Kenya The Beloved

Author : J.M. Ombati Simon
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781477136133

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Kenya the Beloved by J.M. Ombati Simon Pdf

Kenya the Beloved is a book written with love. The book is about one man’s love for his country, Kenya.It is about his vision and desire to see justice, peace and freedom in his country. In this book, the author, (Job Ombati) tries to remind his fellow countrymen where they have come from. He tries to tell a story of their conquest of injustice and their development and progress that they made since independence. As he takes you from the ‘The Day Before’, he shows you how peaceful the country was before the arrival of the colonialist. The book describes well how Kenyan people fought the colonialist and won their freedom. It tells who was who and how they participated in the struggle. Kenya The Beloved tells how white men came to Kenya as missionaries (Visitors) and turned to be colonialists. It tells how hospitable Kenyans were to have welcomed the Visitors, without knowing their hidden agenda. After realizing that the Visitors had ill-motives, the Africans united against him and started a revolt. This revolt did not take one face, as many might think. It took different people with different approaches to dismantle colonialism completely from Kenya. This is an important point that the book raises because many other books have been written pointing to only one movement called Mau-mau as being the only revolt that was used to oust colonialists. Kenya the Beloved says that that is not entirely true. The book also tells what was at stake and why the Africans of Kenya had to fight. In wildlife, the book tells that animals in Kenya were plenty and beautiful before and after the colonialists. He then tells how even these animals fought for freedom like every other Kenyan. The book illustrates how well and peaceful the country was before December 27, 2007 when it says ‘things fell apart’. Job does not leave you there stranded as to what to do next, he gives you hope. Job tells how things can be turned around for the better of all the people. He says that even though things have gone terribly wrong, people can still rise and mend fences for the future generation. Above all, this book is an historical account, of some events and freedom struggle for the people of Kenya. This is a book of hope. It is a book that tells vividly the way some people think and the practical way of solving our many problems in the world. Reading this book raises one’s hope and inspires action for the common good of all humanity. Job Ombati believes that if all men can think positive, if all men can start acting with love of one another, the world will be a better place for all to live in. It is with such kind of thinking that he wrote this small book, Kenya The Beloved. It will challenge and inspire you to the end.

Author : Ngugi wa Thiong'o,Makena Onjerika,Rasna Warah,Stanley Gazemba,Kinyanjui Kombani
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781617757754

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Nairobi Noir by Ngugi wa Thiong'o,Makena Onjerika,Rasna Warah,Stanley Gazemba,Kinyanjui Kombani Pdf

In this anthology, fourteen authors explore dark mysteries in the concrete jungle capital of Kenya, dealing with topics of race, religion, and corruption. Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Brand-new stories by: Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Stanley Gazemba, Ngumi Kibera, Peter Kimani, Winfred Kiunga, Kinyanjui Kombani, Caroline Mose, Kevin Mwachiro, Wanjiku wa Ngugi, Faith Oneya, Makena Onjerika, Troy Onyango, J.E. Sibi-Okumu, and Rasna Warah. Praise for Nairobi Noir “Nairobi Noir takes readers into the enigmas that haunt Kenya’s most populous city through the deft storytelling of a stellar cast of writers, which includes Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Stanley Gazemba, Makena Onjerika, Troy Onyango, and others.” —Brittle Paper, One of 50 Notable African Books of 2020 “Nairobi is a city of 3 million souls, so it makes sense as a setting Akashic Books’ famed noir series. 14 new stories fill a collection with Nairobi old and new; authors range in age from 24 to 81, and many layers of the city and its complex subcultures will be revealed as the reader makes their way through. Perfect for the armchair traveler!” —CrimeReads, included in CrimeReads’ Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2020 “Crime fiction fans have much to savor.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : M.G. Vassanji
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307371928

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The In-Between World of Vikram Lall by M.G. Vassanji Pdf

