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Journal articles on the topic "Kenya, biography"
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Araújo, Melvina Afra Mendes de. "Joseph Wanjie, Kikuyu Catholic catechist." Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology 9, no. 1 (June 2012): 112–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s1809-43412012000100004.
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This article discusses the problem of cultural mediation, focusing on the relations between a Kikuyu catechist and Consolata missionaries. It analyzes a biography of this catechist, which was written by a missionary. The information contained in the biography is compared with data from other sources that allow us to reconstruct the trajectory of an important agent in the relations between Catholic missionaries and natives in Kenya.
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Agneta, Mwendwa Malombe, Dr Charles O. Choti, and Dr Babere K. Chacha. "To Examine the Life and Times of Alice Muthoni Wahome in the form of a Biography." Scholars Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences 9, no. 10 (October 28, 2021): 537–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.36347/sjahss.2021.v09i10.008.
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Alice Muthoni Wahome, one of the few women elected Members of Parliament, 2013-2016. She won the seat in a male dominated race after three attempts. She was born in Muruka in Kandara, Murang’a County. She schooled in Karumu primary school, 1966-1973, Siakago Girls High School, 1973-1976, Ngandu Girls High School, 1977-1978 and The University of Nairobi 1980-1984.The study covers the post-colonial period from the late 1950s to 2016.Alice Muthoni is currently representing the people of Kandara as the member of parliament. The objectives of this study were to examine the life and times of Alice Muthoni Wahome, assess her formative years from her childhood through primary school, secondary school and university education, examine her life as a state counsel and her life in politics in the eras of Mwai Kibaki and Uhuru Kenyatta. The study was informed by Subaltern theory, the Liberal feminism theory and the Trait theory. Literature Review involved examination of biographies and autobiographies of Kenyan and world leaders. A few gender related works have also been reviewed. Data collection involved a thorough examination of primary and secondary information. The oral evidence was gathered through conducting interviews, observation and focus groups discussions with respondents drawn from Kandara constituency, the m.p herself and her colleagues in parliament. The respondents were selected through purposive sampling and snowballing. The secondary data was collected from Mount Kenya University Library and the Postmodern Library of Kenyatta University. These were supplemented with archival research at Kenya National Archives. The internet was also used to get more information. Descriptive survey design was used.
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Mugendi, Peter, Peter Wafula, and Ruth Nyambura. "A BIOGRAPHY OF THE LATE SENIOR CHIEF KATHURU NYAGAH OF THAGICU- KITUI COUNTY, KENYA,1918-1998." IJRDO - Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research 8, no. 11 (November 5, 2022): 13–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.53555/sshr.v8i11.5409.
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The study of biographies of those personalities who have contributed in one way or the other in influencing history can be quite fascinating because it furthers our understanding of broader issues and processes in any given society. Quite a number of historians have written biographies of those among the colonial chiefs who in one way or another played important roles in shaping the destinies of their people and of this country to a certain extent. There were those who utilized every opportunity created by the colonial officials to improve education, agriculture, health, water and infrastructure in their areas. Such colonial chiefs included senior chief Waruhiu wa Kung‟u, chief Musa Nyandusi, Odera Akong‟o, Njiri wa Karanja and paramount chief Kinyanjui Gathirimu just to name a few. As I read through the literature on colonial chiefs, it occurred to me that there is no one who has written a biography on colonial chiefs in Thagicu District even though there were a few chiefs among them the likes of senior chief Kathuru Nyagah and chief Mwendwa wa Kitavi who played very important roles in shaping the destinies of their people. The mention of the name of senior chief Kathuru among the Thagicu rekindles memories of a leader who through collaboration with colonial officials played a significant role in improving the lives of Thagicu people. Hence it is for this reason that this research was carried out with a view to exposing who chief Kathuru was and how and why he had become what he was. This thesis was an attempt to write the biography of the Late Senior Chief Kathuru Nyagah of Thagicu community.
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Odhiambo, Tom. "Biography of a Trade Unionist and the Resurrection of the ‘Indian Question’ in Twenty-First Century Kenya." Social Dynamics 33, no. 2 (December 2007): 86–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02533950708628762.
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Krishnan, Madhu. "When is biography fiction? Life writing, epistemophilia, and the limits of genre in contemporary Kenyan writing." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 55, no. 3 (November 2, 2018): 361–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989418808836.
