Kenya Cowboy
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Kenya Cowboy
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Author : Peter Hewitt
language : en
Publisher: Covos Day
Release Date : 2001
Kenya Cowboy written by Peter Hewitt and has been published by Covos Day this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The revolt was regarded in its origins & development as wholly evil, yet Mau Mau insurgents became heroes & the day on which the state of emergency was declared is commemorated with pride. This text offers a balanced assessment of the implications.
Kwani 01
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Author : Binyavanga Wainaina
language : en
Publisher: Kwani Archive Online
Release Date : 2003-12
Kwani 01 written by Binyavanga Wainaina and has been published by Kwani Archive Online this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-12 with Fiction categories.
Kwani? is arguably Africa's most exciting and varied literary initiative of recent years. Describing itself as ?a magazine of ideas, [that] seeks to entertain, provoke and create?, Kwani? commissions and publishes stories, poetry, art and photography ?from all around the African continent and the diaspora'. Rejecting artificial divisions of high and low art and literary snobbery, it is dedicated to the flourishing of literature in Kenya and the of African cultural values. Kwami? 01 is widely available outside Africa for the first time. The volume features the writings of numerous prize-winners. It includes the short story, ?The Weight of Whispers?, by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, which won The Caine Prize for African Writing in 2003. Yvonne Owuor is also a screenplay writer, and Executive Director of the Zanzibar International Film Festival. Other contributions are from Parsilelo Kantai, who was short-listed for the Caine Prize in 2004;drawings from Gaddo, one of East Africa's foremost political cartoonists; photographs from the photo-journalist Marion Kaplan; and interviews with ?ghetto youths? conducted by the editor.
Unsettled
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Author : Janet McIntosh
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2016-04-26
Unsettled written by Janet McIntosh and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-26 with Social Science categories.
Honorable Mention for the 2018 American Ethnological Society Senior Book Prize Honorable Mention for the 2017 Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing presented by the American Anthropological Association In 1963, Kenya gained independence from Britain, ending decades of white colonial rule. While tens of thousands of whites relocated in fear of losing their fortunes, many stayed. But over the past decade, protests, scandals, and upheavals have unsettled families with colonial origins, reminding them that their belonging is tenuous. In this book, Janet McIntosh looks at the lives and dilemmas of settler descendants living in post-independence Kenya. From clinging to a lost colonial identity to pronouncing a new Kenyan nationality, the public face of white Kenyans has undergone changes fraught with ambiguity. Drawing on fieldwork and interviews, McIntosh focuses on their discourse and narratives to ask: What stories do settler descendants tell about their claim to belong in Kenya? How do they situate themselves vis-a-vis the colonial past and anti-colonial sentiment, phrasing and re-phrasing their memories and judgments as they seek a position they feel is ethically acceptable? McIntosh explores contradictory and diverse responses: moral double consciousness, aspirations to uplift the nation, ideological blind-spots, denials, and self-doubt as her respondents strain to defend their entitlements in the face of mounting Kenyan rhetorics of ancestry.
Tick Bite Fever
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Author : David Bennun
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-08-03
Tick Bite Fever written by David Bennun and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-03 with Travel categories.
Tick Bite Fever is the unconventional memoir of a very unconventional childhood. In the early Seventies, Dave Bennun's family transplanted themselves from Swindon to the wilds of Kenya. His father, who was a doctor, had lived in Africa before (but had felt it expedient to leave when the South African government realised he was carting explosives around in the boot of his car for the ANC). For Dave, Kenya was bemusingly new. It would be his home for the next 16 years. In Kenya, the childhood memoir takes on a rather surreal tone! On the way home from school, closed because a pair of lions are padding around the playground, Dave is mugged by baboons. Meet Dave's favourite pet Achilles, the almost indestructible dog! Find out about 'Nairobi snow' - and the national radio station that only has three records. And read about Dave and his Dad spending happy Sunday afternoons being chased by a herd of elephants. Enchantingly funny, Tick Bite Fever is a tale of the fading innocence of childhood, miles ahead of the competition.
Roses From Kenya
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Author : Megan A. Styles
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2019-12-10
Roses From Kenya written by Megan A. Styles and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-10 with Social Science categories.
