Mbugua Wa Mungai
Biographic Data
| ID | 185259 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mbugua Wa Mungai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mbugua Wa |
| FAMILY NAME | Mungai |
| SIGNATURE | MUNGAI M W |
| AFFILIATIONS | a Department of Literature , Kenyatta University Nairobi , Kenya |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“Na Hawa Watu Lazima Wakuwe Serious!”: FM Radio Spaces and Folkloric Performance of Consmopolitan Identities in Kenya
Innovating ‘AlterNative’ Identities: Nairobi Matatu Culture
Innovating ‘Alternative’ Identities: Nairobi Matatu Culture
Few objects command the centrality of place in Kenyan public life enjoyed by matatu – the privately owned vans and minibuses that have been at the core of the country's public transport sector – moving people, goods and ideas for slightly over half a century. Yet the intensity of public hostility directed at these same objects of material culture might cause one to wonder why Kenyans have never staged public protests against them or, indeed, why …
Made in Riverwood: (Dis)locating identities and power through Kenyan pop music
Local scholarship seems to deliberately cultivate invisibility for local creative expressive forms especially when these happen to fall under the popular culture rubric. This phenomenon is related to broader questions of cultural identities and their authorship. However, where scholars might not have enthusiastically taken up their role in studying unorthodox cultural phenomena, popular culture practitioners have actively taken up the work of ref…
No Mercy, No Remorse: Personal Experience Narratives about Public Passenger Transportation in Nairobi, Kenya
Mbugua wa Mungai, David A. Samper, "No Mercy, No Remorse": Personal Experience Narratives about Public Passenger Transportation in Nairobi, Kenya, Africa Today, Vol. 52, No. 3 (Spring, 2006), pp. 51-81
No Mercy, No Remorse: Personal Experience Narratives about Public Passenger Transportation in Nairobi, Kenya
Mbugua wa Mungai, David A. Samper, "No Mercy, No Remorse": Personal Experience Narratives about Public Passenger Transportation in Nairobi, Kenya, Africa Today, Vol. 52, No. 3 (Spring, 2006), pp. 51-81
Made in Riverwood: (Dis)locating identities and power through Kenyan pop music
Local scholarship seems to deliberately cultivate invisibility for local creative expressive forms especially when these happen to fall under the popular culture rubric. This phenomenon is related to broader questions of cultural identities and their authorship. However, where scholars might not have enthusiastically taken up their role in studying unorthodox cultural phenomena, popular culture practitioners have actively taken up the work of ref…
No Mercy, No Remorse: Personal Experience Narratives about Public Passenger Transportation in Nairobi, Kenya
Mbugua wa Mungai, David A. Samper, "No Mercy, No Remorse": Personal Experience Narratives about Public Passenger Transportation in Nairobi, Kenya, Africa Today, Vol. 52, No. 3 (Spring, 2006), pp. 51-81
Made in Riverwood: (Dis)locating identities and power through Kenyan pop music
Local scholarship seems to deliberately cultivate invisibility for local creative expressive forms especially when these happen to fall under the popular culture rubric. This phenomenon is related to broader questions of cultural identities and their authorship. However, where scholars might not have enthusiastically taken up their role in studying unorthodox cultural phenomena, popular culture practitioners have actively taken up the work of ref…
Innovating ‘AlterNative’ Identities: Nairobi Matatu Culture
Innovating ‘Alternative’ Identities: Nairobi Matatu Culture
Few objects command the centrality of place in Kenyan public life enjoyed by matatu – the privately owned vans and minibuses that have been at the core of the country's public transport sector – moving people, goods and ideas for slightly over half a century. Yet the intensity of public hostility directed at these same objects of material culture might cause one to wonder why Kenyans have never staged public protests against them or, indeed, why …
“Na Hawa Watu Lazima Wakuwe Serious!”: FM Radio Spaces and Folkloric Performance of Consmopolitan Identities in Kenya
Art (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Media Studies and Communication (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Public transport (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works)