Luyia Nation

Author : Shadrack Amakoye Bulimo
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781466978355

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Luyia Nation by Shadrack Amakoye Bulimo Pdf

Unbeknownst to most, the Luyia Nation is a congeries of Bantu and assimilated Nilotic clans principally the Luo, Kalenjin, and Maasai. Created seventy years ago, the Luyia tribe is still evolving in a slow process that seeks to harmonize the historico-cultural institutions that define the eighteen subnations in Kenya alone. Available records indicate that geophysical spread of Luyia-speaking people extends beyond the Kenyan frontier into Uganda and Tanzania with some Luyia clans having extant brethren in Rwanda, Congo, Zambia, and Cameroon. The 862 Luyia clans in Kenya are amorphous units united only by common cultural and linguistic bonds. The political union between these clans is a pesky issue that has eluded the community since formation of the superethnic polity. Although postindependence scholars dismissed oral accounts of Egyptian ancestry, new anthropological evidence links the Bantu, including those in West Africa, to ancient Misri (Egypt). A major historical and cultural change in Buluyia occurred a little more than a century ago when natives first made contact with the Western world. The meeting in 1883 by a Scottish explorer, Joseph Thomson, with Nabongo Mumia, the Wanga king, laid the foundation for British imperialism in this part of Africa.

Author : Shadrack Amakoye Bulimo
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 699 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781466983304

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Luyia of Kenya by Shadrack Amakoye Bulimo Pdf

The Luyia, like other Africans subsumed by imperialist conquest, are groping in the dark to find new meaning to their lives. By emigrating from tribal territory to towns, Luyia tribesmen lost strong communal links that bonded traditional society in which security of the individual was assured. The real danger, however, is the infiltration of neo-capitalism in the remotest villages, sweeping away what little is left of the culture of a bygone era. The need to preserve our cultural resources for future generations is critical. Colonial institutions radically altered traditional governance, economic and magico-religious structures. Clan elders, hitherto the pseudo-legal centers of political authority, were either conscripted into colonial administration as chiefs or simply shunted aside. Supplication to cult of the ancestor was replaced by Christianity where clergy rather than sacrificial priests became principal representatives of the deity. And where men spent the day hunting to secure a family meal, they now had to seek waged employment and pay taxes. Although these forces of Western acculturation introduced positive benefits to traditional technological processes, they were largely responsible for uprooting a people from an environment they had lived for generations and adapted to suit their needs to one driven largely by opportunism and uncertainty.

Author : Chammah J. Kaunda
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783031125706

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World Christianity and Covid-19 by Chammah J. Kaunda Pdf

This volume explores how Christians around the world have made sense of the meaning of suffering in the context of and post-COVID-19. It interrogates the question of God, suffering, and structural injustice. Further, it discusses the Christian response to the compounded threats of racial injustice, climate injustice, wildlife injustice, gender injustice, economic injustice, political injustice, unjust in the distributions of the vaccine and future challenges in the post-COVID-19 era. The contributions are authored by scholars, students, activists and clergy from various fields of inquiry and church traditions. The volume seeks to deepen Christian understanding of the meaning of suffering in the context of COVID-19 pandemic. It explores the fresh ways the pandemic can contribute to reconceptualizing human relations and specifically, what it means to be human in the context of suffering, the place of or justifications of God in suffering, human place in creation, and the role of the church in re-articulating the theological meanings and praxes of suffering for today.

Author : Julie MacArthur
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780821445563

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Cartography and the Political Imagination by Julie MacArthur Pdf

After four decades of British rule in colonial Kenya, a previously unknown ethnic name—“Luyia”—appeared on the official census in 1948. The emergence of the Luyia represents a clear case of ethnic “invention.” At the same time, current restrictive theories privileging ethnic homogeneity fail to explain this defiantly diverse ethnic project, which now comprises the second-largest ethnic group in Kenya. In Cartography and the Political Imagination, which encompasses social history, geography, and political science, Julie MacArthur unpacks Luyia origins. In so doing, she calls for a shift to understanding geographic imagination and mapping not only as means of enforcing imperial power and constraining colonized populations, but as tools for articulating new political communities and dissent. Through cartography, Luyia ethnic patriots crafted an identity for themselves characterized by plurality, mobility, and cosmopolitan belonging. While other historians have focused on the official maps of imperial surveyors, MacArthur scrutinizes the ways African communities adopted and adapted mapping strategies to their own ongoing creative projects. This book marks an important reassessment of current theories of ethnogenesis, investigates the geographic imaginations of African communities, and challenges contemporary readings of community and conflict in Africa.

