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Author : Daniel Nyaga
Publisher : East African Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789966460486
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Customs and Traditions of the Meru written by Daniel Nyaga and published by East African Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mercy KATHAMBI G. OMBUI
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781980231493
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Meru Origins, Customs, Culture and Traditions written by Mercy KATHAMBI G. OMBUI and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every community in the whole world both international and nationally with its people; has had a culture, customs and traditions that have for centuries survived to maintain those communities united against combats in their existence. Thus, if you wish to understand the community and its people; you must first understand and familiarize yourself with their customs, culture and traditions in order to appreciate them fully.It is in culture and traditions that people's morals, ethics, attitudes, approaches, behavior, comportment, generosity, humility or even hostility is displayed and gauged. Meru community is a group of the Bantus who crossed the Red Sea in a style of good comportment and inestimable hospitality that characterizes their existence in harmony and solid unification for existence.It is in the customs of the community that you will ever get to know and understand their origins as to whether they ever dealt with God fearing people in their past or not. If they originated near and from arrogant, haughty and conceited communities, who do not know, respect and fear God; their customs always survive to betray them. Their present tradition is fully with undying and enduring evil of stealing their neighbors' property and attacking their neighbors for no reasons at all. The reason for that behavior on their side is because they are less God-fearing people from their origins. This gives and forms another good reason for studying peoples' and communities' origins in time for early taming and future corrections by the National Government through an education system and syllabus affecting such people.Let it be clear and be understood that Kenyans in their entirety 42 tribes; did not originate from one point, place, residence, habitation or abode when they migrated into the Kenyan soil many centuries ago. Kenyans entered Kenya from different routes many centuries past; and their diversity is their signature and stamp to that mark of history. Some Kenyans are soft and others are arrogant, while others are wish thinkers and day-dreamers. We are all Kenyans in our Kenya.But remember that stealing, dreadful and outrageous neighborhoods are the worst enemies of any society. Stealing and misbehavior are two evils that destroy any community within the shortest possible time in people's life. Even in the Holy Bible humans are warned against the squabbling neighbors. See and read the story of Moses the sojourner - Deuteronomy 2:2-7 - where Moses was commanded not to attack or steal from Ishmael's descendants while retracing his route to Canaan.Our guaranteed and unshakable belief is that Meru community lived beyond the Red Sea and eventually one day they decided to cross the Sea. Their mode of crossing is disputable and quite distressing; while remembering that in those days, means of Sea travel was underdeveloped. But since the fact is that our forefathers lived beyond Red Sea and now today we live in Meru County, Kenya in Africa; we must believe that we crossed the Red Sea long ago; but how long ago, we are not very sure, though we can vaguely guess that it was around 9th, Century A.D.From that epoch Meru community has lived united as much as the donkeys' hoof which is solid, and which is in Meru language an African proverb (We are as united as the donkeys' hoof) that was coined by their ancestral lea
Author : Daniel Nyaga
Publisher : East African Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789966465429
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (654 download)
Download or read book Customs and Traditions of Meru written by Daniel Nyaga and published by East African Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tarcisio F. B. Gichunge And ISAAC KAURA NGORE
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (446 download)
Download or read book The Historic Journey of Ameru and Their Cultural Anthropology written by Tarcisio F. B. Gichunge And ISAAC KAURA NGORE and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-27 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meru People were created by God somewhere (in the Holy Bible in the Garden of Eden) and they lived there until the day they crossed the Red Sea into Egypt where they lived until the day they were forced out of Egypt by some enemy. The fact is that, Ameru people were the original inhabitants of Egypt and the builders of the Pyramids (Mbiira in Kimeru language). Due to their expertise, they were chased out of Egypt by the Libyan mercenaries and Mohammedans when they invaded Egypt to spread their Muslim religion around AD 750.When Ameru left Egypt, they left in a hurry and out of pressure and fear, because they never wanted to be traced by the enemy. That is why in Egypt, no one knows for sure who were the original inhabitants of Egypt even today. On their way, they encountered many, many hardships and many generations died on the way (in the wilderness) with all the knowledge they had acquired in Egypt. The had to start from the scratch to gain some knowledge once again.At last, they traveled through Sudan, Uganda, Congo, Rwanda, Tanzania, Mtito Andei in Kenya to Manda Island (Mboa) around AD 910. There they lived in peace until the day they were once again disturbed by a new enemy they called NGUUNTUNE (red clothes), the Portuguese, who started to hunt them for slaves to export to America.When the new enemy subdued the community and started to make harsh demands upon the people, they decided to escape from the Island and seek new homes elsewhere. That was around AD 1560's when they succeeded to escape out of the Island after which they found their way to Meru, their present home.Their journey from Mboa to Meru was another difficult journey that fatigued the community where many of their giants and men of valor perished in defense of their people against the wild animals that teamed the region. It is at that region where they encountered some enemies who teased them and gave them courage to fight on for existence.Finally, they reached Meru region where they settled and found peace to share in their different sub tribes and clans. Today, Meru community are social and hospitable people who can be relied upon by other communities. Their history is open and interesting to read. Read to know why, how and when they settled in their lovely Home Lands.
