Wam Literature

A literary look at the modern day woman as portrayed in H.R Kulet book. Blossoms of the Savannah is a book written by the late H.R Kulet in the early 2000s. The story in the book is set in the mid-90s- a period marked with inflation in Kenya which prompted massive layoffs of civil servants called retrenchment and privatization of key government institutions. This was also a period of political change in Kenya with the birth of multiparty politics and also the onset of gender equality debate in the country. With vocal female leaders like the Late Wangari Maathai, Charity Kaluki Ngilu among others joining politics, there was a lot of enthusiasm in Kenya about the impending change. Kulet chose to dwell on the social cultural change brought about with education of the girl child and how this was effecting change in communities that were consertive. Key among the issues he sought to address were the retrogressive cultural practices that targeted a specific gender and how greed and lust ...

  One cannot run away from their culture; what they can do is work towards changing it. Drawing from the book Blossoms of the Savannah, discuss. One cannot run away from their culture; what they can do is work towards changing it. This is evident in the novel Blossoms of the Savannah by H.R. Kulet. According to the novel, Parsimei Ole kaelo brought up his children in the confines of the city of Nakuru away from the culture of Nasila. In Nakuru, Kaelo was comfortable to be a monogamous with two daughters. Even though his brother had advised him to stick to Nasila culture and obey its tenets, Kaelo dismissed them. He was a happy successful man doing well as a career man. In Nakuru he could model his daughters to modern women with careers- probably the reason he moved to the town in the fast place.        By moving to Nakuru, Kaelo was in a way running away from the cruel Nasila culture. He was a man with an outside view of his culture. He wished th...

The book Blossoms of the Savannah presents Ole Kaelo as behaving in a cowardly manner. This essay observes Kaelo’s acts of cowardice and how they shape the trajectory of the story. Kaelo is one of the main characters in the book. He is the father of Taiyo and Resian. Kaelo’s decisions make the story’s conflict skyrocket into a struggle for the rights of the girl child. Generally, we pick up Kaelo from the moment he retired. However, it should be noted that Kaelo’s confidence begun the moment he moved to Nakuru. With a lucrative job and a lean family, Kaelo displayed a confidence never seen before. In the comfort of Nakuru, he defended his decision to remain monogamous and delineate himself from the barbaric female circumcision for his two daughters. The security of employment in the sprawling Nakuru city offered Kaelo enough confidence to denounce culture and call Nasila elders as ‘megalomaniacs who were stuck in the past. In Nakuru, Kaelo found a safe haven in which to abhor and...