Writing for Kenya

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-04-17404-7
Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV

Buch, Englisch, 412 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 629 g

Reihe: Brill

Henry Muoria (1914-97), self-taught journalist and pamphleteer, helped to inspire Kenya's nationalisms before Mau Mau. The pamphlets reproduced here, in Gikuyu and English, contrast his own originality with the conservatism of Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya's first President. The contributing editors introduce Muoria's political context, tell how three remarkable women sustained his families' life; and remember him as father. Courageous intellectual, political, and domestic life here intertwine.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Muoria-Sal, Wangari

Lonsdale, John

Peterson, Derek

Frederiksen, Bodil Folke

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Journalismus & Presse
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Schreiben und Publizieren, Kreatives Schreiben

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS
List of Figures and Photographs. vii
Preface. ix
SECTION I
LIFE
Chapter 1 Henry Muoria, Public Moralist. 3
John Lonsdale
Chapter 2 The Muorias in Kenya: ‘A very long chain’.
An Essay in Family Biography. 59
Bodil Folke Frederiksen
Chapter 3 The Muoria Family in London—A Memory. 105
Wangari Muoria-Sal (with Bodil Folke Frederiksen)
SECTION II
WORKS
Editorial note on Henry Muoria’s three political pamphlets. 131
Chapter 4 What Should We Do, Our People?. 137
Chapter 5 The Home Coming of Our Great Hero Jomo
Kenyatta. 253
Chapter 6 Kenyatta Is Our Reconciler. 317
Bibliography. 393
Index. 403

Über Autor(innen)

Wangari Muoria-Sal, Diploma in Business Studies (RSA) 1974, North London College. For over 30 years an administrator for international aid organisations in Kenya, the Ivory Coast and Germany, and now Team Leader of the Student Support Office at London's School of Oriental and African Studies.
Bodil Folke Frederiksen is Associate Professor of International Development Studies at Roskilde University with a special interest in the cultural history of Kenya. She has published articles on colonial and present-day media, urban leisure, youth culture and the localisation of global popular culture in East Africa.
John M Lonsdale, PhD (1964) in African History, University of Cambridge, has taught African history for 40 years and published on the social, religious and political history of Kenya, East Africa, and Africa.
Derek R. Peterson is Senior Lecturer in African History at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of 'Creative Writing:
Translation, Bookkeeping, and the Work of Imagination in Colonial Kenya' (Heinemann, 2004).