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Papers by Wanyama Ogutu

East African journal of arts and social sciences, Dec 4, 2023

East African Journal of Arts and Social Sciences

The devastating COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted in the closure of all schools for nearly a year... more The devastating COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted in the closure of all schools for nearly a year, violated articles 43(1)f, 53(1)b, and 55(a) of Kenya’s 2010 constitution on the right to education. The Government of Kenya deprived UNDP-SGDs (2015) of goals on quality education and UNICEF (2018); Every Child Learns when enforcing the social distance policy, a direction of World Health Organization (WHO) (2020) preventive measures. Before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, UNICEF (2018) cautioned that any attempt to inhibit child learning’s welfare, such as play, would harm growth and development in early childhood. Modern educationalists have asserted that play with art plays a role in cognitive and social learning as an extension of recreation and elaboration of their conflicts. The paper aims to reconfigure rights to education on play with paintings and clay modelling among children affected by the psychosocial effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The researcher has focused on de...

East African Journal of Arts and Social Sciences

The world is awakening to the nursing of devastating COVID-19 pandemic effects that resulted in t... more The world is awakening to the nursing of devastating COVID-19 pandemic effects that resulted in the closure of school among others. Children’s welfare, especially playing was obstructed due to COVID-19 pandemic protective and preventive measures set by the World Health Organization (WHO) and other health agencies. Child developers assert that if a child is inhibited to play, despite valid reasons, it opens up to a paradox of problems in society. Educationists together with therapists have applauded the role play with any art forms goings beyond recreation to an expression of their desires, traumas, and elaboration of their conflicts and emotional healing. This paper has established the psychoanalysis and therapeutic process of a child affected by the COVID-19 pandemic while playing with paintings and clay. The researcher explored desktop descriptive qualitative research design. The psychoanalysis instrumentation was employed to evaluate the literature reviews, theoretical framework ...

Design for All Institute of India May 2021 , 2021

Art is a mirror of society. It evolves with time to keep up to the demands of society. The adven... more Art is a mirror of society. It evolves with time to keep up to the
demands of society. The advent of the digital technology and
communication age, the impact and effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, the
ravages of climate change among others, are recent events that have
changed the perception of society, and that of Art.

Artistic practice therefore continuously evolves. In real sense, it goes
beyond the physical activities of making artistic products and includes
influences, ideas, materials as well as tools and skills. This special
publication issue presents findings of five researches that document
the evolution of trends and processes in Artistic practice in Africa with
specific reference to Kenya. One paper, ‘Adoption of digital technology
in art- based offender rehabilitation programs,’ analyses the
utilization of digitization in art-based programmes for problem solving.
Another three papers, ‘Artistic design practice for a trans-disciplinary
knowledge exchange’, ‘Olumo Rock tourist destination: A survey of
the potential and aesthetic value of the facility’, and ‘Utilization of
African designs on religious artifacts: an analysis of religious artifacts
at the All Saints Cathedral, Nairobi,’ are on trans-disciplinary

knowledge exchange, a new trend that is taking place in contemporary
African society. The last paper, ‘Practice-based art projects: reviewing
the methods and methodologies of graduate scholars,’ discusses the
trends that have taken place with the new processes in Artistic
practice.

I hope this read will highlight the evolution in artistic practice that is
taking place in contemporary Africa.

Guest Editor:
Dr. George Vikiru,
Department of Fine Art and Design-
Kenyatta university.
May, 2021

East African Journal of Education Studies, Apr 8, 2020

As the government of Kenya is geared towards achieving sustainable development goals and Kenya Bi... more As the government of Kenya is geared towards achieving sustainable development goals and Kenya Big 4 Agenda, the Ministry of Education rolled out the new education system 2-6-3-3-3 dubbed "Competence Base Curriculum" whose mission is to nurture every learner's potential. It received overwhelming appraisal from different stakeholders;-locally and internationally eliciting debates in the local media, radio and television talk shows. Prior to this bold step in the curriculum, the government of Kenya set up various taskforces to review the 8.4.4 curricula in 1992, 1995, 2002, 2009 and 2011, reviewed by the late Professor Douglas Odhiambo which asserted the atrocities of children not developing to their full potential and its negative effect in threatening the realization of Kenya Vision 2030. The paper has established diverse ways in which the curriculum in art and craft is enhancing the growth and development of a child's emotional, physical, cognitive, and creativity. It has hypothetical employ qualitative analysis to examine art and craft in terms of the art stages of growth and development of a child. Further, the paper has briefly observed that naturalistic child growth and development of Leonardo Da Vinci-(A high renaissance artist of 14 th century)-and the researcher's teaching experience, as the case study and scope. It has concluded that any curriculum design ought to consider art and craft because it has an inherent psychological and development power that develops a child into full potential.

