Writing and speaking from the heart of my mind

selected essays and speeches

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Mĩcere Gĩthae Mũgo
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Africa World Press
Language
English

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Table of Contents

Part I. Autobiographical touches using a Black feminist brush. The role of African intellectuals: reflections of a female scholar, University of Nairobi, 1973-82
The south end of a north-south writer's dialogue: two letters from a post-colonial feminist
Part II. Orature, literature and creativity through a Black feminist lens. Women and books
The woman artist in Africa today: a critical commentary
Popular paradigms and conceptions: orature-based community theatre
Elitist anti-circumcision discourse as mutilating and anti-feminist
Part III. Culture, class, gender, Pan-Africanism and human development
Culture in Africa and imperialism
Gender, ethnicity, class and culture
Re-envisioning Pan-Africanism: what are the roles of gender, youth and the masses?
Part IV. Democracy, empowerment and construction of new sites of knowledge. Advocacy for empowering the masses: translating rhetoric into action
Meeting point between basic, subsidiary and people's rights: lessons from African orature
Transcending colonial and neo-colonial pathological hangovers to unleash creativity
Burying the Kasuku syndrome: constructing inventive sites of knowledge.

Edition Notes

"The essays and speeches that appear in this book were originally presented as either keynote addresses, or conference papers, or interviews, while others were submitted for publication as book chapters on request."--Acknowlegments.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Trenton, NJ, USA

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Dewey Decimal Class
960.32
Library of Congress
DT14 .M78 2011, DT14 .M78 2012, DT14.M78 2011

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Pagination
p. cm.

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Open Library
OL24853313M
ISBN 10
1592218539, 1592218547
ISBN 13
9781592218530, 9781592218547
LCCN
2011018120
OCLC/WorldCat
723529356

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