Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Meja Mwangi and His Urban Trilogy
1.1.1 The Life and Awards of Meja Mwangi
1.1.2 The Urban Trilogy
1.2 Literature Review of the Urban Trilogy
Chapter 2 The City of Nairobi in the Trilogy
2.1 Dissimilated Urban Landscape
2.2 Post-colonial Urban Wanderers
Chapter 3 Multiple Faces of Modernity in the City
3.1 The Metaphoric Depiction of Urban Symbols
3.1.1 Skyscrapers:Capital and Oppression
3.1.2 Cars:The Yearning for Freedom
3.1.3 Cockroaches:The Insignificance and Tenacity of Life
3.1.4 Prostitutes:The Women Struggling in the Heart of the City
3.1.5 Bars:The Micro Society in the City
3.2 Individual Spiritual Exploration
3.2.1 Suppressed Self in the City
3.2.2 Introspection to Nihilistic Individual Belongingness
3.2.3 Rebellion against the Awkward Human Existence
Chapter 4 The African Dream in Urbanization
4.1 City Experiences of African People
4.1.1 Employment:A Distant Dream
4.1.2 Education:Dreams and Disillusionment
4.1.3 Crimes:Diseases in the City
4.1.4 Expulsion:Common Experience of Urban Underclass
4.1.5 Conflicts:Games between Material World and Spiritual World
4.2 Meja Mwangi’s Hope for Africa
4.2.1 Call for Cultural Identity
4.2.2 Reconstruction of Self and Culture
Chapter 5 Conclusion
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