Idd Amini, kiongozi dhalimu kutoka nchi ya Uganda, alipoiteka sehemu ya nchi ya Tanzania na kuangamiza mamia ya watu wasiokuwa na hatia, serikali ya Tanzania iliamua kumkomesha kabla hajatekeleza maafa zaidi. Iliwatuma vijana wake wakapambane naye ili kusalimisha nchi yao. Sikamona akiwa kijana barubaru aliukubali mwito wa serikali na kuingia vitani kukabiliana na Idd Amin na kikosi chake. Maisha ya Sikamona yalibadilika kabisa baada ya vita hivi. Hata ingawa walifaulu kumkomesha Idd Amin, Sikamona alibaki na makovu mengi yaliyoiharibu sura yake asijione kastahili kuitwa binadamu tena. Ni yapi yatakayotokea watakapokutana na Rusia? Atapewa Zawadi ya Ushindi?

When analyzed in multilingual contexts, English is often treated as an entity that is separable from its linguistic environment. It is often the case, however, that multilinguals use English in hybrid and transcultural ways. This book explores how multilingual East Africans make use of English as a local resource in their everyday practices by examining a range of domains, including workplace conversation, beauty pageants, hip hop and advertising. Drawing on the Bakhtinian concept of multivocality, the author uses discourse analysis and ethnographic approaches to demonstrate the range of linguistic and cultural hybridity found across these domains, and to consider the constraints on hybridity in each context. By focusing on the cultural and linguistic bricolage in which English is often found, the book illustrates how multilinguals respond to the tension between local identification and dominant conceptualizations of English as a language for global communication.

Provides extensive coverage of the writings of both established and promising new authors in all continental African countries and Madagascar. Arranged primarily by language, with emphasis on literatures in English and French.

This volume brings together essays on songs and politics in the region of Eastern Africa and beyond. The theme that cuts across the contributions is that songs are, in addition to their aesthetic appeal, vital tools for exploring how political and social events are shaped and understood by citizens. Urbanization, commercialization and globalization contributed to the vibrancy of East African popular music of the 1990s. It was a product of social processes inseparable from society, politics, and other critical issues of the day. The lyrics explored socials cosmology, world views, class and gender relations, interpretations of value systems, and other political, social and cultural practices, even as they entertained and provided momentary escape for audience members. Frustration, disenchantments, and emotional fatigue resulting from corrupt and dictatorial political systems that stifle the potential of citizens drove and still drive popular music in Eastern Africa as in most of Africa.

The Tragedy Of The Stupid Nation retraces three decades of political instability during which the people of the Central African Republic suffered from several waves of violence that lead to the breakdown of the social cohesion between the different communities (first along ethnic, then along religious lines). This book is a personal and collective account of the massacres, looting and fleeing and an indictment of misgovernance, nepotism and political inequality. The consequences of which are, too often, carried by the population. Combining different literary genres, Max-Landry Kassa gives the reader an appreciation of what it is to come of age in the Central African Republic.