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Popular Media in Kenyan History

Fiction and Newspapers as Political Actors

Palgrave Macmillan

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  • Provides a thoroughly interdisciplinary analysis of the the relationship between African historical methods of censure in the media with contemporary African political decisions
  • Examines rare primary source material unavailable to most scholars of African studies
  • Explores the broader historical, intellectual, and literary traditions within which popular fiction in Kenya is produced

Part of the book series: African Histories and Modernities (AHAM)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

About this book

The book examines popular fiction columns, a dominant feature in Kenyan newspapers, published in the twentieth century and examines their historical and cultural impact on Kenyan politics. The book interrogates how popular cultural forms such as popular fiction engage with and subject the polity to constant critique through informal but widely recognized cultural forms of censure. The book further explores the ways we see and experience how the African subaltern, through the everyday, negotiate their rights and obligations with the self, society and the state. Through these columns and their writers, the book examines the tensions that characterize such relationships, how the formal and informal interpenetrate, how the past and present are reconciled, and how the local and transnational collide but also collude in the making of the Kenyan identity.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Central Lancashire, Preston, United Kingdom

    George Ogola

About the author

George Ogola is Senior Lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Popular Media in Kenyan History

  • Book Subtitle: Fiction and Newspapers as Political Actors

  • Authors: George Ogola

  • Series Title: African Histories and Modernities

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49097-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-49096-0Published: 24 February 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84083-3Published: 13 July 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-49097-7Published: 17 February 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2634-5773

  • Series E-ISSN: 2634-5781

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 180

  • Topics: History of Sub-Saharan Africa, African Culture, African Politics, African Literature

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eBook USD 79.99
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  • Read on any device
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  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 99.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 99.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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