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| characters in man of kafira: Notes on Frances Imbuga's Man of Kafira Ciarunji Chesaina, 1984 |
| characters in man of kafira: The Green Cross of Kafira Imbuga, Francis, 2014-01-16 In his last play published posthumously the late Francis Imbuga presents the dramatic dialogue of his characters as mind games. In addition to using a narrator, Sikia Macho, to fill us in on the broken politics of Kafira, centring around detention without trial, Imbuga deliberately delays the inciting action, the formation of the Green Party of Kafira which then challenges the hitherto political monolith called the National Party. The candidate of the new party, former detainee Pastor Mgei, wins the election, and thereby dethrones the so-called Chief of Chiefs. In The Green Cross of Kafira, Imbuga, with a renewed sense of urgency, addresses the theme of dictatorship in Africa, and completes his trilogy of the Kafira plays which begins with Betrayal in the city followed by Man of Kafira. |
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| characters in man of kafira: Betrayal in the City F. D. Imbuga, 1987 Betrayal in the City, first published in 1976 and 1977, was Kenya's national entry to the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture in Lagos, Nigeria. The play is an incisive, thought-provoking examination of the problems of independence and freedom in post-colonial African states, where a sizeable number of people feel that their future is either blank or bleak. In the words of Mosese, one of the characters: It was better while we waited. Now we have nothing to look forward to. We have killed our past and are busy killing our future.--Page 4 of cover |
| characters in man of kafira: Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English Eugene Benson, L.W. Conolly, 2004-11-30 ... Documents the history and development of [Post-colonial literatures in English, together with English and American literature] and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. In more than 1,600 entries written by more than 600 internationally recognized scholars, it explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide. |
| characters in man of kafira: The Companion to African Literatures G. D. Killam, Ruth Rowe, 2000 Refreshing... -- African Sudies Review The entries are knowledgeable, thorough, and clearly written.... Highly recommended... --Choice ...an ambitious reference guide to works on African literature. - African Studies Review This comprehensive compendium will be a handy companion for anyone working on African literatures. The entries are authoritative and up-to-date, providing reliable information on the hundreds of authors and texts that have contributed to a whole continent's literary flowering. --Bernth Lindfors A comprehensive introduction and guide to African-authored works, with over 1,000 cross-referenced entries covering classics in African writing, literary genres and movements, biographical details of authors, and wider themes linking African, Afro-Caribbean and Afro-American literatures. |
| characters in man of kafira: Appreciating Drama Ezekiel Alembi, 2000 |
| characters in man of kafira: Black Theatre and Performance John Gray, 1990-02-21 This volume represents the first major bibliography on Black theatre and performance in Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, and Canada. Unlike previous bibliographies on the topic, this work gives equal weight to Africa and the African Diaspora, and to biographical/critical material and play texts themselves. John Gray has collected more than 4,000 entries from a broad range of media, books, dissertations and theses, unpublished papers, periodical and newspaper articles, films, and videotapes. More than 650 playwrights and theatre groups from 45 countries are featured, as are performance genres that range from masquerades and carnival celebrations to the most recent works of noted playwrights such as Wole Soyinka and Derek Walcott. The work is organized into two categories: studies of specific geographic areas and countries, and materials on individual playwrights. Within these categories, works cited are further divided according to the type of material, such as book, journal, or dissertation. Also included are a listing of major bibliographies on African-American theatre, and two appendices that cite reference works and provide a regional listing of African and African Diaspora playwrights and theatre companies. A set of four indexes, covering artists, play titles, subjects, and authors of cited works, conclude the book and provide easy access to its comprehensive listings. This unique work will be an important resource for courses in African studies, theatre arts, and minority and ethnic studies. It will also be a useful addition to the reference collections of college, university, and public libraries. |
| characters in man of kafira: Arts & Humanities Citation Index , 1985 A multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It fully covers 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and it indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals. |
| characters in man of kafira: Student Encyclopedia of African Literature Douglas Killam, Alicia L. Kerfoot, 2007-12-30 African literature is a vast subject of growing output and interest. Written especially for students, this book selectively surveys the topic in a clear and accessible way. Included are roughly 600 alphabetically arranged entries on writers, genres, and major works. Many entries cite works for further reading, and the volume closes with a selected, general bibliography. Africa is a land of contrasts and of diverse cultures and traditions. It is also a land of conflict and creativity. The literature of the continent draws upon a fascinating body of oral traditions and lore and also reflects the political turmoil of the modern world. With the increased interest in cultural diversity and the growing centrality of Africa in world politics, African literature is figuring more and more prominently in the curriculum. This book helps students learn about the African literary achievement. Written expressly for students, this book is far more accessible than other reference works on the subject. Included are nearly 600 alphabetically arranged entries on authors, such as Chinua Achebe, Athol Fugard, Buchi Emecheta, Nadine Gordimer, and Wole Soyinka; major works, such as Things Fall Apart and Petals of Blood; and individual genres, such as the novel, drama, and poetry. Many entries cite works for further reading, and the volume closes with a selected, general bibliography. |
