Author: Joseph Alfred WrayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Taita language
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
An Elementary Introduction to the Taita Language, Eastern Equatorial Africa
Author: Joseph Alfred WrayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Taita language
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
African Affairs
Author: Journal of the African Society
Author: African SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Hausa Grammar with Exercises, Readings and Vocabulary
Author: Charles Henry RobinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hausa language
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Inland from Mombasa
Author: David P. BresnahanPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520400496
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Over the past few decades, scholars have traced how Indian Ocean merchants forged transregional networks into a world of global connections. East Africa's crucial role in this Indian Ocean world has primarily been understood through the influence of coastal trading centers like Mombasa. In Inland from Mombasa, David P. Bresnahan looks anew at this Swahili port city from the vantage point of the communities that lived on its rural edges. By reconstructing the deep history of these Mijikenda-speaking societies over the past two millennia, he shows how profoundly they influenced global trade even as they rejected many of the cosmopolitan practices that historians have claimed are critical to creating global connections, choosing smaller communities over urbanism, local ritual practices over Islam, and inland trade over maritime commerce. Inland from Mombasa makes the compelling case that the seemingly isolating alternative social pursuits engaged in by Mijikenda speakers were in fact key to their active role in global commerce and politics.
Catalogue of Books on the Languages of Asia, Australia, Africa, Turkey, Etc., Etc., on Sale by Luzac and Co. ...
Author: Luzac & Co. (London, England)Publisher:
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Luzac's Oriental List and Book Review
Author: The White Spaces of Kenyan Settler Writing
Author: Terrence L. CraigPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004346511
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
The White Spaces of Kenyan Settler Writing provides an overview of Kenyan literature by white writers in the half-century before Independence in 1964. Such literature has been over-shadowed by that of black writers to the point of critical ostracism. It deserves attention for its own sake, as the expression of a community that hoped for permanence but suffered both disappointment and dispossession. It deserves attention for its articulation of an increasingly desperate colonial and Imperial situation at a time when both were being attacked and abandoned in Africa, as in other colonies elsewhere, and when a counter-discourse was being constructed by writers in Britain as well as in Africa. Kenya was likely the best-known twentieth-century colony, for it attracted publicity for its iconic safaris and its Happy Valley scandals. Yet behind such scenes were settlers who had taken over lands from the native peoples and who were trying to make a future for themselves, based on the labour, willing or forced, of those people. This situation can be seen as a microcosm of one colonial exercise, and can illuminate the historical tensions of such times. The bibliography is an attempt to collect the literary resources of white Kenya in this historically significant period.
Foreign Language - English Dictionaries: General language dictionaries
Author: Library of Congress. General Reference and Bibliography DivisionPublisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Kenya
Author: Dalvan M. CogerPublisher: Oxford, England : Clio Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
At the beginning of the century Kenya was regarded as little more than a corridor to Uganda: since that time, however, it has made a spectacular success of its social and economic development. Indeed, since gaining its independence in 1963, this ethnically divided nation has remained an 'island' of relative political stability amidst its East African neighbours. This fully-revised volume contains substantial literature on the indigenous population, as well as material about the residents and citizens of European and Asian origins.