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Thursday, January 29, 2004 - 02:00
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Books & arts [2]
Issue Number: 
141 [3]
Article-Summary: 

This is a new collection of interviews with a remarkable group of some of Kenya's most prominent literary writers, gender activists and public figures. The interviews are concerned with diverse aspects of Kenyan women's lives: what it is to be a women, a writer, politician, activist and mother; how Kenyan women feel about Western feminism; feminist literature and identities; ideas on liberation and their relevance to the African context and more. The interviews include a long exposition from ...read more [4]

This is a new collection of interviews with a remarkable group of some of Kenya's most prominent literary writers, gender activists and public figures. The interviews are concerned with diverse aspects of Kenyan women's lives: what it is to be a women, a writer, politician, activist and mother; how Kenyan women feel about Western feminism; feminist literature and identities; ideas on liberation and their relevance to the African context and more. The interviews include a long exposition from Wanjiku Kabira on the history and future of the women's movement in Kenya and her role, and on institutions of power and polygamy; and Majorie Olughe Macgoye, on being a British born woman and writer who married into Luo society.

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Gender & Minorities [5]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/books/19632 [6]
Country: 
Kenya [7]

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