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Dr. Justus Kizitos Siboe Makokha

Title/Qualifications: Dr.
Department/Unit/Section: Literature, Linguistics and Foreign Languages
Contact Address: P. O. BOX 43884 -00100 Nairobi
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Phone : +254 810901 Ext. 4106
Position: Lecturer & Chairperson, Seminars Committee
Area of Specialization: Literary Theory, Postcolonial Literatures, Gender Studies, Translation Studies 
Research Interests: Masculinities Studies,Literary Journalism & Folk Media,Transnational Literatures & Popular Culture
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4671-4634
GOOGLESCHOLAR: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hZWmiD0AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao


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Refereed Journal Papers

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  • Korir, Millicent Jemutai, Mark Chetambe & Justus Makokha. “Shifting Identities and Fragmented Subjectivities in Majok Tulba’s Beneath the Darkening Sky and Emmanuel Dongala’s Johnny Mad Dog.” East African Journal of Arts and Social Sciences, Vol. 6, no. 2, Aug. 2023, pp. 69-79, Doi:10.37284/eajass.6.2.1399. https://journals.eanso.org/index.php/eajass/article/view/1399/2044
  • Sum, Robert Kipkoech, Justus Makokha, & Sperenza Ndege, “Afrofuturism and Quest for Black Redemption in Nnedi Okorafor’s The Book of Phoenix.” East African Journal of Arts and Social Sciences. Vol. 5 (1) 2022. Pp. 328 – 338. ISSN: 2707-4277 (Print). ISSN: 2707-4285 (Online) DOI https://journals.eanso.org/index.php/eajass/article/view/752
  • Nyongesa, Andrew & Justus Makokha “Violence, Sexuality and Diminishing Masculinity: Subversive Masculinities in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North (1969) and Nadifa Mohamed’s Orchard of Lost Souls (2013). Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies. Adonis and Abbey. Vol. 3 (1). 2022. Pp. 5 – 25. ISSN: 2633-2108 (Print). 26333-2116 (Online).
    DOI https://journals.co.za/doi/full/10.31920/2633-2116/2022/v3n1a1
  • Nyongesa, Andrew, Murimi Gaita & Justus Makokha, “The Feminist Writer and the Subaltern: A Perspective on Ole Kulet’s Blossoms of the Savannah.” East African Literary and Cultural Studies. ROUTLEDGE. Vol. 2 (2), December, 2021. Pp. 298 - 316. ISSN 9780367535735 (Print)
    DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/23277408.2021.1978766
  • Mutuku, Jeremiah, Justus Makokha & Esther Mbithi, “Transmutation and Temporality: Shifting Figures of African Women in Jennifer Makumbi’s Historical Novel Kintu (2014).” International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation. Vol. 4 (2) 2021. Pp. 215 - 222. ISSN: 2617-0299 (Online). 2708-0099 (Print). DOI: https://doi.org/10.32996/ijllt.2021.4.2.25
  • Sum, Robert, Justus Makokha & Sperenza Ndege, “Aspects of Gothic Tradition in the Literary Imagination of Nnedi Okorafor.” Journal of Law and Social Sciences. SABINET. Vol. 4 (3), 2020. Pp. 21 - 30. ISSN: 2226-  6402 (Print).
    DOI https://doi.org/10.53974/unza.jlss.4.3.759
  • Mogire, Alice, Justus Makokha, & Oscar Macharia, “Postcolonial Identities in Dinaw Mengestu’s Literary Chronotope.” Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies. SABINET. Vol. 2 (2) August, 2021. Pp. 45 – 70. ISSN: 2633-2108 (Print). 26333-2116 (Online).
    DOI https://doi.org/10.31920/2633-2116/2021/v2n2a3
  • Nyongesa, Andrew, Murimi Gaita & Justus K. S. Makokha, “Otherness and Marginal Spaces: Beyond Politics and Race in Contemporary African Novels.” Imbizo: International Journal of African Literary and Comparative Studies. UNISA Press. Vol 12. (1) 2021. 16 pages. ISSN(Print): 2078-9785 https://doi.org/10.25159/2663-6565/7694   https://upjournals.co.za/index.php/Imbizo/article/view/7694
  • Nyongesa, Andrew, Murimi Gaita & Justus K. S. Makokha, “Otherness and Pathology: Parallels between Matyrdom and Fragmented Selves in Nuruddin Farah’s Close Sesame.” JELLiC: Journal of English, Language and Culture. Cameroon English Language and Literature Association (Special Issue) No. 02 (1), May, 2021. Pp. 85 - 95. ISSN: 2304-6120 (Print). 2304 - 6163 (Online).
