| Description |
1 online resource (xxxi, 138 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Series |
Online access with JISC subscription agreement: ACLS Humanities E-Books
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-138) |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Ndambuki, Berida, 1936-
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| SUBJECT |
Ndambuki, Berida, 1936- fast |
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Women -- Kenya -- Nairobi Region -- Biography
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Grocers -- Kenya -- Nairobi Region -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- Africa -- Central.
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HISTORY / Africa / General
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- Africa -- Central.
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HISTORY / Africa / General
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Grocers
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Women
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Erlebnisbericht
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Frau
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Erlebnisbericht
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Femmes -- Kenya -- Nairobi (région) -- Biographies.
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Femmes -- Kenya -- Nairobi (région) -- Biographies.
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Frau.
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Nairobi Region (Kenya) -- Biography
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Kenya |
| Subject |
Kenya -- Nairobi Region
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Kenia
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Kenia
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| Genre/Form |
collective biographies.
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Robertson, Claire C., 1944- author.
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| LC no. |
99048576 |
| ISBN |
9781461957683 |
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1461957680 |
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1306396689 |
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9781306396684 |
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9780253014658 |
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0253014654 |
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