LEADER 05634nam 2200745 a 450 001 9910465001403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-06372-7 010 $a9786613063724 010 $a9966-028-18-8 010 $a9966-028-20-X 010 $a9966-028-19-6 035 $a(CKB)3390000000012667 035 $a(EBL)1134941 035 $a(OCoLC)830166578 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000542875 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12250593 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000542875 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10511757 035 $a(PQKB)10357272 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1134941 035 $a(PPN)187340188 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1134941 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10593912 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL306372 035 $a(EXLCZ)993390000000012667 100 $a20120905d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aIdentity, culture and freedom$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Mbu?gua wa-Mu?ngai and George Gona 210 $aNairobi $cTwaweza Communications Ltd.$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (262 p.) 225 0 $a(Re)membering Kenya ;$vv. 1 300 $a"A project by Goethe-Institut Kenya, the Ford Foundation, Twaweza Communications." 311 $a9966-7244-7-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aCover; Copyright Page; Title Page; Content; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; Prescript - Blessings of Bullets: A Survivor's Personal Experience; Identity; Historicizing Negative Ethinicity in Kenya; The Genesis of 'Tribe' and Ethnicity; Ethnicity in pre-colonial Kenya; The impact of colonialism on ethnicity; Independent Kenya and 'Nation-Building'?; Conclusion; Notes; References; Negotiating 'Kenyanness': The 'Debates'; 'Kenyanness': a tenuous concept?; Living the Lie: Kenyan nationhood or ethnihood?; 'Kenyanness': History and memory reconsidered 327 $aGleaning through the 'Kenyan' pre-colonial historical record 'Kenyanness' as a nationalist project: the colonial period; 'Kenyanness' and the national community: the independent state; Conclusion; Notes; References; Iconic Representations of Identities in Kenyan Cultures; Introduction: From K'Osewe' to Rur?ng'u Stadium; Towards a theorisation of iconicity; Patriarchs, populists and radicals: Political models; Gender(ed) icons; Popular culture icons: Alternative states; Post-script: Surviving Serena; Notes; References; Gerontocracy and Generational Competition in Kenya Today 327 $a'Old is gold' and wisdom On the postcolonial power transitions and the age question; Kill me quick: subsisting in a state of permanent despair; The 'last' word; Notes; References; Culture; Socialization and Violence: Ideas and Practices in Kenya; The lingual-cultural factor in violence; Defining lingual-cultural violence; How lingual-cultural factors promote violence; The settings of hurtful and harmful language; The negative power of ideas and practices; Reflections and Suggestions; Notes; References; Gendered Identities: Women and Power(lessness) in Kenya; Theorizing women's issues 327 $aProblematizing power: Maendeleo ya Wanawake and beyond Narrating socio-political experiences; Conclusion; Notes; References; Freedom; Cross-media Ownership and Monopolizing of Public Spaces in Kenya; Kenyan media: A brief history; Media in colonial Kenya; Media in Independent Kenya; Media, multipartism, globalization, liberalization & cross-media ownership; Critique of the role of the media; Cross-media ownership. An attempt at definition; Cross-media ownership in Kenya; The Nation Media Group (NMG); The East African Standard (EAS); The Royal Media Services 327 $aKiss FM, Classic FM, Radio Jambo, East FM and The Star Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC); Monopoly in the media and in the political economy; Political pluralism, media explosion and control; Cross-Media ownership and democracy; Curbing cross-media ownership; Media regulation; Conclusion; Notes; References; The Politics of Media Culture and Media Culture Politics; Defining media culture, freedom and regulation; Theoretical premise for understanding culture; Culture in context; The Sudan Example; Transgressing media culture; Conclusion; Notes; References 327 $aGlobalized Identity: Diaspora Kenyans and Local Conflict 330 $aOne of the critical questions that Kenyans have continuously asked is what went wrong in January and February 2008 with the e?peacei? they had hitherto enjoyed. 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