Dr. Muhia John Mugo

Department: Literature, Linguistics & Foreign Languages School : Humanities & Social Sciences, Contact Address: Kenyatta University, P.O.Box 43844, GPO, Nairobi, Kenya. Position: Lecturer  Tel. :+254 0(20) 8710901-19 E-mail:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Download full CV

Publications

Articles & Papers In Peer-Reviewed Journals

• Wachira, I. G, Mugo Muhia and Kimani Kaigai. (2021).  Rumour – and (Dis)-Unities of Blackness: A Reading of Globalization in Mia Couto’s The Last Flight of the Flamingo. Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies. Vol. 2 No. 3. Published online December 9, 2021. Pg 9-29. https://hdl.handle.net/10520/ejc-aa_jalls_v2_n3_a2
• Wachira, I., Muhia, M., & Kaigai, K. (2021). “My-house-without-a-door-an-egg”: Reading an African perspective of the chronotope in selected works of Amos Tutuola, Ben Okri and Alain Mabanckou. Nairobi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 5(1). Pp 34-50 https://www.royalliteglobal.com/njhs/article/view/560
• Wachira, I., Mugo Muhia., & Kimani Kaigai. (2020). “Sexing African Time and Space”: The Fetish of Colonial Gender”. Journal of Law and Social Sciences. Vol. 4(2). Pp 29-39. https://library.unza.zm/index.php/JLSS/article/view/469. ISSN: 2226-6402
• Muhia, M. (2020). The Subdued Nature: Reading Henry ole Kulet’s Vanishing Herds through Eco-Marxist Lense. African Identities. DOI: 10.1080/14725843.2020.17773242
• Muhia, M and Gathogo J. (2018). The Use of Indigenous Resourcesin Environmental Conservation in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Murogi wa Kagogo: A Religio-Cultural Perspective. Jumuga Journal of Education, Oral Studies, and Human Sciences (JJEOSHS), 1(1). https://doi.org/10.35544/jjeoshs.v1i1.1
• Wachira, E., Kimani Kaigai and Mugo Muhia. “Phantoms of Hysteria – Novelistic Phantasmagoria in Lesego Rampolokeng’s Whiteheart: Epilogue to Hysteria.” Ed. Michael Bintley. Cogents Arts & Humanities. Vol 5, 2018 http://doi.org/10.1080/233311983.2018-1425233
• Sep. 2017. Wachira, I, Kaigai Kimani amd Mugo Muhia. “Spectres of Insanity: Expression od Dissidence in Lesego Rampolokeng’s Blackheart (Epilogue to Insanity)”, International Journal of Law, Humanities & Social Sciences. Vol. 1-Issue 5, pp. 12-22. ISSN(ONLINE): 2521-0793, ISSN (PRINT): 2521-0785
• 2014:Muhia, M.‘‘Choru wa Muiruri: Relections on the Kamirithu Experience.’’ African theatre. Vol. 13. Eds. Martin Burnham, James Gibbs, Yvette Hutchson, Femi Osofisan & Jane Plasow. Pp (37-41).
• Gibbs,J. & Muhia, M.‘‘Wole Soyinka & Ngugi wa Thiong’o: Plays in Production.’’ African theatre. Vol. 13. Eds. Martin Burnham, James Gibbs, Yvette Hutchson, Femi Osofisan & Jane Plaistow. Pp. (60-76).
• Oct. 2013: Muhia, M.,Fugich Wako & Joseph Walunywa: ‘‘Reconfiguration of Oral Genres in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Caitaani Mutharaba-ini/Devil on the Cross.’’ Ruwaza Africa: Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (ISSN no: 225-7144). Vol. 2, No. 1Pp(84-104)

