Download or read book Mau Mau s Children written by David P. Sandgren and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1963 David P. Sandgren went to Kenya to teach in a small, rural school for boys, where he remained for the next four years. These were heady times for Kenyans, as the nation gained its independence, approved a new constitution, and held its first elections. In the school where Sandgren taught, the sons of Gikuyu farmers rose to the challenges of this post colonial era and, in time, entered Kenyan society as adults, joining Kenya’s first generation of post colonial elites. In Mau Mau’s Children, Sandgren has reconnects with these former students. Drawing on more than one hundred interviews, he provides readers with a collective biography of the lives of Kenya’s first postcolonial elite, stretching from their 1940s childhood to the peak of their careers in the 1990s. Through these interviews, Mau Mau’s Children shows the trauma of growing up during the Mau Mau Rebellion, the nature of nationalism in Kenya, the new generational conflicts arising, and the significance of education and Gikuyu ethnicity on his students' path to success.

Download or read book Mau Mau Memoirs written by Marshall S. Clough and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clough (history, U. of Northern Colorado) analyzes 13 personal accounts by Kenyans in order to make a case for not only their historical value, but their role in the struggle to define the importance of Mau Mau within Kenyan historiography and politics. He argues that the recollections of the authors, whose experiences ranged from organizing the secret movement, to supplying the guerillas, to active fighting, to resistance in the British detention camps, serve to refute both the British and Kenyan versions of the revolt. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Download or read book Mau Mau s Daughter written by Wambui Waiyaki Otieno and published by Lynne Rienner Pub. This book was released on 1998 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiography of a woman who was a Kenyan nationalist fighter for the Mau Maus and later politician in Nairobi. Descended from Maasai refugees, Kikuyu frontier settlers, and autochthonous Dorobo hunter-gatherers, she tells the story of her ancestors, her childhood, how she got involved in the Mau Mau rebellion of the 1950s, the later story of her involvement with the Kenya African National Union, her marriage to Nairobi lawyer Silvano Melea Otieno, and the controversy over his burial, which was the impetus for the writing of this book. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book Weep Not Child written by Ngugi wa Thiong'o and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 1987 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Two small boys stand on a rubbish heap and look into the future. One boy is excited, he is beginning school; the other, his brother, is an apprentice carpetner. Together, they will serve their country--the teacher and the craftsman. But this is Kenya and times are against them. In the forests, the Mau Mau are waging war against the white government, and two brothers, Njoroge and Kamau, and the rest of their family, need to decide where their loyalties lie. For the practical man, the choice is simple, but for Njoroge, the scholar, the dream of progress through learning is a hard one to give up"--P. [4] of cover.

Download or read book Rethinking the Mau Mau in Colonial Kenya written by S. Alam and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Apartheid and Racism in South African Children s Literature 1985 1995 written by Donnarae MacCann and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donnarae MacCann and Yulisa Maddy here provide a thorough and provocative analysis of South African children's literature during the key decade around Nelson Mandela's release from prison.

Download or read book Weep Not Child written by Ngugi wa Thiong'o and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nobel Prize–nominated Kenyan writer’s powerful first novel Two brothers, Njoroge and Kamau, stand on a garbage heap and look into their futures: Njoroge is to attend school, while Kamau will train to be a carpenter. But this is Kenya, and the times are against them: In the forests, the Mau Mau is waging war against the white government, and the two brothers and their family need to decide where their loyalties lie. For the practical Kamau, the choice is simple, but for Njoroge the scholar, the dream of progress through learning is a hard one to give up. The first East African novel published in English, Weep Not, Child explores the effects of the infamous Mau Mau uprising on the lives of ordinary men and women, and on one family in particular. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Download or read book Moments with Angels written by Robert Strand and published by New Leaf Publishing Group. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suddenly, there are angels everywhere, or so we think. But haven?t they been with mankind a long time? These creatures who transcend time bring groceries to a snowbound family, and leave no footprints. In Moments with Angels, read about these messengers of God intervening for a family?s safety, and an apocalyptic warning from a mysterious hitchhiker. Thirty such stories paint an awesome picture of these celestial beings.? back cover.

Download or read book Mau Mau Twenty Years after written by Robert Buijtenhuijs and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-04-11 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mau Mau Nationhood written by E. S. Atieno Odhiambo and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades on from independence the role of Mau Mau still excites argument and controversy, not least in Kenya itself.