Giller Prize-winner M.G. Vassanji’s The In-Between World of Vikram Lall is a haunting novel of corruption and regret that brings to life the complexity and turbulence of Kenyan society in the last five decades. Rich in sensuous detail and historical insight, this is a powerful story of passionate betrayals and political violence, racial tension and the strictures of tradition, told in elegant, assured prose. The novel begins in 1953, with eight-year-old Vikram Lall a witness to the celebrations around the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, just as the Mau Mau guerilla war for independence from Britain begins to gain strength. In a land torn apart by idealism, doubt, political upheaval and terrible acts of violence, Vic and his sister Deepa must find their place among a new generation. Neither colonists nor African, neither white nor black, the Indian brother and sister find themselves somewhere in between in their band of playmates: Bill and Annie, British children, and Njoroge, an African boy. These are the relationships that will shape the rest of their lives. We follow Vikram through the changes in East African society, the immense promise of the fifties and sixties. But when that hope is betrayed by the corruption and violence of the following decades, Vic is drawn into the Kenyatta government’s orbit of graft and power-broking. Njoroge, his childhood friend, can abandon neither the idealism of his youth nor his love for Vic’s sister Deepa. But neither the idealism of the one nor the passive cynicism of the other can avert the tragedies that await them. The In-Between World of Vikram Lall is a profound and careful examination of one man’s search for his place in the world, with themes that have run through Vassanji’s work: the nature of community in a volatile society, the relations between colony and colonizer, and the inescapable presence of the past. It is also, finally, a deeply personal book speaking to the people who are in the in-between.

Author : Jack Hutchins
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781639031160

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If Only One by Jack Hutchins Pdf

Our Lord said, "Go and make disciples of all nations." In 1995, He told me to "go to Kenya, East Africa and make those disciples." What I found was millions of natives needing to hear about Jesus Christ. I thought that I was going to do some great work and maybe even stay and be a career missionary. Boy, was I wrong! I didn't know it then, but when I got back to North Carolina, I realized my future calling. I was to take teams back to Kenya and let the Lord change the lives of not only the natives, but the missionaries themselves, and that's what happened. We've seen thousands ask Jesus into their hearts. Some of whom are over one hundred years old, and some who had never seen a white man or woman, or heard the Word of God. What a feeling to see someone give their life to Jesus so close to eternity.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on African Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Democracy
ISBN : PSU:000065521304

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The Immediate and Underlying Causes and Consequences of Kenya's Flawed Election by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on African Affairs Pdf

Author : Wambui B. Githiora
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02
Category : Kenya
ISBN : 9781598583106

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Wanjira by Wambui B. Githiora Pdf

It is the mid-1970's and Wanjira, one of Kenya's Children of Uhuru, or Children of Independence, has entered The University of Nairobi, the country's highest institution of learning, ready for the last stage of her preparation as one of Kenya's "Future Leaders." As she awakens to the social and political realities around her, Wanjira soon discovers that her nation's own coming-of-age will profoundly affect and challenge her emerging womanhood and identity as a young Kenyan woman. When she falls in love with Luka, a fellow student at the university, Wanjira is forced to confront the ethnic tensions that permeate her world, and which threaten to destroy the hopes, ideals, and aspirations of her generation. Wambui B. Githiora grew up in Mang'u, Kenya. She holds a B.A. honors degree in Literature from the University of Nairobi and a doctorate in education from Teachers College, Columbia University. She has worked as a sub-editor for a Kenyan news magazine and on school radio programs in Malawi and Uganda. She currently teaches English at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she lives with her husband, David Updike, and their son, Wesley.

Author : Kiraitu Murungi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015070734168

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The Song of My Beloved by Kiraitu Murungi Pdf

Author : Mbũgua wa Mũngai,G. M. Gona
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9789966724472

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(Re)membering Kenya Vol 1 by Mbũgua wa Mũngai,G. M. Gona Pdf

One of the critical questions that Kenyans have continuously asked is what went wrong in January and February 2008 with the "peace" they had hitherto enjoyed. There have not been readily available answers to this fundamental question. The collection of papers presented in this book attempt to provide, as a starting point, possible explanations for the events of early 2008 including key background issues in Kenyan history since pre-independence times. Based on a series of public lectures titled (Re)membering Kenya organized by the volume editors together with Twaweza Communications and sponsored by the Goethe-Institut Kenya, the Institute for International Education and The Ford Foundation the lecture series became a way of trying to get scholars to engage meaningfully with the Kenyan public on critical matters pertaining to their nationhoodóeven if this entailed first calling to question the "lie" about the very ideas and practices upon which that nationhood is assumed to stand. A key lesson drawn from the unfolding discussions at the Goethe-Institut Kenya was that the 2007 elections' debacle was merely the cusp of momentous crises to do with among other issues, governance, law and order, Parliament's abdication of its role in ensuring accountability from the Executive, dilemmas of identity and socio-economic marginality. The book is the first of three volumes under the (Re)membering Kenya series whose overall objective is to cast some new light on the various trajectories that informed the happenings of January 2008. The present volume brings together some of the best interpretative writing and suggestions on pertinent questions, past and present, ranging from the architecture of Kenya's ethnicity, Kenyanness, generational competition, socialization and violence, iconic representations of identity to the ongoing debate on the efficacy of the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC). It is hoped that the issues debated during the public lectures and documented herein will spur further discussions in other spaces within civil society organizations, among activists and in newspapers where the public might continue to expand their thinking on the complex task of (Re)membering Kenya.

