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Book Synopsis Modern Gikuyu Dictionary by : Nyamfowa Kasahorow
Download or read book Modern Gikuyu Dictionary written by Nyamfowa Kasahorow and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Start exploring the English-language world with the help of Gikuyu! The Modern Gikuyu Dictionary is an explorer's dictionary for English and Gikuyu bilinguals to understand difficult English texts. Contains over 500 nouns, verbs and adjectives to aid fast comprehension of any Modern African English language book. Look up unfamiliar English words and get an example sentence of its usage in Gikuyu. Discover the joy of learning new things in English with help from Gikuyu. Suitable for everyone 12 years old and older.
Download or read book Modern Gikuyu written by kasahorow and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Gikuyu is a concise, portable and easy-to-grasp reference to the Gikuyu language. This kasahorow language guide includes - a basic grammar for Gikuyu readers and writers - useful phrases for warming up a new relationship Written in Modern Gikuyu. Modern Gikuyu is a simplified spelling system used to write all the varieties of spoken Gikuyu.
Book Synopsis The Politics of Everyday Life in Gikuyu Popular Musice of Kenya 1990-2000 by : wa Mutonya, Maina
Download or read book The Politics of Everyday Life in Gikuyu Popular Musice of Kenya 1990-2000 written by wa Mutonya, Maina and published by Twaweza Communications. This book was released on 2014-01-16 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While probing the politics of everyday in Gikuyu popular music, the main thrust of this book is to unpack the representation of daily struggles through music. Depending mainly on the lyrics of the songs, the study also combines both the textual and the contextual analysis of the music. Music here is studied both as a text, and as an aspect of popular culture. The decade 1990-2000 in Kenya provides two contrasting political developments, which directly impacted on the ordinary Kenyan; firstly, the extremes of the country's one-party rule were at the peak until when multi-party democracy was re-introduced. This ushered in a new era, but with antecedents in one-party rule, where service delivery was below par and economic mismanagement, corruption, assassinations and detentions continued unabated. It is in this contrasting environment that popular arts proliferated as a way of countering the repressed freedom of expression. This book, therefore, looks at how the Gikuyu musicians reacted and responded to these social and political realities in their songs. Music is discussed as an essential site for creation, re-creation and negotiation of the various forms of identities.
Book Synopsis Gikuyu Learner's Dictionary by : Nyamfowa Kasahorow
Download or read book Gikuyu Learner's Dictionary written by Nyamfowa Kasahorow and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-12-28 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to read Modern Gikuyu (Kikuyu, Meru)! The Gikuyu Learner's Dictionary is a beginner's dictionary for your multilingual child to develop their Gikuyu and English reading skills. Contains over 200 nouns, verbs and adjectives to aid fast comprehension of any Modern Gikuyu language book. Discover the joy of reading in Gikuyu and English together with your multilingual child. Suitable for children 12 years old and older.
Book Synopsis The Culture of Politics in Modern Kenya by : Angelique Haugerud
Download or read book The Culture of Politics in Modern Kenya written by Angelique Haugerud and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-05-13 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once the major success story of a troubled continent,by the early 1990s Kenya came to be regarded as its fallen star. This book challenges such images of reversal and the analytical polarities which sustain them. The analysis ranges from telescopic to microscopic fields, and combining many disciplines and perspectives to give a rich and varied picture of the culture of politics in twentieth-century Kenya.'...a highly perceptive and interesting analysis, deconstruction is not too strong a term, of Kenya's politics....[A] well researched, documented and enlightening book' African Affairs
Book Synopsis African Folklore by : Philip M. Peek
Download or read book African Folklore written by Philip M. Peek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 1256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by an international team of experts, this is the first work of its kind to offer comprehensive coverage of folklore throughout the African continent. Over 300 entries provide in-depth examinations of individual African countries, ethnic groups, religious practices, artistic genres, and numerous other concepts related to folklore. Featuring original field photographs, a comprehensive index, and thorough cross-references, African Folklore: An Encyclopedia is an indispensable resource for any library's folklore or African studies collection. Also includes seven maps.
Book Synopsis Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Gender, and the Ethics of Postcolonial Reading by : Brendon Nicholls
Download or read book Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Gender, and the Ethics of Postcolonial Reading written by Brendon Nicholls and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive book-length study of gender politics in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's fiction. Brendon Nicholls argues that mechanisms of gender subordination are strategically crucial to Ngugi's ideological project from his first novel to his most recent one. Nicholls describes the historical pressures that lead Ngugi to represent women as he does, and shows that the novels themselves are symptomatic of the cultural conditions that they address. Reading Ngugi's fiction in terms of its Gikuyu allusions and references, a gendered narrative of history emerges that creates transgressive spaces for women. Nicholls bases his discussion on moments during the Mau Mau rebellion when women's contributions to the anticolonial struggle could not be reduced to a patriarchal narrative of Kenyan history, and this interpretive maneuver permits a reading of Ngugi's fiction that accommodates female political and sexual agency. Nicholls contributes to postcolonial theory by proposing a methodology for reading cultural difference. This methodology critiques cultural practices like clitoridectomy in an ethical manner that seeks to avoid both cultural imperialism and cultural relativisim. His strategy of 'performative reading,' that is, making the conditions of one text (such as folklore, history, or translation) active in another (for example, fiction, literary narrative, or nationalism), makes possible an ethical reading of gender and of the conditions of reading in translation.