International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology , 2020

The restitution of indigenous religious artefacts has had an incredible influence in African Art,... more The restitution of indigenous religious artefacts has had an incredible influence in African Art, to an extent of drawing an indelible speech from The French President; Emmanuel Macron in 2017 at Ouagadougou-Burkina Faso. Western art forms are the major influences in the Christian religious artefacts in Africa, yet by the 1st century AD; indigenous religious art had already escalated in every corner of the Africa according to documented reports. The low percentages of documented artefacts are of Africa origin, and they indicated that there have been minimal studies done by African scholars. The study has unravelled some of influences and impediments that surrounding the restitution of indigenous religious artefacts. It has employed qualitative descriptive research design. It case study, primary source of data, and target population was All Saints Cathedral - Nairobi. The researcher assessed and collected data by taking photography of the artefacts. Then, present the data quantitatively on the bar graphs and analyzed them qualitatively while integrating the reviewed literature on its discussions. The study has concluded by asserting the successful restitution of indigenous religious artefacts since ancient and globalization period of 21st century, despite facing numerous restitution challenges in Kenya. Finally, it has proposed that the Anglican Archives in Kenya, National Museums of Kenya, and All Saints’ Cathedral, Nairobi Administration, ought to have a unified section that preserves, exhibits and publishes issues on indigenous religious artefacts in its historical sites.

Keywords:-Documentation, African Art, Globalization, Restitution, Christianization, Indigenous religious Artefacts,

Books by Wanyama Ogutu

Design for All, 2024

During the Arts Research Africa Conference in March, 2020, Samuel Ravengai from the University of... more During the Arts Research Africa Conference in March, 2020, Samuel Ravengai from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, presented a paper that discussed the theory of “Afroscenology.” Afroscenology refers to, ‘the performance practices developed by African practitioners and Africanists, and which respond to the African playing cultures by incorporating their performance traditions, forming work that is unique to Africa and its diaspora.’ (Ravengai, 2020:51)1.
While presenting the paper, Samuel posed a question, how can Artistic Research offer the opportunity to create knowledge based on African practice and produced from the African context? This publication is in responce to that question as it presents a collection of papers on Artistic Research and Practice (ARP) with specificreference to Africa. The different African countries the papers come from are as far west as Ghana and Nigeria to Kenya in the East.
Since the recovery of the African continent from the restrictions of the 2022 Covid-19 lockdowns, it is worthy to note that there has been a general upsurge of ARP generally in the Global South and Africa in particular. The uptake of ARP in Africa can be placed in different categories: curating as artistic research; creative research in architecture and design; artistic research in the medical humanities; dissemination and archiving of artistic research; performance as research in Art and Design, research through material culture and indigenous performance, the nexus of Art and Science and peer review/assessment of artistic research from postgraduate programs.
This publication presents papers in a few of the said categories. Three papers in the category of research through material culture and indigenous performance: Kẹ́hìndé Adépégba &Abati Oluwaseun Isaac have a paper about Form and Meaning in Yorùbá woodcarvings in Nigeria; Abati Oluwaseun Isaac et al., have written a paper on ‘Innovative re-use of Waste Materials in contemporary Nigerian Art,’ while Tolulope Oladimeji Sobowale et al., have a paper that discusses ‘the use of animals as metaphors in metal sculptures welded by a selected Nigerian artist.’
The publication also has two papers in the Creative Research in Architecture and Design category. These are a paper by Ruth Mwangi et al., who discuss Human Centered Design and Community Based Conservation while Wanyama Ogutu & Mwaura Ndekere reflect on the aesthetic nature of the environment in selected picturesque landscape paintings. Finally, Dr (Mrs.) Faustina Emefa Agordah, et al., have a paper in the category of performance as research in Art and Design.They discuss Millinery Art skills of a group of fashion design students from Ghana.
The collection of papers in this journal therefore answer the varied nature of “Afroscenology” on the continent.
Enjoy the read. Dr. George Vikiru
Guest Editor