Author : wa-Mungai Mbugua,George Gona
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789966028204

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(Re)membering Kenya Vol 1 by wa-Mungai Mbugua,George Gona Pdf

One of the critical questions that Kenyans have continuously asked is what went wrong in January and February 2008 with the peace they had hitherto enjoyed. There have not been readily available answers to this fundamental question. The collection of papers presented in this book attempt to provide, as a starting point, possible explanations for the events of early 2008 including key background issues in Kenyan history since pre-independence times. Based on a series of public lectures titled (Re)membering Kenya organized by the volume editors together with Twaweza Communications and sponsored by the Goethe-Institut Kenya, the Institute for International Education and The Ford Foundation the lecture series became a way of trying to get scholars to engage meaningfully with the Kenyan public on critical matters pertaining to their nationhoodeven if this entailed first calling to question the lie about the very ideas and practices upon which that nationhood is assumed to stand. A key lesson drawn from the unfolding discussions at the Goethe-Institut Kenya was that the 2007 elections debacle was merely the cusp of momentous crises to do with among other issues, governance, law and order, Parliaments abdication of its role in ensuring accountability from the Executive, dilemmas of identity and socio-economic marginality. The book is the first of three volumes under the (Re)membering Kenya series whose overall objective is to cast some new light on the various trajectories that informed the happenings of January 2008. The present volume brings together some of the best interpretative writing and suggestions on pertinent questions, past and present, ranging from the architecture of Kenyas ethnicity, Kenyanness, generational competition, socialization and violence, iconic representations of identity to the ongoing debate on the efficacy of the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC). It is hoped that the issues debated during the public lectures and documented herein will spur further discussions in other spaces within civil society organizations, among activists and in newspapers where the public might continue to expand their thinking on the complex task of (Re)membering Kenya.

Author : Richard Trillo
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781848369733

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The Rough Guide to Kenya by Richard Trillo Pdf

The Rough Guide to Kenya is the essential travel guide to East Africa’s biggest travel destination. The Rough Guide to Kenya is the ultimate companion for coping with cosmopolitan Nairobi; trekking through the northern deserts; going on safari in Samburu, Amboseli or Tsavo national parks and crossing the Great Rift Valley in a four-wheel-drive, inspired by dozens of colour photos. The guide unearths the best safaris, sites, hotels, lodges, camps, restaurants, and nightlife across every price range and offers experienced advice on everything from diving the coral reef to visiting Swahili ruins and flying over the savannah. You'll find specialist coverage of Kenyan history, wildlife, music and literature plus insider tips on visiting Barack Obama’s ancestral village of Kogelo. Explore all corners of Kenya with authoritative background on everything from Indian Ocean beaches to safaris in Maasai Mara and climbing Mount Kenya, relying on handy language tips and the clearest maps of any guide. Whether you’re heading on a two-week safari or visiting the country to work be sure to eat, drink and talk like a Kenyan with this must-have guide. Make the most of your holiday with The Rough Guide to Kenya.

Author : Rough Guides
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780241278451

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The Rough Guide to Kenya by Rough Guides Pdf

The Rough Guide to Kenya is the ultimate companion to East Africa's biggest travel destination. Get under the skin of cosmopolitan Nairobi with full coverage of the city's nightlife, restaurants, and hotels. Detailed information will help you make the most of the Maasai Mara reserve and discover the best Indian Ocean beaches, as well as the northern deserts and the various national parks. With detailed background information and maps, a wealth of practical information, and a handy wildlife section, this is the essential guide for your next trip, whether you're visiting for a two-week safari or going to Kenya on business. Make the most of your time with The Rough Guide to Kenya.

