Yunusy Castory Ng'umbi
Biographic Data
| ID | 6003683 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yunusy Castory Ng'umbi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yunusy Castory |
| FAMILY NAME | Ng'umbi |
| SIGNATURE | UMBI Y C N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Dar es Salaam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3511-517X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Writing environmental resilience in the anthropocene in Benjamin Branoff’s “Window Seat” and Doreen Baingana’s “Tropical Fish”
This article aims to examine literary representations of East African urban environments and their human contexts. It considers environmental studies as an intersecting field that draws on theories of resilience, resistance, and neoliberalism to articulate the complex relationship between human beings and the environment. Environmental theories stress that human development is influenced by multiple and intersecting networks, including the extern…
Unraveling family secret in lola Shoneyin’s The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives
This paper is built in the context that there are changes in representation of the institution of family in contemporary African women’s writing. These changes are influenced by socio-cultural, political, and economic milieu of Africa and the global context generally. One of the notable forces behind these changes (apart from colonialism) is the change in gender politics: understanding gender roles and responsibilities, emigration, education, and…
Socio-Ecological Subjectivity in Paschally Mayega’s The People’s Schoolmaster
Mismanagement of the environment destroys biotic resources including trees, plants, birds, mammals and aquatic species; this forces people to endure contending with material hazards and places human lives at risk. Fiction provides a lens to interrogate the different ways in which environments are imagined, negotiated and used in socio-geographic and political arenas. Mayega’s novella The People’s Schoolmaster problematizes the various factors tha…
Writing Social Activism in the Refugee Camp in Safi Abdi’s Offspring of Paradise
Re-imagining the father-figure in contemporary writing about Somalia
This article is a critical analysis of writing about Somalia. It is interested in the way narratives about Somalia re-invent the father-son relationship in a manner that not only disrupts patriarchal power, which has been blamed as a source of havoc in Somalia, but also negotiates alternatives to settle the displaced souls. In my analysis, I situate two narratives about Somalia—Nadifa Mohamed’s Black Mamba Boy and Jonny Steinberg’s A Man of Good …
Precarity and Affiliative Relationships in Elieshi Lema’s In the Belly of Dar es Salaam 1
This paper examines the representation of dynamics in a family that result in the separation of family members and their subsequent failure to reunite as a family. It specifically explores how Elieshi Lema’s In the Belly of Dar es Salaam represents characters who are victims of economic and political pressures that force them not only to be migrants but also to negotiate alternative affiliative relationships in order to survive. I explore the nar…
Betwixt and Between
Using African feminist and post-colonial theories, this paper examines the representation of the institution of family in Sade Adeniran’s Imagine This, in order to explore the character’s creation of a third space – one that is ambivalent and traumatic – in her context of divorce and family abandonment. As depicted in the narrative, a major reason behind such family tragedies is an overlap between patriarchy and the postcolonial state. Thus, thro…
Re-imagining family and gender roles in Aminatta Forna's Ancestor Stones
This paper examines the interplay between polygyny and gender by exploring the way in which family structure and gender roles are negotiated, imagined and exercised in fiction. Aminatta Forna's Ancestor stones (2006) is read in order to explore how the institution of polygyny changes over time and how it influences gender role negotiation. Using an African feminist approach, the paper juxtaposes the historical and contemporary institution of poly…
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Re-imagining family and gender roles in Aminatta Forna's Ancestor Stones
This paper examines the interplay between polygyny and gender by exploring the way in which family structure and gender roles are negotiated, imagined and exercised in fiction. Aminatta Forna's Ancestor stones (2006) is read in order to explore how the institution of polygyny changes over time and how it influences gender role negotiation. Using an African feminist approach, the paper juxtaposes the historical and contemporary institution of poly…
Betwixt and Between
Using African feminist and post-colonial theories, this paper examines the representation of the institution of family in Sade Adeniran’s Imagine This, in order to explore the character’s creation of a third space – one that is ambivalent and traumatic – in her context of divorce and family abandonment. As depicted in the narrative, a major reason behind such family tragedies is an overlap between patriarchy and the postcolonial state. Thus, thro…
Precarity and Affiliative Relationships in Elieshi Lema’s In the Belly of Dar es Salaam 1
This paper examines the representation of dynamics in a family that result in the separation of family members and their subsequent failure to reunite as a family. It specifically explores how Elieshi Lema’s In the Belly of Dar es Salaam represents characters who are victims of economic and political pressures that force them not only to be migrants but also to negotiate alternative affiliative relationships in order to survive. I explore the nar…
Re-imagining the father-figure in contemporary writing about Somalia
This article is a critical analysis of writing about Somalia. It is interested in the way narratives about Somalia re-invent the father-son relationship in a manner that not only disrupts patriarchal power, which has been blamed as a source of havoc in Somalia, but also negotiates alternatives to settle the displaced souls. In my analysis, I situate two narratives about Somalia—Nadifa Mohamed’s Black Mamba Boy and Jonny Steinberg’s A Man of Good …
Socio-Ecological Subjectivity in Paschally Mayega’s The People’s Schoolmaster
Mismanagement of the environment destroys biotic resources including trees, plants, birds, mammals and aquatic species; this forces people to endure contending with material hazards and places human lives at risk. Fiction provides a lens to interrogate the different ways in which environments are imagined, negotiated and used in socio-geographic and political arenas. Mayega’s novella The People’s Schoolmaster problematizes the various factors tha…
Writing Social Activism in the Refugee Camp in Safi Abdi’s Offspring of Paradise
Writing environmental resilience in the anthropocene in Benjamin Branoff’s “Window Seat” and Doreen Baingana’s “Tropical Fish”
This article aims to examine literary representations of East African urban environments and their human contexts. It considers environmental studies as an intersecting field that draws on theories of resilience, resistance, and neoliberalism to articulate the complex relationship between human beings and the environment. Environmental theories stress that human development is influenced by multiple and intersecting networks, including the extern…
Unraveling family secret in lola Shoneyin’s The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives
This paper is built in the context that there are changes in representation of the institution of family in contemporary African women’s writing. These changes are influenced by socio-cultural, political, and economic milieu of Africa and the global context generally. One of the notable forces behind these changes (apart from colonialism) is the change in gender politics: understanding gender roles and responsibilities, emigration, education, and…
Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Narrative (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Institution (3 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (3 works)