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In On the Postcolony, Achille Mbembe opens with the assertion that “[s]peaking rationally about Africa is not something that has ever come naturally”. In this article, I use Mbembe’s remarks as my starting point, using his observations around the place — or lack thereof — of “Africa” within a larger philosophical matrix predicated on Enlightenment-derived notions of knowledge, and applying it to three examples of auto/biographical life writing recently published by Kenyan authors: Billy Kahora’s The True Story of David Munyakei; Kwani Trust’s fifth issue of its flagship Kwani? journal, published under the auspices of the Concerned Kenyan Writers group; and Binyavanga Wainaina’s viral 2014 blog post, “I Am a Homosexual, Mum”, fashioned as a “lost chapter” from his 2011 memoir, One Day I Will Write About This Place. Through their manipulation of the forms and conventions of biographical writing and biofiction, I argue, these three texts challenge the precepts of reason and rationality which have accompanied the reception of African (here, Kenyan) writing within the field of the global literary marketplace, with significant implications for the larger place of the African continent within a global imaginary.
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Siundu. "Beyond Auto/Biography: Power, Politics, and Gender in Kenyan Asian Women's Writings." Research in African Literatures 42, no. 3 (2011): 117. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.42.3.117.
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Jaffer, Mazaher, and Erolls Sigei. "Prevalence of Old and New Torch Infection in Pregnant Women from Mombasa and Kisumu Counties in Kenya in 2017." Journal of Health Care and Research 3, no. 3 (September 24, 2022): 51–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.36502/2022/hcr.6211.
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Introduction: Toxoplasma gondii, Rubella, Cytomegalovirus (CMV) and Herpes simplex viruses, known briefly as TORCH are infectious agents that lead to the development of a maternal infection and may enter the intrauterine circulation at any gestational age increasing the risk of congenital malformations and abortion. Despite this, the testing for these infections is not commonly included in antenatal screenings nationwide in Kenya because it is quite costly and is also considered less prevalent in our population by obstetricians. It is mainly tested to confirm the cause of recurrent unexplained pregnancy losses in mothers with a bad obstetric history. Objectives: Through this study, we aim to confirm the prevalence current and old TORCH infections in the pregnant women in two largely populated counties of Kenya. This would give us estimated of successful vaccination coverage of the MMR vaccine, the lowest age with exposure to the infections, and the possible benefit for conducting the test in all pregnant women. Also to identify possible biographic factors correlated with increased risk of positivity to infection in the population. Methodology: Using stratified method of randomization and selection of centers, one of the largest centers with antenatal clinics (ANC) was chosen in each county and all their patients attending their ANC were screened for the infection using the On-Site TORCH Panel Rapid Test CTK Biotech, Inc. (San Diego, CA 92121, USA) with a specificity of between 85% and 97%. Positive results for IgM were verified using ELISA. Results: There was extremely low prevalence of confirmed active infection of TORCH in the population (only 2 cases which did not have any complications in pregnancy as a result), but presence of old infection was at about 30% for Toxoplasma, 50% for Rubella and HSV-1, 20% for HSV-2 and 10% for CMV. There seems to be an interruption in effective Rubella vaccination around the year 1987 which would be worth investigating. Conclusion: Testing pregnant women for TORCH is not of much benefit in pregnancy in Kenya due to low prevalence. However, the test can be used to screen populations at risk as is being conducted currently.
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De la Fuente, Eduardo Gonzalez. "Review of Anko Itosu. The Man. The Master. The Myth. Biography of a Legend, by Thomas Feldmann." Revista de Artes Marciales Asiáticas 17, no. 1 (May 20, 2022): 108–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.18002/rama.v17i1.7279.
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This review considers the book Anko Itosu. The Man. The Master. The Myth. Biography of a Legend, published in 2021 by Thomas Feldmann. The volume is a thorough biographical study of Anko Itosu (1831–1915), Okinawan born and essential figure to interpret initial developments of karate history during the 20th century. Approximately two decades before this indigenous martial art was to be popularized in mainland Japan by Funakoshi Gichin (1868–1957) and Mabuni Kenwa (1889–1952), and officially recognized by the Dainippon Butokukai [Greater Japan Martial Arts Virtue Society] (1933), Itosu consolidated important technical and discursive changes for karate. This novel way to practice and describe karate, still molding the perception of the art today, had the intention, among others, to further support its inclusion in the school system of Okinawa. Using a huge amount of written and oral sources, historical documents, and scholarly studies on Okinawa, this text offers a vivid picture of Itosu's life. In a manner unusual among the publications on the topic, the text not only explores the early days of modern karate through the existential vicissitudes of the master, but even more importantly it does so against the background of how the cultural, social, and political life was articulated in Okinawa at the time. Such a remarkable effort bears a value that should not go unnoticed among martial arts researchers and the interested reader alike.
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Kassam, Aneesa. "In Search of the Good Life: Life‐History of a Kenyan Indian Settler. A Sartrean Approach to Biography and History." History and Anthropology 20, no. 4 (December 2009): 435–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02757200903272067.
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Madloume, Reham. "Formation of Jomo Kenyatta as a Politician. The First Years of the Presidency." Journal of the Institute for African Studies, March 30, 2021, 88–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.31132/2412-5717-2021-54-1-88-97.
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The purpose of the article is to trace the formation of Jomo Kenyatta as a politician who led the anti-colonial struggle in Kenya, to identify the problems he faced during this struggle, as well as methods of solving them, to analyze the social and political activities of the African leader as President of Kenya, the reasons for the emergence of opposition within the country, as well as foreign policy activities. Considering that the factual part of Kenyatta’s biography has been fairly well studied, the author simultaneously set the task of comparing the approaches of Russian and foreign (mainly British) researchers in assessing his activities in different years. The relevance of the topic lies in the fact that in many countries of the African continent the memory of the leaders of the period of liberation is still an important instrument of national solidarity. This fully applies to Kenya, where Jomo Kenyatta, in the memory of all segments of the population, is still the “father of the nation”, one of the symbols uniting the people of Kenya, despite the fact that his role in the life of the country is assessed ambiguously.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Kenya, biography"
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Kiai, Alice Wanjira. "Biography of an English language textbook in Kenya : a journey from conceptualization to the classroom." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2012. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/49465/.
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This biography tells the life story of a secondary school English coursebook in Kenya following market liberalization (1998) and curriculum review (2002). In ELT, Gray (2007, 2010) first applied the ‘circuit of culture’ model to global English coursebooks; in contrast, I examine the case of a single local publication. The textbook has been described as a politico-economic, socio-cultural, and curriculum product. I focus on it primarily as a curriculum product and delink the circuit of culture from its original application in textbook studies in the service of a sociocultural perspective. I posit that the model has the explanatory power to capture the various research focuses that textbook studies may take. The circuit of culture has five processes or ‘moments’: representation, identity, regulation, production and consumption. Following preliminary work, my ‘journey’ begins in the representation moment, using Littlejohn’s (1992, 1998) framework for materials analysis. In the regulation moment, I interview three participants linked to the curriculum development body (KIE). In the production moment, I interview four authors, the editor and the publishing manager of the selected coursebook. In the consumption moment, I interview sixteen teachers who are or have been users of the materials. Four of the teachers participate in classroom observation and their learners respond to a questionnaire. Finally, I build a key identity statement about the coursebook, pooled from the findings in each moment. I reposition the identity moment and posit its centrality at the core of the circuit. Spurred by insights on innovation in English language education, I support the strengthening of ‘feedback loops’ across moments, and the recognition of the consumption moment as the zone for promoting dynamism and synergy in textbook development. This can (ideally) result in curriculum products and practices capable of overcoming challenges of interpretation and transition, while promoting good practices across moments.
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Ostendorff, Daniel A. "Militancy, moderation, & Mau Mau." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0cf867ef-09c2-41bf-8b9a-36d2e1e0c26c.
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This thesis examines the lives of Senior Chief Koinange wa Mbiyu and his eldest son, Peter Mbiyu Koinange. It joins with the growing rise of biographical work within African Studies. It challenges the historical understanding of late colonial rule in Kenya and the role of official myth in pre- and post-independence historical narratives. Koinange wa Mbiyu was the patriarch of one of the most respected, wealthy, and politically influential Kikuyu families of Kenya's colonial and post-colonial period. His eldest son, Peter Mbiyu, received a prestigious education abroad and returned to Kenya where he became a prominent leader for African independent education African political action. Koinange and Peter bear frequent mention in academic discussions of collaboration, discontent, nationalism, and militancy in Kenya's colonial era. This thesis challenges the widely held narrative that Koinange and Peter embraced militant politics opposing colonial rule during the 1940s. While fitting larger understandings of decolonisation, it is not an honest depiction of the Koinange's political actions. As a result, this thesis is intentionally a work of revisionist history that looks to the profound changes in the culture and nature of colinal rule during the 1940s, rather than a political shift in the Koinanges. In addition to challenging the prevalent understanding of Koinange and Peter's political action, this thesis raises a number of areas - gender, wealth, elite and family dynamics, to name a few - where the Koinange family history would further illuminate the historical understanding of the colonial era. This thesis is a dual biography, crafted as a work of narrative history. It challenges a breadth of current scholarship, utilizing the largest collection of pre-Mau Mau archival records to date. This thesis engages with a number of historiographical challenges related to biography, the individual, the family, and the challenges of oral history shaped in the crucible of cultural crisis.