  • Makokha, Gloria and J. S. Makokha. “Through Toundi’s Lens: First Person Narration and its Thematic Significance in Ferdinand Oyono’s House Boy.” The Cactus: A Multi-disciplinary Journal. Vol. 3. No. 1. 2020. Pp. 55 – 70. ISSN: 2220 - 9914. Pp. 1 – 10.
  • Nyongesa, Andrew, Murimi Gaita & Justus K. S. Makokha, “Conversation with Other: Style and Pathology in Selected African Novels.” Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies. Vol. 1 (2) August 2020. Pp. 115 – 135. ISSN: 2633-2108 (Print). 26333-2116 (Online). https://journals.co.za/content/journal/10520/EJC-1f26c4ea01
  • Nyongesa, Andrew Wafula & Justus S. Makokha, “Otherness and Other Selves Within: Fragmented Selves in Nuruddin Farah’s Close Sesame and Maps.” Journal of Somali Studies. SABINET. Volume 7 (1) June, 2020. Pp. 53 - 72. ISSN: 2056-56-74. E-ISSN: 2056-5682 https://journals.co.za/content/journal/10520/EJC-1eb5870d28
  • Murage, Peter Ndambiri & Justus S. Makokha, “Aesthetics of Globalization in Daya Pawar’s       Baluta:    Reflexivity    and   Social    Change   in Critical      Perspective.” Contemporary Voice of Dalit. SAGE. 1 (1) 2020. Pp. 1 – 11. ISSN: 2456-0502. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2455328X19898421
  • Nderitu, Joseph, K. S. Makokha and John Mugubi, “Funerary Symbols in Oe Kenzaburo’s The Silent Cry (1967) and Masuji Ibuse’s Black Rain (1970).” International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature. Vol. 7. No. 12. 2019. Pp. 25-42. ISSN: 2347 3134. https://www.arcjournals.org/international-journal- on-studies-in-english- language-and-literature/volume-7-issue-12/
  • Makokha, J. K. S. and Sperenza Ndege, “Ideology and Subversion in Selected Feminist Short Stories from Africa.” Hybrid Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies. 1. No. 1. 2019. Pp. 30- 44. ISSN: 2220 - 9914.
  • Makokha, J. K. S and J. Barusi. “Daya Pawar’s Baluta (2015) - A Study on the Literary Ideology of Marginalities.” Cactus: Journal of Arts and Humanities. 2. No. 1. 2019. Pp. 55 – 70. ISSN: 2220 - 9914.
  • Nyongesa, Andrew, Justus Makokha and Kaigai Kimani, “Hybridity and Fixity: Modes of Resistance in Safi Abdi’s Offspring of Paradise and A Mighty Collision of Worlds.”Journal of Somali Studies. Vol. 6. No. 1. June, 2019. Pp.71-91. ISSN: 2056-56- E-ISSN: 2056-5682 https://journals.co.za/content/journal/10520/EJC-16288a1db5
  • Makokha, J. K. S. “Okot’s Aesthetics Revisited: On Symbolic and Parabolic Expression in Song of Lawino.”Nairobi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. Vol. 3. No. 1. January, Pp. 5 – 14. ISSN: 2523-0948.
  • Eno, Mohamed A, Mohamed Azaza, Omar A. Eno & Justus K. S. Makokha, “China-Africa Relations: How Tight Are the ‘Strings’ Attached?”The International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. Vol 2. Issue 9, 2014: pp. 196-203. ISSN 2321 – 9203. http://theijhss.com/2014-2/september-14
  • Makokha, J. K. S. & Michael Wainaina, “The Asian African Writer and the Postcolonial Condition in East Africa: On the In-Between Worlds of M. G. Vassanji.”The Nairobi Journal of Literature, No. 7, July 2013: pp.41-54. ISSN 1814-1706.
  • Nyongesa, Andrew, Murimi Gaita & Justus K. S. Makokha, “Otherness and Marginal Spaces: Beyond Politics and Race in Contemporary African Novels.” Imbizo: International Journal of African Literary and Comparative Studies. UNISA Press. Vol (1) 2021. 16 pages. ISSN(Print): 2078-9785 https://doi.org/10.25159/2663-6565/7694 https://upjournals.co.za/index.php/Imbizo/article/view/7694
  • Mogire, Alice, Justus Makokha, & Oscar Macharia, “Postcolonial Identities in Dinaw Mengestu’s Literary Chronotope.” Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies. SABINET. Vol. 2 (2) August, 2021. Pp. 45 – 70. ISSN: 2633-2108 (Print). 26333-2116 (Online).
