02869oam 22006374a 450 99624828700331620240402054619.00-253-21366-50-253-01465-42027/heb31728(CKB)2550000001191496(EBL)1619922(SSID)ssj0001108936(PQKBManifestationID)12436480(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001108936(PQKBWorkID)11108997(PQKB)11056693(MiAaPQ)EBC1619922(OCoLC)870273095(MdBmJHUP)muse34673(dli)HEB31728(MiU) MIU01100000000000000000301(EXLCZ)99255000000119149619990916d2000 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccr"We Only Come Here to Struggle" Stories from Berida's Life /Berida Ndambuki & Claire C. Robertson1st ed.Bloomington :Indiana University Press,[2000]©20001 online resource (174 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-253-33701-1 1-306-39668-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. [137]-138).Cover; CONTENTS; GLOSSARY OF FREQUENTLY USED TERMS; INTRODUCTION; 1. ""I Am Berida Ndambuki"" Childhood, Family, and Initiation; 2. ""No woman can know what will happen to her in marriage"" Marriage, Children, and Survival; 3. ""Now I was in business"" Work: From Kathonzweni to Nairobi; 4. ""The Akamba are a peaceloving people"" Ethnicity, Religion, and Politics; 5. ""I ask myself, why did I have my children?"" Life and Death; UPDATE AND ANALYSIS: 1999; POSTSCRIPT: OUR RELATIONS: ON FRIENDSHIP AND CROSS-CULTURAL (MIS) UNDERSTANDING; BIBLIOGRAPHYHere is the life history of Berida Ndambuki, a Kenyan woman trader born in 1936, who speaks movingly of her experiences under the turbulences of late British colonialism and independence. A poverty survivor, Berida overcame patriarchal constraints to reclaim the rights to her labor, her body, and her spirit. She invokes a many-faceted picture of central Kenyan life in this compelling narrative.Stories from Berida's lifeGrocersKenyaNairobi RegionBiographyWomenKenyaNairobi RegionBiographyNairobi Region (Kenya)BiographyElectronic books. GrocersWomen967.62/504/092Ndambuki Berida1936-1008818Robertson Claire C.1944-1008819MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK996248287003316"We Only Come Here to Struggle"2327705UNISA