Dr. Murimi Gaita


Title/Qualifications: PhD
Department/Unit/Section: 
Literature
Contact Address: 
P.O Box 17952, 20100.NAKURU   
Position:
 Lecturer   
Area of Specialization:
 Folklore/Oral Literature,Postcolonial Studies
Research Interests: 
Popular culture,Queer studies, Marginalities
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ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0414-0492


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Publications

Referred Journals

  • 2021 (May): Nyongesa, A.  Murimi Gaita. and Justus Kizito Makokha J. "Otherness and Pathology:  Parallels between Martyrdom and the Fragmented Self in Nuruddin Farah’s Close Sesame" . Special Issue of Journal of English Language, Literature, and Culture (JELLiC).
  • 2021(April). Nyongesa, A.  Murimi Gaita. and Justus Kizito Makokha J. “Otherness and Fragmented Self: A Review of The Return by Hisham Matar”. Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies. https://doi.org/10.108/23277408.2020.1847805
  • 2021 (April):  Nyongesa, A.  Murimi Gaita. and Justus Kizito Makokha J. “Otherness and Marginal Spaces: Beyond Politics and Race in Contemporary African Novels”. Imbizo Journal  vol.12/1
  • 2021 : Nyongesa, A.  Murimi Gaita. and Justus Kizito Makokha J. (2020): “Otherness and the Creative Writer: Exploration of the Fragmented Self and Madness in Selected African Novels”. International Journal of Psychoanalysis (IJP) Open, 7:70
  • Murimi Gaita (2018): ‘Anatomy of Contemporary Storytelling: Performing National Culture in Kenya’ International Journal of Law, Humanities & Social Science © Volume 2, Issue 6 (October 2018), P.P. 16-28,
  • Murimi Gaita (2012): “From Spotting Fissures and Cracks to Sporting Excesses: Of
    Storytelling and Virtual Nation”, in Musing Post Colonies ISBN 978-984-33-4122-8V nal Culture: Towards an Agenda of Contemporary Storytelling in Kenya” in Journal of Literature (JOL)- Monsoon Issue, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
  • Murimi Gaita, 2006, Constructing Youth, Identity, and Nation:  Matatu Culture in Kenya, Creative Forum (CF), Journal of Literary & Critical Writings, 19/1-2
  • Murimi Gaita, 2009, Rethinking National Culture: Towards an Agenda of Contemporary Storytelling in Kenya, Journal of Literature (JOL)- Monsoon Issue
  • Murimi Gaita, 2012, From Spotting Fissures and Cracks to Sporting Excesses: Of  Storytelling and Virtual Nation, Musing Post Colonies, 978-984-33-4122-8

Books Publications

Conference/Workshops/Seminar Papers

Conference Papers

  • “Towards a Desecularized Identity: Creating a Hyper-Real Religion through Folklore” Paper presentation at the International Conference on African Languages and Literatures in the 21st Century, 6-8
  • August, 2014. Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya.
  • ‘Towards a Desecularized Identity: Creating a hyper-Real Religion through folklore” for the 1st International Interdisciplinary Annual Conference, Kisii University, 30th July to 2nd August 2014.
  • Paradox of Equity: Re/constructing gender spaces in contemporary oral narrative’ KOLA conference, University of Nairobi November, 2012
  • From Spotting Fissures and Cracks to Sporting Excesses: Of Storytelling and Virtual Nation”,8th Conference of the International Society for the Oral Literature of Africa (ISOLA) held in 15-20th July, 2010 at Mombasa
  • “Rethinking National Culture: Towards an Agenda of Contemporary Storytelling in Kenya” International Conference on African Literature, Dhaka University, Oct. 2008

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Dr. Kenneth Kamuri Ngure

Dr. Kenneth Kamuri Ngure
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Department of Literature, Linguistics, and Foreign Languages

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