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Title: Facing Mount Kenya
ISBN: 0394702107
Author:
Jomo Kenyatta
Publicate Date: 1962-02-12
Publish: 1962-02-12
List Price: $11.18
Average Customer Rating: 5.0
Format: Paperback
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1: We have a heritage
Mzee is deep,truly. Too bad I wasn't born early enough to experience him.
I read this book a long time ago-9 years, I was 16 then. It moved me, connected me with a fact of me that I didn't know existed. The tribal ways of the Gikuyu are here in detail-read, make yourself proud.
PS:I have my uncles supervintage copy and I am not selling it
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2: Gikuyu 101
A good sample of a typical african traditional government. A historical account of the Agikuyu.
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3: Amazing - Must Read For All Young Kikuyus
I got interested in learning more about my culture after listening to incredible stories from the past from a 70 year old Kikuyu woman. I bought the book and it was an intense understanding of my own culture. Its a great shame that not many young Kikuyus know as much about their own rich, beautiful culture. My son has to read it. I wish Kikuyus could recapture some of those traditions.
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4: Dated, but invaluable
Jomo Kenyatta, the first president of independent Kenya, wrote this book as a graduate anthropology student in London. As a primary source, this book is invaluable. It gives detailed analysis of many aspects of pre-Mau Mau Gikuyu cultural ceremonies. However, as it is a product of the structuralist school of anthropology, many of its conclusions and findings are problematic, most notably in its opinion of culture as a fixed entity which determines human behavior. For students of colonial Africa, this piece will inevitably be of use. Personally, for a more nuanced view of colonial and post-colonial Kenya, I recommend the fiction of Ngugi wa Thiong'o, who tends to be more sympathetic to the lower ranks of Gikuyu societies, and who also happens to be one of the most important critics of Kenyatta's post-colonial politics. *Facing Mt. Kenya* is necessary, but at times, troublesome.
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5: Reliable source of information on Kikuyu culture.
A most detailed and reliable account on Kikuyu heritage, customs and way of life.
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