Human Rights and Displacement in Literature: The Case of M. Mwangi's Kill Me Quick and K. Kombani's The Last Villains of Molo.
This work aims to explore the relationship between literature and human rights with a hypothesis that literature is a vehicle for enhancing human rights through its condemnation of violations, and thus, the focus is on two novels - Meja Mwangi's Kill Me Quick and Kinyanjui Kombani's The Last Villain...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Pan African Studies Vol. 12; no. 7; pp. 92 - 107 |
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Journal of Pan African Studies
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