Writing for Kenya: The Life and Works of Henry Muoria (African Sources for African History)

Based on the Gikuyu-language pamphlet literature of the 1940s, the family history of the writer Henry Muoria, and a daughter's memory, this book illuminates the political challenges faced by Kenya's first nationalists and the domestic sacrifices that politics demanded Henry Muoria, Public Moralist / John Lonsdale -- The Muorias In Kenya : 'a Very Long Chain' : An Essay In Family Biography / Bodil Folke Frederiksen -- The Muoria Family In London : A Memory / Wangari Muoria-sal ; With Bodil Folke Frederiksen -- Editorial Note On Henry Muoria's Three Political Pamphlets -- What Should We Do, Our People? -- The Home Coming Of Our Great Hero Jomo Kenyatta -- Kenyatta Is Our Reconciler. By Wangari Muoria-sal ... [et Al.]. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [393]-402) And Index. Biographical Material In English; Texts Of Muoria's Political Pamphlets In Kikuyu With English Translation. Henry Muoria (1914-97), self-taught journalist and pamphleteer, helped to inspire Kenya's nationalisms before Mau Mau. The pamphlets reproduced here, in Gikuyu and English, contrast his own originality with the conservatism of Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya's first President. The contributing editors introduce Muoria's political context, tell how three remarkable women sustained his families'life; and remember him as father. Courageous intellectual, political, and domestic life here intertwine.