James Ogude
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 145837 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | James Ogude |
| NOMBRES | James |
| APELLIDO | Ogude |
| FIRMA | OGUDE J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Pretoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9734-7558 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1997 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Ngugi wa Thiong'o in Context
Ngugi wa Thiong'o in Context offers a compelling and comprehensive reading of the various contexts pivotal to Ngugi wa Thiong'o's practice as a writer. Ngugi drew a complex link between his role as a writer and the contexts within which his works are produced. The desire to come to terms with the past and the shifting historical process in his country is evident throughout his work. The volume shows that, for a writer whose work is steeped in bio…
A Tribute to Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Il convient de rendre hommage au regretté Ngugi wa Thiong’o, décédé le 28 mai 2025. L’hommage met en lumière le riche héritage de Ngugi, reconnu comme l’un des plus éminents écrivains africains, un activiste politique engagé et un éminent ingénieur culturel. Sa contribution significative, en tant qu’écrivain, à l’élaboration de l’historiographie littéraire de l’Afrique mérite d’être soulignée. Cet hommage met en lumière sa révolution culturelle a…
African Literature in Transition
This book offers a compelling new approach to African literatures as formed by and itself a form of collective memory. It explores the historical spaces and maps that African literature brings to the surface and re-imagines in novel ways. The stories that matter about what happened in the past together constitute a collective memory that African writers and readers draw upon to locate themselves within the world. The book examines the mental maps…
Nairobi as an Archive of Literary Imagination
The chapter sets out to examine Nairobi as a site of cultural imagination. It argues that since its founding by the British colonialists, Nairobi has featured prominently as a site of “rest” for its many immigrant communities but also for the local Kenyans from its rural hinterlands. The chapter further examines how writers of African fiction have tapped into its rich tapestry, turning it into a powerful archive and a rich source of literary imag…
African Literature in Transition
ASR Distinguished Lecture
This paper examines the fissures within recent decolonial debates, arguing for the privileging of alternative narratives from formerly colonized groups and a shift away from centring colonialism. It calls for the recognition of decolonial struggles whose histories run deep and the need to link the struggles with indigeneity, its poetics of relations, and connectedness. Therefore, decoloniality requires thinking and doing and paying attention to s…
Environmental Humanities of Extraction in Africa
Environmental Humanities of Extraction in Africa
A tribute and a celebration of Bhekizizwe Peterson
Mrena1 where do I find words to capture such an ordinary yet so deep a soul that you were? Where do I get the inspiration – the muse – during these hard times when death walks among us with stealth
Ubuntu e il principio di Co-Agency nell’ecologia africana
In questa intervista, partendo dal concetto di ubuntu James Ogude spiega le implicazioni etiche e filosofiche di questo termine, prestando particolare attenzione alle emergenze sanitaria e ambientale in corso. Ubuntu si fonda sulle idee di co-agency e relazionalità, idee che vanno ben al di là di una visione del mondo puramente antropocentrica. Ogude inserisce il concetto di ubuntu all’interno degli studi postcoloniali e dell’ecocriticismo e most…
Lookin Back
Every recognition received for work done out of love and out of passion is significant.In this particular instance it is very moving.African universities have been slow to appreciate the work that I have been doing.It is fitting that South Africa is the first from the continent.It says something beautiful about where South Africa is right now.It says something about its spirit, the way it perceives itself and the world.It speaks well for South Af…
Ubuntu and the Reconstitution of Community
Chinua Achebe
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices
Ngugi
Locations, Epistemologies and Pedagogies
(2016). Locations, Epistemologies and Pedagogies. Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies: Vol. 2, Locations, Epistemology and Pedagogies, pp. 65-69
Humanities for the Environment—A Manifesto for Research and Action
Human preferences, practices and actions are the main drivers of global environmental change in the 21st century. It is crucial, therefore, to promote pro-environmental behavior. In order to accomplish this, we need to move beyond rational choice and behavioral decision theories, which do not capture the full range of commitments, assumptions, imaginaries, and belief systems that drive those preferences and actions. Humanities disciplines, such a…
Introduction to Special Issue
Introduction to Special Issue: Eastern African Literatures and Cultures James Ogude (bio) and Dan Ojwang (bio) The articles in this special issue are part of a project that culminated in a major conference, held at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, on 23 and 24 October 2009. The conference attracted scholars from institutions of higher education in Eastern Africa, East African scholars in the diaspora, and scholars …
Land and the poetics of struggle
Engaging Modernities
Specificities
2003). Specificities: Popular Music and the Negotiation of Contemporary Kenyan Identity: The Example of Nairobi City Ensemble. Social Identities: Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 383-400
Specificities
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Making of Democracy in Kenya
Ngugi's Novels and African History
Imagining the oppressed in conditions of marginality and displacement
Specificities
2003). Specificities: Popular Music and the Negotiation of Contemporary Kenyan Identity: The Example of Nairobi City Ensemble. Social Identities: Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 383-400
Specificities
Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Making of Democracy in Kenya
ASR Distinguished Lecture
This paper examines the fissures within recent decolonial debates, arguing for the privileging of alternative narratives from formerly colonized groups and a shift away from centring colonialism. It calls for the recognition of decolonial struggles whose histories run deep and the need to link the struggles with indigeneity, its poetics of relations, and connectedness. Therefore, decoloniality requires thinking and doing and paying attention to s…
