Dr. Justus Kizito Siboe Makokha

Lecturer, Department of Literature & Linguistics

Academic Qualifications

Makokha, J. K. S., & Mukeya, S. (2026). Metafiction and Self-Reflexivity in Contemporary Kenyan Literature: A Comparative Study of Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s Dragonfly Sea and Khadija Abdalla Bajaber’s The House of Rust. Chemchemi International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 12(1), g-h. https://doi.org/10.33886/cijhs.v12i1.772

Kamuhuro, E., & Siboe Makokha, J. K. (2025). Memory and Swahili Aesthetics in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea. Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/23277408.2025.2463717

Kamuhuro, Ephantus W.; Justus Kizito Makokha; & Eunice Wanja Kangangi. “Love and Mother Nature: Ecological Aesthetics in Naivo’s Beyond the Rice Fields.” Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies, Vol. 6, No. 2, Aug. 2025, pp. 23–36. DOI https://doi.org/10.31920/2633-2116/2025/v6n2a2

Korir, Millicent Jemutai, Mark Chetambe & Justus Makokha. “Shifting Identities and Fragmented Subjectivities in Majok Tulba’s Beneath the Darkening Sky and Emmanuel Dongala’s Johnny Mad Dog. ” East African Journal of Arts and Social Sciences , Vol. 6, no. 2, Aug. 2023, pp. 69-79, Doi:10.37284/eajass.6.2.1399. https://journals.eanso.org/index.php/eajass/article/view/1399/2044

Sum, Robert Kipkoech, Justus Makokha, & Sperenza Ndege, “Afrofuturism and Quest for Black Redemption in Nnedi Okorafor’s The Book of Phoenix .” East African Journal of Arts and Social Sciences . Vol. 5 (1) 2022. Pp. 328 – 338. ISSN: 2707-4277 (Print). ISSN: 2707-4285 (Online) DOI https://journals.eanso.org/index.php/eajass/article/view/752

Nyongesa, Andrew & Justus Makokha “Violence, Sexuality and Diminishing Masculinity: Subversive Masculinities in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North (1969) and Nadifa Mohamed’s Orchard of Lost Souls (2013). Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies. Adonis and Abbey. Vol. 3 (1). 2022. Pp. 5 – 25. ISSN: 2633-2108 (Print). 26333-2116 (Online). DOI https://journals.co.za/doi/full/10.31920/2633-2116/2022/v3n1a1

Nyongesa, Andrew, Murimi Gaita & Justus Makokha, “The Feminist Writer and the Subaltern: A Perspective on Ole Kulet’s Blossoms of the Savannah. ” East African Literary and Cultural Studies . ROUTLEDGE. Vol. 2 (2), December, 2021. Pp. 298 - 316. ISSN 9780367535735 (Print) DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/23277408.2021.1978766

Mutuku, Jeremiah, Justus Makokha & Esther Mbithi, “Transmutation and Temporality: Shifting Figures of African Women in Jennifer Makumbi’s Historical Novel Kintu (2014).” International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation . Vol. 4 (2) 2021. Pp. 215 - 222. ISSN: 2617-0299 (Online). 2708-0099 (Print). DOI: https://doi.org/10.32996/ijllt.2021.4.2.25

Sum, Robert, Justus Makokha & Sperenza Ndege, “Aspects of Gothic Tradition in the Literary Imagination of Nnedi Okorafor.” Journal of Law and Social Sciences . SABINET. Vol. 4 (3), 2020. Pp. 21 - 30. ISSN: 2226- 6402 (Print). DOI https://doi.org/10.53974/unza.jlss.4.3.759

Mogire, Alice, Justus Makokha, & Oscar Macharia, “Postcolonial Identities in Dinaw Mengestu’s Literary Chronotope.” Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies . SABINET. Vol. 2 (2) August, 2021. Pp. 45 – 70. ISSN: 2633-2108 (Print). 26333-2116 (Online). DOI https://doi.org/10.31920/2633-2116/2021/v2n2a3

Nyongesa, Andrew, Murimi Gaita & Justus K. S. Makokha, “Otherness and Marginal Spaces: Beyond Politics and Race in Contemporary African Novels.” Imbizo: International Journal of African Literary and Comparative Studies. UNISA Press. Vol 12. (1) 2021. 16 pages. ISSN (Print): 2078-9785 https://doi.org/10.25159/2663-6565/7694 https://upjournals.co.za/index.php/Imbizo/article/view/7694

Nyongesa, Andrew, Murimi Gaita & Justus K. S. Makokha, “Otherness and Pathology: Parallels between Matyrdom and Fragmented Selves in Nuruddin Farah’s Close Sesame .” JELLiC: Journal of English, Language and Culture. Cameroon English Language and Literature Association (Special Issue) No. 02 (1), May, 2021. Pp. 85 - 95. ISSN : 2304-6120 (Print). 2304 - 6163 (Online).

