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Author Njogu, Kimani

Title Culture, Performance and Identity : Paths of Communication in Kenya
Published Oxford : Twaweza Communications, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (178 pages)
Series Art, culture & society ; v. 2
Art, culture & society series ; v. 2.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE -- Culture, Gender Inequality and Women's Rights in the Great Lakes; CHAPTER TWO -- Disability Rhetorics and Identity in Kenya; CHAPTER THREE 'Lemme do m' thing': Objective Possibilities for Social Meaning and Re-visioning Youth Identity through Pop-Music; CHAPTER FOUR -- Sheng as a youth identity marker: Reality or Misconception?; CHAPTER FIVE -- Me, My KENYA and I; CHAPTER SIX -- Performing Identity in Kiswahili Literature; CHAPTER SEVEN -- Culture, Religion and Identity
CHAPTER EIGHT -- Circulation of media texts and identity (de) constructions in the post-colonyCHAPTER NINE -- Sing me a Life: Music as a people's identity; Contributors; Back Cover
Summary 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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Subject Communication and culture -- Kenya
Ethnopsychology -- Kenya
Identity (Psychology) -- Kenya
Communication and culture.
Ethnopsychology.
Identity (Psychology)
Kenya.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789966028037
996602803X
9789966028013
9966028013