Uhuru And The Kenya Indians

Author : Dana April Seidenberg
Publisher : Vikas Publishing House Private
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uhuru and the Kenya Indians written by Dana April Seidenberg and published by Vikas Publishing House Private. This book was released on 1983 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the role of Asians in Kenya's independence struggle.

Author : Sana Aiyar
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674425928
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indians in Kenya written by Sana Aiyar and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working as merchants, skilled tradesmen, clerks, lawyers, and journalists, Indians formed the economic and administrative middle class in colonial Kenya. In general, they were wealthier than Africans, but were denied the political and economic privileges that Europeans enjoyed. Moreover, despite their relative prosperity, Indians were precariously positioned in Kenya. Africans usually viewed them as outsiders, and Europeans largely considered them subservient. Indians demanded recognition on their own terms. Indians in Kenya chronicles the competing, often contradictory, strategies by which the South Asian diaspora sought a political voice in Kenya from the beginning of colonial rule in the late 1890s to independence in the 1960s. Indians’ intellectual, economic, and political connections with South Asia shaped their understanding of their lives in Kenya. Sana Aiyar investigates how the many strands of Indians’ diasporic identity influenced Kenya’s political leadership, from claiming partnership with Europeans in their mission to colonize and “civilize” East Africa to successful collaborations with Africans to battle for racial equality, including during the Mau Mau Rebellion. She also explores how the hierarchical structures of colonial governance, the material inequalities between Indians and Africans, and the racialized political discourses that flourished in both colonial and postcolonial Kenya limited the success of alliances across racial and class lines. Aiyar demonstrates that only by examining the ties that bound Indians to worlds on both sides of the Indian Ocean can we understand how Kenya came to terms with its South Asian minority.

Author : Kenya Indian Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kenya Independence Day Souvenir written by Kenya Indian Congress and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Kimani
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1617755036
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dance of the Jakaranda written by Peter Kimani and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This funny, perceptive and ambitious work of historical fiction by a Kenyan poet and novelist explores his country’s colonial past and its legacy.” —The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice Set in the shadow of Kenya’s independence from Great Britain, Dance of the Jakaranda reimagines the special circumstances that brought black, brown and white men together to lay the railroad that heralded the birth of the nation. The novel traces the lives and loves of three men—preacher Richard Turnbull, the colonial administrator Ian McDonald, and Indian technician Babu Salim—whose lives intersect when they are implicated in the controversial birth of a child. Years later, when Babu’s grandson Rajan—who ekes out a living by singing Babu’s epic tales of the railway’s construction—accidentally kisses a mysterious stranger in a dark nightclub, the encounter provides the spark to illuminate the three men’s shared, murky past. With its riveting multiracial, multicultural cast and diverse literary allusions, Dance of the Jakaranda could well be a story of globalization. Yet the novel is firmly anchored in the African oral storytelling tradition, its language a dreamy, exalted, and earthy mix that creates new thresholds of identity, providing a fresh metaphor for race in contemporary Africa. “Destined to become one of the greats . . . This is not hyperbole: it’s a masterpiece.” —The Gazette “A fascinating part of Kenya’s history, real and imagined, is revealed and reclaimed by one of its own.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune “Kimani’s novel has an impressive breadth and scope.” —Los Angeles Review of Books “Highlighted by its exquisite voice, Kimani’s novel is a standout debut.” —Publishers Weekly “Lyrical and powerful.” —Kirkus Reviews

Author : Swami Agehananda Bharati
Publisher : Chicago : Nelson-Hall Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Asians in East Africa written by Swami Agehananda Bharati and published by Chicago : Nelson-Hall Company. This book was released on 1972 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 151351539X
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book World Economic Outlook, October 2015 written by International Monetary Fund. Research Dept. and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue discusses a number of factors affecting global growth, as well as growth prospects across the world’s main countries and regions. It assesses the ongoing recovery from the global financial crisis in advanced and emerging market economies and evaluates risks, both upside and downside, including those associated with commodity prices, currency fluctuations, and financial market volatility. A special feature examines in detail causes and implications of the recent commodity price downturn; analytical chapters look at the effects of commodity windfalls on potential output and of exchange rate movements on trade.

Author : Shailja Patel
Publisher : Kaya
ISBN 13 : 9781885030054
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Migritude written by Shailja Patel and published by Kaya. This book was released on 2010 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. debut of internationally acclaimed poet and performance artist Shailja Patel, Migritude is a tour-de-force hybrid text that confounds categories and conventions. Part poetic memoir, part political history, Migritude weaves together family history, reportage and monologues to create an achingly beautiful portrait of women's lives and migrant journeys undertaken under the boot print of Empire. Patel, who was born in Kenya and educated in England and the U.S., honed her poetic skills in performances of this work that have received standing ovations throughout Europe, Africa and North America. She has been described by the Gulf Times as "the poetic equivalent of Arundhati Roy" and by CNN as "the face of globalization as a people-centered phenomenon of migration and exchange." Migritude includes interviews with the author, as well as performance notes and essays.

Author : Oginga Odinga
Publisher : East African Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789966460059
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Not Yet Uhuru written by Oginga Odinga and published by East African Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : A. Greenwood
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137440538
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Doctors in Kenya, 1895-1940 written by A. Greenwood and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking book offers unique insights into the careers of Indian doctors in colonial Kenya during the height of British colonialism, between 1895 and 1940. The story of these important Indian professionals presents a rare social history of an important political minority.

Author : M.G. Vassanji
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 1551997088
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uhuru Street written by M.G. Vassanji and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the two-time winner of the Giller Prize for his novels The Book of Secrets and The In-Between World of Vikram Lall Uhuru Street is M.G. Vassanji’s stunning book of linked stories, set within the Asian community of Dar es Salaam. With delicate strokes, and with irony and humour, Vassanji brings alive the characters who live and work in the shops and tenements of Uhuru Street; among them: Roshan Mattress, so called because of her free and easy ways; a street-wise orphan fighting for survival; a Goan dressmaker who entertains her employers with local gossip; and a servant who opens up the world for the children in his charge, until he oversteps his bounds and has to leave. As the younger generation searches for a new destiny, and the older fiercely holds on to the past, Uhuru Street resonates with the moment of moving on, of leaving the place where we have roots, knowing that things will never be the same.