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Publication year: 2009
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| Series: | African Sources for African History, 10 |
| ISBN-13 (i)The ISBN (International Standard Book Number) has been changed from 10 to 13 digits on 1 January 2007: | 978 90 04 17404 7 |
| ISBN-10: | 90 04 17404 4 |
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| Cover: | Paperback |
| Number of pages: | xvi, 412 pp. |
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| List price: | € 69.00 / US$ 102.00 |
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Table of contents
CONTENTS
List of Figures and Photographs ..................................................... vii
Preface .................................................................................................. ix
SECTION I
LIFE
Chapter 1 Henry Muoria, Public Moralist ................................. 3
John Lonsdale
Chapter 2 The Muorias in Kenya: ‘A very long chain’.
An Essay in Family Biography .................................................... 59
Bodil Folke Frederiksen
Chapter 3 The Muoria Family in London—A Memory ........... 105
Wangari Muoria-Sal (with Bodil Folke Frederiksen)
SECTION II
WORKS
Editorial note on Henry Muoria’s three political pamphlets ...... 131
Chapter 4 What Should We Do, Our People? ........................... 137
Chapter 5 The Home Coming of Our Great Hero Jomo
Kenyatta ........................................................................................... 253
Chapter 6 Kenyatta Is Our Reconciler ........................................ 317
Bibliography ........................................................................................ 393
Index .................................................................................................... 403
Reviews
Throughout his extraordinary career at home and in exile, Henry Muoria recognized the hard toil of Muoria’s writings, and the layered, sensitive, and intimate commentaries on them by the editors, convey a critical era of political and moral imagination almost lost to view — an era, in recent decades, almost unspoken and now, with this volume, so evocatively spoken. Writing for Kenya invites scholars to visit and revisit the intellectual, moral, and social worlds in which Africans lived and worked as the more visible struggles against empire unfolded.
Professor David William Cohen
University of Michigan
This is a jewel in the crown of Brill’s imaginative African Sources for African History series, showing yet again what a wealth of African local intellectual production remains to be recovered and made available to new audiences.
Professor Karin Barber FBA
University of Birmingham
Readership
All those interested in Kenya's intellectual and political history, in the political thought of Jomo Kenyatta, in vernacular literacy, in the social history of African entrepreneurs and their families, and in how families bridge the divides of the African diaspora.
About the author(s)
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).
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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.
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