    DOI https://doi.org/10.31920/2633-2116/2021/v2n2a3
  • Nyongesa, Andrew, Murimi Gaita & Justus K. S. Makokha, “Otherness and Pathology: Parallels between Matyrdom and Fragmented Selves in Nuruddin Farah’s Close Sesame.” JELLiC: Journal of English, Language and Culture. Cameroon English Language and Literature Association (Special Issue) No. 02 (1), May, 2021. Pp. 85 - 95. ISSN: 2304-6120 (Print). 2304 - 6163 (Online).
  • Makokha, Gloria and J. K. S. Makokha. “Through Toundi’s Lens: First Person Narration and its Thematic Significance in Ferdinand Oyono’s House Boy.” The Cactus: A Multi-disciplinary Journal. Vol. 3. No. 1. 2020. Pp. 55 – 70. ISSN: 2220 - 9914. Pp. 1 – 10.
  • Nyongesa, Andrew, Murimi Gaita & Justus K. S. Makokha, “Conversation with Other: Style and Pathology in Selected African Novels.” Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies. Vol. 1 (2) August 2020. Pp. 115 – 135. ISSN: 2633-2108 (Print). 26333-2116 (Online).https://journals.co.za/content/journal/10520/EJC-1f26c4ea01
  • Nyongesa, Andrew Wafula & Justus S. Makokha, “Otherness and Other Selves Within: Fragmented Selves in Nuruddin Farah’s Close Sesame and Maps.” Journal of Somali Studies. SABINET. Volume 7 (1) June, 2020. Pp. 53 - 72. ISSN: 2056-56-74. E-ISSN: 2056-5682 https://journals.co.za/content/journal/10520/EJC-1eb5870d28
  • Murage, Peter Ndambiri & Justus S. Makokha, “Aesthetics of Globalization in Daya Pawar’s Baluta:    Reflexivity    and   Social    Change   in    Critical    Perspective.” Contemporary Voice of Dalit. SAGE. 1 (1) 2020. Pp. 1 – 11. ISSN: 2456-0502. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2455328X19898421
  • Ajami Makokha, , & J. K. S. Makokha (2020). Between Globalization and Localization: Aesthetic Manifestation of Globality, Reflexivity and Social Change in Daya Pawar’s Baluta (2015). Hybrid Journal of Literary and Culture Studies, 2 (1), 1-13. ISSN: 2220 - 9914.
  • Murage, Joseph, J. K. S. Makokha, “Funerary Symbols in Oe Kenzaburo’s The Silent Cry (1967) and Masuji Ibuse’s Black Rain (1970).” International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature. 7. No. 12. 2019. Pp. 25-42. ISSN: 2347 3134. https://www.arcjournals.org/international-journal-on-studies-in-english- language-and-literature/volume-7-issue-12/
  • Makokha, J. K. S. and Speranza Ndege, “Ideology and Subversion in Selected Feminist Short Stories from Africa.” Hybrid Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies. 1. No. 1. 2019. Pp. 30- 44. ISSN: 2220 - 9914.
  • Makokha, J. K. S. “Daya Pawar’s Baluta (2015) - A Study on the Literary Ideology of ” Cactus: Journal of Arts and Humanities. Vol. 2. No. 1. 2019. Pp. 55 – 70. ISSN: 2220 - 9914.
  • Nyongesa, Andrew, Justus Makokha and Kaigai Kimani, “Hybridity and Fixity: Modes of Resistance in Safi Abdi’s Offspring of Paradise and A Mighty Collision of Worlds.” Journal of Somali Studies. Vol. 6. No. 1. June, 2019. Pp.71-91. ISSN: 2056-56- E-ISSN: 2056-5682 https://journals.co.za/content/journal/10520/EJC-16288a1db5
  • Makokha, J. K. S. “Okot’s Aesthetics Revisited: On Symbolic and Parabolic Expression in Song of Lawino.” Nairobi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. Vol. 3. No. 1. January, Pp. 5 – 14. ISSN: 2523-0948.
