Maina wa Mũtonya

Biographic Data

ID5642947
NAMEMaina wa Mũtonya
GIVEN NAMESMaina wa
FAMILY NAMEMũtonya
SIGNATUREMŨTONYA M W
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of the Witwatersrand
ORCID0000-0001-8476-7863
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS5
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX1

  • Language as a Liberation Aesthetic

    Open AccessMaina wa MũtonyaARTICLEAM Journal of Art and Media Studies2020

    This paper examined the aesthetics and politics of writing African literature in local vernaculars as opposed to writing in what proponents of this discourse have termed as colonial languages, like English and French, amongst others. The focus of this article is on the writings of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, the most vocal critic of ‘imperial languages’, and also an ardent advocate for African languages as well as a practitioner of his vernacular language…

  • Music and Dance in Eastern Africa

    Open AccessI Brinkman, Kenedid A Hassan et al.EDITORBOOKMusic and Dance in Eastern Africa2018

    This collection of articles cuts across the Eastern African region, with authors interrogating varying themes in different historical periods that speak not only to the practice of music and dance but also to the performances that characterize these practices. The book dedicates itself to research in music and dance, while engaging with colonial and contemporary political and historical realities within the Eastern African region. Inevitably, the…

  • La configuración del dictador keniano a través de la música

    Open AccessMaina wa MũtonyaARTICLEEstudios de Asia y África2014References: 23

    Un estudio analítico de la relación entre la política y la música en un esfuerzo por presentar la manera en que se constituyó la figura del dictador keniano Daniel Arap Moi en las canciones que se produjeron durante su gobierno (1978-2002). El artículo analiza a profundidad cómo la música conformó un sitio importante en el que el régimen dictatorial de Arap Moi hizo valer su autoridad y, a la vez, sondea el espacio ambivalente que la música ocupa…

  • Crying as we Laugh

    Maina wa MũtonyaARTICLEJournal of the African Literature…2012References: 4

    It is clear to me that an African creative writer who tries to avoid the big social and political issues of the contemporary Africa will end up being completely irrelevant like that absurd man in the proverb who leaves his house burning to pursue a rat fleeing from the flames. – Chinua Achebe

  • La negociación de identidades urbanas en el mũgithi y la ejecución de One-Man Guitar en Kenia

    Open AccessMaina wa Mũtonya, Maina Wa MūntonyaARTICLEEstudios de Asia y África2012References: 16

    Durante los años noventa, se produjo la emergencia de un género musical relativamente nuevo dentro de los límites de la cultura popular keniana. Las actuaciones públicas de los mūgithi marcaron el comienzo de nuevas direcciones para la música keniana en general, y específicamente para la música contemporánea gīkūyū en lo que respecta a temas y estilo. La presentación, básicamente un fenómeno urbano dominado por guitarristas gīkūyū en solitario, s…

  • Praise and Protest

    Maina Mutonya, Maina wa MũtonyaARTICLESocial Dynamics2004Cited by: 5References: 3

    This paper explores the partisan nature of music and musicians in Kenya from the colonial era to the present, and investigates how music served many differing sectarian interests during this period. It reveals how the ambivalent space within which musicians work influences and shapes their music, paying particular attention to political context. It shows how officialdom in postcolonial Kenya has endeavored to construct, and then saturate public s…