Everyday Echoes Among African Scholars and Raconteurs: Essays, Short Stories and Poems

Augustine Agwuele · Edna Ogeto · Bonface Otieno Okinyi

Jan 2025 · Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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This volume offers a distinctive blend of scholarly essays, short stories, and poems to illuminate the everyday experiences and aspects of life of African peoples. It brings together the perspectives of scholars and artists, using their varied genres to inspire reflection on their quest towards a society that is equitable, just, and supportive of its people’s pursuit of a fulfilling life, even as they embrace and maintain their authentic selves. By bridging disciplinary boundaries and geographical divides, this book merges rigorous empirical research with the imaginative insights of storytellers and the evocative creativity of poets, providing a rich, humanistic exploration of society and existence.

The volume is organized into three sections. Part One features scholarly essays addressing themes in the humanities, including politics, popular culture, language, and ethnology. Part Two offers a series of short stories that capture the complexities of day-to-day living. Part Three presents a collection of poems that explicates various issues affecting individuals, communities, and the broader African continent.

About the author

Augustine Agwuele is a professor of linguistics in the Department of Anthropology, Texas State University, San Marcos, USA. He is interested in the peoples of Africa, examining how, as members of their communities, their everyday linguistic devices and communicative practices reflect their sense of the world and reproduce their ways of life.

Edna Ogeto is an instructor and Assistant Director at the Helmholtzschule, Leipzig, Germany. She is a passionate educator, seasoned administrator, and talented poet with a deep sense of appreciation for the beauty of language and the power of storytelling. She is the co-author of Thundertongues: Sixty love poems (2024) by Author Crafts.

Bonface Otieno Okinyi is a creative writer and poet who teaches English and literary studies in Kenya. He is the founder and President of Bleeding Ink Global Writers Community. He also is the Director of Bleeding Ink Scribes Publishers Ltd (BINKSPU Ltd). Okinyi is the author of Wicked Agadapidi and other songs (2021).

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