Writing for Kenya : the life and works of Henry Muoria / / by Wangari Muoria-Sal ... [et al.].

• Superior document: African sources for African history, v. 10
• TeilnehmendeR: Muoria-Sal, Wangari.; Muoria, Henry.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: African sources for African history ; v. 10.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (425 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Henry Muoria (1914-97), self-taught journalist and pamphleteer, helped to inspire Kenya's nationalisms before Mau Mau. The pamphlets reproduced here, in Gikuyu and English, contrast his own originality with the conservatism of Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya's first President. The contributing editors introduce Muoria's political context, tell how three remarkable women sustained his families' life; and remember him as father. Courageous intellectual, political, and domestic life here intertwine.

Table of Contents

Henry Muoria, public moralist / John Lonsdale -- The Muorias in Kenya : 'a very long chain' : an essay in family biography / Bodil Folke Frederiksen -- The Muoria family in London : a memory / Wangari Muoria-Sal ; with Bodil Folke Frederiksen -- Editorial note on Henry Muoria's three political pamphlets -- What should we do, our people? -- The home coming of our great hero Jomo Kenyatta -- Kenyatta is our reconciler.