The Troubleed Image of Africa in Shilia Kaaya's Poetry
| dc.contributor.author | Mwaifuge, Eliah S. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-09-04T13:00:03Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-09-04T13:00:03Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper examines representations of Africa in Shilia Kaaya’s poetry. Kaaya’s The Bleeding Heart and other Poems (2009) features thirty-eight poems covering diverse themes. This paper focuses on ten poems which are devoted to colonialism, neo-colonialism and political problems besetting contemporary Africa. It argues that Kaaya’s poetry interrogates the dynamics of colonialism, neo-colonialism and the political problems in Africa and their effect on the development of Africa. It demonstrates how Kaaya’s poems raise salient issues about how Africa’s development — economically and politically, is undermined by both the European coloniser and Africans themselves. The Archetypal approach, which describes images found in a variety of poems written by a single poet, is applied to enhance understanding of the core message (s) of the poems. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2343-6530 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/4761 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Contemporary Journal of African Studies | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Vol. 5;1 | |
| dc.subject | Africa, Colonialism, Image, Neo-colonialism, Development | en_US |
| dc.title | The Troubleed Image of Africa in Shilia Kaaya's Poetry | en_US |
| dc.type | Journal Article, Peer Reviewed | en_US |