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| characters in man of kafira: A Man of the People Chinua Achebe, 2013-04-25 As Minister for Culture, the Honourable M. A. Nanga is 'a man of the people', as cynical as he is charming, and a roguish opportunist. At first, the contrast between Nanga and Odili, a former pupil who is visiting the ministry, appears huge. But in the 'eat-and-let-eat' atmosphere, Odili's idealism soon collides with his lusts - and the two men's personal and political tauntings threaten to send their country into chaos. Published, prophetically, just days before Nigeria's first attempted coup in 1966, A Man of the People is an essential part of his body of work dealing with modern African history. |
| characters in man of kafira: Twentieth-century Caribbean and Black African Writers Bernth Lindfors, Reinhard Sander, 1996 This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and scholars. Dictionary of Literary Biography provides reliable information in an easily comprehensible format, while placing writers in the larger perspective of literary history. Dictionary of Literary Biography systematically presents career biographies and criticism of writers from all eras and all genres through volumes dedicated to specific types of literature and time periods. For a listing of Dictionary of Literary Biography volumes sorted by genre click here. 01 |
| characters in man of kafira: Orientations of Drama, Theatre, and Culture Opiyo Mumma, Evan Mwangi, Christopher Odhiambo, 1998 |
| characters in man of kafira: The Return of Mgofu F. D. Imbuga, 2011 |
| characters in man of kafira: Identity Issues in Kenyan Literature , 2003 |
| characters in man of kafira: Nordic Journal of African Studies , 2001 |
| characters in man of kafira: LUCAS African Studies Bulletin , 2003 |
| characters in man of kafira: Writers Speak Kitula G. King'ei, Henry Indangasi, 1997 |
| characters in man of kafira: John Ruganda's The Floods Austin Bukenya, 1986 |
| characters in man of kafira: Otherness and Pathology Andrew Nyongesa, 2021-12-24 Scholars have problematized otherness and madness in diverse ways. There are those who hold that otherness is madness in itself of which leading voices are Michel Foucault and Gregory Reid. Other scholars contradict these voices and single out madness as a clinical condition that arises from strands of othering such as political, gender, class, age and racial. Frantz Fanon is the leading voice of this school of thought that demonstrates how othering destroys the psyche of the marginalised groups. This book extends Fanon's thesis with regard to madness in selected works of African fiction. Whereas Fanon stops at conceptualisation of the nexus between othering and madness, in this book, the authors incorporate the fragmented self, which is equally disabling. |
| characters in man of kafira: World Literature Today , 1985 |
| characters in man of kafira: African Books Catalogue Series , 2000 Children's literature in English and African languages (transliterated); summaries in English. |
| characters in man of kafira: Kenya National Bibliography Kenya National Library Service. National Reference & Bibliographic Department, 1989 |
| characters in man of kafira: Leeds African Studies Bulletin , 2003 |
| characters in man of kafira: Notes on Francis Imbuga's Betrayal in the City Laban Erapu, 1979 |
| characters in man of kafira: The Weekly Review , 1993 |
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| characters in man of kafira: Aminata , 2012 Lawrence Hill a transformé une page négligée de l’histoire en un roman brillant et attachant, qui transporte le lecteur d’un village africain à une plantation du sud des États-Unis, d’un refuge sordide en Nouvelle-Écosse à la côte de la Sierra Leone, dans l’odyssée du retour en Afrique de 1 200 anciens esclaves. AMINATA dépeint l’un des personnages féminins les plus forts de la littérature récente, une femme qui se fraie un chemin dans un monde hostile à la couleur de sa peau et à son sexe. Lorsque Aminata Diallo entreprend d’écrire l’histoire de sa vie à Londres, en Angleterre, à l’aube du dix-neuvième siècle, elle possède tout un bagage d’expériences. Enlevée de son village en Afrique de l’Ouest à l’âge de onze ans et forcée de marcher jusqu’à la mer pendant des mois dans un convoi d’esclaves, Aminata est ensuite amenée à travailler dans une plantation d’indigo sur une île au large de la Caroline du Sud. Elle survit grâce à ses compétences de sage-femme acquises auprès de sa mère et grâce à sa force de caractère héritée de ses parents. Mais Aminata reste piégée, échappant de justesse à la violence qui coûte la vie à de nombreuses personnes de son entourage. Elle aura la chance d’inscrire son nom dans le Registre des Noirs, authentique registre de l’armée britannique qui permit à 3 000 loyalistes noirs d’embarquer à Manhattan sur des bateaux à destination de la Nouvelle-Écosse et de Québec après la guerre d’Indépendance américaine. Mais, victimes là aussi d’agressions et de violences, 1 200 d’entre eux décideront d’entreprendre un voyage de retour en Afrique. |
