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Worries of the Heart by Mutongi, Kenda (ebook)
Kenda Mutongi, , , University of Chicago Press, Kenda Mutongi encountered a perplexing contradiction. While the young teachers at her village school railed against colonialism, many of download Worries of the Heart: Widows, Family, and Community in Kenya , Yet despite their numbers, widows and their families exist at the margins of society, and their lives act as a barometer for the harsh realities of rural Kenya. Mutongi here argues that widows survive by publicly airing their social, economic, and political problems, their “worries of the heart.”. Mutongi is the author of MATATU: A History of Popular Transportion in Nairobi (University of Chicago Press, ); and Worries of the Heart: Widows, Family, and Community in Kenya (University of Chicago Press, ), which received an Honorable Mention from the African Studies Association’s Melville J. Herskovits Award for the best scholarly.
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Growing up in the Maragoli community in Kenya, Kenda Mutongi encountered a perplexing contradiction. While the young teachers at her village school railed against colonialism, many of her elders, including her widowed mother, praised their former British masters.
In this moving book, Mutongi explores how both the challenges and contradictions of colonial rule and the frustrations and failures of independence shaped the lives of Maragoli widows and their complex relations with each other, their families, and the larger community, worries of the heart kenda mutongi pdf download.
Throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, rates of widowhood have been remarkably high in Kenya. Yet despite their numbers, widows and their families exist at the margins of society, and their lives act as a barometer for the harsh realities of rural Kenya. An innovative blend of ethnography and historical research, Worries of the Heart is a poignant narrative rich with insights into postcolonial Africa. Sign up to our newsletter today! Click here for more details Telegraph bookshop.
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Ebook > Social Sciences > General > Mutongi Kenda Mutongi: Worries of the Heart (PDF) Mutongi Kenda Mutongi Worries of the Heart Widows, Family, and Community in Kenya. Support. Adobe DRM ( / – 3 customer ratings). Kenda Mutongi, , , University of Chicago Press, Kenda Mutongi encountered a perplexing contradiction. While the young teachers at her village school railed against colonialism, many of download Worries of the Heart: Widows, Family, and Community in Kenya , Mutongi is the author of MATATU: A History of Popular Transportion in Nairobi (University of Chicago Press, ); and Worries of the Heart: Widows, Family, and Community in Kenya (University of Chicago Press, ), which received an Honorable Mention from the African Studies Association’s Melville J. Herskovits Award for the best scholarly.
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