African Womanhood In Colonial Kenya 1900 50

Author : Tabitha Kanogo
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : African Women
ISBN : 9780852554456

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African Womanhood in Colonial Kenya, 1900-50 by Tabitha Kanogo Pdf

Within a broad analysis of colonial oppurtunities for physical, social and educational mobility, Kanogo shows how African and British male authorities tried, with uncertain opinions and from different perspectives, to control female initiatives, and how, to very varying degrees, women managed to achieve increasing measures of control over their own lives. North America: Ohio U Press; Kenya: EAEP

Author : Tabitha Kanogo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : African Women
ISBN : 0852554451

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African Womanhood in Colonial Kenya by Tabitha Kanogo Pdf

Author : Tabitha Kanogo
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780821440711

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Wangari Maathai by Tabitha Kanogo Pdf

Wangari Muta Maathai is one of Africa’s most celebrated female activists. Originally trained as a scientist in Kenya and abroad, Professor Maathai returned to her home country of Kenya with a renewed political consciousness. There, she began her long career as an activist, campaigning for environmental and social justice while speaking out against government corruption. In 2004, Maathai was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her leadership of the Green Belt Movement, a conservation effort that resulted in the restoration of African forests decimated during the colonial era. In this biography, Tabitha Kanogo follows Wangari Maathai from her modest, rural Kenyan upbringing to her rise as a national figure campaigning for environmental and ecological conservation, sustainable development, democracy, human rights, gender equality, and the eradication of poverty until her death in 2011.

Author : T. Konogo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:454330451

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Squatters and the roots of Mau Mau, 1905-63 by T. Konogo Pdf

Author : P. Lorcin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137013040

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Historicizing Colonial Nostalgia by P. Lorcin Pdf

Comparative study of the writings and strategies of European women in two colonies, French Algeria and British Kenya, during the twentieth century. Its central theme is women's discursive contribution to the construction of colonial nostalgia.

Author : Kathomi Gatwiri
Publisher : Springer
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811305658

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African Womanhood and Incontinent Bodies by Kathomi Gatwiri Pdf

This book reveals the structures of poverty, power, patriarchy and imperialistic health policies that underpin what the World Health Organization calls the “hidden disease” of vaginal fistulas in Africa. By employing critical feminist and post-colonial perspectives, it shows how “leaking black female bodies” are constructed, ranked, stratified and marginalised in global maternal health care, and explains why women in Africa are at risk of developing vaginal fistulas and then having adequate treatment delayed or denied. Drawing on face-to-face, in-depth interviews with 30 Kenyan women, it paints a rare social portrait of the heartbreaking challenges for Kenyan women living with this most profound gender-related health issue – an experience of shame, taboo and abjection with severe implications for women’s wellbeing, health and sexuality. In absolutely groundbreaking depth, this book shows why research on vaginal fistulas must incorporate feminist understandings of bodily experience to inform future practices and knowledge.

Author : Kathleen Sheldon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442262935

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Historical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa by Kathleen Sheldon Pdf

This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and a bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on individual African women in history, politics, religion, and the arts; on important events, organizations, and publications.

Author : S. H. Fazan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857725554

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Colonial Kenya Observed by S. H. Fazan Pdf

The coast of East Africa was considered a strategically invaluable region for the establishment of trading ports, both for Arab and Persian merchants, long prior to invasion and conquest by Europeans. In the initial stages of the scramble for Africa in the 18th century, control of the area was an aspiration for every colonial nation in Europe - but it was not until 1895 that it was finally dominated by a sole power and proclaimed The Protectorate of British East Africa. In the early 20th century, the coast was brimming with vitality as immigrants, colonisers and missionaries from Arabia, India and Europe poured in to take advantage of growing commercial opportunities - including the prospect of enslaving millions of native Africans. The development of Kenya is an exceptional tale within the history of British rule - in perhaps no other colony did nationalistic feeling evolve in conditions of such extensive social and political change. In 1911, S.H. Fazan sailed to what later became the Republic of Kenya to work for the colonial government. Immersing himself in knowledge of traditional language and law, he recorded the vast changes to local culture that he encountered after decades of working with both the British administration and the Kenyan people. This work charts the sweeping tide of social change that occurred through his career with the clarity and insight that comes with a total intimacy of a country. His memoirs examine the fascinating complexity of interaction between the colonial and native courts, commercial land reform and the revolutionised dynamic of labour relations. By further unearthing the political tensions that climaxed with the Mau Mau Revolt of 1952-1960, this invaluable work on the European colonial period paints a comprehensive and revealing firsthand account for anyone with an interest in British and African history. Fazan's story provides a quite unparalleled view of colonial Africa and the conduct of Empire across half a century.

Author : Martin S. Shanguhyia,Toyin Falola
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1362 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137594266

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The Palgrave Handbook of African Colonial and Postcolonial History by Martin S. Shanguhyia,Toyin Falola Pdf

This wide-ranging volume presents the most complete appraisal of modern African history to date. It assembles dozens of new and established scholars to tackle the questions and subjects that define the field, ranging from the economy, the two world wars, nationalism, decolonization, and postcolonial politics to religion, development, sexuality, and the African youth experience. Contributors are drawn from numerous fields in African studies, including art, music, literature, education, and anthropology. The themes they cover illustrate the depth of modern African history and the diversity and originality of lenses available for examining it. Older themes in the field have been treated to an engaging re-assessment, while new and emerging themes are situated as the book’s core strength. The result is a comprehensive, vital picture of where the field of modern African history stands today.