East African journal of arts and social sciences, Dec 4, 2023

East African Journal of Arts and Social Sciences

The devastating COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted in the closure of all schools for nearly a year... more The devastating COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted in the closure of all schools for nearly a year, violated articles 43(1)f, 53(1)b, and 55(a) of Kenya’s 2010 constitution on the right to education. The Government of Kenya deprived UNDP-SGDs (2015) of goals on quality education and UNICEF (2018); Every Child Learns when enforcing the social distance policy, a direction of World Health Organization (WHO) (2020) preventive measures. Before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, UNICEF (2018) cautioned that any attempt to inhibit child learning’s welfare, such as play, would harm growth and development in early childhood. Modern educationalists have asserted that play with art plays a role in cognitive and social learning as an extension of recreation and elaboration of their conflicts. The paper aims to reconfigure rights to education on play with paintings and clay modelling among children affected by the psychosocial effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The researcher has focused on de...

East African Journal of Arts and Social Sciences

The world is awakening to the nursing of devastating COVID-19 pandemic effects that resulted in t... more The world is awakening to the nursing of devastating COVID-19 pandemic effects that resulted in the closure of school among others. Children’s welfare, especially playing was obstructed due to COVID-19 pandemic protective and preventive measures set by the World Health Organization (WHO) and other health agencies. Child developers assert that if a child is inhibited to play, despite valid reasons, it opens up to a paradox of problems in society. Educationists together with therapists have applauded the role play with any art forms goings beyond recreation to an expression of their desires, traumas, and elaboration of their conflicts and emotional healing. This paper has established the psychoanalysis and therapeutic process of a child affected by the COVID-19 pandemic while playing with paintings and clay. The researcher explored desktop descriptive qualitative research design. The psychoanalysis instrumentation was employed to evaluate the literature reviews, theoretical framework ...

Design for All Institute of India May 2021 , 2021

Art is a mirror of society. It evolves with time to keep up to the demands of society. The adven... more Art is a mirror of society. It evolves with time to keep up to the
demands of society. The advent of the digital technology and
communication age, the impact and effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, the
ravages of climate change among others, are recent events that have
changed the perception of society, and that of Art.

Artistic practice therefore continuously evolves. In real sense, it goes
beyond the physical activities of making artistic products and includes
influences, ideas, materials as well as tools and skills. This special
publication issue presents findings of five researches that document
the evolution of trends and processes in Artistic practice in Africa with
specific reference to Kenya. One paper, ‘Adoption of digital technology
in art- based offender rehabilitation programs,’ analyses the
utilization of digitization in art-based programmes for problem solving.
Another three papers, ‘Artistic design practice for a trans-disciplinary
knowledge exchange’, ‘Olumo Rock tourist destination: A survey of
the potential and aesthetic value of the facility’, and ‘Utilization of
African designs on religious artifacts: an analysis of religious artifacts
at the All Saints Cathedral, Nairobi,’ are on trans-disciplinary

knowledge exchange, a new trend that is taking place in contemporary
African society. The last paper, ‘Practice-based art projects: reviewing
the methods and methodologies of graduate scholars,’ discusses the
trends that have taken place with the new processes in Artistic
practice.

I hope this read will highlight the evolution in artistic practice that is
taking place in contemporary Africa.

Guest Editor:
Dr. George Vikiru,
Department of Fine Art and Design-
Kenyatta university.
May, 2021

East African Journal of Education Studies, Apr 8, 2020

As the government of Kenya is geared towards achieving sustainable development goals and Kenya Bi... more As the government of Kenya is geared towards achieving sustainable development goals and Kenya Big 4 Agenda, the Ministry of Education rolled out the new education system 2-6-3-3-3 dubbed "Competence Base Curriculum" whose mission is to nurture every learner's potential. It received overwhelming appraisal from different stakeholders;-locally and internationally eliciting debates in the local media, radio and television talk shows. Prior to this bold step in the curriculum, the government of Kenya set up various taskforces to review the 8.4.4 curricula in 1992, 1995, 2002, 2009 and 2011, reviewed by the late Professor Douglas Odhiambo which asserted the atrocities of children not developing to their full potential and its negative effect in threatening the realization of Kenya Vision 2030. The paper has established diverse ways in which the curriculum in art and craft is enhancing the growth and development of a child's emotional, physical, cognitive, and creativity. It has hypothetical employ qualitative analysis to examine art and craft in terms of the art stages of growth and development of a child. Further, the paper has briefly observed that naturalistic child growth and development of Leonardo Da Vinci-(A high renaissance artist of 14 th century)-and the researcher's teaching experience, as the case study and scope. It has concluded that any curriculum design ought to consider art and craft because it has an inherent psychological and development power that develops a child into full potential.

