Kenneth Usongo
Biographic Data
| ID | 4117016 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth Usongo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth |
| FAMILY NAME | Usongo |
| SIGNATURE | USONGO K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aurora, CO, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The politics of migration and empire in Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners
In The Lonely Londoners, Sam Selvon re-imagines the challenges of the West Indians who emigrated to England in the 1950s primarily because of economic hardship. Most of the immigrants believed that, as citizens of the British Empire, they would be treated decently given their war service to Britain in World War II. In matters of employment and housing, the West Indians were often given menial jobs and restricted to the squalid neighbourhoods of L…
The significance of magical realism in the novels of Elechi Amadi
In the novels The Concubine and The Great Ponds, Elechi Amadi, through the magical realist tradition, revisits the precolonial past of the Ikwerre (Nigeria) to showcase the cultural and intellectual sophistication of this society. As represented in Amadi’s writing, this was a well-structured society with its own credible social and cultural values that defined and explained their worldview, with nothing to envy in the West. In The Concubine, for …
Resisting Oppression. and the (Re)Writing of History
Using Ngũgũ wa Thiong’o and Ngũgũ wa Mirii’s I Will Marry When I Want as its focus, this essay critiques black governance in Kenya. It is argued that most of the evils of colonialism such as oppression, exploitation, favouritism and others are perpetuated not only in contemporary Kenya but also across most of Africa. Minority rule appears to have supplanted majority rule as typified by Ndugire and Ikuua wa Ndikita, on the one hand, and Kiguunda a…
Cultural Identity and Literature: A Study of Okot p’Bitek’s
Written at the time when many newly independent African countries were struggling to assert their autonomy from former European colonial powers such as France, Britain, and Spain, Okot p’Bitek’s Song of Lawino appeared to have encouraged the idea of independence, especially its literary freedom from Europe. Informed by the assumption of Chinweizu et al. that traditional African poetry and its criticism have been little studied and granted that eu…
The significance of magical realism in the novels of Elechi Amadi
In the novels The Concubine and The Great Ponds, Elechi Amadi, through the magical realist tradition, revisits the precolonial past of the Ikwerre (Nigeria) to showcase the cultural and intellectual sophistication of this society. As represented in Amadi’s writing, this was a well-structured society with its own credible social and cultural values that defined and explained their worldview, with nothing to envy in the West. In The Concubine, for …
Cultural Identity and Literature: A Study of Okot p’Bitek’s
Written at the time when many newly independent African countries were struggling to assert their autonomy from former European colonial powers such as France, Britain, and Spain, Okot p’Bitek’s Song of Lawino appeared to have encouraged the idea of independence, especially its literary freedom from Europe. Informed by the assumption of Chinweizu et al. that traditional African poetry and its criticism have been little studied and granted that eu…
Resisting Oppression. and the (Re)Writing of History
Using Ngũgũ wa Thiong’o and Ngũgũ wa Mirii’s I Will Marry When I Want as its focus, this essay critiques black governance in Kenya. It is argued that most of the evils of colonialism such as oppression, exploitation, favouritism and others are perpetuated not only in contemporary Kenya but also across most of Africa. Minority rule appears to have supplanted majority rule as typified by Ndugire and Ikuua wa Ndikita, on the one hand, and Kiguunda a…
The significance of magical realism in the novels of Elechi Amadi
In the novels The Concubine and The Great Ponds, Elechi Amadi, through the magical realist tradition, revisits the precolonial past of the Ikwerre (Nigeria) to showcase the cultural and intellectual sophistication of this society. As represented in Amadi’s writing, this was a well-structured society with its own credible social and cultural values that defined and explained their worldview, with nothing to envy in the West. In The Concubine, for …
The politics of migration and empire in Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners
In The Lonely Londoners, Sam Selvon re-imagines the challenges of the West Indians who emigrated to England in the 1950s primarily because of economic hardship. Most of the immigrants believed that, as citizens of the British Empire, they would be treated decently given their war service to Britain in World War II. In matters of employment and housing, the West Indians were often given menial jobs and restricted to the squalid neighbourhoods of L…
History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works)