Mukami Kimathi: Mau Mau Woman Freedom Fighter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mukami Kimathi: Mau Mau Woman Freedom Fighter write by Nderitu, Wairimu. This book was released on 2019-07-02. Mukami Kimathi: Mau Mau Woman Freedom Fighter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mũkami Kĩmathi: Mau Mau Woman Freedom Fighter is the story of the brave wife of one of Kenya’s foremost freedom fighters, Field Marshal Dedan Kĩmathi Waciũri. Kĩmathi led the Mau Mau war in Kenya’s independence struggle against the British colonialists. Mũkami’s role as a daughter, wife, mother, freedom fighter and leader is varied and very complex. Her story spans pre and post-independent Kenya. Her experiences provide an important complement to existing written literature on Kenya’s history. In 2003, the Mwai Kĩbakĩ Government lifted the ban put in place by the British colonialists declaring the Mau Mau as terrorists, and recognised Mũkami Kĩmathi and other freedom fighters as national heroes and heroines celebrated on 20th October as Mashujaa Day. This book gives an insight into the role of women freedom fighters and the struggles they faced both during and after the war. It is an incredible story of immense self-sacrifice and love for Kenya. Mũkami provides the lens to see the wider picture of women in the independence struggle, the neglect and betrayal of wives of Mau Mau fighters in particular and women in general in Kenya’s making. Beyond her role in the independence struggle, Mũkami’s story has many historical highlights such as time shared with Kĩmathi, meeting Nelson Mandela and her fruitful and strong relationship with Kenya’s human rights movement.
The Trial of Dedan Kimathi
The Trial of Dedan Kimathi - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Trial of Dedan Kimathi write by Ngugi wa Thiong'o. This book was released on 2013-10-11. The Trial of Dedan Kimathi available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Kenyan-born novelist and playwright Ngugi wa Thiong’o and his collaborator, Micere Githae Mugo, have built a powerful and challenging play out of the circumstances surrounding the 1956 trial of Dedan Kimathi, the celebrated Kenyan hero who led the Mau Mau rebellion against the British colonial regime in Kenya and was eventually hanged. A highly controversial character, Kimathi’s life has been subject to intense propaganda by both the British government, who saw him as a vicious terrorist, and Kenyan nationalists, who viewed him as a man of great courage and commitment. Writing in the 1970s, the playwrights’ response to colonialist writings about the Mau Mau movement in The Trial of Dedan Kimathi is to sing the praises of the deeds of this hero of the resistance who refused to surrender to British imperialism. It is not a reproduction of the farcical “trial” at Nyeri. Rather, according to the preface, it is “an imaginative recreation and interpretation of the collective will of the Kenyan peasants and workers in their refusal to break under sixty years of colonial torture and ruthless oppression by the British ruling classes and their continued determination to resist exploitation,oppression and new forms of enslavement.”
Petals of Blood
Petals of Blood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Petals of Blood write by Ngugi wa Thiong'o. This book was released on 2005-02-22. Petals of Blood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “The definitive African book of the twentieth century” (Moses Isegawa, from the Introduction) by the Nobel Prize–nominated Kenyan writer The puzzling murder of three African directors of a foreign-owned brewery sets the scene for this fervent, hard-hitting novel about disillusionment in independent Kenya. A deceptively simple tale, Petals of Blood is on the surface a suspenseful investigation of a spectacular triple murder in upcountry Kenya. Yet as the intertwined stories of the four suspects unfold, a devastating picture emerges of a modern third-world nation whose frustrated people feel their leaders have failed them time after time. First published in 1977, this novel was so explosive that its author was imprisoned without charges by the Kenyan government. His incarceration was so shocking that newspapers around the world called attention to the case, and protests were raised by human-rights groups, scholars, and writers, including James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Donald Barthelme, Harold Pinter, and Margaret Drabble.
Re-writing Women as Victims
Re-writing Women as Victims - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Re-writing Women as Victims write by María José Gámez Fuentes. This book was released on 2019-10-17. Re-writing Women as Victims available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume critically analyses political strategies, civil society initiatives and modes of representation that challenge the conventional narratives of women in contexts of violence. It deepens into the concepts of victimhood and agency that inform the current debate on women as victims. The volume opens the scope to explore initiatives that transcend the pair abuser–victim and explore the complex relations between gender and violence, and individual and collective accountability, through politics, activism and cultural productions in order to seek social transformation for gender justice. In innovative and interdisciplinary case studies, it brings attention to initiatives and narratives that make new spaces possible in which to name, self-identify, and resignify the female political subject as a social agent in situations of violence. The volume is global in scope, bringing together contributions ranging from India, Cambodia or Kenya, to Quebec, Bosnia or Spain. Different aspects of gender-based violence are analysed, from intimate relationships, sexual violence, military contexts, society and institutions. Re-writing Women as Victims: From Theory to Practice will be a key text for students, researchers and professionals in gender studies, political sciences, sociology and media and cultural Studies. Activists and policy makers will also find its practical approach and engagement with social transformation to be essential reading.
Muthoni Wa Kirima, Mau Mau Woman Field Marshal
Muthoni Wa Kirima, Mau Mau Woman Field Marshal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Muthoni Wa Kirima, Mau Mau Woman Field Marshal write by Micere Githae Mugo. This book was released on 2004. Muthoni Wa Kirima, Mau Mau Woman Field Marshal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
