DR ANDREW WAFULA NYOGESA

DR ANDREW WAFULA NYOGESA

Lecturer:Department of Humanities
anyongesa@mut.ac.ke

Biography

Education

  • Ph.D. in Human Resource Management, 2011, JKUAT. Title of Thesis: “Utilization of emotional intelligence and transformational leadership for employee engagement in public universities in Kenya.”
  • Master of Science degree in Human Resource Management, 2007, JKUAT
  • Bachelor of Arts degree , 1993, Kenyatta University, Nairobi.

Publications

  1. Nyongesa, (2023). Interweaving of Melodies: Convergence of Divergent Voices in Ngugi Wa Thiongo’s Devil on the Cross (1980). Hybrid Journal of  Literary and Cultural Studies, 5(1). https://www.royalliteglobal.com/hybrid-literary/article/view/1045.
  2. Nyongesa A. (2022). “Wagar and Motley “Archaic” Vestiges: A Postmodernist Reading of Contemporary Somali Fiction.” Journal of Literary Studies. https://doi.org/10.25159/1753-5387/11776
  3. Nyongesa A., Simbili M. (2022). “The Modern State and “Death of god”: Absurdity and Chaos in Ibuse’s Black Rain.” Logos Universality mentality Education Novelty. 11. 1. https://www.lumenpublishing.com/journals/index.php/lumenss/article/vie w/4962
  4. Nyongesa A. & Makokha J. (2022). Violence, Sexuality and Diminishing Masculinity: Subversive Masculinities in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration (1969) and Nadifa Mohammed’s Orchard of Lost Souls (2013).” JOALL 3(1) https://journals.co.za/doi/full/10.31920/2633- 2116/2022/v3n1a1
  5. Nyongesa, , Murimi G. & Makokha K. J. (2021):The Feminist Writer and the Subaltern: A Perspective on Ole Kulet’s Blossoms of the Savannah. Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies, DOI: 10.1080/23277408.2021.1978766.https://doi.org/10.1080/23277408.2021.1978766.
  6. Nyongesa & Kaigai K. (2021). Onward and Return Migrations: Migrant Characters in Hisham Matar’s The Return (2017) and a Month of Siena” (2019). The Text.http://thetextjournal.com/text_admin/issue/27141-1- andrew-july-2021-pdf.pdf
  7. Nyongesa A, Gaita & Makokha J. K (2021). Otherness and pathology:Parallels between Martyrdom and the Fragmented Self in Nuruddin Farah’s Close Sesame. Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture, 1 (2): 85-95.
  8. Nyongesa (2021). Humanity and Mother Nature: ecological Reading of Ole   Kulet’s   Blossoms   of   the   Savannah.   KSR,   9(1):   p   35-45. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrew- Nyongesa/publication/353886246_.
  9. Nyongesa, Gaita M., & Makokha JK (2021). Otherness and Marginal Spaces: Beyond Politics and Race in Contemporary African Novels. Imbizo: International Journal of African Literary and Comparative Studies. 12 (1): pp. 20-35. ISSN (Print): 2078-9785 https://doi.org/10.25159/2663-6565/7694.
    https://upjournals.co.za/index.php/Imbizo/article/view/7694
  10. Nyongesa, A., Gaita . M & Makokha J K (2020). Conversation with Other: Style and Pathology in Selected African Novels.” Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies. 1 (2) : pp. 115 – 135. ISSN: 2633-2108  (Print). 26333-2116  (Online).https://journals.co.za/content/journal/10520/EJC-1f26c4ea01
  11. Nyongesa, , & Makokha JKs (2020). Otherness and Other Selves Within: Fragmented Selves in Nuruddin Farah’s Close Sesame and Maps. Journal of Somali Studies.7 (1): Pp. 53 – 72. https://journals.co.za/content/journal/10520/EJC-1eb5870d28
  12. Nyongesa, , Makokha JK &Kaigai K. (2019). Hybridity and Fixity: Modes of Resistance in Safi Abdi’s Offspring of Paradise and A Mighty Collision of Worlds. Journal of Somali Studies. 6(1) Pp.71-91. ISSN: 2056-56-74. E-ISSN: 2056-5682 https://journals.co.za/content/journal/10520/EJC-16288a1db5
  13. Nyongesa, (2018). Cultural Essentialism: A Sordid Boon at the Shores of Sub-Saharan Africa. International Journal of Research and Scholarly Communication,        1(1).            Retrieved      from https://www.royalliteglobal.com/ijoras/article/view/424
  14. Nyongesa, A (2017). The Unconscious and Patriarchy: A Psychoanalytic study of Nawal El Saadawi’s God Dies by the The Nairobi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 1 (3): p 25-35. ISSN 2520-4009. https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/63336324/ANDREW_NYONGES A20200517-37082-9v1s32.pdf
  15. Nyongesa, A (2017). Resistance Strategies in African Poetry: a Postcolonial Critique in Okot P’ Bitek’s Song of Lawino and Christopher Okigbo’s Labyrinth and Path of Thunder. The Nairobi Journal of Humanities and Social 1 (3):p 25-35. ISSN 2520-4009.https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/55366322/Resistance_strategies_in_African_Poetry_-pub-with-cover-page-v2.pdf?.
  16. Nyongesa, Andrew. Stylistics, the Capstone of Literary Criticism: A review of John Mugubi’s Style in ” The Nairobi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Vol 1 issue 5, May 2017, p 11- 29.https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&use r=iVbpCawAAAAJ&cstart=20&pagesize=80&citation
  17. Nyongesa, Andrew. “Diverse Possibilities at the In-Between Space: Postcolonial Critique of Safi Abdi’s Offspring of Paradise and A Mighty Collision of Two Worlds”. Nairobi Journal of Humanities of 1.8 (2017): 21-27 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrew- Nyongesa/publication/322025915.
  18. Nyongesa A (2016). The In-between Space- Alienation and Psychological Trauma: A Critical Look at Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea and Velma Pollard’s International Journal of Recent Research in Social Sciences and Humanities. 3 (4): 1-12.
  19. Nyongesa A. (2016). Gender Differences in Slave Characters: a Feminist Critique of Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Narrative of the Life of Frederic Douglass, an American Slave. Imperial Journal of Interdisciplinary Research. 2(12): 290-295. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrew- Nyongesa/publication/317620776_Gender_Differences_in_Slave_Characters_a_Feminist_Critique_of_ Toni_Morrison’s_Beloved_and_Narrative.

Book Reviews in Journals

  1. Nyongesa, A., Gaita & Makokha JKS (2021). Otherness and the Fragmented Self: A Review of The Return by Hisham Matar. Eastern African Cultural and Literary Studies. 1 (3): Pp. 12-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/23277408.202.
  2. Nyongesa (2021). Otherness and the Fragmented Self: A Review of Zukiswa Wanner’s London,Cape Town Joburg : Tyskriif Letterkunde, Journal  of African Literature. https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=iVbpCawAAAAJ

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    3. Nyongesa (2017). Critical Writing Skills: A Review of Kenzabure Oe’s Silent Cry.” Nairobi Journal of                  Humanities and Social Sciences. 1(10): pp 86-93.