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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “james ogude0”
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  • Ngugi wa Thiong'o in Context

    Edited by James Ogude ...
    Series series Literature in Context
    Ngugi wa Thiong'o in Context offers a compelling and comprehensive reading of the various contexts pivotal to Ngugi wa Thiong'o's practice as a writer. Ngugi drew a complex link between his role as a writer and the contexts within which his works are produced. The desire to come to terms with the past and the shifting historical process in his country is evident throughout his work. The volume ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Reading from the South

    African print cultures and oceanic turns in Isabel Hofmeyr’s work

    by Charne Lavery, Sarah Nuttall, Sunil Amrith, Gabeba Baderoon, Karin Barber, Rimli Bhattacharya, Antoinette Burton, Pumla Dineo Gqola, Carolyn Hamilton0, Khwezi Mkhize1, Danai S Mupotsa2, James Ogude3, Christopher EW Ouma4, Ranka Primorac5, Madhumita Lahiri6, Meg Samuelson7, Lakshmi Subramanian8 ...
    This set of essays analyses the work of Isabel Hofmeyr, globally recognised as one of South Africa’s foremost literary and Indian Ocean scholars. The essays elucidate Hofmeyr’s path-breaking studies of transnational histories of the book, African print cultures, and cultural circulations in the Indian Ocean world.This book draws together reflective and analytical essays by renowned intellectuals ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Foundational African Writers

    Peter Abrahams, Noni Jabavu, Sibusiso Nyembezi and Es’kia Mphahlele

    by Bhekizizwe Peterson, Makhosazana Xaba, Khwezi Mkhize, Jill Bradbury, Hugo Canham, Victoria J Collis-Buthelezi, Simon Gikandi, Anne-Maria Makhulu0, Athambile Masola1, Innocentia J Mhlambi2, Sikhumbuzo Mngadi3, Thando Njovane4, Obi Nwakanma5, James Ogude6, Christopher EW Ouma7, Stéphane Robolin8, Crain Soudien9, Tina Steiner0, Thuto Thipe1, Andrea Thorpe2 ...
    This collection explores the complexities of black existence, and intellectual and cultural life in the work and legacies of centenarian writers, Peter Abrahams, Noni Jabavu, Sibusiso Cyril Lincoln Nyembezi and Es’kia Mphahlele ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Ngugi

    Reflections on his Life of Writing

    by Simon Gikandi, Eddah Gachukia, Emilia Ilevia, Gichingiri Ndigirigi, Prof Grace A Musila, Grant Farred, Henry Chakava, Ime Ikkideh, James Currey, James Ogude0, Jane Plastow1, Ndirangu Wachanga3, Kiarii Kamau4, Kimani Njogu5, Margaretta wa Gacheru6, Micere Githae Mugo7, Ngugi wa Thiong'o8, Odhiambo Levin Opiyo9, Peter Kimani0, Reinhard W. Sander1, Rhonda Cobham-Sander2, Alamin Mazrui3, Roland Nasasira4, Sultan Somjee5, Susan Nalugwa Kiguli6, Tsitsi Jaji7, Willy Mutunga8, Ann Biersteker9, Anne Adams0, Bernth Lindfors1, Carole Boyce Davies2, Charles Cantalupo3, Chege Githiora4 ...
    This collection of essays reflects on the life and work of Ngugi wa Thiong'o, who celebrated his 80th birthday in 2018. Drawing from a wide range of contributors, including writers, critics, publishers and activists, the volume traces the emergence of Ngugi as a novelist in the early 1960s, his contribution to the African culture of letters at its moment of inception, and his global artistic life ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Hamshack Raspberry Pi

    How to Use the Raspberry Pi for Amateur Radio Activities

    by James Baughn K9E0H ...
    Use a forty-dollar credit card–sized computer to enhance your amateur radio operating. Learn how to set up and configure the computer. Then learn how to install operating aids, such as logging, timekeeping, satellite tracking, and Morse code practicing. Communicate in sixteen digital modes. Design antennas and save, restore, and manage memory for your radios. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Ubuntu and the Reconstitution of Community

    Edited by James Ogude ...
    Series series World Philosophies
    Ubuntu is premised on the ethical belief that an individual's humanity is fostered in a network of human relationships: I am because you are; we are because you are. The essays in this lively volume elevate the debate about ubuntu beyond the buzzword it has become, especially within South African religious and political contexts. The seasoned scholars and younger voices gathered here grapple with ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • African Literature in Transition: Volume 1

    The Archive of African Literature, 1800–2000

    Edited by James Ogude, Neil ten Kortenaar ...
    Series series African Literature in Transition
    This book offers a compelling new approach to African literatures as formed by and itself a form of collective memory. It explores the historical spaces and maps that African literature brings to the surface and re-imagines in novel ways. The stories that matter about what happened in the past together constitute a collective memory that African writers and readers draw upon to locate themselves ... Read more

    $98.39 USD

  • Environmental Humanities of Extraction in Africa

    Poetics and Politics of Exploitation

    Edited by James Ogude, Tafadzwa Mushonga ...
    Series series Routledge Environmental Humanities
    This book brings together perspectives on resource exploitation to expose the continued environmental and socio-political concerns in post-colonial Africa. The continent is host to a myriad of environmental issues, largely resulting from its rich diversity of natural resources that have been historically subjected to exploitation.Colonial patterns of resource use and capital accumulation continue ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Ubuntu and the Reconstitution of Community

    Edited by James Ogude ...
    Series series World Philosophies
    Ubuntu is premised on the ethical belief that an individual's humanity is fostered in a network of human relationships: I am because you are; we are because you are. The essays in this lively volume elevate the debate about ubuntu beyond the buzzword it has become, especially within South African religious and political contexts. The seasoned scholars and younger voices gathered here grapple with ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel

    Edited by Ato Quayson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel provides an engaging account of the postcolonial novel, from Joseph Conrad to Jean Rhys. Reflecting the development of postcolonial literary studies into a significant and intellectually vibrant field, this Companion explores genres and theoretical movements such as magical realism, crime fiction, ecocriticism, and gender and sexuality. Written by ... Read more

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  • Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

    Edited by Oliver Lovesey ...
    Series series Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is one of the most important and celebrated authors of postindependence Africa as well as a groundbreaking postcolonial theorist. His work, written first in English, then in Gĩkũyũ, engages with the transformations of his native Kenya after what is often termed the Mau Mau rebellion. It also gives voice to the struggles of all Africans against economic injustice and political ... Read more

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  • African Literatures in English

    East and West

    by Gareth Griffiths ...
    Series series Longman Literature In English Series
    Here is an introduction to the history of English writing from East and West Africa drawing on a range of texts from the slave diaspora to the post-war upsurge in African English language and literature from these regions. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD