Writing for Kenya: The Life and Works of Henry Muoria (African Sources for African History, #10)

by Wangari Muoria-Sal, John Lonsdale, and Derek Peterson

Bodil Folke Frederiksen (Editor)

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Henry Muoria (1914-97), self-taught journalist and pamphleteer, helped to inspire Kenya's nationalisms before Mau Mau. The pamphlets reproduced here, in Gikuyu and English, contrast his own originality with the conservatism of Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya's first President. The contributing editors introduce Muoria's political context, tell how three remarkable women sustained his families' life; and remember him as father. Courageous intellectual, political, and domestic life here intertwine.
  • ISBN10 9004174044
  • ISBN13 9789004174047
  • Publish Date 20 May 2009 (first published 1 January 2009)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country NL
  • Imprint Brill