Kenya supplies more than 35 percent of the fresh-cut roses and other flowers sold annually in the European Union. This industry—which employs at least 90,000 workers, most of whom are women—is lucrative but enduringly controversial. More than half the flowers are grown near the shores of Lake Naivasha, a freshwater lake northwest of Nairobi recognized as a Ramsar site, a wetland of international importance. Critics decry the environmental side effects of floriculture, and human rights activists demand better wages and living conditions for workers. In this rich portrait of Kenyan floriculture, Megan Styles presents the point of view of local workers and investigates how the industry shapes Kenyan livelihoods, landscapes, and politics. She investigates the experiences and perspectives of low-wage farmworkers and the more elite actors whose lives revolve around floriculture, including farm managers and owners, Kenyan officials, and the human rights and environmental activists advocating for reform. By exploring these perspectives together, Styles reveals the complex and contradictory ways that rose farming shapes contemporary Kenya. She also shows how the rose industry connects Kenya to the world, and how Kenyan actors perceive these connections. As a key space of encounter, Lake Naivasha is a synergistic center where many actors seek to solve broader Kenyan social and environmental problems using the global flows of people, information, and money generated by floriculture.
Writing On The Soil
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Author : Ng'ang'a Wahu-Muchiri
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2023-05-08
Writing On The Soil written by Ng'ang'a Wahu-Muchiri and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
Across contiguous nation-states in Eastern Africa, the geographic proximity disguises an ideological complexity. Land has meant something fundamental in the sociocultural history of each country. Those concerns, however, have manifested into varied political events, and the range of struggles over land has spawned a multiplicity of literary interventions. While Kenya and Uganda were both British colonies, Kenya's experience of settler land alienation made for a much more violent response against efforts at political independence. Uganda's relatively calm unyoking from the colonial burden, however, led to a tumultuous post-independence. Tanzania, too, like Kenya and Uganda, resisted British colonial administration—after Germany's defeat in World War 1. In Writing on the Soil, author Ng’ang’a Wahu-Mũchiri argues that representations of land and landscape perform significant metaphorical labor in African literatures, and this argument evolves across several geographical spaces. Each chapter's analysis is grounded in a particular locale: western Kenya, colonial Tanganyika, post-independence Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Anam Ka'alakol (Lake Turkana), Kampala, and Kitgum in Northern Uganda. Moreover, each section contributes to a deeper understanding of the aesthetic choices that authors make when deploying tropes revolving around land, landscape, and the environment. Mũchiri disentangles the numerous connections between geography and geopolitical space on the one hand, and ideology and cultural analysis on the other. This book embodies a multi-layered argument in the sphere of African critical scholarship, while adding to the growing field of African land rights scholarship—an approach that foregrounds the close reading of Africa’s literary canon.
Rethinking The Mau Mau In Colonial Kenya
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Author : S. Alam
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2007-10-01
Rethinking The Mau Mau In Colonial Kenya written by S. Alam and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-01 with History categories.
This offers an alternative to the colonialistand nationalist explanations of the Mau Mau revolt, examining a widely studied period of Kenyan history from a new perspective.
White Hunters
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Author : Brian Herne
language : en
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Release Date : 2014-04-08
White Hunters written by Brian Herne and has been published by Holt Paperbacks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-08 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Brian Herne's White Hunters: The Golden Age of African Safaris is the story of seventy years of African adventure, danger, and romance. East Africa affects our imagination like few other places: the sight of a charging rhino goes directly to the heart; the limitless landscape of bony highlands, desert, and mountain is, as Isak Dinesen wrote, of "unequalled nobility." White Hunters re-creates the legendary big-game safaris led by Selous and Bell and the daring ventures of early hunters into unexplored territories, and brings to life such romantic figures as Cape-to-Cairo Grogan, who walked 4,000 miles for the love of a woman, and Dinesen's dashing lover, Denys Finch. Witnesses to the richest wildlife spectacle on the earth, these hunters were the first conservationists. Hard-drinking, infatuated with risk, and careless in love, they inspired Hemingway's stories and movies with Clark Gable and Gregory Peck.
African Cowboy
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Author : U. D. Abdulkareem
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2012
African Cowboy written by U. D. Abdulkareem and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Fiction categories.
When Bappa decided to forsake his adventurous children, Ribado and Halimah, for what is regarded as a rebellious attitude against the traditions and cultures of their society, he threw himself into a vicious circle. Bappa had never thought of there being something else that is better than his cows in this world. He thought that any other job or business should be done as an alternative of survival in the absence of cows; he is one of the richest cowmen in his community, and he is happy only if his cows are satisfied, healthy, and secured. But Bappa had been living a polygamous life. He abandoned his first wife, Demmo, and her three children, Jauga, Ribado, and Halimah, and they are left struggling together in abject poverty. Ribado and his younger sister Halimah are merely teenagers, yet wise and spirited. They fight against all odds to get education, something prohibited and a taboo concept in their society; in the process, they face numerous challenges and persecution. African Cowboy author U. D. Abdulkareem illustrates the terrible effect of illiteracy and greed and the power of education and perseverance.
Kwani
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Kwani written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Africa categories.