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ANGELO, Anaïs. "Becoming president : a political biography of Jomo Kenyatta (1958-1969)." Doctoral thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/44166.
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Defence date: 21 November 2016Examining Board: Professor Dirk Moses, European University Institute (EUI Supervisor); Professor Daniel Branch, University of Warwick (External Advisor); Professor Federico Romero, European University Institute; Professor John Lonsdale, University of Cambridge
Presidential rule, closely related to personal rule, is a prominent feature of African studies. Nevertheless, the making of presidents has for a long time remained an untold story: few biographies or monographs have explored the political negotiations and imagination surrounding the making of presidential powers in postcolonial Africa. This dissertation reconstructs the political rise of Jomo Kenyatta, first president of Kenya, and the first decade of his presidential rule after independence. I show that the creation of the "father of the nation" was a contingent process, revealing that Kenyatta always lacked firm control over national politics. His major political asset was the popularity he owed to his unclear connection to the Mau Mau movement: he was simultaneously believed to be a leader and an opponent of the freedom fighters. As decolonization opened up an institutional vacuum, the burning issue of the decolonization of land institutions set a precedent for the creation of a centralized government, even before the debate over regionalism was settled during the independence negotiations. It set up Jomo Kenyatta as the most moderate politician to preserve British economic interests, and gave him substantial powers over land resources: upon independence, the Kenyan nationalist elite had to support the presidentialisation of the constitution to ensure its access to land. I argue that presidential rule is a postcolonial construction tailor-made to fit Kenyatta's charismatic persona, even before he achieved political prominence. After independence, Kenyatta had little choice but to remain a distant and discreet president, while employing repressive politics, whether against resilient Mau Mau fighters or political opponents. I show that the negotiations and construction of Kenyatta's presidential powers amounted neither to centralization, nor to regionalisation, but instead, institutionalized informal powers, weakening all state institutions: the party, the national assembly and even the provincial administration.
Chapter 1 'Jomo Kenyatta’s political imagination' of the PhD thesis draws upon an earlier version published as a chapter 'Virtues for all, state for no one?' in the book 'African thoughts on colonial and neo-colonial worlds : facets of an intellectual history of Africa' (2015)
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Oluoch, Jemima Atieno. "The Christian political theology of Rt. Rev. Dr. John Henry Okullu, Bishop of the Diocese of Maseno South of the Anglican Church of Kenya (1929-1999)." Thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/3966.
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This research proceeds from the premise that Okullu was a significant church leader in Kenya. His significance relates to his outspokenness on issues of social justice including the struggle for political liberation from the oppressive one party system and issues of human rights.
The purpose of this dissertation is to reconstruct Okullu's Christian political theology through establishing what motivated him and the biblical basis for his socio-political activities. An attempt is made to reconstruct the socio-political environment, which gave birth and necessitated Okullu's prophetic ministry and to investigate the social and spiritual factors, which shaped him. The findings of the research reveal that Okullu spoke out of conviction. His theology of development and participation had its roots in evangelical and ecumenical perspectives emerging between the 1960's and early 1980's. For Okullu the mission of the church was the total liberation (salvation) of the whole person body, soul and spirit. Evangelism and social concern were mutually inclusive. The major sources of his theology were African socialism and the Bible. The ideals of African socialism, which he incorporated in his theology, which are in harmony with biblical principles were: the high value placed on the individual, the principle of equality
and the central place of the community in development. He argued for a people-centred holistic development, which took account of the whole human person- body, soul and spirit. For Okullu, the biblical basis upon which Christians should act in a non- Christian society is the prophetic role of the church, founded upon the justice of God as illustrated in the writings of the Old Testament and continued in the concept of the 'kingdom of
God' and the concept of 'God as judge in the teachings of Jesus Christ in the New Testament. Although Okullu affirmed the validity of the doctrine of separation in church-state relations, the concept of separation according to him does not fully explain the relationship. The separation is only institutional but at value level the two are bound together in the realm of ethics owing to their common origin in God. It is this integrated whole that gives the church its mandate for involvement in politics. Okullu's significance is demonstrated historically, by the literary out-put containing his socio-political challenges that faced Kenyan society in his time, testimony of others expressed in condolence letters and the views of groups of persons interviewed for this work. Okullu spoke out against injustices. He fought for human rights. His most significant contribution was spearheading the multi-party debate and the repeal of the section of the constitution of Kenya, which had made Kenya a single party system. His prophetic ministry was hammered out in the public arena. He was an Amos of his time.Thesis (M.Th.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2003.
