Culture, Performance and Identity. Paths of Communication in Kenya

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This book brings together essays which cover a number of key areas: Gender, Disability, Media, Sports, Literature, Religion, Land and Youth, Music. Through an examination of the situation in Kenya, the essays opens new ways of understanding forms of local

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• African Studies

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• Publié par: Twaweza Communications
• Date de parution: 15 mars 2008
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9789966028037
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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Culture, Performance & Identity

Paths of Communication in Kenya

Edited by Kimani Njogu

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

Copyright © Twaweza Communications, 2008

Published in 2008 by

Twaweza Communications Ltd., P.O. Box 66872 - 00800 Westlands, Twaweza House, Parklands Road, Mpesi Lane, Nairobi Kenya email: [e-mail] website: www.twaweza.org Tel: +(254)020 3752009 Fax: +(254)020 3753941

Design and Layout by Catherine Bosire Cover design by Patrick Thirimu

With the support of The Ford Foundation, Office of Eastern Africa

ISBN:9966-7244-1-9

Printed in Nairobi, Kenya

Dedication

This book is dedicated to the women and children burnt to death at the Kenya Assemblies of God Church, Kiambaa, near Eldoret Town on January 1, 2008 in post-election violence in Kenya.

Dedication Acknowledgements Introduction

Chapter One

Chapter Two

ChapterThree

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Contents

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Culture, Gender Inequality and Women Rights in the Great Lakes ----------------------------------- 1 Kimani Njogu & Elizabeth Orchardson-Mazrui

Disability Rhetorics and Identity in Kenya ---------- 40 Mbugua Wa-Mungai

Lemme do m’thing: Objective Possibilities for Social Meaning and Re-visioning Youth Identity through Pop Music ----------------------------- 57 Michael Wainaina

Sheng as a Youth Identity Marker: Reality or Misconception --------------------------------- 75 Nathan Oyori Ogechi

Me, My KENYA and I --------------------------------------- 94 Charles A. Matathia

Performing Identity in Kiswahili Literature ------- 105 Richard Makhanu Wafula

Culture,Religion and Identity -------------------------- 120 Mary N. Getui

Circulation of Media Texts and Identity (de)constructions in the Post colony ------------------ 133 Christopher Odhiambo Joseph

Sing Me Life: Music as a People’s Identity ----------- 147 Emily Achieng’ Akuno

List of Contributors ---------------------------------------------------------------- 160

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Acknowledgements

This book, the second in our series onArt, Culture and Society,brings together important essays on how identity is shaped and performed in Kenya. The ongoing reflections on the relationship between art, culture and society are part of Twaweza Communications Linkages Program. The Program brings together academicians and practitioners to discuss contemporary issues related to arts, culture and media. We are immensely grateful to Dr. Tade Aina, Representative of the Ford Foundation Office of Eastern Africa, Dr. Joyce Nyairo, Program Officer in charge of Media, Arts and Culture and all the Ford Foundation staff for making our work possible. We are also indebted to the participants of the Linkages Workshops from academia and civil society for providing valuable input in our deliberations on the direction of the arts in the region. The sharing of knowledge across intellectual divides will enrich academic work and benefit art and media practitioners in Kenya.

This work has also benefited from Judie Rabar of the Institute of French Research in Africa (IFRA) who provided important editorial assistance and the Editorial Board of theJahazi Journal: Bantu Mwaura, Kwamchetsi Makokha, Garnette Olunya, Pat Kamau, Joyce Njoki and Mueni Lundi. Through formal and informal discussions you have influenced in fundamental ways most of the thoughts in this publication. The team at Twaweza Communications deserves gratitude for organizing the Seminars in which ideas in this Volume were shared. Catherine Bosire designed this publication and I am grateful to her.

Kimani Njogu Nairobi.

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