Kabir Ahmed
Biographic Data
| ID | 6003737 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kabir Ahmed |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kabir |
| FAMILY NAME | Ahmed |
| SIGNATURE | AHMED K |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Not Yet Uhuru” and “Aborted Voyage”
The essay explores Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s and George Lamming’s disenchantment with the political dispensation of their countries with flag independence as opposed to actual liberation. The paper adopts a comparative approach to analyze the neocolonial predicament in Kenya and the legacies of the slave trade in the Caribbean through their respective novels Petals of Blood and Natives of My Person . A close examination of both novels reveals that the …
Transnational Migration, Identity, and the African Literary Experience
This essay seeks to examine transnational migration by looking primarily at 20 th- century writers historicizing the concept of the ‘post-colonial’ and pointing to its development as captured in their writing. In the paper, transnational migration is viewed as the movement of persons across national boundaries where the migrants live their lives across borders, participating simultaneously in social relations that embed them in more than one nati…
Oral Tradition as an Instrument of Revolutionary Change in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Devil on the Crest
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Oral Tradition as an Instrument of Revolutionary Change in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Devil on the Crest
No abstract
Transnational Migration, Identity, and the African Literary Experience
This essay seeks to examine transnational migration by looking primarily at 20 th- century writers historicizing the concept of the ‘post-colonial’ and pointing to its development as captured in their writing. In the paper, transnational migration is viewed as the movement of persons across national boundaries where the migrants live their lives across borders, participating simultaneously in social relations that embed them in more than one nati…
Not Yet Uhuru” and “Aborted Voyage”
The essay explores Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s and George Lamming’s disenchantment with the political dispensation of their countries with flag independence as opposed to actual liberation. The paper adopts a comparative approach to analyze the neocolonial predicament in Kenya and the legacies of the slave trade in the Caribbean through their respective novels Petals of Blood and Natives of My Person . A close examination of both novels reveals that the …
Art (3 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work)