Download or read book Child Autonomy and Child Governance in Children s Literature written by Christopher Kelen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores representations of child autonomy and self-governance in children’s literature.The idea of child rule and child realms is central to children’s literature, and childhood is frequently represented as a state of being, with children seen as aliens in need of passports to Adultland (and vice versa). In a sense all children’s literature depends on the idea that children are different, separate, and in command of their own imaginative spaces and places. Although the idea of child rule is a persistent theme in discussions of children’s literature (or about children and childhood) the metaphor itself has never been properly unpacked with critical reference to examples from those many texts that are contingent on the authority and/or power of children. Child governance and autonomy can be seen as natural or perverse; it can be displayed as a threat or as a promise. Accordingly, the "child rule"-motif can be seen in Robinsonades and horror films, in philosophical treatises and in series fiction. The representations of self-ruling children are manifold and ambivalent, and range from the idyllic to the nightmarish. Contributors to this volume visit a range of texts in which children are, in various ways, empowered, discussing whether childhood itself may be thought of as a nationality, and what that may imply. This collection shows how representations of child governance have been used for different ideological, aesthetic, and pedagogical reasons, and will appeal to scholars of children’s literature, childhood studies, and cultural studies.

Download or read book Child of Mama written by Njeru wa Gathuma and published by Mbarathi's Edge. This book was released on with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Child of mama is a story set in the rural Gikuyu country during the British colonial period in Kenya. Kimonde is born and grows up against this background, in the comfort of his dependable mother, Muumbi, but in the glaring absence of Mumbuuri, his father. After struggling with his studies, he secures a plum job in the city, but soon loses it, courtesy of his friends’ reckless company. Strengthened by the sympathy and encouragement from his mother and maternal uncle, he soon nds even a better job, again in the city. His attempts to form a love relationship with a life partner are thwarted by his father on the one hand, and by his fiancée on the other, for their own reasons. Child of mama is a story replete with family drama of proportions. A worthy read.

Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1953-09-07 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

Download or read book Voices of the Other written by Roderick McGillis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a variety of approaches to children's literature from a postcolonial perspective that includes discussions of cultural appropriation, race theory, pedagogy as a colonialist activity, and multiculturalism. The eighteen essays divide into three sections: Theory, Colonialism, Postcolonialism. The first section sets the theoretical framework for postcolonial studies; essays here deal with issues of "otherness" and cultural difference, as well as the colonialist implications of pedagogic practice. These essays confront our relationships with the child and childhood as sites for the exertion of our authority and control. Section 2 presents discussions of the colonialist mind-set in children's and young adult texts from the turn of the century. Here works by writers of animal stories in Canada, the U.S. and Britain, works of early Australian colonialist literature, and Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess come under the scrutiny of our postmodern reading practices. Section 3 deals directly with contemporary texts for children that manifest both a postcolonial and a neo-colonial content. In this section, the longest in the book, we have studies of children's literature from Canada, Australia, Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States.

Download or read book The Keystone Kid written by Mike Furches and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2010 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Keystone Kid is the unbelievable, true horrifying story of Anthony. It is a story that shows the tragedy of abandonment, physical and sexual abuse, gangs, homelessness and more. It is unfortunately a story that far too many can relate to. For those that can relate, they will recognize the continuing nightmares that go from childhood through adulthood. With all of the horror, the things missing for Anthony was acceptance, love and hope. But through the horror, in the tragedy, Anthony learned to accept himself, found love, and discovered hope. This book is for all of those who have experienced struggle, and for all of those that care enough to understand. The Keystone Kid has received rave reviews from all sectors, including those who have lived similar stories, mental health professionals, pastors, atheists, celebrities, and experts in the field of physical and sexual abuse. While told in a real way, with real language and surroundings, readers will develop and better understand those whose hearts and lives has been broken. For those who have been broken, they may discover hope and healing. Many have said, that for many, The Keystone Kid could be the inspiration to accept yourself, give you the okay to love and be loved, and find hope for tomorrow....

Download or read book A Dictionary of the Hawaiian Language written by Andrews Lorrin and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-03-14 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1865. To which is appended an English Hawaiian Vocabulary and a chronological table of remarkable events.