Betrayal in the City
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Betrayal in the City, first published in 1976 and 1977, was Kenya's national entry to the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture in Lagos, Nigeria. The play is an incisive, thought-provoking examination of the problems of independence and freedom in post-colonial African states, where a sizeable number of people feel that their future is either blank or bleak. In the words of Mosese, one of the characters: 'It was better while we waited. Now we have nothing to look forward to. We have killed our past and are busy killing our future.'--Page 4 of cover. 
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Thanks for the themes provided. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: Francis Imbuga, whose play, Betrayal in the Citybecame one of Kenya’s most iconic works of literature died on Sunday night after a stroke, the Daily Nation has reported via twitter.
On November 9,in an interview with the Saturday NationProf Imbuga said that he would bterayal preferred to have his newest play, The Return of Mgofuselected as a betrsyal book, arguing that it had more contemporary themes. Experts had to be imported to give meaning to the data. Newer Post Older Post Home. I preferentialy ask my colligue students at St Peters Nyakinywa to read it before tommorow. Imbuga, who betrayql at the age of 65, has had an illustrious writing career, emerging as one the most prolific playwrights in Kenya alongside the late Wahome Mutahi, who died after a botched surgery nine years ago.
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Yes; you will need it. The play’s conflict was resolved in a bloodless coup lead by a disgruntled university student, Jasper Wendo, whose brother had been shot dead during an earlier protest by students.
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Am happy for this especialy to me. Notify me of new comments via email. The play had ccity resonance especially because, in the years of the Moi repression, university students were at the forefront of championing democracy, human rights and other freedoms.
Nbugua, 19 November Final curtain falls on Francis Imbuga. To find out more, including how to control cookies, ccity here: Some of them would later ascend to positions of political leadership nationally.
Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here This site uses cookies. Betrayal in the City was a popular book during the repressive years of the Moi administration, firing the imagination of young readers who yearned for change in governance. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. You are commenting using your Facebook account.
Here I am wasting time talking to you instead of helping the others to fill in forms for your rehabilitation. I am truly grateful now that I know what awaits me. Posted by Big Books Ltd at This was the frncis time that the play was being used as a study text for students sitting the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education.
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As a literature lecturer, Prof Imbuga contributed to debates on culture and shaped a generation of scholars, teachers and writers who studied at Kenyatta University where he taught for many years.