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Okello Oculi’s Banana Man: Musings On Tradition, Colonialism and Modernity

Posted By: adminon: August 18, 2025In: BookspaceTags: 'Presidential Elephant', Colonialism, Mau Mau, Modernity, Tradition, UhuruNo CommentsViews:
Okello Oculi’s Banana Man: Musings On Tradition, Colonialism and Modernity

By Yusuf Bangura Published in 2019, Banana Man is the last novel of Okello Oculi, the Ugandan literary scholar who spent most of his life in Nigeria and passed away on 26th July, 2025. He ga... Read more

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The Politics of Resistance and Liberation in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s ‘Petals of Blood’ and ‘Devil on the Cross’

Posted By: adminon: June 05, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Africa, Arts and literature, Capitalists, Devil, Imperialism, Kenya, Liberation, Matatu, Mau Mau, Students, WorkersNo CommentsViews:
The Politics of Resistance and Liberation in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s 'Petals of Blood' and 'Devil on the Cross'

It is still the season of tributes to leading African writer, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, all of which he is no more in a position to read and (dis)agree with. Below is, however, the piece that was pu... Read more

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Ngugu Wa Thiongo Still Burning With the Fire of Post-colonialism

Posted By: adminon: April 21, 2017In: De-EscalationTags: Aime Cesaire, Capitalism, Chinua Achebe, Colonialism in Africa, Decolonisation of education, Edward Said, Frantz Fanon, Globalectics, Home, Literature, Mau Mau, neocolonialism, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Writing in EnglishNo CommentsViews:
Ngugu Wa Thiongo Still Burning With the Fire of Post-colonialism

Interveiw By Mahdi Ganjavi,  Ngugi Wa Thiongo needs no introduction in the world of Letters. Except the dosage of post modernist lexicons observable in his language, the critical postcolonia... Read more

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