Browsing by Author "Colomba Kaburi Muriungi"

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Epochal Relevance of Selected Post Millennial Short Stories in East Africa
(International Journal of Language, Linguistics, Literature and Culture, 2023) Omondi Hillary Owino; Colomba Kaburi Muriungi; Mukasa Antony
Literary writers in Africa have used different genres of art to reflect and critique actions in thesociety at different points of history. Apart from entertaining and preserving culture, works ofart have a role in creating awareness among the audience and proposing action in the society.The pre-colonial, colonial and pre-millennium texts have received significant literary attentionwith reference to their concerns. Most studies in Africa for example tend to focus on canonicalwriters and their contributions to the political and economic developments in the society.However, many post millennial short stories have received minimal critical attention. Thispaper, therefore, examines the socio-cultural and economic resurgence in selected postmillennium short stories in East Africa in order to find out the kind of society that upcomingwriters are yearning for, thus revealing the major concerns of short stories written in the 21stcentury. Post-colonial theory guides the analysis done in this paper and helps in demonstratinghow the Millennium Development Goals influenced the thematic concerns in the five (5) shortstories under discussion, which are all written by emerging post-millennial writers. The paperargues that 21st Century writers are sensitive to issues affecting their society and they, in theprocess of writing, attempt to propose ways of societal transformation through literature. Thepaper gives variety and contributes to the existing reservoir of literary analysis in East Africa.
Leveraging Multilingual Classroom Realities for Grade 3 Learners’ Literacy Development in Kakuma Refugee Context
(CODE, 2026-03) Colomba Kaburi Muriungi; George Andima; Josephine Kwenga
Plain Language Summary This study looked at how to improve reading skills for Grade 3 children living in andaround Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya. Many children in refugee settings speakdifferent languages at home from the language used in school (often English). Thisdifference in can make learning to read and understand lessons very difficult for therefugee children.To address this, the researchers tested a teaching method called Translanguaging. Thisapproach allows children to use all the languages they know—both their homelanguage and the school language—when learning. For example, children can discussideas in their home language and then share answers in English.The study involved four schools with both refugee and local children. Some classes usedthe translanguaging approach, while others continued with regular teaching methods.The researchers compared learners’ performance in reading comprehension before andafter the Translanguaging lessons.
The Use of Orality to Invoke Setting and Thematic Aspects in Children’s Stories
(Ngano: The Journal of Eastern African Oral Literature, 2023) Colomba Kaburi Muriungi
This study aims at examining how orality is utilized in children’s stories. The study argues that orality as a stylistic device in children’s texts not only helps in creating the narrative structure but it also helps in revealing the setting and themes of children's stories. The essay uses close textual reading to examine how orality interacts with the written form in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s children’s text Njamba Nene and the Flying Bus. I argue that the amalgamation of oral features like songs, poems, proverbs and other oral art forms from oral tradition, into the text situates the narrative in specific set ups, and to bring out cultural identity, among other themes visible in the narrative. Inclusion of such oral features in stories for children in the twenty first century, not only helps children to think about the rich African oral tradition, but these oral features also help in shaping the imagination of young readers.