Makau Kitata
Biographic Data
| ID | 4052215 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Makau Kitata |
| GIVEN NAMES | Makau |
| FAMILY NAME | Kitata |
| SIGNATURE | KITATA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nairobi |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1447-8334 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
In the Footsteps of Langston Hughes
While often relying on their protagonist’s persistent misogyny, Langston Hughes, Simple stories are, paradoxically, where some scholars have located his feminist aesthetic. We can further understand the truth of this seeming paradox through a comparative analysis of two writers influenced by the Simple stories. In the United States, Alice Childress’s Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic’s Life, writing alongside Hughes, indexed a…
Making a Home
In his work exploring the relationship between literature and the sociopolitical context in which it is produced, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o ([1986] 2011) rejects the notion of literature as a mere reflecti
Re-narrating the Eastern Africa Coast through music on YouTube
The Eastern Africa coast has been a complex contact theatre between overseas peoples and the local population. These interconnections have over time produced mixed identities and cultural adaptation processes, expression, and transmission which are foundations of present-day Eastern Africa histories. The musician – historian’s account reflects the coastal identities as not simply painful and isolated historical creations upon a place, but also a …
The Problematics of Naming in Kenyan Creative Narratives
There is a tendency in Kenyan literature, which can be defined as ahistorical ethnopolitanism. In this approach the writer chooses to use names of characters and places that indicate an attempt to see the Kenyan community from a distance. The result is that, in the push for inclusivity in works of literature, the very idea an authentic record of history and self-knowledge is lost: Real actors are alienated from the story of the history of the cou…
Sexualising the performance, objectifying the performer
Shifting arenas of dance performance and youths’ counterculture have brought the twerk to the internet, thus exposing it to the discourse of cultural imperialism, appropriation, and cultural resistance. This has changed the symbolism of the art form: from a performance meant for celebration, to a dance of sexual rage. The media associates the dance with bottom provocation, prostitution or celebrity achievement stories − rarely celebrating the int…
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The Problematics of Naming in Kenyan Creative Narratives
There is a tendency in Kenyan literature, which can be defined as ahistorical ethnopolitanism. In this approach the writer chooses to use names of characters and places that indicate an attempt to see the Kenyan community from a distance. The result is that, in the push for inclusivity in works of literature, the very idea an authentic record of history and self-knowledge is lost: Real actors are alienated from the story of the history of the cou…
Sexualising the performance, objectifying the performer
Shifting arenas of dance performance and youths’ counterculture have brought the twerk to the internet, thus exposing it to the discourse of cultural imperialism, appropriation, and cultural resistance. This has changed the symbolism of the art form: from a performance meant for celebration, to a dance of sexual rage. The media associates the dance with bottom provocation, prostitution or celebrity achievement stories − rarely celebrating the int…
Re-narrating the Eastern Africa Coast through music on YouTube
The Eastern Africa coast has been a complex contact theatre between overseas peoples and the local population. These interconnections have over time produced mixed identities and cultural adaptation processes, expression, and transmission which are foundations of present-day Eastern Africa histories. The musician – historian’s account reflects the coastal identities as not simply painful and isolated historical creations upon a place, but also a …
In the Footsteps of Langston Hughes
While often relying on their protagonist’s persistent misogyny, Langston Hughes, Simple stories are, paradoxically, where some scholars have located his feminist aesthetic. We can further understand the truth of this seeming paradox through a comparative analysis of two writers influenced by the Simple stories. In the United States, Alice Childress’s Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic’s Life, writing alongside Hughes, indexed a…
Making a Home
In his work exploring the relationship between literature and the sociopolitical context in which it is produced, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o ([1986] 2011) rejects the notion of literature as a mere reflecti
History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works)