Engaging Modernities
Ngugi's Concept of History and the Post-Colonial Discourses in Kenya
RésuméL’article cherche à démontrer que les sens de l’histoire chez Ngugi est étroitement lié à sa politique d’interprétation et que ses textes post-coloniaux peuvent être mieux compris si on les place dans le contexte des discours contradictoires post-coloniaux au Kenya. Ses romans expressent la quête d’un ordre socio-politique nouveau et critiquent l’élite africaine qui s’est comparée du pouvoir à l’indépendance pour devenir simple gardien du c…
A tribute and a celebration of Bhekizizwe Peterson
Mrena1 where do I find words to capture such an ordinary yet so deep a soul that you were? Where do I get the inspiration – the muse – during these hard times when death walks among us with stealth
Ngugi's Concept of History and the Post-Colonial Discourses in Kenya
RésuméL’article cherche à démontrer que les sens de l’histoire chez Ngugi est étroitement lié à sa politique d’interprétation et que ses textes post-coloniaux peuvent être mieux compris si on les place dans le contexte des discours contradictoires post-coloniaux au Kenya. Ses romans expressent la quête d’un ordre socio-politique nouveau et critiquent l’élite africaine qui s’est comparée du pouvoir à l’indépendance pour devenir simple gardien du c…
Imagining the oppressed in conditions of marginality and displacement
Ngugi's Novels and African History
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Making of Democracy in Kenya
Specificities
2003). Specificities: Popular Music and the Negotiation of Contemporary Kenyan Identity: The Example of Nairobi City Ensemble. Social Identities: Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 383-400
Specificities
Engaging Modernities
Land and the poetics of struggle
Introduction to Special Issue
Introduction to Special Issue: Eastern African Literatures and Cultures James Ogude (bio) and Dan Ojwang (bio) The articles in this special issue are part of a project that culminated in a major conference, held at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, on 23 and 24 October 2009. The conference attracted scholars from institutions of higher education in Eastern Africa, East African scholars in the diaspora, and scholars …
Humanities for the Environment—A Manifesto for Research and Action
Human preferences, practices and actions are the main drivers of global environmental change in the 21st century. It is crucial, therefore, to promote pro-environmental behavior. In order to accomplish this, we need to move beyond rational choice and behavioral decision theories, which do not capture the full range of commitments, assumptions, imaginaries, and belief systems that drive those preferences and actions. Humanities disciplines, such a…
Locations, Epistemologies and Pedagogies
(2016). Locations, Epistemologies and Pedagogies. Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies: Vol. 2, Locations, Epistemology and Pedagogies, pp. 65-69
Ngugi
Ubuntu and the Reconstitution of Community
Chinua Achebe
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices
Ubuntu e il principio di Co-Agency nell’ecologia africana
In questa intervista, partendo dal concetto di ubuntu James Ogude spiega le implicazioni etiche e filosofiche di questo termine, prestando particolare attenzione alle emergenze sanitaria e ambientale in corso. Ubuntu si fonda sulle idee di co-agency e relazionalità, idee che vanno ben al di là di una visione del mondo puramente antropocentrica. Ogude inserisce il concetto di ubuntu all’interno degli studi postcoloniali e dell’ecocriticismo e most…
Lookin Back
Every recognition received for work done out of love and out of passion is significant.In this particular instance it is very moving.African universities have been slow to appreciate the work that I have been doing.It is fitting that South Africa is the first from the continent.It says something beautiful about where South Africa is right now.It says something about its spirit, the way it perceives itself and the world.It speaks well for South Af…
A tribute and a celebration of Bhekizizwe Peterson
Mrena1 where do I find words to capture such an ordinary yet so deep a soul that you were? Where do I get the inspiration – the muse – during these hard times when death walks among us with stealth
Environmental Humanities of Extraction in Africa
Environmental Humanities of Extraction in Africa
ASR Distinguished Lecture
This paper examines the fissures within recent decolonial debates, arguing for the privileging of alternative narratives from formerly colonized groups and a shift away from centring colonialism. It calls for the recognition of decolonial struggles whose histories run deep and the need to link the struggles with indigeneity, its poetics of relations, and connectedness. Therefore, decoloniality requires thinking and doing and paying attention to s…
African Literature in Transition
This book offers a compelling new approach to African literatures as formed by and itself a form of collective memory. It explores the historical spaces and maps that African literature brings to the surface and re-imagines in novel ways. The stories that matter about what happened in the past together constitute a collective memory that African writers and readers draw upon to locate themselves within the world. The book examines the mental maps…
Nairobi as an Archive of Literary Imagination
The chapter sets out to examine Nairobi as a site of cultural imagination. It argues that since its founding by the British colonialists, Nairobi has featured prominently as a site of “rest” for its many immigrant communities but also for the local Kenyans from its rural hinterlands. The chapter further examines how writers of African fiction have tapped into its rich tapestry, turning it into a powerful archive and a rich source of literary imag…
African Literature in Transition
Ngugi wa Thiong'o in Context
Ngugi wa Thiong'o in Context offers a compelling and comprehensive reading of the various contexts pivotal to Ngugi wa Thiong'o's practice as a writer. Ngugi drew a complex link between his role as a writer and the contexts within which his works are produced. The desire to come to terms with the past and the shifting historical process in his country is evident throughout his work. The volume shows that, for a writer whose work is steeped in bio…
Sociology (11 obras) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (10 obras) · African history and culture studies (8 obras) · Philosophy (8 obras) · Art (6 obras) · Gender Studies (6 obras) · Gender Studies (6 obras) · History (6 obras) · Anthropology (5 obras) · History (5 obras)