Publications

Edited Books

(With Joseph Basil Okong’o and Fred Mbogo) Theatre Arts Education: Approaches in Kenya. The Jomo Kenyatta University Press, 2016.

(With Sky G. Athur-Banning) Sports Global Influence: A Survey of Society and Culture in the Context of Sport. Oxford, United Kingdom: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2015.

 

Book Chapter Contribution

(With Tendai Mangena), “Multicultural Aspects of Name and Naming in African Cultures: The Case of Kenya and Zimbabwe,” In Eds. Oliviu Felecan and Alina Bughesiu, Names and Naming: Multicultural Aspects. Palgrave Macmillan 2021, pp. 421-436.

With Joseph Basil Okong’o), “From ethnic community to a popular culture: the case of Gor Mahia football fandom in Kenya”, in Chuka Onwumechili, Ed. Africa’s Elite Football. Structure, Politics, and Everyday Challenges. London: Routledge, 2020, pp.135-146

(With Tendai Mangena) “Naming and Renaming as Sociocultural Signification in Bukusu and Shona Cultures” in Oliviu Felecan, Ed., Onomastics between Sacred and Profane. Series in Language and Linguistics. Delaware 19801, United States: Vernon Press, 2019 pp. 293-302.

 “Kanda’s Grounds and the Ritual Experience of Rural Cinema in Narok, Kenya” in Eds. Gennari, D. H et al. Cinema Outside the City: Rural Cinema-going from a Global Perspective. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, pp.31-45

“Myth and Communication in Selected in Selected Television Dramas from Citizen TV”, in J.B Okong’o, F. Mbogo and S. Waliaula, Eds. Theatre Arts Education: Approaches in Kenya. Nairobi. The Jomo Kenyatta Foundation, 2016, pp. 88-102

“Radio Theatre: Trends in the Contemporary Kenyan Society”, in B Okong’o, F. Mbogo and S. Waliaula, Eds. Theatre Arts Education: Approaches in Kenya. Nairobi. The Jomo Kenyatta Foundation, 2016, pp. 103-120. 

Insights into Theatre Management”, in J.B Okong’o, F. Mbogo and S. Waliaula, Eds. Theatre Arts Education: Approaches in Kenya. Nairobi. The Jomo Kenyatta Foundation, 2016, pp.143-151.

“Performing Identity in the English Premier League Football Fandom in Eldoret, Kenya”, in Eds. Dikaia Chatziefstathiou & Andrea Kathryn Talentino, Sporting Boundaries, Sporting Events and Commodification. Oxford, UK: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2015, pp. 17 – 34.

“Electronic Football Fandom as Performance”, in Eds. Arthur-Banning, S.G and S. Waliaula, Sports Global Influence: A Survey of Society and Culture. Oxford, United Kingdom: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2015, pp. 79-86.

(With Joseph Basil Okong’o), “Performing Luo Identity in Kenya: Songs of Gor Mahia”, in Onwumechili, C & G. Akindes (Eds.) Identity and Nation in African Football. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, pp.83-98

“Envisioning and Visualizing English Football in East Africa: the Case of the Kenyan Radio Football Commentator” in Susann Baller, Giorgio Miescher and Ciraj Rassool, Eds., Global Perspectives of Football in Africa. Visualizing the Game. Routledge: Oxon, New York, 2013, pp.101-11.

“The Vuvuzela as Paradox of Leisure and Noise: A Sociocultural Perspective”, in Alegi, P & C. Bolsmann (Eds.) Africa's World Cup: Critical Reflection on Play, Patriotism, Spectatorship, and Space. The University of Michigan Press, 2013, pp.70-76.

 

Journal Articles

With Frederick Mbogo, Leisure, English Premier League Soccer Spectatorship and social identities in Nairobi and Eldoret, Kenya, Soccer & Society, 2021, DO1: 10.1080/14660970.2021.1977281

With Michael Skey, A Non-Media-Centric Approach to Mediatization: Digital Orientations in the Lives of Football Fans, International Journal of Communication, 2021, 15(21), 2069-285.

With Joseph Basil Okong’o, The Covid-19 Pandemic and the social life of English Premier League Football Fandom in Eldoret, Kenya, Soccer & Society, 2020, DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2020.1772241

Televisual cinema and social identities: the case of Nollywood and Latin American telenovelas in Eldoret, Kenya, Journal of African Cultural Studies, 2019, Vol. 39, No.2, pp.180-195

“Language, European Football Fandom and Social Identification Among Youth in Eldoret, Kenya”, The Mouth: Critical Youth Language Studies. Rethinking Concepts, Issue No.3, 2018, pp. 153-172.

Ritualised Talk of English Premier League Football among Informal Market Vendors in Eldoret, Kenya, Critical Arts, 32:2, 119-133, DOI:10.1080/02560046.2017.1405452, 2018.

“Oral narrative extension of sportmedia: an experience with an English premier league soccer audience community in Eldoret, Kenya”, Soccer & Society, 20:1, 139-152. DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2016.1267637, 2017.

“The Story Worlds of European Soccer in Eldoret, Kenya”, Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies, vol.10, no.3, May 2017, 10:3 pp 187-202.

(With Joseph Basil Okong’o), “Filming violence in Kenya: From the everyday to the spectacular in Hillary Ng’weno’s documentaries”, Journal of African Cinemas, 2014 6:2, pp. 185-194.

“Active audiences of Nollywood video-films: An experience with a Bukusu audience community in Chwele market of Western Kenya”, Journal of African Cinemas, Vol 6:1 2014 pps 71-84.

(With Joseph Basil Okong’o) “The Garissa University College Tragedy: An Accident in Building the Kenyan Nation”, Pax Academica, 3/2014, pp 203 – 215. Codesria.

(With Roselyn Shigali), “Cultural Production in the Kenyan Television Viewing Parlours of European Football”, Kenya Studies Review Volume 6: 2, 2014, pps 80-90.

“Envisioning and Visualizing English Football in East Africa: the Case of the Kenyan Radio Football Commentator” in Soccer & Society: Visualizing the Game: Global Perspectives of Football in Africa Vol. 13 No.2 2012 pps 239-249. ISSN 1466-0970.

(With Misia Kadenyi) “Oral Art as expressive technique in disaster management”, International Journal of Disaster Management and Risk Reduction (IJDMRR) Volume 3, no 1, 2010, pp. 72-77.

(With Joseph Basil Okong’o), “Fostering Peace in Kenya Today Through Football Cultures”, Maarifa. A Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Moi University, Volume 3, No.1, 2009, pp.41-48.