Author : Neal W. Sobania
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313039364
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Culture and Customs of Kenya written by Neal W. Sobania and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-06-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenya, a land of safaris, wild animals, and Maasai warriors, perfectly represents Africa for many Westerners. This peerless single-source book presents the contemporary reality of life in Kenya, an important East-African nation that has served as a crossroads for peoples and cultures from Africa, the Middle East, and East Asia for centuries. As such, it is a land rich in cultural and ethnic diversity, where unique and dynamic traditions blend with modern influences. Students and general readers will be engrossed in narrative overviews highlighting Kenyan history, as well as the beliefs, vibrant cultural expressions, and various lifestyles and roles of the Kenyan population. A chronology, glossary, and numerous photos enhance the narrative. Kenya today struggles with nation building. Its society comprises the haves and the have-nots and faces the challenges of the trend toward urbanization, with its attendant disruption of traditional social structures. For Kenyans, the preserving of traditional cultures is as important as making the statement that Kenya is a modern nation. Chapters on the land, people, and history; religion and worldview; literature, film, and media; art and architecture; cuisine and traditional dress; gender roles, marriage, and family; and social customs and lifestyle are up to date and written by a country expert. A chronology, glossary, and numerous photos enhance the narrative.
Author : Edoardo Frezet
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000406458
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Spaces of Law and Custom written by Edoardo Frezet and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-14 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together a carefully curated selection of researchers from law, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, history, social ontology and international relations, in order to examine how law and custom interact within specific material and spatial contexts. Normativity develops within these contexts, while also shaping them. This complex relationship exists within all physical places from traditional agrarian spaces to the modern shifting post-industrial workplace. The contributions gathered together in this volume explore numerous examples of such spaces from different disciplinary perspectives to interrogate the dynamic relationship between custom and law, and the material spaces they inhabit. While there are a dynamic series of conclusions regarding this relationship in different material realities, a common theme is pursued throughout: a proper understanding of law and custom stems from their material locatedness within the power dynamics of particular spaces, which, in turn, are reflexively shaped by that same normativity. The book thus generates an account of the locatedness of law and custom, and, indeed, of custom as a source of law. In this way, it provides a series of linked explorations of normative spaces, but, more fundamentally, it also furnishes a cross-disciplinary toolkit of concepts and critical tools for understanding law and custom, and their relationship. As the diversity of the contributors indicates, this book will be of great interest to legal theorists of different traditions, also legal historians and anthropologists, as well as sociologists, historians, geographers and developmental economists.
Author : Henry MWERERIA
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781549717154
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Meru Myths, Proverbs and Legends (njuno and Ntemi) written by Henry MWERERIA and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-11 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No community has ever existed without its Proverbs and or sages. in Meru, Kenya when the community crossed the Red Sea, there and then referred to as Mboa, people were united by their language, culture, traditions and customs which were bound and driven by history and proverbs accompanied with sages that governed and ruled the community for centuries.Read these proverbs and sages to understand how social life of this community was geared towards posterity and existence in a diverse world that required peace and tranquility. They have been written in Vernacular and interpreted in English for the wide reading and comparison against of other languages and communities.No community has ever survived without its Myths and Legends. People and communities have transmitted and preserved their beliefs, culture and traditions through Myths, Legends, Proverbs and Sages for generations. These four natural tools give readers the the kind of lives the community lived in the past without asking many questions.Reading this book is understanding the community in general. Please read on......
Author : Alan Brill
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498597092
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Rabbi on the Ganges written by Alan Brill and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rabbi on the Ganges: A Jewish-Hindu Encounter is the first work to engage the new terrain of Hindu-Jewish religious encounter. The book offers understanding into points of contact between the two religions of Hinduism and Judaism. Providing an important comparative account, the work illuminates key ideas and practices within the traditions, surfacing commonalities between the jnana and Torah study, karmakanda and Jewish ritual, and between the different Hindu philosophic schools and Jewish thought and mysticism, along with meditation and the life of prayer and Kabbalah and creating dialogue around ritual, mediation, worship, and dietary restrictions. The goal of the book is not only to unfold the content of these faith traditions but also to create a religious encounter marked by mutual and reciprocal understanding and openness.
