Christopher Odhiambo Joseph
Biographic Data
| ID | 4117158 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Odhiambo Joseph |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher Odhiambo |
| FAMILY NAME | Joseph |
| SIGNATURE | JOSEPH C O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Moi University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1403-9219 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The ‘Airlift Program’ and the Making of a ‘Glocal’ Citizen
The story of Kenyans who travelled to study in the United States of America, in what is known as the airlifts program and, its resultant implications on the project of the nation building, is well known. So much has been extensively written and documented in various forms on this subject from multiple and multi-layered dimensions and perspectives. However, my entry into this subject is through a critical encounter with Philip Ochieng’s life’s sto…
Rhizomic Writing and Reading of a Nation Coming to Birth in Yvonne A. Owuor’s Novel, Dust
Anchored on Deleueze and Guattari’s notion of rhizome, this article inspects the narrative strategy in Yvonne Owuor’s novel, Dust, in imagining the Kenyan nation, especially in the context of the contested presidential elections of 2007. It subsequently grapples with how Owuor weaves and patches different instances and moments of remembering into connected rhizomic-like narratives, coalescing into the vision of a nation; fragmented, but hankering…
Dramatic Irony as an Intervention Strategy in Two Dholuo Films
Kalausi and The Cleansing are two films set in Kenya whose storylines touch on death and rituals among the Luo community of Kenya. Both films are in the language of Dholuo and place sharp focus on widowhood and its prevailing dilemmas and anxieties within Luo culture. It is these dilemmas and anxieties that reveal the injustices that culture metes out to women. While Kalausi engages its viewers up until the burial ceremony, The Cleansing starts a…
Theatre for Community Development and the “Tyranny” of Advanced Media Technology
This article grapples with the question of the existence of theatre for community development (TfD) in a world that is saturated with advanced media technology. The impulse to interrogate the relationship between theatre for development and a world largely driven by advanced media technology arises from the assumed original purpose of TfD, which indeed was to communicate development to marginalised societies and communities that were then exclude…
The ‘invisible’ drama/theatre in education curriculum in Kenya
This vignette presents the state of theatre in Education Kenya. The paper argues that though there are several theatre in education like practices, these have not been entrenched in the school curriculum. Theatre in Education finds expression and manifestations outside the mainstream school curriculum for instance in schools and colleges drama festivals, through performance of set books and also as intervention theatre to address a myriad of prob…
In Between Activism and Education. Intervention Theatre in Kenya
Theatre for development in Kenya
This paper is based on research that sought to investigate the procedures of theatre for community development in Kenya. This article was stimulated by this larger research and is particularly an interrogation of the ethics of practice in the enterprise of theatre for community development. It critically interrogates the roles of the different interested stakeholders, their motives and attitudes. The article also comments on possible strategies t…
Volksblad-Kunstefees (Bloemfontein) 2004
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Volksblad-Kunstefees (Bloemfontein) 2004
Theatre for development in Kenya
This paper is based on research that sought to investigate the procedures of theatre for community development in Kenya. This article was stimulated by this larger research and is particularly an interrogation of the ethics of practice in the enterprise of theatre for community development. It critically interrogates the roles of the different interested stakeholders, their motives and attitudes. The article also comments on possible strategies t…
In Between Activism and Education. Intervention Theatre in Kenya
Theatre for Community Development and the “Tyranny” of Advanced Media Technology
This article grapples with the question of the existence of theatre for community development (TfD) in a world that is saturated with advanced media technology. The impulse to interrogate the relationship between theatre for development and a world largely driven by advanced media technology arises from the assumed original purpose of TfD, which indeed was to communicate development to marginalised societies and communities that were then exclude…
The ‘invisible’ drama/theatre in education curriculum in Kenya
This vignette presents the state of theatre in Education Kenya. The paper argues that though there are several theatre in education like practices, these have not been entrenched in the school curriculum. Theatre in Education finds expression and manifestations outside the mainstream school curriculum for instance in schools and colleges drama festivals, through performance of set books and also as intervention theatre to address a myriad of prob…
Dramatic Irony as an Intervention Strategy in Two Dholuo Films
Kalausi and The Cleansing are two films set in Kenya whose storylines touch on death and rituals among the Luo community of Kenya. Both films are in the language of Dholuo and place sharp focus on widowhood and its prevailing dilemmas and anxieties within Luo culture. It is these dilemmas and anxieties that reveal the injustices that culture metes out to women. While Kalausi engages its viewers up until the burial ceremony, The Cleansing starts a…
Rhizomic Writing and Reading of a Nation Coming to Birth in Yvonne A. Owuor’s Novel, Dust
Anchored on Deleueze and Guattari’s notion of rhizome, this article inspects the narrative strategy in Yvonne Owuor’s novel, Dust, in imagining the Kenyan nation, especially in the context of the contested presidential elections of 2007. It subsequently grapples with how Owuor weaves and patches different instances and moments of remembering into connected rhizomic-like narratives, coalescing into the vision of a nation; fragmented, but hankering…
The ‘Airlift Program’ and the Making of a ‘Glocal’ Citizen
The story of Kenyans who travelled to study in the United States of America, in what is known as the airlifts program and, its resultant implications on the project of the nation building, is well known. So much has been extensively written and documented in various forms on this subject from multiple and multi-layered dimensions and perspectives. However, my entry into this subject is through a critical encounter with Philip Ochieng’s life’s sto…
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Theatre and Performance Studies (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)