Writing for Kenya : The Life and Works of Henry Muoria

Muoria-Sal, Wangari ; Frederiksen, Bodil Folke ; Lonsdale, John ; & Peterson, Derek

ISBN 10: 9004174044 / ISBN 13: 9789004174047

Published by Brill, Leiden, 2009

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24x15cm, xi,409 pp., Series: African Sources for African History, vol. 10. Biographical material in English; texts of Muoria's political pamphlets in Kikuyu with English translation. Includes textual photo illustrations. Contents: Henry Muoria, public moralist / John Lonsdale -- The Muorias in Kenya : a very long chain : an essay in family biography / Bodil Folke Frederiksen -- The Muoria family in London : a memory / Wangari Muoria-Sal ; with Bodil Folke Frederiksen -- Editorial note on Henry Muoria s three political pamphlets -- What should we do, our people? -- The home coming of our great hero Jomo Kenyatta -- Kenyatta is our reconciler. Seller Inventory # 030347

Bibliographic Details

Title: Writing for Kenya : The Life and Works of ...

Publisher: Brill, Leiden

Publication Date: 2009

Binding: orig. wrappers

Condition: Minor wear. VG.

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Synopsis:

Based on the Gikuyu-language pamphlet literature of the 1940s, the family history of the writer Henry Muoria, and a daughter's memory, this book illuminates the political challenges faced by Kenya's first nationalists and the domestic sacrifices that politics demanded

About the Author:

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).