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Kenya
Kenya holds one of the biggest annual drama events, the Kenya schools and colleges drama festival, in the south of Sahara. The Kenya National Theatre is based in Nairobi opposite the Norfolk Hotel. Notable theatre performing groups include Festival of Creative Arts that stages regular stage performances at both the Kenya National Theatre and Alliance Francaise, Phoenix Players based at the Professional Centre, Heartsrings Ensemble and Mombasa Little Theatre Club based in Mombasa. Notable names on the Kenyan theatre scene include the late actresses Stella Awinja Muka and Anne Wanjugu. Renowned director Tirus Gathwe cut a niche for himself and is perhaps the most well known theatre directors in Kenya today.In the late 1990s through the early 2000s, the late Wahome Mutahi followed in the footsteps of the legendary Ngugi Wa Thiong'o when he, through Igiza Productions, teamed up with Tirus Gathwe and embarked on a project dubbed "taking Theatre to the people" which saw them stage numerous productions, mainly political Satires, at nightspots throughout the country.
Literary perspective
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Ngugi wa Thiong'o is one of the best known writers of Kenya. His book, Weep Not, Child is an illustration of life in Kenya during the British occupation. This is a story about the effects of the Mau Mau on the lives of black Kenyans. Its combination of themes - colonialism, education, and love - help to make it one of the best-known novels in Africa.
M.G. Vassanji's 2003 novel The In-Between World of Vikram Lall won the Giller Prize in 2003. It is the fictional memoir of a Kenyan of Indian heritage and his family as they adjust to the changing political climates in colonial and post-colonial Kenya.
Since 2003, the literary journal Kwani? has been publishing Kenyan contemporary literature.
See also
References
- ^ Constitution(1998)art. 53 "the official languages of the National Assembly shall be Kiswahili and English and the business of the National Assembly may be conducted in either or both languages."
- ^ a b Reuter. "British East Africa Annexed--"Kenya Colony"" (News). The Times. Thursday, July 08, 1920. Issue 42457, col C, pg. 13.
- ^ "East Africa: Kenya: History: Kenya Colony". Encyclopedia Britannica (15) 17. (2002). 801, 1b. ISBN 0-85229-787-4.
- ^ "Kenya". Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. 2nd ed. 1989.
- ^ [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0368-4016(194301)42%3A166%3C42%3A%22SOK%3E2.0.CO%3B2-P "The Spelling of Kenya". B. J. Ratcliffe Journal of the Royal African Society, Vol. 42, No. 166 (Jan., 1943), pp. 42-44]
- ^ AFP ABC News, "Kenya's first dinosaur dig yields fossil wealth", ABC News Online, 2005-03-10, webpage: [1]
- ^ Kenya, AfricaGenWeb
- ^ Central Bureaus of Statistics (Kenya): Census cartography: The Kenyan Experience
- ^ Kenya Roads Board Constituency funding under the RMLF
- ^ Rough Guide. Rough Guide Map Kenya [map], 9 edition, 1:900,000, Rough Guide Map. Cartography by World Mapping Project. (2006) ISBN 1-84353-359-6.
- ^ Reuter. "British East Africa Annexed--"Kenya Colony"" (News). The Times. Thursday, July 08, 1920. Issue 42457, col C, pg. 13.
- ^ Rough Guide. Rough Guide Map Kenya [map], 9 edition, 1:900,000, Rough Guide Map. Cartography by World Mapping Project. (2006) ISBN 1-84353-359-6.
- ^ Rebensdorf, Alicia. “‘Representing the Real’: Exploring Appropriations of Hip-hop Culture in the Internet and Nairobi.” Senior Thesis, Lewis & Clark.
- ^ http://www.kenyapage.net/music/kenya-hiphop.html
- ^ Rebensdorf, Alicia. “‘Representing the Real’: Exploring Appropriations of Hip-hop Culture in the Internet and Nairobi.” Senior Thesis, Lewis & Clark.
- ^ Rebensdorf, Alicia. “‘Representing the Real’: Exploring Appropriations of Hip-hop Culture in the Internet and Nairobi.” Senior Thesis, Lewis & Clark.
- ^ a b IAAF: Changes of Allegiance 1998 to 2005
- ^ New Vision, June 3, 2004: Wrangles land Kenya indefinite FIFA ban
- ^ The Auto Channel, July 21, 2001: FIA RALLY: Delecour takes points finish on Safari Rally debut
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