Culture, Performance and Identity. Paths of Communication in Kenya : Paths of Communication in Kenya

Our lives, which are mainly structured according to repeated and socially sanctioned modes of behaviour suggest that human activity is a performance; it is an activity undertaken with a consciousness of itself. We are always aware that someone who has certain expectations about us is watching. In order to satisfy the expectation we behave accordingly. Quite often we are conscious of projecting identity - in politics, in our homes, places of worship, on the street, among colleagues and so on. But how does this happen? This book brings together essays which cover a number of key areas: Gender, Disability, Media, Sports, Literature, Religion, Land and Youth, Music. Through an examination of the situation in Kenya, the essays opens new ways of understanding forms of local, national and global identity. Culture, Gender Inequality And Women's Rights In The Great Lakes / Kimani Njogu & Elizabeth Orchardson-mazrui -- Disability Rhetorics And Identity In Kenya / Mbugua Wa-mungai -- Lemme Do M'thing : Objective Possibilities For Social Meaning And Re-visioning Youth Identity Through Pop-music / Michael Wainaina -- Sheng As A Youth Identity Marker : Reality Or Misconception? / Nathan Oyori Ogechi -- Me, My Kenya And I / Charles A. Matathia -- Performing Identity In Kiswahili Literature / Richard Makhanu Wafula -- Culture, Religion, And Identity / Mary N. Getui -- Circulation Of Media Texts And Identity (de)constructions In The Post-colony / Christopher Odhiambo Joseph -- Identity, Sports, And Leisure In Contemporary Kenyan Society / Mwangi Peter Wanderi -- Slaying Settler Williams : Crafting Identity In Ngugi's Matigari / Garnette Oluoch-olunya -- The Talai : The End Of A Dynasty / Bill Rutto -- Sing Me A Life : Music As A People's Identity / Emily Achieng' Akuno. Edited By Kimani Njogu. Includes Bibliographical References. Biography of Ole Sakuda, director of Simba Maasai Outreach Organization (SIMOO)