Book Chapters

• Muhia, M. & Macharia Mwangi. “Tranlation Aesthetics: Reading Texts and Contexts in Ngugi’s Caitaani Mutharaba-ini and Devil on the Cross.” In Language and Translation: Theory, Pedagogy & Practice. Eds Kebaya, Hilda, M. Osore, P. Ngugi and C. Kebaya. Nsaema Publishers, 2016. ISBN: 978-1-926906-47-8
• Muhia, M, Fugich Wako and Joseph Walunywa. “Visions of a Better Society: Myths, Proverbs and Resistance in Matigari ma Njiruungi.” Democracy, Civil Society and Development in Africa. Ed. Maurice Nyamanga Amutabi. Nairobi: Catholic University of East Africa, 2015. (296-311)

Grant Award

• 68 Million Kenya National Research Fund Grant: Hansard Report Production Process in the Devolved Government Structures in Kenya and the Implications for Democratic Governance

Grant Application

• Has applied for a UNESCO Grant under The International Fund for Cultural Diversity (IFCD) as co-PI on 13^th June, 2019. Mapping Audio-visual Industry in Kenya and in Kenya and its Socio-Economic Potential.

Conference, Workshops, and Training

• 11-12^th, 2021: Presented a paper during 6^th World Disability and Rehabilitation Conference- Virtual titled: Disability and Grotesquery: Corporeal Otherness in Selected Kenyan Short Films.
• 27-29: 2021: Presented a paper during 2^nd Congress of the POCLANDE Conference held .at Kenyatta University titled: The Ogiek of Kenya: The Dilemma of Sustainable Livelihoods in Henry ole Kulet’s the Elephant Dance
• Feb 19, 2021: Presented a paper during the International Mother Language Day at Kenyatta University titled: The Nature of Gîkûyû Language: Writing and the Politics of Orthography.
• Oct 22-25, 2019 – Presented a paper at Kenyatta University Biennial Research and Innovation Conference drawn from our ongoing NRF, Kenya funded research. Papers Presented: Politics and Architecture: Do Kenya’s County Assemblies’ External and Internal Visual Design carry Democratic Socio-Political and Cultural symbolism? And Hansard Production Human Resource Capacity the Devolved Government structure in Kenya and its Implication for Democratic Governance
• Oct -Nov. 2016 Attended a Three week Research Methodological Training offered by Partnership for African social & Governance Research (Pasgor): Modules taken : Designing Social Inquiry,Critical Policy Engaged Research, Multi-Methods Strategies and Interpretive Methods and Ethnography.
• September 2013: University of Nairobi. Conference, East Africa at 50. Paper presented: ‘‘Reclaiming the Destroyed Shrines: An Ecocritical Analysis of Ngugi’s Murogi wa Kagogo.’’
• July 2012: Kenyatta University Kenya: Paper presented: Visions of a Better Society: Proverbs and Resistance in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Matigari
• May 16th – 24th 2012: Egerton University, Njoro. Workshop: Methodology and Key Words in Qualitative Research. By Prof Susan Vanzyl from University of Witwatersland
• September 2011: Kenyatta Univesity, Kenya
  Training
  • Introduction Course on Instructional Systems Design.
  • Introduction Course on e-Learning and Pedagogy
• August 2o11: University of Cape Town, South Africa. Conference Theme: North, South Conversations and Dialogue. Paper Presented: ‘‘Introduction to Ngugi’s Vernacular Writing and Politics of Gikuyu Orthography.’’
• May 2011: Kenyatta University, Kenya. Presented a Paper in the Department of Literature Seminar Room: ‘‘The Mythic and Fantastic: Representation in Ngugi’s Murogi wa Kagogo.’’
• March 2011: Kenyatta University Kenya:
  Training
  • Quality Management Systems Awareness
• May 2010, May 2011, May 2012
  Seminar: Teaching Practice Orientation: Ethics, discipline during teaching practice.
  • Public relations during teaching practice
  • Schemes of work, lesson plan and standardization
  • Aspects to consider in a science lesson supervision
  • Supervision of B. ed and Diploma in Early Childhood Education
  • Supervision in Special Needs Education

SYMPOSIA / WORKSHOP/CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION WORKING

• Committee Member: One Day International Mother Language Day Conference supported by Bangladesh High Commission in Kenya. Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya, 19^th February, 2021.