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Contemporary Oral Literature Fieldwork
Peter Wasamba
"Contemporary Oral Literature Fieldwork" is based on rich research experience dating back to the 1990s. The book is written against the backdrop of Africa’s confusion with regard to the place of oral literature in the face of the rest of the world, …
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My Native Roots
A Family Story
Joseph B. Wanjui
Dr. Joseph Barrage Wanjui rose from humble beginnings to become Chairman and CEO of East African Industries (Unilever) and the Chancellor of the University of Nairobi. In My Native Roots: A Family Story, Dr. Joseph B. Wanjui traces his roots six gen…
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Reclaiming My Dreams
Oral Narratives by Wanjira Wa Rukenya
Wanjiku Mukabi Kabira, Njogu Waita
A woman yearns for self-assurance to be a woman of dreams, of song and poetry. The feel of life, buried by over socialisation and domestication processes, oppressed by the surrounding culture and dealing with a problem without a name, is lifted in t…
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The Misiri legend explored
A Linguistic Inquiry into the Kalenjiin People's Oral Tradition of Ancient Egyptian Origin
Kipkoeech araap Sambu
How can a black people, who do not even profess to Islam, claim to have originated from Egypt, which is such an Arabic and Islamic geographical setting? But the Kalenjiin people of Kenya have held on fast to a tradition that their ancestors in antiq…
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Time for Harvest
Women and Constitution Making in Kenya
Wanjiku Mukabi Kabira
From the bleak days of severe marginalisation; days when words such as 'women's empowerment' or 'affirmative action' were taboo in Kenya, Time for harvest: Women and Constitution Making in Kenya traces women's struggles to change their status, their…
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Understanding Oral Literature
Austin Bukenya
This latest contribution of the Kenya Oral Literature Association to explorations in oral literature is multi-disciplinary in approach. It includes a wide-ranging selection of papers from twelve Kenyan literary scholars, linguists, educationists, ma…
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