Author : Thomas T. Spear
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520206199
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Mountain Farmers written by Thomas T. Spear and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a rich, stimulating work, written in clear and compelling prose, that will appeal to scholars in a variety of disciplines."--Angelique Haugerud, author of The Culture of Politics in Modern Kenya "Among the numerous contributions made by this book are its discussion of the politics of pseudo-traditionalism, its tracing of the emergence of a Christian leadership, and indeed its whole reconsideration of the significance of missions and Christianity."--James L. Giblin, author of Environmental Control in Northeastern Tanzania, 1840-1940
Author : Ellen Pearlman
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN 13 : 9780892819188
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (191 download)
Download or read book Tibetan Sacred Dance written by Ellen Pearlman and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 2002-12 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the time Buddhism entered the mythical land of the snows, Tibetans have expressed their spiritual devotion and celebrated their culture with dance. This book--lavishly illustrated with color and rare historic photographs depicting the dances, costumes, and masks--is the first to explore the significance and symbolism of the sacred and secular ritual dances of Tibetan Buddhism.
Author : Michael Jindra
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857452061
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)
Download or read book Funerals in Africa written by Michael Jindra and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across Africa, funerals and events remembering the dead have become larger and even more numerous over the years. Whereas in the West death is normally a private and family affair, in Africa funerals are often the central life cycle event, unparalleled in cost and importance, for which families harness vast amounts of resources to host lavish events for multitudes of people with ramifications well beyond the event. Though officials may try to regulate them, the popularity of these events often makes such efforts fruitless, and the elites themselves spend tremendously on funerals. This volume brings together scholars who have conducted research on funerary events across sub-Saharan Africa. The contributions offer an in-depth understanding of the broad changes and underlying causes in African societies over the years, such as changes in religious beliefs, social structure, urbanization, and technological changes and health.
Author : Raymond Ahoua
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039114665
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (146 download)
Download or read book The Transference of the Three Mediating Institutions of Salvation from Caiaphas to Jesus written by Raymond Ahoua and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: «It is better one man dies than the whole nation perishes» (Jn 11: 50). Caiaphas' sentence goes beyond ethical principles and religious expectations. It appears as the saying of a cynic politician. Besides, it is seen as the perfidious advice of a corrupted high priest to the members of the Sanhedrin. Who is this man on whose saying a school is formed? Who is this man who played the most important role in the death of Jesus? Indeed Caiaphas' sentence gives rise to the following relevant question: is the prohibition of killing (Dt. 5: 17), even the killing of a single individual in order to save a whole nation, legitimate? Thus, many issues that are associated with this high priest are associated with Jesus. The book is mainly an exegetical and comparative analysis of Jn 11: 45-54 and the Akan myth of the crossing of the river. By providing new theological insights into Caiaphas link to Jesus' death, it gives pertinent answers to the above questions.
Author : Ramdas Lamb
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 079148856X
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Rapt in the Name written by Ramdas Lamb and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Rapt in the Name, Ramdas Lamb provides an intriguing account of the Ram bhakti tradition in India. Less well-known in the West than the tradition of devotion to Krishna, the Ram tradition is an important component of Hinduism. Ram is the most-worshipped form of the divine in North India today and has long been particularly important to those of the lower castes throughout India. Lamb explores both the evolution of the tradition and the rise of lower caste religious movements devoted to Ram, specifically the Ramnami Samaj, an Untouchable religious movement in Central India. Lamb's study of the Ramnamis has spanned nearly three decades, first on a personal level as a Hindu monk and later as both a friend and a researcher. He discusses the historical origins, as well as present-day forms and structure of the Samaj, including a description of its distinctive ritual dress and practices. Among the more innovative aspects of the sect is its adaptation of the story of Lord Ram that is uniquely woven into its devotional repetition of his name (Ramnam). In addition, Lamb shares biographical sketches of six Ramnamis, each of which reveals the freedom of individual exploration and expression that is integral to the sect. This is a fascinating account of religious life and adaptation on the periphery of society.
