The Novel and the Politics of Nation Building in East Africa |
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Achebe African Fiction African Literature African novel Agikuyu Amin argued Asians Asians in East Bayreuth becomes beggars betrayal Bhabha Book of Secrets Bride Price Brown Mantle characters colonial Coming to Birth context coup cultural D'Souza Damibia David Rubadiri decolonisation discourse Duduma's East Africa elite experience exploitation Fanon feminist gender Gikandi Goan Govindji Gunny Sack hegemonic Heinemann Hence Huseni ibid identity ideology Idi Amin imagined immigrant Independence Indian Invisible Weevil irony Irungu James Currey Kenyatta Kibera Kimura Kyeyune liberation literary Lombe London M.G. Vassanji MacGoye's Matigari Mau Mau Miria Nairobi narrative narrator nation building nation-state national formation nationalist neo-colonial Ngugi wa Thiong'o Nuruddin Farah Ogola Oludhe MacGoye oppression participation past Paulina Peter Nazareth political postcolonial racial regime relationship resistance role Rubadiri's Salim sense social Story of Kenya structure struggle symbolic theatre Thuku Timundu Uganda Uhuru University Press Vassanji Voices Wairimu women writing