Author : Jean Ngoya Kidula
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253007025

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Music in Kenyan Christianity by Jean Ngoya Kidula Pdf

“The book contains an excellent mix of deep personal understanding of the culture and copious documentation.” —Eric Charry, Wesleyan University This sensitive study is a historical, cultural, and musical exploration of Christian religious music among the Logooli of Western Kenya. It describes how new musical styles developed through contact with popular radio and other media from abroad and became markers of the Logooli identity and culture. Jean Ngoya Kidula narrates this history of a community through music and religious expression in local, national, and global settings. The book is generously enhanced by audiovisual material on the Ethnomusicology Multimedia website. “The archival and ethnographic research is outstanding, the accounts of mission history, and then the musical explanations of a variety of forms of change that have accompanied mission intervention, the incursion of forms of modernity, and globalization at large are compelling and unparalleled.” —Carol Muller, University of Pennsylvania “Explores contemporary African music through the prism of ethnographies through the people’s engagement of Christianity as a unifying ideology in the context of history, modernity, nationalisms and globalisation.” —Journal of Modern African Studies “The meticulous and sometimes highly sophisticated musical analyses, transcriptions, and the rich historical and ethnographic perspectives illuminate not only ongoing discourses and contestations of syncretism and related analytical notions, they also represent a plausible model of a balanced approach to ethnomusicology.” ?International Journal of African Historical Studies “An essential text for thinking about world Christianities, because it approaches a particular African Christianity from both insider and outsider perspectives.” —Global Forum on Arts and Christian Faith

Author : Kausik Bandyopadhyay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781000373820

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Face to Face by Kausik Bandyopadhyay Pdf

While rivalry is embedded in any sporting event or performance, soccer, the world’s most popular mass spectator sport, has been an emblem of such rivalries since its inception as an organized sport. Some of these rivalries grow to become long-term and perennial by their nature, extent, impact and legacy, from the local to the global level. They represent identities based on widely diverse affiliations of human life—locality, region, nation, continent, community, class, culture, religion, ethnicity, and so on. Yet, at times, such rivalries transcend barriers of space and time, where soccer-clubs, -nations, -personalities, -organizations, -styles and -fans float and compete with intriguing identities. The present volume brings into focus some of the most fascinating and enduring rivalries in the world of soccer. It attempts to encapsulate, analyse and reconstruct those rivalries—between nations, between clubs, between personalities, between styles of play, between fandoms, and between organizations—in a historical perspective in relation to diverse identities, competing ideologies, contestations of power, psychologies of attachment, bonds of loyalty, notions of enmity, articulations of violence, and affinities of fan culture—some of the core manifestations of sporting rivalry. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Soccer & Society.

Author : Douglas Thomas,Temilola Alanamu
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9798216043485

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African Religions by Douglas Thomas,Temilola Alanamu Pdf

This book supplies fundamental information about the diverse religious beliefs of Africa, explains central tenets of the African worldview, and overviews various forms of African spiritual practices and experiences. Africa is an ancient land with a significant presence in world history—especially regarding the history of the United States, given the ethnic origins of a substantial proportion of the nation's population. This book presents a broad range of information about the diverse religious beliefs of Africa that serves to describe the beliefs, practices, deities, sacred places, and creation stories of African religions. Readers will learn about key forms of spiritual practices and experiences, such as incantations and prayer, dance as worship, and spirit possession, all of which pepper African American religious experiences today. The entries also discuss central tenets of the African worldview—for example, the belief that humankind is not to fight nature, but to integrate into the natural environment. This volume is specifically written to be highly accessible to students. It provides a much-needed source of connections between the religious traditions and practices of African Americans and those of the people of the continent of Africa. Through these connections, this work will inspire tolerance of other religions, traditions, and backgrounds. The included selection of primary documents provides users first-hand accounts of African religious beliefs and practices, serving to promote critical thinking skills and support Common Core State Standards.

