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Published: 2026-08-13

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Nairobi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences is a peer reviewed interdisciplinary journal that publishes empirical and theoretical research papers in the fields of humanities and social sciences such as anthropology, business studies,...

Published: 2026-08-13

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"No Man Will Call Your House a Home" Curse and reincarnation in Oyinkan Braithwaite’s Cursed Daughters

Susana Adu Gyamfi
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.58256/6d30j468

Satirizing bureaucratic failure and urban dysfunction in Faith Ben-Daniels’s A Quarter Past Midnight (2013)

Jonathan Essuman, Esther Tontoh
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.58256/g31wxv68

The unseen labour of mothering: Maternal reproductive work, bodily knowledge, and the violence of the border-state in Faith Ben-Daniels’ Blue Ixora (2018)

Anthony Boateng Owusu
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.58256/zgdw2432

Oceanic space and marine ecosystems as ecological agents in Yvonne Owuor’s The Dragonfly Sea

Baraka Zablon, Selline Oketch, Jane Wakarindi
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.58256/ntf1r040

The poetics of repair: Cultural practice, ritual and language in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Matigari and Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s Dust

Joy Makingu, Selline Oketch, Jane Wakarindi
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.58256/he0pw874

Performing symbolic protest: The representation of young masculine identities in Kenyan urban music

Collins Andal, Marciana Were, John Orondo
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.58256/s574zn50
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