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Tom M. Mboya

Associate Professor of African Literary and Popular Culture Studies

School of Arts and Social Sciences, Department of Literature, Linguistics, Foreign Languages and Film Studies
Moi University

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Undergraduate

Modern African Poetry.

Postgraduate (D.Phil, PhD)

A History of Genres I: Oral Literature.

Offered:

2021

Recent Publications

Mboya, T.M., 2020. Music, Identity and History: Reading Kalenjin Popular/Traditional Music. In Moi University African Cluster Centre Workshop. 29 October. Sirikwa Hotel, Eldoret.

Mboya, M.T., 2020. “Music is Sweet When Your Praises Are Sung”: Pleasure and Power in the ‘Live Band’Music Performances of Ja-Mnazi Afrika in Eldoret, Kenya. Matatu, 51, p.209–223.

Mboya, T.M., 2019. “I have a story about Nairobi”: narrator unreliability, ethnicity and the imagination of the Kenyan nation in “Khandpaka” by Awillo Mike and Ja-Mnazi Afrika. Social Dynamics, 45, p.395–409.

Mboya, T.M., 2019. ‘Men Are Not Taken as Lightly as That’. Egerton Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 12.

Mboya, T.M., 2019. I don’t believe anybody will be so unlike other People irony and anxiety about the Nigerian Nation in Chinua Achebe’s is a Private Affair.

Mboya, T.M., 2019. Popular Music, Ethnicity and Politics in the Kenya of the 1990s: Okatch Biggy Live at “The Junction.” ISBN (10) 1-5275-2674-7 ISBN (13) 978-1-5275-2674-7., Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

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