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Autore: | Ndambuki Berida <1936-> |
Titolo: | "We Only Come Here to Struggle" : Stories from Berida's Life / / Berida Ndambuki & Claire C. Robertson |
Pubblicazione: | Bloomington : , : Indiana University Press, , [2000] |
©2000 | |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (174 p.) |
Disciplina: | 967.62/504/092 |
Soggetto topico: | Grocers - Kenya - Nairobi Region |
Women - Kenya - Nairobi Region | |
Soggetto geografico: | Nairobi Region (Kenya) Biography |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: | RobertsonClaire C. <1944-> |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [137]-138). |
Nota di contenuto: | 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; BIBLIOGRAPHY |
Sommario/riassunto: | Here 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. |
Altri titoli varianti: | Stories from Berida's life |
Titolo autorizzato: | "We Only Come Here to Struggle" |
ISBN: | 0-253-21366-5 |
0-253-01465-4 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 996248287003316 |
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