Full Description
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.
Contents
CONTENTS
List of Figures and Photographs ..................................................... vii
Preface .................................................................................................. ix
SECTION I
LIFE
Chapter 1 Henry Muoria, Public Moralist ................................. 3
John Lonsdale
Chapter 2 The Muorias in Kenya: 'A very long chain'.
An Essay in Family Biography .................................................... 59
Bodil Folke Frederiksen
Chapter 3 The Muoria Family in London—A Memory ........... 105
Wangari Muoria-Sal (with Bodil Folke Frederiksen)
SECTION II
WORKS
Editorial note on Henry Muoria's three political pamphlets ...... 131
Chapter 4 What Should We Do, Our People? ........................... 137
Chapter 5 The Home Coming of Our Great Hero Jomo
Kenyatta ........................................................................................... 253
Chapter 6 Kenyatta Is Our Reconciler ........................................ 317
Bibliography ........................................................................................ 393
Index .................................................................................................... 403