Books on the topic "Kenya, biography"
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Conner, Danny (Volunteer worker). Redneck in Kenya: A Texan's journey in Kenya. Charleston, SC, USA: Danny Conner, 2012.
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Pugliese, Cristiana. Author, publisher and Gīkūyū nationalist: The life and writings of Gakaara wa Wanjaū. Bayreuth, Germany: Eckhard Breitinger, Bayreuth University, in cooperation with Institut français de recherche en Afrique, 1995.
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Chenevix, Trench Charles. Men who ruled Kenya: The Kenya administration, 1892-1963. London: Radcliffe Press, 1993.
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Prince, Vivien Schapira. Kenya: The years of change. New York, N.Y: Carlton Press, 1987.
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Mbugua, Ng'ang'a. Mwai Kibaki: Economist for Kenya. Nairobi: Sasa Sema Publications, 2003.
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Olpak, Mustafa. Biographie d'une famille d'esclaves: Kenya, Crete, Istanbul. Paris: Librairie Özgül, 2006.
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Gimode, Edwin. Thomas Joseph Mboya: A biography. Nairobi: East African Educational Publishers, 1996.
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Mwangi, Susan. Called to serve: A biography of Archbishop Benjamin Nzimbi. Nairobi, Kenya: Blossom Books, 2009.
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Malinda, Thomas N. Reflections of my life: (from 1924 to 1996). Athi River [Kenya]: T.N. Malinda, 1996.
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"Chapter Two. The Muorias In Kenya: ‘A Very Long Chain.’ An Essay In Family Biography." In Writing for Kenya, 59–104. BRILL, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004174047.i-409.14.
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Meier, Gerald M. "The New Development Economics." In Biography Of A Subject, 118–28. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195170023.003.0008.
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Abstract Advances in general economic theory during the last two decades introduced marked changes in thinking about development. In both positive and normative analysis, the changed concepts are so different from traditional mainstream neoclassical economics that Joseph Stiglitz (1986) labels them the “new development economics.”1 He maintains that market failures, particularly those related to imperfect and costly information, may provide insights into why the LDCs have a lower level of income and why so many find it difficult to maintain existing current differentials, let alone to catch up. What is at stake is more than just differences in endowments of factors, but basic aspects of the organization of the economy, including the functioning of markets The kinds of market failures with which I have been concerned are markedly different from those that were the focus of attention some two decades ago. (1989: 201) In his Nobel lecture, Stiglitz recalls that his first visits to the developing world in 1967, and a more extensive stay in Kenya in 1969, made an indelible impression that turned him “away from the competitive equilibrium model to a concern with the imperfections of information, the absence of markets, and the pervasiveness and persistence of seemingly dysfunctional institutions, such as sharecropping” (2002: 460).
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Dudziak, Mary L. "Introduction." In Exporting American Dreams. Princeton University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691152448.003.0001.
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This introductory chapter sets out the book's purpose, which namely is to follow Thurgood Marshall from his civil rights practice in New York to Kenya under colonial rule. This story cannot be found in traditional sources for an American biography. The Bill of Rights that Marshall wrote for Kenya, for example, is not in any American archive, but in British colonial records in England. Marshall's African journey is not a triumphalist story of American law solving all problems. The legal ideas Marshall offered often were not American ones. And legal solutions did not create a legal edifice that would last for all time. Instead law could serve as a way station, giving political actors a way to talk to each other, a way to keep working together when things were hard.
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Lukalo, Fibian. "Exploration of mothering and shifting identities in Kenya." In Biographical Research and the Meanings of Mothering, 61–81. Policy Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447365624.003.0004.
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This qualitative phenomenological study was conducted to understand how social-mothering is perceived and experienced by one mother, drawing on her life biography. Using in-person interviews, the chapter explores the concept of social mothering by focusing on the life narrative of one female informal worker (Melodi) in Nairobi, Kenya, and showing how her social-mothering experiences are embedded within broader personal life trajectories and choices. Melodi’s life narrative is considered within its socio-economic, cultural and historical contexts to prioritise unheard voices and fully understand how social mothering is constructed, shifts and is experienced. Living in an informal urban settlement situates Melodi in spaces of contestation whereby the challenges of social mothering are juxtaposed with her own subjective mothering identity. The life history method enables mapping of co-existing and competing frames, revealing the ontological multiplicity of social mothering. Here, African feminist theory offers an avenue for the articulation of multiple perspectives within which to map and explore the relational worlds of social mothering. These findings on the shifting spaces for social mothering are important for the development of African feminist theory given the uncertainties that mothers continue to face.