Pepela na Mto

by Ken Walibora

Pepela na Mto

Ni wakati wa likizo na Pepela amekuwa akiwachunga ngombe wao. Sas ametoweka. Kinachopatikana tu ni nguo zake kando ya mto. Kipi kikampata Pepela?

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25 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 2, 2012

About the author

Ken Walibora Waliaula held a Ph.D. in Comparative Cultural Studies from the Ohio State University, USA. He served as an Assistant Professor of African Languages and Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. His research interests cover culture,memory,trauma,world literature, postcolonial literature, Anglophone African continental and diasporic literatures,and Swahiliphone literature. He is a prolific Kiswahili fiction writer with a literary oeuvre exceeding thirty titles and has won several awards. He won the Jomo Kenyatta Literature Prize twice with his Swahili texts, Ndoto ya Amerika (An American Dream)in 2003 and Kisasi Hapana(No to Revenge)in 2009. He had published a number of book chapters and articles in academic journals including Research in African Literatures and Journal of the Association of African Literature(JALA),and Journal of African Language Teachers Association(JALTA) and Masculinity in African Cultural and Literary Texts. He was working on a book project addressing the literature of Kenyan political prisoners.