The relevance of the use of dialogue as an important category of analysis in the novel River and the source by Margarete Ogola

Dialogue as stylistic device refers to spoken lines by characters in a story that serve many functions such as adding context to narrative, establishing voice and tone. Writers utilize dialogue as a means to demonstrate communication between two characters. Most dialogue is spoken aloud in a narrative, though there are exceptions in terms of inner […]

Analysis of the poem ‘Betrothed’ by Obyero Odhiambo in Anthology of East African poetry by A.D Amateshe.

 Linguistic devices Dialogue It denotes a conversation between two or more interlocutors in a discourse. The poet in Betrothed employs this linguistic aspect to reveal a conversation between the two sides of the marriage agreement. “Three thousand shillings is not enough,” “Fathers, this is what we walked with!” “ …..as a token of our love.” […]

My teaching career

I have been teaching kids from 2016 in one of the private school in my village. The school owner doesn’t get much of profit from the school, he does it because he loves education as he has been an educationist for the last 38 years. He established the school out of passion in teaching and […]

Ol Pejeta Conservancy in pictures

Ol Pejeta conservancy is a 360km square which is non-profit wildlife conservancy in Central Kenya’s Laikipia County. It is situated on the equator west of Nanyuki town. It was used as a ranching area during the colonization although wildlife and pastoralists were roaming in the areas even before colonization and early stages of colonisation. Like […]

Ghana Loses U.S.$2.5 Billion Annually to Air Pollution

Ghana’s annual economic cost of air pollution is estimated at $2.5 billion, approximately 4.2 per cent of Gross domestic product(GDP). Again it is estimated that, about 91 per cent of the world’s population breathe poor air, amounting to $250 billion of Economic Cost (EC) worldwide whiles the entire globe (99 per cent) breathes air that […]

The many roots of least understood violence in Mozambique

Conflict erupted in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province just a few years after some of Africa’s biggest gas reserves were discovered in the Rovuma Basin off the coast. Mozambicans see this as no coincidence. A new study by the Institute for Security Studies and the Judicial Training Institute of Mozambique conducted extensive field research in […]

The Baganda are the largest ethnic group in Uganda

They are Bantu ethnic group in Buganda, a subnational kingdom within Ugandan state. They make up to 17 percent of the population in Uganda of 34 million people. They speak Luganda as their traditional language, they speak Swahili and English as their secondary language. Kabaka Mwanga II was the Buganda’s reigning powerful king. He was […]

African communities that resisted colonization

During colonialism in Africa, Africans reacted differently to European colonizers. There are those who choose to resist even before the introduction of colonial rule in their territories, examples being Nandi of Kenya and Mandinka in present day Mali, others revolted against the already established rule examples being Zulu led by Chief Bambatha. For those who […]

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