Title/Qualifications: PhD Department/Unit/Section: Literature Contact Address: P.O Box 17952, 20100.NAKURU    Position: Lecturer    Area of Specialization: Folklore/Oral Literature,Postcolonial Studies Research Interests: Popular culture,Queer studies, Marginalities Email: Corporate: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.            Personal:   This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citationshl=en&user=xm7oyS8AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&citft=1&citft=2&citft=3&email_for_op=gaita.murimi ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0414-0492 Download Full CV

Publications

Referred Journals

• 2021 (May): Nyongesa, A.  Murimi Gaita. and Justus Kizito Makokha J. "Otherness and Pathology:  Parallels between Martyrdom and the Fragmented Self in Nuruddin Farah’s Close Sesame" . Special Issue of Journal of English Language, Literature, and Culture (JELLiC).
• 2021(April). Nyongesa, A.  Murimi Gaita. and Justus Kizito Makokha J. “Otherness and Fragmented Self: A Review of The Return by Hisham Matar”. Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies. https://doi.org/10.108/23277408.2020.1847805
• 2021 (April):  Nyongesa, A.  Murimi Gaita. and Justus Kizito Makokha J. “Otherness and Marginal Spaces: Beyond Politics and Race in Contemporary African Novels”. Imbizo Journal  vol.12/1
• 2021 : Nyongesa, A.  Murimi Gaita. and Justus Kizito Makokha J. (2020): “Otherness and the Creative Writer: Exploration of the Fragmented Self and Madness in Selected African Novels”. International Journal of Psychoanalysis (IJP) Open, 7:70
• Murimi Gaita (2018): ‘Anatomy of Contemporary Storytelling: Performing National Culture in Kenya’ International Journal of Law, Humanities & Social Science © Volume 2, Issue 6 (October 2018), P.P. 16-28,
• Murimi Gaita (2012): “From Spotting Fissures and Cracks to Sporting Excesses: Of
  Storytelling and Virtual Nation”, in Musing Post Colonies ISBN 978-984-33-4122-8V nal Culture: Towards an Agenda of Contemporary Storytelling in Kenya” in Journal of Literature (JOL)- Monsoon Issue, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
• Murimi Gaita, 2006, Constructing Youth, Identity, and Nation:  Matatu Culture in Kenya, Creative Forum (CF), Journal of Literary & Critical Writings, 19/1-2
• Murimi Gaita, 2009, Rethinking National Culture: Towards an Agenda of Contemporary Storytelling in Kenya, Journal of Literature (JOL)- Monsoon Issue
• Murimi Gaita, 2012, From Spotting Fissures and Cracks to Sporting Excesses: Of  Storytelling and Virtual Nation, Musing Post Colonies, 978-984-33-4122-8

Books Publications

• Gladys Bella N. & Murimi Gaita (2018): Revision Guide to Blossoms of the Savannah.Writers Guild Press. ISBN 978-9966-114-35-8
• Murimi Gaita (2017): A Narratological Reading of Kiswahili Novel. Lambert Academic Publishers, ISBN 978 - 3-330-06620-5
• October 2014: Published A Secondary School English Text Book Entitled Kcse Oral Skills: A Revision Book

Conference/Workshops/Seminar Papers

Conference Papers

• “Towards a Desecularized Identity: Creating a Hyper-Real Religion through Folklore” Paper presentation at the International Conference on African Languages and Literatures in the 21st Century, 6-8
• August, 2014. Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya.
• ‘Towards a Desecularized Identity: Creating a hyper-Real Religion through folklore” for the 1st International Interdisciplinary Annual Conference, Kisii University, 30th July to 2nd August 2014.
• Paradox of Equity: Re/constructing gender spaces in contemporary oral narrative’ KOLA conference, University of Nairobi November, 2012
• From Spotting Fissures and Cracks to Sporting Excesses: Of Storytelling and Virtual Nation”,8th Conference of the International Society for the Oral Literature of Africa (ISOLA) held in 15-20th July, 2010 at Mombasa
• “Rethinking National Culture: Towards an Agenda of Contemporary Storytelling in Kenya” International Conference on African Literature, Dhaka University, Oct. 2008