Culture, performance & identity : paths of communication in Kenya / edited by Kimani Njogu.

Contributor(s):

Njogu, Kimani

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Art, culture & society series ; v. 2.Publication details: Nairobi, Kenya : Twaweza Communications, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (xx, 196 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9789966028037
996602803X
9789966028013
9966028013

Other title:

Culture, performance, and identity

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Culture, performance & identity.DDC classification:

305.8 22

LOC classification:

GN659.K4 C85 2008eb

Online resources:

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Contents:

Culture, gender inequality and women's rights in the Great Lakes / Kimani Njogu & Elizabeth Orchardson-Mazrui -- Disability rhetorics and identity in Kenya / Mbugua Wa-Mungai -- "Lemme do m'thing" : objective possibilities for social meaning and re-visioning youth identity through pop-music / Michael Wainaina -- Sheng as a youth identity marker : reality or misconception? / Nathan Oyori Ogechi -- Me, my Kenya and I / Charles A. Matathia -- Performing identity in Kiswahili literature / Richard Makhanu Wafula -- Culture, religion, and identity / Mary N. Getui -- Circulation of media texts and identity (de)constructions in the post-colony / Christopher Odhiambo Joseph -- Identity, sports, and leisure in contemporary Kenyan society / Mwangi Peter Wanderi -- Slaying settler Williams : crafting identity in Ngugi's Matigari / Garnette Oluoch-Olunya -- The Talai : the end of a dynasty / Bill Rutto -- Sing me a life : music as a people's identity / Emily Achieng' Akuno.

Summary: This book brings together essays which cover a number of key areas: Gender, Disability, Media, Sports, Literature, Religion, Land and Youth Music. Through an examination of the situation in Kenya, the essays opens new ways of understanding forms of local.

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Also published with same ISBN, title, published, but without chapters 9-11 (xviii, 158 p.).

Includes bibliographical references.

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This book brings together essays which cover a number of key areas: Gender, Disability, Media, Sports, Literature, Religion, Land and Youth Music. Through an examination of the situation in Kenya, the essays opens new ways of understanding forms of local.

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