http://ir.mu.ac.ke:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/7928 Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:58:23 GMT 2026-04-20T08:58:23Z http://ir.mu.ac.ke:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/7930 Title: Aesthetics of Participation in Film for Community Development: Authors: Odhiambo, Christopher J. Abstract: This article explores how film as a mode of intervention in community development has deliberately integrated the aesthetics and poetics of participation. To demonstrate how this is made possible, a film by Sponsored Art For Education—Kenya (SAFE-K) entitled Watatu is deployed as a specimen for critical analysis. From the structuring and framing of the film through the infusion of community theatre participatory aesthetics, it is discerned that film can actually incorporate aesthetics of participation to engage audiences in dialogue. Description: Part of the Ästhetiken X.0 – Zeitgenössische Konturen ästhetischen Denkens book series (ÄZKäD) Fri, 23 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT http://ir.mu.ac.ke:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/7930 2023-06-23T00:00:00Z http://ir.mu.ac.ke:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/7929 Title: East African Asian Writing and the Emergence of a Diasporic Aesthetic Authors: Simatei, Peter Abstract: This article traces the emergence of East African Asian writings and their struggle with questions of national belonging and diaspora. It argues that although this emergence was part and parcel of the literary developments that were taking place in the East Africa region in the 1960s, these writings would later distinguish themselves as texts that are not only framed by the ambivalent and diasporic histories of Indians in imperial and postcolonial East Africa but also as writings that consciously construct ambivalent diasporic subjectivities as the basis of new forms of East African Indian identities. I argue that this ambivalence reveals itself in the way these texts disavow dominant, nationalistic, even binary accounts of colonial relationships and create, instead, narratives that skirt the borderlines of both colonial and nationalist discourses. Description: Part of the Ästhetiken X.0 – Zeitgenössische Konturen ästhetischen Denkens book series (ÄZKäD) Fri, 23 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT http://ir.mu.ac.ke:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/7929 2023-06-23T00:00:00Z