Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xxxi, 138 pages)
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illustrations, map
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0253014654
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0253337011
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0253213665
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1306396689
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1461957680
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9780253014658
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9780253337016
,
9780253213662
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9781306396684
,
9781461957683
Inhalt:
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
Inhalt:
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 -- Postscript: Our Relations : On Friendship and Cross-Cultural (Mis)Understanding
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-138)
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Ndambuki, Berida, 1936- "We only come here to struggle
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Soziologie
Schlagwort(e):
Biography
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