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LEADER: 02562cam a22003494a 4500
001 2011018120
003 DLC
005 20121116081800.0
008 110428s2012 ilu b 001 0 eng c
010 $a 2011018120
020 $a9781592218530 (hardcover)
020 $a1592218539 (hardcover)
020 $a9781592218547 (softcover)
020 $a1592218547 (softcover)
040 $aIEN/DLC$cDLC
042 $apcc
043 $af------
050 00 $aDT14$b.M78 2012
082 04 $a960.32$222
100 1 $aMugo, Micere Githae.
245 10 $aWriting and speaking from the heart of my mind :$bselected essays and speeches /$cMicere Githae Mugo.
260 $aTrenton, NJ :$bAfrica World Press,$c2012.
300 $axxiv, 284 p. ;$c22 cm.
500 $a"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.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPart 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.
600 10 $aMugo, Micere Githae.
651 0 $aAfrica$xCivilization$y20th century.
651 0 $aAfrica$xSocial conditions$y1960-
650 0 $aPolitics and literature$zAfrica$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aWomen$zAfrica$xSocial conditions$y20th century.
650 0 $aWomen intellectuals$zAfrica.