Makokha, Gloria and J. S. Makokha. “Through Toundi’s Lens: First Person Narration and its Thematic Significance in Ferdinand Oyono’s House Boy .” The Cactus: A Multi-disciplinary Journal. Vol. 3. No. 1. 2020. Pp. 55 – 70. ISSN: 2220 - 9914. Pp. 1 – 10.

Nyongesa, Andrew, Murimi Gaita & Justus K. S. Makokha, “Conversation with Other: Style and Pathology in Selected African Novels.” Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies. Vol. 1 (2) August 2020. Pp. 115 – 135. ISSN : 2633-2108 (Print). 26333-2116 (Online). https://journals.co.za/content/journal/10520/EJC-1f26c4ea01

Nyongesa, Andrew Wafula & Justus S. Makokha, “Otherness and Other Selves Within: Fragmented Selves in Nuruddin Farah’s Close Sesame and Maps .” Journal of Somali Studies. SABINET. Volume 7 (1) June, 2020. Pp. 53 - 72. ISSN: 2056-56-74. E-ISSN: 2056-5682 https://journals.co.za/content/journal/10520/EJC-1eb5870d28

Murage, Peter Ndambiri & Justus S. Makokha, “Aesthetics of Globalization in Daya Pawar’s Baluta : Reflexivity and Social Change in Critical Perspective.” Contemporary Voice of Dalit. SAGE. 1 (1) 2020. Pp. 1 – 11. ISSN : 2456-0502. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2455328X19898421

Nderitu, Joseph, K. S. Makokha and John Mugubi, “Funerary Symbols in Oe Kenzaburo’s The Silent Cry (1967) and Masuji Ibuse’s Black Rain (1970).” International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature. Vol. 7. No. 12. 2019. Pp. 25-42. ISSN: 2347 3134. https://www.arcjournals.org/international-journal- on-studies-in-english- language-and-literature/volume-7-issue-12/

Makokha, J. K. S. and Sperenza Ndege, “Ideology and Subversion in Selected Feminist Short Stories from Africa.” Hybrid Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies. 1. No. 1. 2019. Pp. 30- 44. ISSN: 2220 - 9914.

Makokha, J. K. S and J. Barusi. “Daya Pawar’s Baluta (2015) - A Study on the Literary Ideology of Marginalities.” Cactus: Journal of Arts and Humanities. 2. No. 1. 2019. Pp. 55 – 70. ISSN: 2220 - 9914.

Nyongesa, Andrew, Justus Makokha and Kaigai Kimani, “ Hybridity and Fixity: Modes of Resistance in Safi Abdi’s Offspring of Paradise and A Mighty Collision of Worlds .” Journal of Somali Studies . Vol. 6. No. 1. June, 2019. Pp.71-91. ISSN: 2056-56- E-ISSN: 2056-5682 https://journals.co.za/content/journal/10520/EJC-16288a1db5

Makokha, J. K. S. “Okot’s Aesthetics Revisited: On Symbolic and Parabolic Expression in Song of Lawino.” Nairobi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences . Vol. 3. No. 1. January, Pp. 5 – 14. ISSN: 2523-0948.

Eno, Mohamed A, Mohamed Azaza, Omar A. Eno & Justus K. S. Makokha, “China-Africa Relations: How Tight Are the ‘Strings’ Attached?” The International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. Vol 2. Issue 9, 2014: pp. 196-203. ISSN 2321 – 9203. http://theijhss.com/2014-2/september-14

Makokha, J. K. S. & Michael Wainaina, “The Asian African Writer and the Postcolonial Condition in East Africa: On the In-Between Worlds of M. G. Vassanji.” The Nairobi Journal of Literature , No. 7, July 2013: pp.41-54. ISSN 1814-1706.

