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Throughout his extraordinary career at home and in exile, Henry Muoria recognized the hard toil of Muoria's writings, and the layered, sensitive, and intimate commentaries on them by the editors, convey a critical era of political and moral imagination almost lost to view -- an era, in recent decades, almost unspoken and now, with this volume, so evocatively spoken. Writing for Kenya invites scholars to visit and revisit the intellectual, moral, and social worlds in which Africans lived and worked as the more visible struggles against empire unfolded.
Professor David William Cohen
University of Michigan
This is a jewel in the crown of Brill's imaginative African Sources for African History series, showing yet again what a wealth of African local intellectual production remains to be recovered and made available to new audiences.
Professor Karin Barber FBA
University of Birmingham
Writing for Kenya: the life and works of Henry Muoria, by Wangari Muoria-Sal et al. Brill, 2009. 409p bibl index afp (African sources for African history, 10); ISBN 9789004174047. Reviewed in 2010 apr CHOICE.
'This labor of great respect introduces readers to the life and works of Henry Muoria (1914-97), a homegrown, self-taught, Kenyan public intellectual. An erudite essay by John Lonsdale (Cambridge) introduces the text, which puts Muoria in historical and political context. This is followed with a biography by Bodil Frederiksen (Roskilde Univ., Denmark) and then a final personal memoir by Muoria's daughter Wangari Muoria-Sal, who grew up in London while her father was there in exile during the Mau Mau insurgency against British colonial rule. The second half of the book reproduces three of Muoria's pamphlets written in the mid 1940s, edited by Lonsdale and Derek Peterson (Cambridge). What Should We Do, Our People?, The Home Coming of Our Great Hero Jomo Kenyatta, and Kenyatta Is Our Reconciler, originally written in Gikuyu, are reproduced here, with English translations on alternate pages. In addition to the biographical sketches, the reproductions and translations make the book an important historical document that belongs in every serious African studies collection. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates and above.' -- W. Arens, Stony Brook University
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Based on the Gikuyu-language pamphlet literature of the 1940s, the family history of the writer Henry Muoria, and a daughter's memory, this book illuminates the political challenges faced by Kenya's first nationalists and the domestic sacrifices that politics demanded
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Writing for Kenya : The Life and Works of Henry Muoria
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Soft cover. Condición: As New. 1st Edition. Biography of Henry Muoria (1914 - 97). Signed and inscribed by one of the Editors, John Lonsdale. The inscription reads 'Megan - with respect and in friendship - John. Softcover book is in As New unread condition. Signed by Author(s). Nº de ref. del artículo: 000030
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orig. wrappers. Condición: Minor wear. VG. 24x15cm, xi,409 pp., Series: African Sources for African History, vol. 10. Biographical material in English; texts of Muoria's political pamphlets in Kikuyu with English translation. Includes textual photo illustrations. Contents: Henry Muoria, public moralist / John Lonsdale -- The Muorias in Kenya : 'a very long chain' : an essay in family biography / Bodil Folke Frederiksen -- The Muoria family in London : a memory / Wangari Muoria-Sal ; with Bodil Folke Frederiksen -- Editorial note on Henry Muoria's three political pamphlets -- What should we do, our people? -- The home coming of our great hero Jomo Kenyatta -- Kenyatta is our reconciler. Nº de ref. del artículo: 030347
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