Download or read book Writing for Kenya written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Gikuyu Learner's Dictionary by : Kasahorow
Download or read book Gikuyu Learner's Dictionary written by Kasahorow and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-04 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to read Modern Gikuyu (Kikuyu, Meru)!The Gikuyu Learner's Dictionary is a beginner's dictionary for your multilingual child to develop their Gikuyu and English reading skills.Contains over 200 nouns, verbs and adjectives to aid fast comprehension of any Modern Gikuyu language book.Discover the joy of reading in Gikuyu and English together with your multilingual child.Suitable for children 12 years old and older.
Book Synopsis The Ashgate Research Companion to Modern Imperial Histories by : John Marriott
Download or read book The Ashgate Research Companion to Modern Imperial Histories written by John Marriott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 943 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by leading scholars, this collection provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of modern empires. Spanning the era of modern imperial history from the early sixteenth century to the present, it challenges both the rather insular focuses on specific experiences, and gives due attention to imperial formations outside the West including the Russian, Japanese, Mughal, Ottoman and Chinese. The companion is divided into three broad sections. Part I - Times - surveys the three main eras of modern imperialism. The first was that dominated by the settlement impulse, with migrants - many voluntarily and many more by force - making new lives in the colonies. This impulse gave way, most especially in the nineteenth century, to a period of busy and rapid expansion which was less likely to promote new settlement, and in which colonists more frequently saw their sojourn in colonial lands as temporary and related to the business mostly of governance and trade. Lastly, in the twentieth century in particular, empires began to fail and to fall. Part II - Spaces - studies the principal imperial formations of the modern world. Each chapter charts the experience of a specific empire while at the same time placing it within the complex patterns of wider imperial constellations. The individual chapters thus survey the broad dynamics of change within the empires themselves and their relationships with other imperial formations, and reflect critically on the ways in which these topics have been approached in the literature. In Part III - Themes - scholars think critically about some of the key features of imperial expansion and decline. These chapters are brief and many are provocative. They reflect the current state of the field, and suggest new lines of inquiry which may follow from more comparative perspectives on empire. The broad range of themes captures the vitality and diversity of contemporary scholarship on questions of empire and colonialism, encompassing political, economic and cultural processes central to the formation and maintenance of empires as well as institutions, ideologies and social categories that shaped the lives both of those implementing and those experiencing the force of empire. In these pages the reader will find the slave and the criminal, the merchant and the maid, the scientist and the artist alongside the structures which sustained their lives and their livelihoods. Overall, the companion emphasises the diversity of imperial experience and process. Comprehensive in its scope, it draws attention to the particularities of individual empires, rather than over-generalising as if all empires, at all times, and in all places, behaved in a similar manner. It is this contingent and historical specificity that enables us to explore in expansive ways precisely what constituted the modern empire.
Book Synopsis The Oral Artist by : Wanjiku M. Kabira
Download or read book The Oral Artist written by Wanjiku M. Kabira and published by East African Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Writing Gikuyu by : Derek Raymond Peterson
Download or read book Writing Gikuyu written by Derek Raymond Peterson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Social and Religious Concerns of East Africa by : G. J. Wanjohi
Download or read book Social and Religious Concerns of East Africa written by G. J. Wanjohi and published by CRVP. This book was released on 2005 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ngecha written by Carolyn P. Edwards and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ngecha is the monumental and intimate study of modernization and nationalization in rural Africa in the early years following Kenyan independence in 1963, as experienced by the people of Ngecha, a village outside Nairobi. From 1968 to 1973 Ngecha was a research site of the Child Development Research Unit, a team that brought together Kenyan and non-Kenyan social scientists under the leadership of John Whiting and Beatrice Blyth Whiting. The study documents how families adapted to changing opportunities and conditions as their former colony became a modern nation, and the key role that women played as agents of change as they became small-scale cash-crop farmers and entrepreneurs. Mothers modified the culture of their parents to meet the evolving national economy, and they participated in the shift from an agrarian to a wage economy in ways that transformed their workloads and perceptions of isolation and individualism within and between households, thereby challenging traditional family-based morals and obligations. Their children, in turn, experienced evolving educational practices and achievement expectations. The elders faced new situations as well as new modes of treatment. Completing this valuable record of a nation in transition are the long-term reassessments of the observations and conclusions of the research team, and a description of Ngecha today as viewed by Kenyans who participated in the original study.
Book Synopsis Colonial Inscriptions by : Carolyn Martin Shaw
Download or read book Colonial Inscriptions written by Carolyn Martin Shaw and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Gikuyu Political Pamphlets and Hymn Books, 1945-1952 by : Cristiana Pugliese
Download or read book Gikuyu Political Pamphlets and Hymn Books, 1945-1952 written by Cristiana Pugliese and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Perfect Nine by : Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Download or read book The Perfect Nine written by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling, genre-defying novel in verse from the author Delia Owens says “tackles the absurdities, injustices, and corruption of a continent” Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s novels and memoirs have received glowing praise from the likes of President Barack Obama, the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, and NPR; he has been a finalist for the Man International Booker Prize and is annually tipped to win the Nobel Prize for Literature; and his books have sold tens of thousands of copies around the world. In his first attempt at the epic form, Ngũgĩ tells the story of the founding of the Gĩkũyũ people of Kenya, from a strongly feminist perspective. A verse narrative, blending folklore, mythology, adventure, and allegory, The Perfect Nine chronicles the efforts the Gĩkũyũ founders make to find partners for their ten beautiful daughters—called “The Perfect Nine” —and the challenges they set for the 99 suitors who seek their hands in marriage. The epic has all the elements of adventure, with suspense, danger, humor, and sacrifice. Ngũgĩ’s epic is a quest for the beautiful as an ideal of living, as the motive force behind migrations of African peoples. He notes, “The epic came to me one night as a revelation of ideals of quest, courage, perseverance, unity, family; and the sense of the divine, in human struggles with nature and nurture.”