Nyongesa, Andrew, Murimi Gaita & Justus K. S. Makokha, “Otherness and Marginal Spaces: Beyond Politics and Race in Contemporary African Novels.” Imbizo: International Journal of African Literary and Comparative Studies. UNISA Press. Vol (1) 2021. 16 pages. ISSN (Print): 2078-9785 https://doi.org/10.25159/2663-6565/7694 https://upjournals.co.za/index.php/Imbizo/article/view/7694

Mogire, Alice, Justus Makokha, & Oscar Macharia, “Postcolonial Identities in Dinaw Mengestu’s Literary Chronotope.” Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies. SABINET. Vol. 2 (2) August, 2021. Pp. 45 – 70. ISSN: 2633-2108 (Print). 26333-2116 (Online). DOI https://doi.org/10.31920/2633-2116/2021/v2n2a3

Makokha, Gloria and J. K. S. Makokha. “Through Toundi’s Lens: First Person Narration and its Thematic Significance in Ferdinand Oyono’s House Boy.” The Cactus: A Multi-disciplinary Journal. Vol. 3. No. 1. 2020. Pp. 55 – 70. ISSN: 2220 - 9914. Pp. 1 – 10.

Ajami Makokha, , & J. K. S. Makokha (2020). Between Globalization and Localization: Aesthetic Manifestation of Globality, Reflexivity and Social Change in Daya Pawar’s Baluta (2015). Hybrid Journal of Literary and Culture Studies , 2 (1), 1-13. ISSN: 2220 - 9914.

Murage, Joseph, J. K. S. Makokha, “Funerary Symbols in Oe Kenzaburo’s The Silent Cry (1967) and Masuji Ibuse’s Black Rain (1970).” International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature. 7. No. 12. 2019. Pp. 25-42. ISSN: 2347 3134. https://www.arcjournals.org/international-journal-on-studies-in-english- language-and-literature/volume-7-issue-12/

Makokha, J. K. S. and Speranza Ndege, “Ideology and Subversion in Selected Feminist Short Stories from Africa.” Hybrid Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies. 1. No. 1. 2019. Pp. 30- 44. ISSN: 2220 - 9914.

Makokha, J. K. S. “Daya Pawar’s Baluta (2015) - A Study on the Literary Ideology of ” Cactus: Journal of Arts and Humanities. Vol. 2. No. 1. 2019. Pp. 55 – 70. ISSN: 2220 - 9914.

Makokha J. K. S. & Vincent Kawoya, “The Case for Kiswahili as a Regional Broadcasting Language in East Africa.” The Journal of Pan African Studies. 2. No. 8. 2009: pp. 11- 35. ISSN 1942-6569 (online). http://www.jpanafrican.org/docs/vol2no8/2.8_CaseForKiswahiliAsARegionalBr oadcastingLanguageInEastAfrica.pdf

Makokha, J. K. S. and V. F. Kawoya, “Globalization and African Heritage in the 21st Century: Points of Interlock.” TOJA: The Oye Journal of Arts. Volume 2. No. 1. April 2020. ISSN 2705-3881. PP. 11 - 23.

