Facing Mount Kenya

Author : Jomo Kenyatta
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1978-12-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789966566102

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Facing Mount Kenya by Jomo Kenyatta Pdf

Facing Mount Kenya, first published in 1938, is a monograph on the life and customs of the Gikuyu people of central Kenya prior to their contact with Europeans. It is unique in anthropological literature for it gives an account of the social institutions and religious rites of an African people, permeated by the emotions that give to customs and observances their meaning. It is characterised by both insight and a tinge of romanticism. The author, proud of his African blood and ways of thought, takes the reader through a thorough and clear picture of Gikuyu life and customs, painting an almost utopian picture of their social norms and the sophisticated codes by which all aspects of the society were governed. This book is one of a kind, capturing and documenting traditions fast disappearing. It is therefore a must-read for all who want to learn about African culture.

Author : Kenyatta, Jomo
Publisher : East African Educational Publishers
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789966460172

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Facing Mount Kenya by Kenyatta, Jomo Pdf

Facing Mount Kenya, first published in 1938, is a monograph on the life and customs of the Gikuyu people of central Kenya prior to their contact with Europeans. It is unique in anthropological literature for it gives an account of the social institutions and religious rites of an African people, permeated by the emotions that give to customs and observances their meaning. It is characterised by both insight and a tinge of romanticism. The author, proud of his African blood and ways of thought, takes the reader through a thorough and clear picture of Gikuyu life and customs, painting an almost utopian picture of their social norms and the sophisticated codes by which all aspects of the society were governed. This book is one of a kind, capturing and documenting traditions fast disappearing. It is therefore a must-read for all who want to learn about African culture.

Author : Jomo Kenyatta
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1962-02-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780394702100

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Facing Mount Kenya by Jomo Kenyatta Pdf

With an Introduction by Bronislav Malinkowski, Facing Mount Kenya is a central document of the highest distinction in anthropological literature, an invaluable key to the structure of African society and the nature of the African mind. Facing Mount Kenya is not only a formal study of life and death, work and play, sex and the family in one of the greatest tribes of contemporary Africa, but a work of considerable literary merit. The very sight and sound of Kikuyu tribal life presented here are at once comprehensive and intimate, and as precise as they are compassionate.

Author : Helen Tilley,Robert Gordon
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526118714

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Ordering Africa by Helen Tilley,Robert Gordon Pdf

African research played a major role in transforming the discipline of anthropology in the twentieth century. Ethnographic studies, in turn, had significant effects on the way imperial powers in Africa approached subject peoples. Ordering Africa provides the first comparative history of these processes. With essays exploring metropolitan research institutes, Africans as ethnographers, the transnational features of knowledge production, and the relationship between anthropology and colonial administration, this volume both consolidates and extends a range of new research questions focusing on the politics of imperial knowledge. Specific chapters examine French West Africa, the Belgian and French Congo, the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Italian Northeast Africa, Kenya, and Equatorial Africa (Gabon) as well as developments in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland. A major collection of essays that will be welcomed by scholars interested in imperial history and the history of Africa.

Author : Jomo Kenyatta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:63041204

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Facing Mount Kenya by Jomo Kenyatta Pdf

Author : Jomo Kenyatta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:255825722

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Facing Mount Kenya by Jomo Kenyatta Pdf

Author : M.J. Coe
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401178310

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The Ecology of the Alpine Zone of Mount Kenya by M.J. Coe Pdf

For centuries the peak of Mount Kenya has held a magical and religious significance for the Bantu and Nilohamitic peoples around its base. The Kikuyu live around the Eastern and Southern bound aries and the closely related Uembu and Umeru on the S.E. and N.E. respectively. Early in this century the Masai lived to the N.W. and North, but after continual warfare between them and their neighbours, the European administrators of that time moved them to a special reserve to the South, which accounts at the present day for the retention in the Masai language of many words that refer to Mount Kenya. Kikuyu folk-lore tells how, when the earth was formed, a man named Mogai made a great mountain, Kere-Nyaga. The fine white powder (snow) covering the peak, which they called ira, was said to be the bed of Ngai (God), and during male and female circumcision ceremonies a white powder was placed on the wound, and the ini tiates were told that this material had been brought from the summit of the mountain. In fact all important tribal ceremonies were, and in many cases still are conducted facing the mountain. Such occasions include marriage and sacrifice when, in time of hardship, Ngai's aid is called upon (CAGNOLO 1933, KENYATTA 1938, CRIRA 1959).

