramina and the femur’s: mid-shaft circumference (p=0.014; 95%CI: 0.003 to 0.028), nationality (p=0.016; 95%CI: -0.284 to -0.030) and sex (p=0.012; 96%CI: -0.405 to -0.050). Conclusion: Nutrient foramina among femurs from the East African population range from one to four per femur, with predominantly one foramen. The key determinants of the number of foramina are: mean mid-shaft circumference, nationality and sex. These findings are significant in anatomical comparisons; forensic and orthopaedic practices. KEY WORDS: Nutrient foramina, dry human femur, East African population, morphometric characteristics.

Application of E-Learning in Teaching, Learning and Research in East African Universities

2011 ◽  
pp. 914-927
Author(s):  
Michael Walimbwa
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environments ◽  
Eastern Africa ◽  
Learning Assessment ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Mediated Learning ◽  
East African ◽  
Makerere University ◽  
Curriculum Assessment ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Teaching Learning

The challenges of an increasingly borderless world, as seen in the advancements in information technology, have brought reform in universities and re-conceptualized what constitutes learning, teaching, and research. E-learning is often implemented as a response to increasing educational demand and an increasingly networked community. E-learning is considered as an interactive means to provide an alternative environment that stimulates practical learning and equips learners with the skills to manage technological change and innovations. This chapter evaluates the initial phase of e-learning, the importance of a rightful attitude, context, and instructional design in digital learning environments in Makerere University, Uganda, University of Nairobi, Kenya and University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The increase in enrollment in these universities brings in many challenges in service provision, negatively affecting instruction, learning, assessment and research services. A crisis-solving approach is presented as stimulating a creative context for the meaningful introduction of e-learning. It is also discussed whether the environment created so far through computer-mediated learning motivates institutions to integrate e-learning further. The sample involved instructors and learners from three universities in three different countries of Eastern Africa. Findings conclude that an e-learning environment must be introduced by creating relevant awareness to change attitude and empower users with an authentic approach without too much technological complexity. Review of curriculum, assessment and training around e-learning environments are also imperative as these interrelated factors form part of the e-learning process.

Bourgeois Politics and Ideology in Vincent Egbuson’s Womandela

Matatu ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-69
Author(s):  
DELE BAMIDELE ◽  
SUNDAY VICTOR AKWU
Keyword(s):  
Civil Wars ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Ruling Class ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
African Writer ◽  
African Writers ◽  
The Masses ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Coups D'etat

With few exceptions, African countries have suffered perennial bad governance, bloody civil wars, and coups-d’état. The continent suffocates in the grip of political elites and military juntas. Capitalism as an economic system empowers a few who lord it over the weak majority. The ruling class also contributes to the suffering of the masses by flagrantly looting the nation’s treasury and flaunting it while the majority of the populace wallow in abject poverty. African writers problematize and diagnose this scenario and the Weltschmerz bedevilling African socio-political life, in a bid to offering lasting solutions, in the process experimenting with ‘home-made’ as well as ‘imported’ ideologies in the struggle for the African utopia. Vincent Egbuson, a ‘new-generation’ African writer, is indubitably a committed writer. In confronting the African socio-political malady in Womandela, he has adopted divergent ideologies to sharpen his social vision. The purpose of this study is, accordingly, to scrutinize the ideological bent of Egbuson’s novel and to determine its efficacy against the backdrop of the socio-political reality of contemporary Africa.

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