Refereed Journal Articles

Makokha, J. K. S., & Mukeya, S. (2026). Metafiction and Self-Reflexivity in Contemporary Kenyan Literature: A Comparative Study of Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s Dragonfly Sea and Khadija Abdalla Bajaber’s The House of Rust. Chemchemi International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 12(1), g-h. https://doi.org/10.33886/cijhs.v12i1.772
Kamuhuro, E., & Siboe Makokha, J. K. (2025). Memory and Swahili Aesthetics in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea. Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/23277408.2025.2463717
Kamuhuro, Ephantus W.; Justus Kizito Makokha; & Eunice Wanja Kangangi. “Love and Mother Nature: Ecological Aesthetics in Naivo’s Beyond the Rice Fields.” Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies, Vol. 6, No. 2, Aug. 2025, pp. 23–36. DOI https://doi.org/10.31920/2633-2116/2025/v6n2a2
Korir, Millicent Jemutai, Mark Chetambe & Justus Makokha. “Shifting Identities and Fragmented Subjectivities in Majok Tulba’s Beneath the Darkening Sky and Emmanuel Dongala’s Johnny Mad Dog. ” East African Journal of Arts and Social Sciences , Vol. 6, no. 2, Aug. 2023, pp. 69-79, Doi:10.37284/eajass.6.2.1399. https://journals.eanso.org/index.php/eajass/article/view/1399/2044
Sum, Robert Kipkoech, Justus Makokha, & Sperenza Ndege, “Afrofuturism and Quest for Black Redemption in Nnedi Okorafor’s The Book of Phoenix .” East African Journal of Arts and Social Sciences . Vol. 5 (1) 2022. Pp. 328 – 338. ISSN: 2707-4277 (Print). ISSN: 2707-4285 (Online) DOI https://journals.eanso.org/index.php/eajass/article/view/752
Nyongesa, Andrew & Justus Makokha “Violence, Sexuality and Diminishing Masculinity: Subversive Masculinities in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North (1969) and Nadifa Mohamed’s Orchard of Lost Souls (2013). Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies. Adonis and Abbey. Vol. 3 (1). 2022. Pp. 5 – 25. ISSN: 2633-2108 (Print). 26333-2116 (Online). DOI https://journals.co.za/doi/full/10.31920/2633-2116/2022/v3n1a1
Nyongesa, Andrew, Murimi Gaita & Justus Makokha, “The Feminist Writer and the Subaltern: A Perspective on Ole Kulet’s Blossoms of the Savannah. ” East African Literary and Cultural Studies . ROUTLEDGE. Vol. 2 (2), December, 2021. Pp. 298 - 316. ISSN 9780367535735 (Print) DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/23277408.2021.1978766
Mutuku, Jeremiah, Justus Makokha & Esther Mbithi, “Transmutation and Temporality: Shifting Figures of African Women in Jennifer Makumbi’s Historical Novel Kintu (2014).” International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation . Vol. 4 (2) 2021. Pp. 215 - 222. ISSN: 2617-0299 (Online). 2708-0099 (Print). DOI: https://doi.org/10.32996/ijllt.2021.4.2.25
Sum, Robert, Justus Makokha & Sperenza Ndege, “Aspects of Gothic Tradition in the Literary Imagination of Nnedi Okorafor.” Journal of Law and Social Sciences . SABINET. Vol. 4 (3), 2020. Pp. 21 - 30. ISSN: 2226- 6402 (Print). DOI https://doi.org/10.53974/unza.jlss.4.3.759
Mogire, Alice, Justus Makokha, & Oscar Macharia, “Postcolonial Identities in Dinaw Mengestu’s Literary Chronotope.” Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies . SABINET. Vol. 2 (2) August, 2021. Pp. 45 – 70. ISSN: 2633-2108 (Print). 26333-2116 (Online). DOI https://doi.org/10.31920/2633-2116/2021/v2n2a3
Nyongesa, Andrew, Murimi Gaita & Justus K. S. Makokha, “Otherness and Marginal Spaces: Beyond Politics and Race in Contemporary African Novels.” Imbizo: International Journal of African Literary and Comparative Studies. UNISA Press. Vol 12. (1) 2021. 16 pages. ISSN (Print): 2078-9785 https://doi.org/10.25159/2663-6565/7694 https://upjournals.co.za/index.php/Imbizo/article/view/7694
Nyongesa, Andrew, Murimi Gaita & Justus K. S. Makokha, “Otherness and Pathology: Parallels between Matyrdom and Fragmented Selves in Nuruddin Farah’s Close Sesame .” JELLiC: Journal of English, Language and Culture. Cameroon English Language and Literature Association (Special Issue) No. 02 (1), May, 2021. Pp. 85 - 95. ISSN : 2304-6120 (Print). 2304 - 6163 (Online).
Makokha, Gloria and J. S. Makokha. “Through Toundi’s Lens: First Person Narration and its Thematic Significance in Ferdinand Oyono’s House Boy .” The Cactus: A Multi-disciplinary Journal. Vol. 3. No. 1. 2020. Pp. 55 – 70. ISSN: 2220 - 9914. Pp. 1 – 10.
Nyongesa, Andrew, Murimi Gaita & Justus K. S. Makokha, “Conversation with Other: Style and Pathology in Selected African Novels.” Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies. Vol. 1 (2) August 2020. Pp. 115 – 135. ISSN : 2633-2108 (Print). 26333-2116 (Online). https://journals.co.za/content/journal/10520/EJC-1f26c4ea01
