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Writing the Arts & Humanities in Africa examines emerging issues in the arts, humanities and technology, giving voice to research carried out by local and international scholars. Its purpose is to encourage discourse and give visibility to researchers from the region and others who anchor their work on Africa.

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Volume 1, Number 1, December 2024 (The Dagoretti Experience)
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This inaugural issue of the Writing the Arts and Humanities in Africa Journal (WAHiA) features a collection of essays that are an ode to the spatial, socioeconomic, and political landscapes of one of its most important cultural hubs, Dagoretti.

(Prof. Peter M. Matu)

Published: 2024-12-31

Full Issue

  • Preface

    v-viii
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.52907/wahia.v1i1.510

Articles

  • Public memorials in Dagoretti : the impact of land tenure on social cohesion

    Lydia Muthuma
    1-15
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.52907/wahia.v1i1.511

  • Cosmopolitanisms : premise naming in Dagoretti and Nairobi West as a site for exercising identity

    Fredrick Mbogo
    16-26
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.52907/wahia.v1i1.512

  • Dagoretti : claiming land and space in the city

    Raquel Jerobon
    27-37
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.52907/wahia.v1i1.513

  • Beyond traditional documentation : Dagoretti Area

    Lorna Mungai
    38-46
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.52907/wahia.v1i1.514

  • Kamzee’s donkey the villager

    Gitau Muthuma
    47-58
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.52907/wahia.v1i1.515

  • Voices in melodies : remembering Mau Mau

    Asajile Mwakalinga
    59-67
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.52907/wahia.v1i1.516

  • The Murals of Dagoretti : examining visual communication and its significance on social change

    Joyce Omwoha
    68-79
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.52907/wahia.v1i1.517

  • The Architectural morphology : narratives of the elders of Dagoretti

    Joseph Kedogo
    80-90
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.52907/wahia.v1i1.518

  • Is art what you can get away with? Copyright Law is useless for Dagoretti-based visual artists

    Grace Njeri Gatere
    91-101
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.52907/wahia.v1i1.519

  • The Inside and the outside : identity performance in the context of social research

    Waithera Kibuchi
    102-111
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.52907/wahia.v1i1.522
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