Culture, performance & identity : paths of communication in Kenya / edited by Kimani Njogu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Njogu, Kimani.

Series:

Art, culture & society series ; v. 2.

Art, culture & society ; v. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication and culture--Kenya.

Communication and culture.

Ethnopsychology--Kenya.

Ethnopsychology.

Identity (Psychology)--Kenya.

Identity (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (178 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Nairobi, Kenya : Twaweza Communications, 2008.

Language Note:

English

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

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786613063663

9781283063661

1283063662

9789966028037

996602803X

9789966028020

9966028021

9789966028013

9966028013

OCLC:

830165585