International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology , 2020

The restitution of indigenous religious artefacts has had an incredible influence in African Art,... more The restitution of indigenous religious artefacts has had an incredible influence in African Art, to an extent of drawing an indelible speech from The French President; Emmanuel Macron in 2017 at Ouagadougou-Burkina Faso. Western art forms are the major influences in the Christian religious artefacts in Africa, yet by the 1st century AD; indigenous religious art had already escalated in every corner of the Africa according to documented reports. The low percentages of documented artefacts are of Africa origin, and they indicated that there have been minimal studies done by African scholars. The study has unravelled some of influences and impediments that surrounding the restitution of indigenous religious artefacts. It has employed qualitative descriptive research design. It case study, primary source of data, and target population was All Saints Cathedral - Nairobi. The researcher assessed and collected data by taking photography of the artefacts. Then, present the data quantitatively on the bar graphs and analyzed them qualitatively while integrating the reviewed literature on its discussions. The study has concluded by asserting the successful restitution of indigenous religious artefacts since ancient and globalization period of 21st century, despite facing numerous restitution challenges in Kenya. Finally, it has proposed that the Anglican Archives in Kenya, National Museums of Kenya, and All Saints’ Cathedral, Nairobi Administration, ought to have a unified section that preserves, exhibits and publishes issues on indigenous religious artefacts in its historical sites.

Keywords:-Documentation, African Art, Globalization, Restitution, Christianization, Indigenous religious Artefacts,

Design for All, 2024

During the Arts Research Africa Conference in March, 2020, Samuel Ravengai from the University of... more During the Arts Research Africa Conference in March, 2020, Samuel Ravengai from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, presented a paper that discussed the theory of “Afroscenology.” Afroscenology refers to, ‘the performance practices developed by African practitioners and Africanists, and which respond to the African playing cultures by incorporating their performance traditions, forming work that is unique to Africa and its diaspora.’ (Ravengai, 2020:51)1.
While presenting the paper, Samuel posed a question, how can Artistic Research offer the opportunity to create knowledge based on African practice and produced from the African context? This publication is in responce to that question as it presents a collection of papers on Artistic Research and Practice (ARP) with specificreference to Africa. The different African countries the papers come from are as far west as Ghana and Nigeria to Kenya in the East.
Since the recovery of the African continent from the restrictions of the 2022 Covid-19 lockdowns, it is worthy to note that there has been a general upsurge of ARP generally in the Global South and Africa in particular. The uptake of ARP in Africa can be placed in different categories: curating as artistic research; creative research in architecture and design; artistic research in the medical humanities; dissemination and archiving of artistic research; performance as research in Art and Design, research through material culture and indigenous performance, the nexus of Art and Science and peer review/assessment of artistic research from postgraduate programs.
This publication presents papers in a few of the said categories. Three papers in the category of research through material culture and indigenous performance: Kẹ́hìndé Adépégba &Abati Oluwaseun Isaac have a paper about Form and Meaning in Yorùbá woodcarvings in Nigeria; Abati Oluwaseun Isaac et al., have written a paper on ‘Innovative re-use of Waste Materials in contemporary Nigerian Art,’ while Tolulope Oladimeji Sobowale et al., have a paper that discusses ‘the use of animals as metaphors in metal sculptures welded by a selected Nigerian artist.’
The publication also has two papers in the Creative Research in Architecture and Design category. These are a paper by Ruth Mwangi et al., who discuss Human Centered Design and Community Based Conservation while Wanyama Ogutu & Mwaura Ndekere reflect on the aesthetic nature of the environment in selected picturesque landscape paintings. Finally, Dr (Mrs.) Faustina Emefa Agordah, et al., have a paper in the category of performance as research in Art and Design.They discuss Millinery Art skills of a group of fashion design students from Ghana.
The collection of papers in this journal therefore answer the varied nature of “Afroscenology” on the continent.
Enjoy the read. Dr. George Vikiru
Guest Editor