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Silas Temba

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Open access Sep 2026

Doing History with Light and Shadow: A Formalist and Contextual Analysis of Bangarang (2021) as an Archive of Kenya’s Socio-Political Ailments

This study investigates how the Kenyan feature film Bangarang (2021), directed by Robbie Odongo, recreates, interprets, and visually archives the historical reality of Kenya's post-election violence through its formal cinematic elements while serving as a critical mirror to the nation’s ongoing socio-political crisis....

Silas Temba · 0 citations
#generative ai Open access Aug 2026

The ‘Plasticity’ of the Algorithm: Affective Labour, Machine Inference, and the Defence of Kibagenge in Kenya’s Creative Economy

It is argued that Western algorithms are deficient relative to the realities of two interlocking East African relational constructs, Kibagenge, and Utu, in Kenya and protecting the future of labour related to African performance will require transcending Western theories of discrete emotions and developing forms of tec...

Silas Temba, A. Kirui · 0 citations

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