Nyongesa, Andrew Wafula & Justus S. Makokha, “Otherness and Other Selves Within: Fragmented Selves in Nuruddin Farah’s Close Sesame and Maps .” Journal of Somali Studies. SABINET. Volume 7 (1) June, 2020. Pp. 53 - 72. ISSN: 2056-56-74. E-ISSN: 2056-5682 https://journals.co.za/content/journal/10520/EJC-1eb5870d28
Murage, Peter Ndambiri & Justus S. Makokha, “Aesthetics of Globalization in Daya Pawar’s Baluta : Reflexivity and Social Change in Critical Perspective.” Contemporary Voice of Dalit. SAGE. 1 (1) 2020. Pp. 1 – 11. ISSN : 2456-0502. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2455328X19898421
Nderitu, Joseph, K. S. Makokha and John Mugubi, “Funerary Symbols in Oe Kenzaburo’s The Silent Cry (1967) and Masuji Ibuse’s Black Rain (1970).” International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature. Vol. 7. No. 12. 2019. Pp. 25-42. ISSN: 2347 3134. https://www.arcjournals.org/international-journal- on-studies-in-english- language-and-literature/volume-7-issue-12/
Makokha, J. K. S. and Sperenza Ndege, “Ideology and Subversion in Selected Feminist Short Stories from Africa.” Hybrid Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies. 1. No. 1. 2019. Pp. 30- 44. ISSN: 2220 - 9914.
Makokha, J. K. S and J. Barusi. “Daya Pawar’s Baluta (2015) - A Study on the Literary Ideology of Marginalities.” Cactus: Journal of Arts and Humanities. 2. No. 1. 2019. Pp. 55 – 70. ISSN: 2220 - 9914.
Nyongesa, Andrew, Justus Makokha and Kaigai Kimani, “ Hybridity and Fixity: Modes of Resistance in Safi Abdi’s Offspring of Paradise and A Mighty Collision of Worlds .” Journal of Somali Studies . Vol. 6. No. 1. June, 2019. Pp.71-91. ISSN: 2056-56- E-ISSN: 2056-5682 https://journals.co.za/content/journal/10520/EJC-16288a1db5
Makokha, J. K. S. “Okot’s Aesthetics Revisited: On Symbolic and Parabolic Expression in Song of Lawino.” Nairobi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences . Vol. 3. No. 1. January, Pp. 5 – 14. ISSN: 2523-0948.
Eno, Mohamed A, Mohamed Azaza, Omar A. Eno & Justus K. S. Makokha, “China-Africa Relations: How Tight Are the ‘Strings’ Attached?” The International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. Vol 2. Issue 9, 2014: pp. 196-203. ISSN 2321 – 9203. http://theijhss.com/2014-2/september-14
Makokha, J. K. S. & Michael Wainaina, “The Asian African Writer and the Postcolonial Condition in East Africa: On the In-Between Worlds of M. G. Vassanji.” The Nairobi Journal of Literature , No. 7, July 2013: pp.41-54. ISSN 1814-1706.
Nyongesa, Andrew, Murimi Gaita & Justus K. S. Makokha, “Otherness and Marginal Spaces: Beyond Politics and Race in Contemporary African Novels.” Imbizo: International Journal of African Literary and Comparative Studies. UNISA Press. Vol (1) 2021. 16 pages. ISSN (Print): 2078-9785 https://doi.org/10.25159/2663-6565/7694 https://upjournals.co.za/index.php/Imbizo/article/view/7694
Mogire, Alice, Justus Makokha, & Oscar Macharia, “Postcolonial Identities in Dinaw Mengestu’s Literary Chronotope.” Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies. SABINET. Vol. 2 (2) August, 2021. Pp. 45 – 70. ISSN: 2633-2108 (Print). 26333-2116 (Online). DOI https://doi.org/10.31920/2633-2116/2021/v2n2a3
Makokha, Gloria and J. K. S. Makokha. “Through Toundi’s Lens: First Person Narration and its Thematic Significance in Ferdinand Oyono’s House Boy.” The Cactus: A Multi-disciplinary Journal. Vol. 3. No. 1. 2020. Pp. 55 – 70. ISSN: 2220 - 9914. Pp. 1 – 10.
Ajami Makokha, , & J. K. S. Makokha (2020). Between Globalization and Localization: Aesthetic Manifestation of Globality, Reflexivity and Social Change in Daya Pawar’s Baluta (2015). Hybrid Journal of Literary and Culture Studies , 2 (1), 1-13. ISSN: 2220 - 9914.
Murage, Joseph, J. K. S. Makokha, “Funerary Symbols in Oe Kenzaburo’s The Silent Cry (1967) and Masuji Ibuse’s Black Rain (1970).” International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature. 7. No. 12. 2019. Pp. 25-42. ISSN: 2347 3134. https://www.arcjournals.org/international-journal-on-studies-in-english- language-and-literature/volume-7-issue-12/
Makokha, J. K. S. and Speranza Ndege, “Ideology and Subversion in Selected Feminist Short Stories from Africa.” Hybrid Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies. 1. No. 1. 2019. Pp. 30- 44. ISSN: 2220 - 9914.
Makokha, J. K. S. “Daya Pawar’s Baluta (2015) - A Study on the Literary Ideology of ” Cactus: Journal of Arts and Humanities. Vol. 2. No. 1. 2019. Pp. 55 – 70. ISSN: 2220 - 9914.
Makokha J. K. S. & Vincent Kawoya, “The Case for Kiswahili as a Regional Broadcasting Language in East Africa.” The Journal of Pan African Studies. 2. No. 8. 2009: pp. 11- 35. ISSN 1942-6569 (online). http://www.jpanafrican.org/docs/vol2no8/2.8_CaseForKiswahiliAsARegionalBr oadcastingLanguageInEastAfrica.pdf
Makokha, J. K. S. and V. F. Kawoya, “Globalization and African Heritage in the 21st Century: Points of Interlock.” TOJA: The Oye Journal of Arts. Volume 2. No. 1. April 2020. ISSN 2705-3881. PP. 11 - 23.

