This book is intended to guide the student to understand the message that is portrayed in this drama "Mstahiki Meya". Major areas focused upon by the authors in this guidebook are; how the readers can learn to setup the play themselves, the characters and their significance, and language used and in addition it gives and discusses in summary the whole drama. The play is intended to act as a model for the situation in ...
Fighting for Bomas is a critical evaluation of the issues raised by the November 2005 referendum on the Draft Constitution. It is presented in the form of a diary. It starts just before the referendum and goes on for a period of nearly three months analyzing the reaction of the various sectors of the Kenyan society to the results and delving into the deeper reasons underlying those reactions. The writing is done against a ...
The Kenya’s disputed 2007 General Election and its resultant Post-Election Violence marked the darkest era in the history of the country. The sad events nearly plunged the country into a full-scale civil war and total disintegration. However, as Kenyans and the world watched with horror as the country teetered on the verge of becoming a failed state, little did it dawn on them that below the patina of the violence; ...
What do two young people who are fondly in love do when their relationship comes up against ethnic, cultural and religious impediments? Do they obey the social dictates, or do they listen to their throbbing heartbeats? In this novel, Miriam Were, the virtuoso of the literature of young adult relations, takes us on a soul searching journey with two young people whose families and communities are in the grip of mutual ...
The poet Henry Longfellow Wadsworth says in the poem ‘A Psalm of Life’ that lives of great men teach us to make our lives sublime so that, on departing, we may leave our footprints in the sands of time. Tales of the lives of great men are simultaneously their stories as well as those of their nations and institutions, as seen and experienced by the protagonists.
This is the story of Simeon Nyachae, one of the ...
Martin Warwimbo Njoroge is a Moi University-trained secondary school teacher. He is also an accomplished playwright, a play director and producer. During his first year at university, in 1989, he started a fruitful personal and private research into the problem of stammering of which he was a victim. Twenty years later, he has discovered techniques of self-awareness that prove to be remedies for neurotic complications such ...
The Kalenjin/Kaleenchin language is spoken by close to six million people in Kenya, with substantial numbers also in Uganda and Tanzania. The Kalenjin linguistic family in Kenya includes the Marakwet, Nandi, Sabaot, Kibsikiis, Terik, Keyyo, Tuken, Seng'wer, Ogiek and Pokot. These groups are mutually intelligible, despite their variants of the Kalenjin language. This dictionary, the product of 15 years research activity, ...
The searching soul is a pot pourri of diverse subjects – a buffet of ideas. Dr PLO Lumumba’s encyclopedic mind is revealed in its splendor in this thought provoking collections of essays and speeches. PLO examines a myriad of issues traversing health, politics, law, philosophy and development. His concern for humanity is clearly revealed as his soul poses questions and searches for ...
The poet Henry Longfellow Wadsworth says in the poem ‘A Psalm of Life’ that lives of great men teach us to make our lives sublime so that, on departing, we may leave our footprints in the sands of time. Tales of the lives of great men are simultaneously their stories as well as those of their nations and institutions, as seen and experienced by the protagonists.
This is the story of Simeon Nyachae, one of the ...
Mwewe akiona kifaranga hufurahi sana. Humzingira na kumfanyia ujimbora. Hatimaye, humnasa na kumfanya kitoweo. Katika riwaya hii ya kusisimua na maadili kemkemu, Kombo bin Kombora anajifanya mwewe anapobalehe na kuanza kuwajua watoto wa kike. Zawadi ya majuto inamsubiri kila kijana wa kike atayeambulia katika mtego wa Kombo, wa mapenzi ya hatari. Hata hivyo, msichana mmoja, Raha, amemshinda Kombo kabisa kumnasa. Je hatima ...