Writing on the Soil: Land and Landscape in Literature from Eastern and Southern Africa
Ng'ang'a Wahu-Muchiri, "Writing on the Soil: Land and Landscape in Literature from Eastern and Southern Africa "
English | ISBN: 0472056204 | 2023 | 226 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 0472056204 | 2023 | 226 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Across contiguous nation-states in Eastern Africa, the geographic proximity disguises an ideological complexity. Land has meant something fundamental in the sociocultural history of each country. Those concerns, however, have manifested into varied political events, and the range of struggles over land has spawned a multiplicity of literary interventions. While Kenya and Uganda were both British colonies, Kenya's experience of settler land alienation made for a much more violent response against efforts at political independence. Uganda's relatively calm unyoking from the colonial burden, however, led to a tumultuous post-independence. Tanzania, too, like Kenya and Uganda, resisted British colonial administration—after Germany's defeat in World War 1.
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