Author : Jomo Kenyatta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Kikuyu (African people)
ISBN : LCCN:62003764

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Facing Mount Kenya by Jomo Kenyatta Pdf

Author : Jeremy Murray-Brown
Publisher : London : G. Allen & Unwin
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015010391988

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Kenyatta by Jeremy Murray-Brown Pdf

Account of the political leadership role of jomo kenyatta in the Kenyan nationalist movement - recounts his childhood and youthful years and covers political aspects of colonialism, independence, social change, cultural change, the role of the Christian Churches, etc. Illustrations, maps and references. Biography kenyatta j.

Author : Jomo Kenyatta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:644464202

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Facing mount Kenya by Jomo Kenyatta Pdf

Author : Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781620975268

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The Perfect Nine by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Pdf

A dazzling, genre-defying novel in verse from the author Delia Owens says “tackles the absurdities, injustices, and corruption of a continent” Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s novels and memoirs have received glowing praise from the likes of President Barack Obama, the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, and NPR; he has been a finalist for the Man International Booker Prize and is annually tipped to win the Nobel Prize for Literature; and his books have sold tens of thousands of copies around the world. In his first attempt at the epic form, Ngũgĩ tells the story of the founding of the Gĩkũyũ people of Kenya, from a strongly feminist perspective. A verse narrative, blending folklore, mythology, adventure, and allegory, The Perfect Nine chronicles the efforts the Gĩkũyũ founders make to find partners for their ten beautiful daughters—called “The Perfect Nine” —and the challenges they set for the 99 suitors who seek their hands in marriage. The epic has all the elements of adventure, with suspense, danger, humor, and sacrifice. Ngũgĩ’s epic is a quest for the beautiful as an ideal of living, as the motive force behind migrations of African peoples. He notes, “The epic came to me one night as a revelation of ideals of quest, courage, perseverance, unity, family; and the sense of the divine, in human struggles with nature and nurture.”

Author : Neal W. Sobania
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313039362

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Culture and Customs of Kenya by Neal W. Sobania Pdf

Kenya, a land of safaris, wild animals, and Maasai warriors, perfectly represents Africa for many Westerners. This peerless single-source book presents the contemporary reality of life in Kenya, an important East-African nation that has served as a crossroads for peoples and cultures from Africa, the Middle East, and East Asia for centuries. As such, it is a land rich in cultural and ethnic diversity, where unique and dynamic traditions blend with modern influences. Students and general readers will be engrossed in narrative overviews highlighting Kenyan history, as well as the beliefs, vibrant cultural expressions, and various lifestyles and roles of the Kenyan population. A chronology, glossary, and numerous photos enhance the narrative. Kenya today struggles with nation building. Its society comprises the haves and the have-nots and faces the challenges of the trend toward urbanization, with its attendant disruption of traditional social structures. For Kenyans, the preserving of traditional cultures is as important as making the statement that Kenya is a modern nation. Chapters on the land, people, and history; religion and worldview; literature, film, and media; art and architecture; cuisine and traditional dress; gender roles, marriage, and family; and social customs and lifestyle are up to date and written by a country expert. A chronology, glossary, and numerous photos enhance the narrative.

Author : K. Kyle
Publisher : Springer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230377707

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The Politics of the Independence of Kenya by K. Kyle Pdf

As with his critically acclaimed book on Suez, Keith Kyle revisits as a scholar ground that he first covered as a print and television journalist. After three introductory chapters covering the years 1895-1957, the core of the book examines in lively detail how Kenya moved from Mau Mau trauma to national freedom. The immediacy of the eye-witness, which older readers will remember from television reports, is now combined with the fruits of reflection and meticulous archival research to create a unique authoritative study of this vital period for Kenya, for Africa and for the British Empire.

Author : Jomo Kenyatta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : OCLC:61599562

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Facing Mount Kenya by Jomo Kenyatta Pdf

Author : Valeer Neckebrouck
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Circumcision
ISBN : 9061869188

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Irua by Valeer Neckebrouck Pdf

This book contains twenty-eight traditional circumcision songs of the Kikuyu people, taperecorded in January 1972 during a celebration organized on the eve of the circumcision of a young boy from Kiambu.