A VISITING PROFESSOR FROM UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA IN AUSTRIA WITH PG LIT STUDENTS
LITERATURE STUDENTS TAKING A CREATIVE WRITERS WORKSHOP IN MARCH 2020
THE INTERUNIVERSITY DEBATES IN FRENCH
THE AUF TRAINING ON RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
IN SERVICE TRAINING OF TEACHERS OF FRENCH
Japanese Cultural Festival
Japanese Club- KU
Japanese language learners at a cultural festival
Prof.Ralarala of Cape Peninsulla University, South Africa, The Dean SHSS, the Chairperson of LL&FL,Dr.Nthiga and seminar participants after the launch of a book on forensic Lings
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Title: Dr Mark Mutali Chetambe
Department:
Literature
Contact Address:
Kenyatta University, Literature Department, P.O. Box 43844, Nairobi.
Web blog: www.mark.chetambe.com.
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Position: Lecturer
Area of Specialization:
Drama, Creative writing, Oral Literature, African literature
Research Interests:
Postcolonial studies, Gender studies

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Publications

Critical literary essays published in The Literary Forum of the Sunday Standard paper

  • August 4, 2002: Writers Belong to the Street, Not the Palace
  • September 29, 2002: Wanted: A Radical Re-Think on Status of Literary Studies
  • June 15, 2003: Why “General Mathenge” Has Made Ngugi a Literary Seer

Achievements at the Kenya National Drama Festival

  • 1999-2012: Wrote and directed award- winning poems, plays and oral narratives performed at the schools’ and colleges’ national drama festival
  • 1999-to date: Workshop resource person for the Kenya National Drama Festival
  • 1999-to date: Adjudicator at the Kenya National Drama Festival from the lowest to the National level.
  • 2000-Present: Judge at Cultural Days, Talent Days and Fashion events at many schools and colleges
  • 2006-2011: Served as Executive Secretary, Western Province Secondary Schools Drama
  • Association2011: Was part of the team of drama teachers selected by the National Cohesion and
  • Integration Commission to go on a one week tour of Rwanda
  • 2011: Appointed by the Ministry Of Youth to select the pioneer students who joined the Talent Academy

Conference Paper Presentation

  • 2021: “Mother languages and Other Languages: Navigating Covid 19 through East African Poetrimusical Craftsmanship.” Presented at the International Mother Language Day Conference at The Centre for International Language and Culture, Kenyatta University, Nairobi.
  • 2017: “Animal as Racial Metaphor in Selected Plays of Trevor Rhone and Derek Walcott.” Presented at the Kenyatta University PhD Postgraduate seminar.
  • 2016: “50 Years of Clementine’s Self-mutilation as the Badge of Colonial Alienation: A Reading of Okot p’Bitek’s Song of Lawino”. A paper presented at a colloquium to mark 50 years after the publication of Okot p’Bitek’s Song of Lawino, held at Kenyatta University.

Workshop Facilitation

  • 2019: “Noise or Verse? Sound, Sense and Emotion as the Essentials of Verse Dramatization.” Presented at the Kenya National Drama and Film workshop, Kabarnet, Kenya.
  • 2016: “The Future of the Oral Narrative.” A paper presented at the national drama workshop at Tom Mboya Labour College, Kisumu.
  • 2011: “Without Characters, There Can Be No Story: Tips on the Writing and Performance of the Oral Narrative”: Presented at the National Cohesion and Integration Commission workshop for drama teachers and trainers at Tom Mboya Labour College, Kisumu, Kenya.
  • 2010: “Beauty lies in the eyes of the audience: the seven aspects of the beauty of contemporary storytelling.” Presented at the national workshop for drama teachers and trainers at the Moi International Sports Complex, Kasarani, Nairobi.
  • 2007: “Back to the Basics: Writing and performing the oral narrative”: Presented at the national workshop for drama teachers and trainers at Tom Mboya Labour College, Kisumu, Kenya.
  • 2006: “The Scripting and Presentation of the Oral Narrative”: A paper presented at the national workshop for drama teachers and trainers in Mombasa, Kenya.

 

chairperson english

Dr. Kenneth Kamuri Ngure
Chairperson
Department of Literature, Linguistics, and Foreign Languages


 

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