Author : Gordon Collier
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9401209154
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)
Download or read book African Cultures and Literatures written by Gordon Collier and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2013 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Besides searching book reviews, an interview with the writer Tijan M. Sallah, a full report on the 6th Ethiopian International Film Festival, and a stimulating selection of creative writing (including a showcase of recent South African poetry), this issue of Matatu offers general essays on African women’s poetry, anglophone Cameroonian literature, and Zimbabwean fiction of the Gukurahundi period, along with studies of J.M. Coetzee, Kalpana Lalji, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Aminata Sow Fall, Wole Soyinka, and Yvonne Vera. The bulk of this issue, however, is given over to coverage of cultural and sociological topics from North Africa to the Cape, ranging from cultural identity in contemporary North Africa, two contributions on Kenyan naming ceremonies and initiation songs, and three studies of the function of Shona and Ndebele proverbs, to national history in Zimbabwean autobiography, traditional mourning dress of the Akans of Ghana, and the precolonial origins of traditional leadership in South Africa. Contributors: Jude Aigbe Agho, Nasima Ali, Uchenna Bethrand Anih, Aboneh Ashagrie, Francis T. Cheo, Gordon Collier, Abdel Karim Daragmeh, Geoffrey V. Davis, Nozizwe Dhlamini, Kola Eke, Phyllis Forster, Frances Hardie, James Hlongwana, Pede Hollist, John M. Kobia, Samuelson Freddie Khunou, Mea Lashbrooke, María J. López, Brian Macaskill, Evans Mandova, Richard Sgadreck Maposa, Michael Mazuru, Corwin L. Mhlahlo. Zanoxolo Mnqobi Mkhize, Kobus Moolman, Thamsanqa Moyo, Felix M. Muchomba, Collins Kenga Mumbo, Tabitha Wanja Mwangi, Bhekezakhe Ncube, Christopher Joseph Odhiambo, Ode S. Ogede, H. Oby Okolocha, Wumi Raji, Dosia Reichhardt, Rashi Rohatgi, Kamal Salhi, Ekremah Shehab, Faith Sibanda, John A Stotesbury, Nick Mdika Tembo, Kenneth Usongo, Wellington Wasosa.
Author : D. K. Mboroki
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789966212818
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Kimeru-English dictionary written by D. K. Mboroki and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rachi Ngaine, MSPA CPA CGMA
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1098086562
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Been There, Done That written by Rachi Ngaine, MSPA CPA CGMA and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-08-04 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lifetime story titled Been There, Done That, Rachi Ngaine recounts and narrates personal experience of survival, coping with challenges of growing up in a traditional learning environment from early childhood in his native Kenyan village. It amplifies the appetite and personal struggles for education/knowledge through public schools, college/university, choosing a career path, and taking grueling handwritten academic/professional exams toward jobs that led to self-actualization/self-esteem and a formal retirement at age seventy-five. The book is an affirmation of a typical family's basic value system, endurance, and human dignity. The story impresses upon a family legacy, focus, and values that; the roots of a family tree go way deep, and its branches enlarge; the relationships must be infinite unless curtailed by natural causes; the physical or economic ranking of a family member must have no consequence upon the phenomenon of belonging, identity, originality, nationality, and material support, and a family resemble God's universal family whereby the brethren have equal rights of inheritance. Moreover, the book inspires the reader to be a character builder, compassionate, a goal setter, courageous, hopeful, innovative, a leader, a mentor/role model, responsible, sensitive, a servant, strong, and trustworthy; and have empathy, foresight, humor, and organizational skills. Also, Rachi's life-changing facts of life in the United States for almost fifty years are intriguing to aspiring future immigrants into the twenty-first-century "superpower" base. The book is engaging, arouses personal traits, self-determination, triggers motivation, and assures worthiness. The "Humorous Notes" in the last pages of the book are likely to crank up the readers and even wet their eyes. Finally, the readers would be exposed to the fact that whenever there is will, "there is a way." Ideally, God's grace has enabled the anointed the blessings of spiritual gifts of love, joy, peace, perseverance, and self-control. The elect are promised success in whatever they undertake-in the name of Jesus. Indeed, the faithful in Christ would be moved and enticed to keep on and finish the race and win the crown of salvation. Rachi is on it! Please join in.
Author : Fatha John Patrick Kamau
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1479743224
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (797 download)
Download or read book The Bright Dark Nights of the Soul written by Fatha John Patrick Kamau and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-23 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: in the World of the mentally and physically handicapped THE MYSTERIES OF AFRICA AND THE VATIKAN PRO ECCLESIA CODE A PERSPECTIVE OF THE CHALLENGES OF HUMAN DISABILITIES IN THE 21st CENTURY THE BRIGHT DARK NIGHTS OF THE SOUL