Books

Reading African Literatures: Critical Perspectives. Amsterdam, New York NY: Rodopi, 2013. Co-edited with Reuben Chirambo. (with foreword by Prof. Moradewun Adejunmobi). 444 pp. ISBN: 978-90-420-3675-8. Click on this hyperlink.

Cultural Archives of Atrocity: Essays on the Protest Tradition in Kenyan Literature, Culture and Society. New York and London, Routledge, 2019. Co-edited with Colomba Muriungi, Charles Kebaya. 358 pp. ISBN: 978-036720-54-54 Click on this hyperlink

Style in African Literature: Essays on Literary Stylistics and Narrative Styles. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012. Co-edited with Ogone John Obiero and Russell West-Pavlov (with foreword by Chin Ce). 444 pp. Click on this hyperlink ISBN: 978-90-420-3476-1

Negotiating Afropolitanism: Essays on Borders and Spaces in Contemporary African Literature and Orature. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011. Co-edited with Jennifer Wawrzinek (with foreword by Professor Simon Gikandi of Princeton University) 372pp. ISBN: 978-90-420-3049-7. Clink on this hyperlink

Book Chapters

Makokha, J. K. S. “Brown Skins in Black States: Contextualising Post-Colonial Literature of the South Asian Diaspora in East Africa.” in Border-Crossings: Narrative and Demarcation in Postcolonial Literatures. Eds. Jennifer Wawrzinek, Justus Makokha and Russell West-Pavlov. Heidelberg: Winter, 2012. ISBN: 978-3-8253-5899-0 pp. 157-186.Click this hyperlink
Makokha, J. K. S. “The Eternal Other: Authority of Deficit Masculinity in Asian African Literature.” in Men and Masculinities in African Fiction and Film. Ed. Lahoucine Ouzgane. London: James Currey, 2011. ISBN: 1-84701-521-2. pp. 139-152. Click on this hyperlink
Makokha, J. K. S. “The Politics and Poetics of Characterization in M. G. Vassanji’s The Book of Secrets”. In Reading Contemporary African Literature: Critical Perspectives. Eds. Reuben Chirambo and J. K. S. Makokha. Amsterdam, New York NY: Rodopi, 2013. Click on this hyperlink
West-Pavlov, Russell & J. K. S. Makokha, “Linguistic (Re)turn and Craft in Contemporary African Literature”. In Style in African Literature: Essays on Literary Stylistics and Narrative Style. Eds. J. K. S. Makokha, Ogone Obiero & Russell West-Pavlov. Amsterdam, New York NY: Rodopi, 2012. Click on this hyperlink
Makokha, J. K. S., “Imagined (Dis)locations: The Poetics of Setting in the Early Fiction of M. G. Vassanji.” in East African Literature: Essays in Written and Oral Traditions. Berlin: Logos, 2012. Eds. J. K. S. Makokha, Egara Kabaji & Dominica Dipio. pp. 110-125. ISBN: 978-3-8325-2816-4. Click on this hyperlink or hyperlink