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| characters in man of kafira: Postmodern Reading of Contemporary East African Fiction Andrew Nyongesa, 2024-02-29 This book likens writers’ incessant focus on racism, negative ethnicity, patriarchy and social stratification in societies to a naïve physician who prescribes analgesics to treat symptoms while the underlying cause of the disease seethes in the blood. In the same way, persons who consistently blame their reckless conduct and shabbiness miss the point if they do not transform the actual cause of the problem: the mind. While most literary scholars problematise gender disparities, racial and political othering, oppression, environment degradation, education matters, poor parenting and governance, they tend to disregard the root cause: modernism. This book finds a gap in this grey area to address the authentic cause of the symptoms that most literary writers and scholars treat. Pertinent modernist tenets such as bureaucracy, the nation state, systematisation and rationality, and dualism are at the heart of racism, corruption and other aforementioned symptoms. It is the contention of this study that postmodernism offers a comprehensive understanding of modernism to mitigate its effects on society. |
| characters in man of kafira: Guide to Islamist Movements Barry M. Rubin, 2010 This is the first comprehensive guide to today's most important, yet least understood transnational ideology -- political Islamism. The movement takes many forms, ranging from electoral participation to revolutionary terrorism and global jihad, and influences the politics of virtually every country around the globe. The guide examines the movement's diverse groups, ideas, and activities, including the beliefs, organizational structures, and interactions of the different groups. It focuses on thinkers and ideologies, movements and parties, and responding government policies and repression. The guide begins with two general essays. The first is an overview of contemporary Islamism that assesses its roots in the history of Islam and traces the rise of Islamist thought through the twentieth century to contemporary times. The second essay addresses the concept of global jihad and jihadist movements, especially in relationship to terrorism, and provides background to the various groups and movements discussed in the book. Following these introductions, sections are organized geographically and cover the areas of intense, and known, Islamist activity -- Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Australia and the Pacific, Central Asia, North Africa and the Middle East, Europe, and the Western Hemisphere. Essays within the sections examine specific countries and regions, and detail the groups and activities within these areas. The essays include detailed bibliographic information for further research. |
| characters in man of kafira: Canonicity, Postcoloniality, and Power James Nyachae Michira, 2007 |
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| characters in man of kafira: The Brazen Plagiarist Kiki Dimoula, 2012-11-13 A moving collection of poems by internationally acclaimed Greek poet Kiki Dimoula, brilliantly translated into English |
| characters in man of kafira: In the Continuum and Other Plays Rory Kilalea, 2019-09-05 Belonging : a radio play / by Mirirai Moyo -- Introduction to Belonging / Rory Kilalea -- Notes and questions. When I meet my mother / by Kathleen McCreery -- Introduction to When I meet my mother / by Michael Bourdillon -- Notes and questions. In the continuum / by Danai Gurira and Nikkole Salter -- Introduction to In the continuum / by Rory Kilalea -- Notes and questions. Power failure : a radio play / by Jide Olugbenga Afolayan -- Introduction to Power failure / by Rory Kilalea -- Notes and questions. |
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The character of a person or place consists of all the qualities they have that make them distinct from other people or places. Perhaps there is a negative side to his character that you haven't …
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Definition of character noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. [countable] a person or an animal in a book, play or film. Who plays the main character? He loves to draw and …
CHARACTER Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
disposition, temperament, temper, character, personality mean the dominant quality or qualities distinguishing a person or group. disposition implies customary moods and attitude toward the …
Character: Definitions and Examples | LiteraryTerms.net
Characters can be based on real people and events, or be totally unrealistic, such as space aliens. People become attached to characters as if they are real, may develop favorites, and …
CHARACTER | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
There were one or two strange-looking characters hanging around the bar. C1 [ C ] informal someone whose behaviour is different from most people's, especially in a way that is …
Character - Examples and Definition of Character - Literary Devices
There are different types of characters, and each serves its unique function in a story or a piece of literature.
Character - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms - Vocabulary.com
one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis
Character Definition & Meaning | Britannica Dictionary
If something is in character with something else, it has the same qualities or characteristics as something else. This room is not really in character with the rest of the house. Their house has …
What Is a Character? Definition & 180+ Examples - Enlightio
Nov 6, 2023 · Characters are the central elements of a narrative, and their development, personalities, and experiences contribute to the themes and messages the author aims to …
34 Types of Characters in Literature (with Examples)
Jun 9, 2025 · Characters are what make stories come alive, and we’ve compiled a comprehensive list of types of characters in literature. The list includes 7 basic character types, 5 types of …
CHARACTER definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
The character of a person or place consists of all the qualities they have that make them distinct from other people or places. Perhaps there is a negative side to his character that you haven't …
character - Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
Definition of character noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. [countable] a person or an animal in a book, play or film. Who plays the main character? He loves to draw and …
