| Description |
1 online resource (68 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Foreword; The Green Cross of Kafira; List of Characters; ACT ONE; SCENE ONE -Mind Games; SCENE TWO -Seeds of Discord; SCENE THREE -Revelations; ACT TWO; SCENE ONE -Testimonies; SCENE TWO -Dream of Reality; SCENE THREE -The Unexpected Reward; SCENE FOUR -The Past Meets the Present; Back cove |
| Summary |
In his last play published posthumously the late Francis Imbuga presents the dramatic dialogue of his characters as mind games. In addition to using a narrator, Sikia Macho, to fill us in on the broken politics of Kafira, centring around detention without trial, Imbuga deliberately delays the inciting action, the formation of the Green Party of Kafira which then challenges the hitherto political monolith called the National Party. The candidate of the new party, former detainee Pastor Mgei, wins the election, and thereby dethrones the so-called Chief of Chiefs. In The Green Cross of Kafira, Im |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 4, 2014) |
| Subject |
African literature (English)
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Kenyan drama (English)
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African history.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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African literature (English)
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Kenyan drama (English)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rogers, Kurtz
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| ISBN |
9789966055408 |
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9966055401 |
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9966055398 |
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9789966055392 |
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