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Why do Ugandans Accept to Sell Themselves as Slaves to Kenya?

  • January 31, 2021
  • The Shallow Tales Review
In Nairobi, there is an estate known as Eastleigh (also referred to as Isili in the local language). In this estate, there are many powerful Somali businessmen, most of them…
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Music, Football and Cockfights: A Kenyan Childhood

  • November 29, 2020
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‘Nearer to Nyeri, nearer to bliss.’ – Lord Baden Powell I was born in Nyeri County, Kenya, on William Shakespeare’s birthday. I didn’t know I shared a birthday with the…
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Memories as Crevices Entombed with Loss

  • November 29, 2020
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It is the kind of evening where the air is unmoving and frozen by heat. The absence of your creaking fan reminds you that there has been no power for…
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Examining Racial-Based Extra-Judicial Killings in America: Amadou Diallo to Jacob Blake

  • September 29, 2020
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ALEXANDER OPICHO The YouTube video clips showing how the white-American policemen shot Jacob Blake, a black man, are very troubling. They conjure all sorts of feelings of distaste; it is…
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The South African Experience and Protest Poetry: A Reading of Zindzi Mandela’s “I Saw As A Child” and “I Have Tried Hard”

  • July 27, 2020
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NNADUBE JONATHAN EJIOGU Zindzi’s poems titled “I Saw as a Child” and “I Have Tried Hard,” construct clearly the situation of apartheid in the textual society which, of course, assumes…
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From Soyinka, Achebe to Ojaide: Issues in Nigerian Literature

  • July 27, 2020
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GANIU MUMIN The literature of Nigeria can be linked to the historical events that form the corpus of experience that Africa and its people encountered. Africa has witnessed many events…
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Loyola and the Home of Flourishing Faunae

  • July 26, 2020
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CHIDIEBUBE ONYE OKOHIA “Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.” —Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Inversnaid” I stepped into the wilderness when I arrived Loyola compound along Old Ife Road, Agodi,…
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Africa’s Politicisation of Slavery and the Derivatives of Racism: A Case Study of George Floyd

  • July 26, 2020
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ALEXANDER OPICHO George Floyd, a black man of fourty-six years, and a father of two children in Minneapolis, attempted to con a tobacco and wine store owner by trying to…
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