Singapore topped the list on measures of status of young people in181 countries followed by Slovenia, Norway, Malta, and Denmark. Chad, the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Afghanistan, and Niger came last respectively. The index which was released on Tuesday revealed that the conditions of young people around the world have improved by 3.1 percent […]
Feminism literary criticism is literary criticism informed by feminist theory or by politics of feminism. The novel Coming to Birth is a fiction based on the actual events in colonial and postcolonial Kenya that took place between 1956 and 1978. Macgoye uses the actual names of political leaders, for instance Jomo Kenyatta, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, […]
Characters serves as driving force in literature, Characters illustrate and personify the theme of the story. Characters push and create the plot of the story. Readers of literature can experience world of the writer or narrator through characters interact in the environment and the way the characters view the environment. The types of characters that […]
Coming to Birth was first published in 1986, written by Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye. Marjorie was a British Kenyan who settled in Kenya and integrated among Luo community in the country, like Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s work Marjorie’s work is among the celebrated literature in Kenya and Africa in general, her books are among those that are obligatory […]
The Bantu people are the speakers of Bantu languages. Most of the Bantu speakers in Eastern Africa originated from Central Africa. Bantus are currently spread out in African Great Lakes, Central Africa, East Africa and Southern Africa. The term Bantu might originated from the fact of how Bantu speakers commonly refers to humanity. The speakers […]
Despite repeated claims by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government that Boko Haram terrorists have been degraded and confined to the North-east alone, recent revelations by some Nigerian state governors give cause for worry. The immediate past Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, had said that the Boko Haram terrorist group had since been defeated but the […]
Eagle picks snake, fight ensues, eagle drops snake, snake lands on car, bites man. The struggle involving an eagle and a snake landed on to a moving car belonging to a Kitui Government employee who was minding his own business. David Musyoka, a driver attached to the county government told Citizen Digital that he was […]
Virunga National Park in Democratic Republic of Congo is Africa’s most diverse protected area. Virunga is the home to endangered Mountain Gorillas and among other species. The park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site which covers land area of 7800 square kilometers. Having been established in 1925 is the Africa’s oldest park. Major Tourists attractions […]
These head states claims they are serving out of wills of their people. Some organize elections which are marred by irregularities and others choose to be the only candidates in the ballot papers. Below are the longest serving leaders in Africa. 1. Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo – 42 years Equatorial Guinea’s President, Teodoro Obiang Nguema […]
Scientists have discovered oldest known human burial. A child who was 2 or 3 years old was discovered buried in a shallow grave under the sheltered overhang of a cave78,000 years ago, at a cave site called Panga ya Saidi near the Kenyan coast. They nicknamed the youngster ‘Mtoto,’ meaning ‘child’ in Swahili. “This is […]