Reimagining Kenyan Cinema

Reimagining Kenyan Cinema seeks to situate current scholarship on Kenyan Cinema within the ongoing debates in national and contemporary global film studies. It thus advocates for diverse methodologies, critical tools and theoretical perspectives in interrogating Kenyan film.

Charles Kebaya is a fulltime member of faculty, Department of Languages and Linguistics, Machakos University. He has co-edited texts such as Cultural Archives of Atrocity: Essays on the Protest Tradition in Kenyan Literature, Culture and Society (2019), Language and Translation: Theory, Pedagogy and Practice (2016), and African Drama and Theatre: A Criticism (2012). He has co-authored A Workbook in Understanding Literature for Kenyan Schools (2020) and authored Federico Garcia Lorca’s Subversive Theatre (2011).He has published a number of articles in referred journals on Popular Art, Comedy and Television drama in Kenya.

Christopher Joseph Odhiambo, CJ as he is popularly known, is Professor of Literature and Applied Drama/Theatre and currently serves as the Dean, School of Postgraduate Studies at Moi University, Kenya. He holds a Dphil in Theatre for Development from Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He has won research awards and international fellowships and served as a keynote speaker in a number of conferences and symposia both locally and internationally. He has published several articles in referred journals and various book chapters on areas of theatre for development, community theatre, aesthetics of theatre and film in Kenya. He has authored Imagined Definition and Vision of the Caribbean: A Reading of George Lamming’s Novels (2011), Theatre for Development in Kenya: In Search of Appropriate Procedure and Methodology (2008) and co-authored African Ethnics and Personal Names (1998) and Orientations of Drama, Theatre and Culture (1998). Currently, CJ Odhiambo serves as the National Chairman, Kenya National Drama and Film Festival Committee.