Author : Condoleezza Rice
Publisher : Twelve
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781455540198

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Democracy by Condoleezza Rice Pdf

From the former secretary of state and bestselling author -- a sweeping look at the global struggle for democracy and why America must continue to support the cause of human freedom. "This heartfelt and at times very moving book shows why democracy proponents are so committed to their work...Both supporters and skeptics of democracy promotion will come away from this book wiser and better informed." -- The New York Times From the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union to the ongoing struggle for human rights in the Middle East, Condoleezza Rice has served on the front lines of history. As a child, she was an eyewitness to a third awakening of freedom, when her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, became the epicenter of the civil rights movement for black Americans. In this book, Rice explains what these epochal events teach us about democracy. At a time when people around the world are wondering whether democracy is in decline, Rice shares insights from her experiences as a policymaker, scholar, and citizen, in order to put democracy's challenges into perspective. When the United States was founded, it was the only attempt at self-government in the world. Today more than half of all countries qualify as democracies, and in the long run that number will continue to grow. Yet nothing worthwhile ever comes easily. Using America's long struggle as a template, Rice draws lessons for democracy around the world -- from Russia, Poland, and Ukraine, to Kenya, Colombia, and the Middle East. She finds that no transitions to democracy are the same because every country starts in a different place. Pathways diverge and sometimes circle backward. Time frames for success vary dramatically, and countries often suffer false starts before getting it right. But, Rice argues, that does not mean they should not try. While the ideal conditions for democracy are well known in academia, they never exist in the real world. The question is not how to create perfect circumstances but how to move forward under difficult ones. These same insights apply in overcoming the challenges faced by governments today. The pursuit of democracy is a continuing struggle shared by people around the world, whether they are opposing authoritarian regimes, establishing new democratic institutions, or reforming mature democracies to better live up to their ideals. The work of securing it is never finished. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Author : Arlene Keizer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501727375

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Black Subjects by Arlene Keizer Pdf

Writers as diverse as Carolivia Herron, Charles Johnson, Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, and Derek Walcott have addressed the history of slavery in their literary works. In this groundbreaking new book, Arlene R. Keizer contends that these writers theorize the nature and formation of the black subject and engage established theories of subjectivity in their fiction and drama by using slave characters and the condition of slavery as focal points. In this book, Keizer examines theories derived from fictional works in light of more established theories of subject formation, such as psychoanalysis, Althusserian interpellation, performance theory, and theories about the formation of postmodern subjects under late capitalism. Black Subjects shows how African American and Caribbean writers' theories of identity formation, which arise from the varieties of black experience re-imagined in fiction, force a reconsideration of the conceptual bases of established theories of subjectivity. The striking connections Keizer draws between these two bodies of theory contribute significantly to African American and Caribbean Studies, literary theory, and critical race and ethnic studies.

Author : Greville Edgecombe
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781291724998

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Tales for Beginners by Greville Edgecombe Pdf

A selection of cautionary tales by a legendary Army pilot for the benefit of those just starting their careers in aviation. 'Tales for Beginners' are all factual stories, often at the expense of the author, which bring out useful and light-hearted lessons in flight safety. Covering a lifetime in the Army, these tales include basic training and early operations at home and abroad, counter-terrorist operations in Aden, and the subsequent terrors of staff work and command.

Author : Kouassi Pascal Soman
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781663261212

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An Eagle Flight for a Better World by Kouassi Pascal Soman Pdf

Holy cow, what a beautiful sight! These better be Atsa the angelic eagle and her rejuvenated grandpa Eaglasaurus; I thought. I see angels every day and everywhere—just like children do—because I look for them. Readers met those of the Potomac River [2008] and the Sahara Desert [2010] in my previous novels. Today, it is no brainer that the world is in crisis. Things may get worse if humanity doesn’t take action. It is well-documented that the root cause of our challenges are found in the lack of education, learning and wisdom for a majority of the world’s population. Well, the time has come for action to build a better world with storytelling for learning. A clear pathway is illustrated with these short fictions. Please join us and fly virtually with and learn from Atsa the angelic Bald eagle; the world’s wisest bird.