  • Eno, Mohamed A, Mohamed Azaza, Omar A. Eno & Justus K. S. Makokha, “China-Africa Relations: How Tight Are the ‘Strings’ Attached?” The International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. Vol 2. Issue 9, 2014: pp. 196-203. ISSN 2321 – 9203. http://theijhss.com/2014-2/september-14
  • Makokha, J. K. S. & Michael Wainaina, “The Asian African Writer and the Postcolonial Condition in East Africa: On the In-Between Worlds of M. G. Vassanji.” The Nairobi Journal of Literature, No. 7, July 2013: pp.41-54. ISSN 1814-1706.
  • Makokha J. K. S. & Vincent Kawoya, “The Case for Kiswahili as a Regional Broadcasting Language in East Africa.”The Journal of Pan African Studies. 2. No. 8. 2009: pp. 11- 35. ISSN 1942-6569 (online).http://www.jpanafrican.org/docs/vol2no8/2.8_CaseForKiswahiliAsARegionalBr oadcastingLanguageInEastAfrica.pdf
  • (B) Complete and Selected For Publication (2020)
  • Makokha, J. K. S. and V. F. Kawoya, “Globalization and African Heritage in the 21st Century: Points of Interlock.” TOJA: The Oye Journal of Arts. Volume 2. No. 1. April 2020. ISSN 2705-3881. PP. 11 - 23.
  • University Level Scholarly Books
  • Reading African Literatures: Critical Perspectives. Amsterdam, New York NY: Rodopi, 2013. Co-edited with Reuben Chirambo. (with foreword by Prof. Moradewun Adejunmobi). 444 pp. ISBN: 978-90-420-3675-8. Click on this hyperlink.
  • Cultural Archives of Atrocity: Essays on the Protest Tradition in Kenyan Literature, Culture and Society. New York and London, Routledge, 2019. Co-edited with Colomba Muriungi, Charles Kebaya. 358 pp. ISBN: 978-036720-54-54 Click on this hyperlink
  • Tertiary Level Scholarly Books
  •  Style in African Literature: Essays on Literary Stylistics and Narrative Styles. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012. Co-edited with Ogone John Obiero and Russell West-Pavlov (with foreword by Chin Ce). 444 pp. Click on this hyperlink
    ISBN: 978-90-420-3476-1
  • Negotiating Afropolitanism: Essays on Borders and Spaces in Contemporary African Literature and Orature. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011. Co-edited with Jennifer Wawrzinek (with foreword by Professor Simon Gikandi of Princeton University) 372pp.
    ISBN: 978-90-420-3049-7. Clink on this hyperlink
  • Book Chapters
  • Makokha, J. K. S. “Brown Skins in Black States: Contextualising Post-Colonial Literature of the South Asian Diaspora in East Africa.” in Border-Crossings: Narrative and Demarcation in Postcolonial Literatures. Eds. Jennifer Wawrzinek, Justus Makokha and Russell West-Pavlov. Heidelberg: Winter, 2012. ISBN: 978-3-8253-5899-0 pp. 157-186.Click this hyperlink
  • Makokha, J. K. S. “The Eternal Other: Authority of Deficit Masculinity in Asian African Literature.” in Men and Masculinities in African Fiction and Film. Ed. Lahoucine Ouzgane. London: James Currey, 2011. ISBN: 1-84701-521-2. pp. 139-152.
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  • Makokha, J. K. S. “The Politics and Poetics of Characterization in M. G. Vassanji’s The Book of Secrets”. In Reading Contemporary African Literature: Critical Perspectives. Eds. Reuben Chirambo and J. K. S. Makokha. Amsterdam, New York NY: Rodopi, 2013. Click on this hyperlink
  • West-Pavlov, Russell & J. K. S. Makokha, “Linguistic (Re)turn and Craft in Contemporary African Literature”. In Style in African Literature: Essays on Literary Stylistics and Narrative Style. Eds. J. K. S. Makokha, Ogone Obiero & Russell West-Pavlov. Amsterdam, New York NY: Rodopi, 2012. Click on this hyperlink
  •  Makokha, J. K. S., “Imagined (Dis)locations: The Poetics of Setting in the Early Fiction of M. G. Vassanji.” in East African Literature: Essays in Written and Oral Traditions. Berlin: Logos, 2012. Eds. J. K. S. Makokha, Egara Kabaji & Dominica Dipio. pp. 110-125. ISBN: 978-3-8325-2816-4. Click on this hyperlink or hyperlink
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