Author : Stacey Hynd
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350302662

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Imperial Gallows by Stacey Hynd Pdf

Not just a method of crime control or individual punishment in Britain's African territories, the death penalty was an integral aspect of colonial networks of power and violence. Imperial Gallows analyses capital trials from Kenya, Nyasaland and the Gold Coast to explore the social tensions that fueled murder among colonised populations, and how colonial legal cultures and landscapes of political authority shaped sentencing and mercy. It demonstrates how ideas of race, ethnicity, gender and 'civilization' could both spare and condemn Africans convicted of murder in colonial courts, and also how Africans could either appropriate or resist such colonial legal discourses in their trials and petitions. In this book, Stacey Hynd follows the whole process of capital punishment from the identification of a murder victim to trial and conviction, through the process of mercy and sentencing onto death row and execution. The scandals that erupted over the death penalty, from botched executions and moral panics over ritual murder, to the hanging of anti-colonial rebels for 'terrorist' and emergency offences, provide significant insights into the shifting moral and political economies of colonial violence. This monograph contextualises the death penalty within the wider penal systems and coercive networks of British colonial Africa to highlight the shifting targets of the imperial gallows against rebels, robbers or domestic murderers. Imperial Gallows demonstrates that while hangings were key elements of colonial iconography in British Africa, symbolically loaded events that demonstrated imperial power and authority, they also reveal the limits of that power.

Author : Jan Bender Shetler
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299303945

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Gendering Ethnicity in African Women’s Lives by Jan Bender Shetler Pdf

The elegists, ancient Rome's most introspective poets, filled their works with vivid, first-person accounts of dreams. Emma Scioli examines these varied and visually striking textual dreamscapes, arguing that the poets exploited dynamics of visual representation to share with readers the intensely personal experience of dreaming.

Author : Eren Bolat
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527581692

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Postcolonial Representation of the African Woman in the Selected Works of Ngugi and Adichie by Eren Bolat Pdf

Until the lives and issues of African women arrived on the agenda of postcolonial writers, African women, who continued their lives under double colonization by patriarchy and dominant powers, did not have much standing in literary works and in the world of literature. Postcolonial African women have often been represented as weak, subaltern, and speechless by western writers, and have even been underrepresented by some postcolonial writers. This book shows how the African woman, who is usually represented in clichéd and stereotyped forms, is depicted a versatile way in Ngugi and Adichie’s novels.

Author : Mickie Mwanzia Koster,Michael Mwenda Kithinji,Jerono P. Rotich
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137574633

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Kenya After 50 by Mickie Mwanzia Koster,Michael Mwenda Kithinji,Jerono P. Rotich Pdf

This book explores the key milestones in education, gender, and policy that Kenya has achieved since independence, the challenges of this experience, and the future prospects. This edited collection of chapters also aims to illuminate the lessons learned from the experiences of the postcolonial period as well as postulate on the way forward. Through this exploration of the Kenyan experience since independence, the authors present an optimistic view that despite the many obstacles and challenges, the country still has promising prospects as a nation.

Author : Eleanor Tiplady Higgs
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350129825

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Narrative, Identity and Ethics in Postcolonial Kenya by Eleanor Tiplady Higgs Pdf

Can a Christian organization with colonial roots work towards reproductive justice for Kenyan women and resist sexist interpretations of Christianity? How does a women's organization in Africa navigate controversial ethical dilemmas, while dealing with the pressures of imperialism in international development? Based on a case study of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) in Kenya, this book explores the answers to these questions. It also introduces a theoretical framework drawn from postcolonial feminist critique, narrative identity theory and the work of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians: 'everyday Christian ethics'. The book evaluates the theory's implications as a cross-disciplinary theme in feminist studies of religion and theology. Eleanor Tiplady Higgs argues that Kenya YWCA's narratives of its Christian history and constitution sustain a link between its ethical perspective and its identity. The ethical insights that emerge from these practices proclaim the relevance of the value of 'fulfilled lives', as prescribed in the New Testament, for Christian women's experiences of reproductive injustice.

Author : Emily S. Burrill,Richard L. Roberts,Elizabeth Thornberry
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780821443453

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Domestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa by Emily S. Burrill,Richard L. Roberts,Elizabeth Thornberry Pdf

Domestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa reveals the ways in which domestic space and domestic relationships take on different meanings in African contexts that extend the boundaries of family obligation, kinship, and dependency. The term domestic violence encompasses kin-based violence, marriage-based violence, gender-based violence, as well as violence between patrons and clients who shared the same domestic space. As a lived experience and as a social and historical unit of analysis, domestic violence in colonial and postcolonial Africa is complex. Using evidence drawn from Sub-saharan Africa, the chapters explore the range of domestic violence in Africa’s colonial past and its present, including taxation and the insertion of the household into the broader structure of colonial domination. African histories of domestic violence demand that scholars and activists refine the terms and analyses and pay attention to the historical legacies of contemporary problems. This collection brings into conversation historical, anthropological, legal, and activist perspectives on domestic violence in Africa and fosters a deeper understanding of the problem of domestic violence, the limits of international human rights conventions, and local and regional efforts to address the issue.