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The History and Culture of the Nandi ...
This book focuses on the definition and application of Nandi customary laws on the backdrop of modern civilization. The author has good knowledge regarding the Nandi culture due to his personal observation including his participation in some of the events recorded in the book.
Most of the information was indeed received in the form of oral transmission via stories and myths passed from generation to generation by past ancestors.
Nevertheless, ideas may differ due to the influence of Nandi neighbors and immigrants who came in with their different cultures and practices.
The Hidden Scars of Female Genital Mu...
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The Hidden Scars of Female Genital Mutilation: The cultural struggle of the girl child.
Sadia Hussein is an FGM survivor, an iron lady, fearless champion, courageous and brave Muslim lady from Wardei community in Tana River county who is fighting for women rights and to eradicate FGM, child marriage, teenage pregnancies rape and defilement.
She is a role model to many girls and holds a degree in Business management from East African University. She was recognized and fated as a National Heroine by the State in 2019 by the President of Kenya, His excellency Uhuru Kenyatta and also awarded Young achievers Award by the Anti FGM Board, 2019.
The Kipsigis Talai: Tragedy, Tribulat...
A general walk within Nairobi’s old low-income suburbs of Pumwani, Majengo, Kariokor, Kamukunji, and Shauri Moyo, you could chance upon an old Kalenjin woman, you would be forgiven if you thought she was lost.
Still fluent in their particular Kalenjin dialect and with urbane children and grandchildren who scarcely speak her language, the woman represents a dark legacy of removal, displacement, and dispersal dating back to the dawn of colonial rule in Kenya.
The old tin-roofed structures, the filthy surroundings and darkened dwellings in the low-income suburbs offer a paradoxical motif of poverty which pursued them there, even as they tried to escape it, in their villages of origin. You will be coming face to face with a bygone era, far removed from us but not entirely so. Their reasons for being there are as varied as their numbers.
Potent Brews Social History Of Alcoho...
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This is the first general history of alcohol and drinking in East Africa.
Contributes to an emerging field of African social history in distinctive and innovative ways. Willis's central theme is power - from customary beliefs in alcohol as a symbol of authority and a means of enhancement and privilege, to the use of power in advertising and discourse on the consumption of modern bottled beers and spirits.
It is Willis's contention that attitudes towards alcohol have become more similar across the region over time. Willis achieves a full chronological span of nearly two centuries.
He lays considerable emphasis upon the late-colonial and post-colonial years; thus bringing out the continuities of these years which historians of eastern Africa have tended to overlook. Oral material from three case study areas in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania are integrally woven in with archival and newspaper sources, each reinforcing and elaborating the other.
ISBN:9780821414767
Author:Justin Willis
Southern Kikuyu Before 1903 Volume 1,...
This is a Limited Second Edition, reprint of the three volume book The Southern Kikuyu- before 1903.
One of the often unnoticed tragedies of an era of technological advance and improving communications is the passing from living memory of customs, language and beliefs as small insular pockets of culture are overtaken by the sweep of civilization.
This impressive book is a complete record of the ways of the Kikuyu people, before and during the period of European influence which accompanied road and railway building and political and economic changes in the late 19th Century. It is the major anthropological achievement of the late L.S.B. Leakey and the culmination of his life-long study of the people among whom he was born and raised. Written in the graceful, readable style characteristic of scholarship in the thirties, it draws on the memories of the Elders whose confidant Dr. Leakey became.
A once rich source of tradition and culture, passed on intact from generation to generation, was in danger of drying up without trace – this study, revised and published now, some forty years after it was first undertaken, will secure this fascinating collection of information for posterity now that all the last inheritors of the old Kikuyu way of life are dead.
Thanks to Dr. Leakey, and to the collaborators who worked on the manuscript after his death, the Kikuyu mores have been set down – from descriptions of the daily activities of the people, digging, planting, harvesting, care of animals, trading, marriage, tribal raiding, dancing and lawgiving, to the customs connected with sex, linked with rites de passage, religious beliefs, magic and medicine. It is a picture of a successful self-regulating community, in which a strict set of rules and punishments established order and enabled the tribe to survive within its environment.
The autonomy of tribal life all over the world is now being eroded, for better or worse. But this well-rounded study, intricate in its mass of detail, yet straightforward in approach, seeks to make no assertions or comparisons with other cultures. It will thus be an important unbiased primary source for social anthropologists, ethnologists and social scientists, as well as being of great value to all those interested in Africa and its history.
Journey of a Lifetime Pilgrimage to M...
This exquisitely beautiful series of books portrays the cultures, landscapes, fauna, flora and history of an individual country with over 150 stunning photographs and well-written and knowledgeable text.
Lavishly illustrated, this special pictorial record -- with lucid and absorbing text -- of the pilgrimage known to Muslims as the Hajj brilliantly catches the spirit and devotion of one of the world's great religious experiences.
For pilgrims this book will be an enduring reminder of that experience. For non-Muslims it stands as a moving documentary of a testament to faith.
We Came in Dhows by Cynthia Salvadori...
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From the introduction: "This volume has been designed as a companion to Through Open Doors: A View of Asian Cultures in Kenya.
Although that book describes the historical background of the various Asian communities in Kenya, it has little information about individual people. This book is all about people."
Kenda Muiyuru Rugano rwa Gikuyu na Mu...
"I do not want to reveal too much, but all I can say is that it's perhaps one of the most experimental creative works that Ngugi has written,” Mr Kamau added.
Kenda Muiyuru (a full nine) is often mentioned in reference to the daughters of Gikuyu and Mumbi, the mythical first family that is believed to have given rise to the Gikuyu community.