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Performing Power: Ethnic Citizenship, Popular Theatre and the Contest of Nationhood in Modern Kenya

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Performing Power: Ethnic Citizenship, Popular Theatre and the Contest of Nationhood in Modern Kenya Paperback – June 4, 2009

by George Odera Outa (Author)



Performing Power... attempts a comparative re-examination of the 'nation' and its various contestations from the perspective of the more recent popular theatre tradition in Kenya. It is substantially a re-think and interrogation of entrenched assumptions about the post colony and its realities, often typified by mind-boggling expressions of ethnicity in many African countries, complete with all the codes, values, mythologies, various stereotypes as well as the language as its most prominent insignia.


The book is a fairly comprehensive historical exploration of works produced during the momentous Daniel Arap Moi years as President of Kenya (1978-2002), including in particular, Oby Obyerodhiambo's Drumbeats of Kerenyaga, late Wahome Mutahi's, Jomo Kenyatta the Man (produced with Titi Wainaina) and Okoiti Omtata's, Voice of the People.


The University of Nairobi and the neighboring French Cultural Centre are discussed as some of the most important sites of theatre and power-performance in the entirety of Kenya's postcolonial experience.


Texts have been analyzed in the context of how artists, literally, end up 'rewriting the nation' in an ethnically polarized post colony such as Kenya has tended to be.


The subject matter covers a controversial and rather un-studied phase of Kenya's political history and will thus be a premier and pioneering work in its own right.




About the Author


Dr. George Odera Outa has lectured in the Department of Literature at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, since 1988. An experienced Communications and Media practitioner, Dr Outa has since 2003 been on a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) appointment - along with other Development Partners in Kenya, as Communications Advisor on secondment to the Government of Kenya. A University of London trained lawyer, Dr Outa is a Winner and Laureate of the prestigious, St Andrews Prize (UK) for the Environment (2001), jointly established with the integrated Energy company, Conoco Philips. His other works include, African Examples (OCTAWNS, 1993) and essays published in various journals.



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Author: George Odera Outa

Publisher: Booksurge Publishing

Published: 06/04/2009

Pages: 232

Binding Type: Paperback

Weight: 0.70lbs

Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.49d

ISBN: 9781439238745

SKU: 9781439238745
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