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Dr. Obala Musumba

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Short Bio

Dr. Obala Musumba, PhD holds a PhD in African Literature from Humboldt University of Berlin in Germany; an MA in Literature and a Bachelor of Education (Arts), both from Kenyatta University, Kenya. Dr. Musumba has authored, co-authored and co-edited several critical works on Eastern African literatures and cultures. He is currently a lecturer of Comparative Literature at Bomet University College, Kenya, which is a constituent college of Moi University. His duties include teaching and mentoring of both undergraduate and postgraduate students in research. He has also presented at several national and international conferences some of which were organised by Africa multiple cluster of excellence at Moi University in Kenya. His current research interest revolves around the reconstruction of the subjectivities with albinism in Kiswahili children’s fiction. In the research he is interested in analysing how Kiswahili children’s fiction is represented as a launch pad to raise consciousness in the persons with albinism (PWA). The awareness and consciousness for PWA is important as it imbues a boost to the PWA’s confidence, gird their personality, and sharpen their survival instincts in a society that has become life threatening to them. The awareness is also extended to the entire society to integrate and value the being of PWA. Dr. Musumba has also researched on the depiction of the child in conflict zones where he interrogated the representation of the child in Nuruddin Farah’s third trilogy and other contemporary novels from Somalia.

Selected Publications

  • 2024: Musumba, Obala together with others, editing a critical book entitled: Insidious Trauma in Eastern African Literatures and Cultures. London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. ISBN 978-1-032-71846-0.
  • 2024: Olondo, Edna and Musumba, Obala. “Narrating Trauma and Queerness: Perspectives on the Kenyan Films Rafiki and Stories of Our Lives” in Insidious Trauma in Eastern African Literatures and Cultures. London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 142-156.  ISBN 978-1-032-71846-0.
  • 2023: Musumba, Obala. ‘Emergents’ of Violence: Nuruddin Farah’s Representation of the Child in Conflict Zones. LuKA Series. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag. ISBN 978-3-86821-975-3.
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