Name: Everyday Echoes Among African Scholars and Raconteurs
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Everyday Echoes Among African Scholars and Raconteurs

Essays, Short Stories and Poems

Edited By: Augustine Agwuele, Edna Ogeto, Bonface Otieno Okinyi

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A distinctive blend of scholarly essays, short stories, and poems illuminates the experiences of African peoples. Scholars and artists merge research with creative insight, exploring the quest for a just society and the pursuit of a fulfilling, authentic life.

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.…

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.

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).

Augustine Agwuele, Maren Akong’o, Antoinette Tidjani Alou, Rebin Buyaki, Anne Anjao Eboi, Maureen Ngozi Eke, Sheriff F. Folarin, James Gitonga, Gwakisa Timothy Kaswaga, Kivutha Kibwana, Naomi Ndumba Kimonye, Ruth Jepkorir Koech, Lucy Koech, El-roy Matekwa, Jomo Mogire, Eucabeth Ong’au-Mong’are , Palakyem Stephen Mouzou, Dominic Mutisya Mulei, Jeremiah Mutuku Muneeni, Maximillia Muninzwa, Felix Mutunga, Florence Chanya Mwaita, Ndiang’ui Ndung’u, Shamte Shaban Ngurangwa, Alfred Nyagaka Nyamwange, Bonface Nyamweya, Bernard Ogalo, Edna Ogeto, Bosire Osoro, Bonface Otieno Okinyi, Okello Owade, Teferi Tafa, Zoey Warimu, Nicholas Anyuor, Wanjala S. Nasong’o