Author : David Foster
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351225687

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Writing and Learning in Cross-national Perspective by David Foster Pdf

Despite the increasingly global implications of conversations about writing and learning, U.S. composition studies has devoted little attention to cross-national perspectives on student writing and its roles in wider cultural contexts. Caught up in our own concerns about how U.S. students make the transition as writers from secondary school to postsecondary education, we often overlook the fact that students around the world are undergoing the same evolution. How do the students in China, England, France, Germany, Kenya, or South Africa--the educational systems represented in this collection--write their way into the communities of their chosen disciplines? How, for instance, do students whose mother tongue is not the language of instruction cope with the demands of academic and discipline-specific writing? And in what ways is U.S. students' development as academic writers similar to or different from that of students in other countries? With this collection, editors David Foster and David R. Russell broaden the discussion about the role of writing in various educational systems and cultures. Students' development as academic writers raises issues of student authorship and agency, as well as larger issues of educational access, institutional power relations, system goals, and students' roles in society. The contributors to this collection discuss selected writing purposes and forms characteristic of a specific national education system, describe students' agency as writers, and identify contextual factors--social, economic, linguistic, cultural--that shape institutional responses to writing development. In discussions that bookend these studies of different educational structures, the editors compare U.S. postsecondary writing practices and pedagogies with those in other national systems, and suggest new perspectives for cross-national study of learning/writing issues important to all educational systems. Given the worldwide increase in students entering higher education and the endless need for effective writing across disciplines and nations, the insights offered here and the call for further studies are especially welcome and timely.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Africa
ISBN : UOM:39015061594902

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Journal of Religion in Africa by Anonim Pdf

Author : W.E.F. Ward,L.W. White
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000856682

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East Africa by W.E.F. Ward,L.W. White Pdf

East Africa (1971) examines the century from 1870 that saw the emergence of East Africa from an ancient isolation into the modern world. This survey pays attention to the social and economic as well as the political history of this transition, and takes pains to understand the ideas and motives of the various groups who make up the population of East Africa. It closely examines the African peoples’ struggle for economic as well as political independence from their colonisers.

Author : Godfrey Mwakikagile
Publisher : New Africa Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789987160402

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The People of Kenya and Uganda by Godfrey Mwakikagile Pdf

This is an introductory work on the people of Kenya and Uganda including their cultures and traditions and what constitutes their identities as ethno-cultural-linguistic groups and their collective identity as Africans. It also provides some insights into unity in diversity among the different groups which has provided a foundation for the establishment of Kenya and Uganda as modern African nations. Tourists and others may find the book to be useful. It may also help some students but only as a supplementary text for in-depth socio-political studies.

Author : Godfrey Mwakikagile
Publisher : New Africa Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789987932276

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Life in Kenya by Godfrey Mwakikagile Pdf

The author looks at Kenya in a modern and traditional context to provide a general picture of the country. Subjects covered include Kenya's provinces and the different ethnic groups in those areas. Also covered are towns and cities as well as other urban centres and natural resources in each of the provinces. Readers are also going to learn about some cultural aspects of Kenya. The work provides a comprehensive picture of Kenya in terms of geography and ethnic composition in order to help those who don't know much about it appreciate the beauty, complexity and diversity as well as the enormous potential of this East African country. Even those who already know many things about Kenya may be able to learn a few things from the book.

Author : Cameron Dick
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781525570940

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Head of the Hyena by Cameron Dick Pdf

Head of the Hyena is the stirring account of a young man’s life-altering experience teaching in the isolated community of Wikondiek. He is joined there by Sabina, a beautiful and strong-willed young woman who is offered a position in the village despite never having applied for it. Their host is Phoebe Asiyo, the sole female elder among the Luo tribe. The daughter of a backcountry preacher, she defied a hostile government to become one of the first female MPs in Kenya, going on to entertain Barack Obama when he visited Luo-Nyanza as a U.S. senator. In Volume 3 of the series, Cameron reaches a crossroads. He may have found his footing in the classroom, but the legacies of previous interns and European settlers continue to influence local perception of him. To escape the subtle intrigue of village life, Cameron seeks solace in fresh encounters on the road. On the white sand beaches of Mombasa, a drunken colonialist raves about the past. A young boy from a neighbouring village leads him to a pond that is home to the devil. When an outspoken newcomer arrives in Wikondiek and decides to stay, he and Sabina at last find a reason to put their differences aside. Filled with unforgettable characters and ambitious in its scope, Head of the Hyena is more than a travel memoir – it is the witty and compelling meditation of a young man of the West grappling with how the past spills into the present to define our identity across generations.

Author : Jay E. Hakes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:39000004129826

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The Parliamentary Party of the Kenya African Nation Union by Jay E. Hakes Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Africa, East
ISBN : UVA:X030528256

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East Africa Journal by Anonim Pdf