| Titre : |
Kenyatta's jiggers |
| Titre original : |
Kanina and I |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
Charles Mangua |
| Editeur : |
Nairobi [Kenya] : East African Educational Publishers |
| Année de publication : |
2000 |
| Collection : |
Spear books num. 27 |
| Importance : |
vi, 276 p. |
| Format : |
18 cm |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : |
978-9966-25-026-1 |
| Note générale : |
Publié d'abord sous titre : Kanina and I. 1994. |
| Catégories : |
Kenya -- Histoire -- Mau Mau -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. ; Littérature africaine en anglais ; Littérature africaine en anglais -- Écrivains kenyans
|
| Index. décimale : |
F Fiction |
| Résumé : |
The much-awaited Independence has come. Everybody is excited. Everyone has expectations from the new uhuru government Kenyatta is now the President. And he has to deal with groups of people who want to be given priority in the allocation of the national cake, whether they fought for independence or not. Like jiggers, they itch and irritate. They are Kenyatta's jiggers.
In his characteristic humour and poignant wit, Charles Mangua relives the years of the Mau Mau freedom struggle, and eloquently projects the social stigma that afflicted the natives caught in between the "liberation" forces and the colonial administration. Using two orphans (courtesy of this war), he tells a tale of two immense loyalties: of those who took up arms against the colonial government, and of those who collaborated with the white man. For what gain?
Independence has to decide. |
Kenyatta's jiggers = Kanina and I [texte imprimé] / Charles Mangua . - Nairobi [Kenya] : East African Educational Publishers, 2000 . - vi, 276 p. ; 18 cm. - ( Spear books; 27) . ISBN : 978-9966-25-026-1 Publié d'abord sous titre : Kanina and I. 1994.
| Catégories : |
Kenya -- Histoire -- Mau Mau -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. ; Littérature africaine en anglais ; Littérature africaine en anglais -- Écrivains kenyans
|
| Index. décimale : |
F Fiction |
| Résumé : |
The much-awaited Independence has come. Everybody is excited. Everyone has expectations from the new uhuru government Kenyatta is now the President. And he has to deal with groups of people who want to be given priority in the allocation of the national cake, whether they fought for independence or not. Like jiggers, they itch and irritate. They are Kenyatta's jiggers.
In his characteristic humour and poignant wit, Charles Mangua relives the years of the Mau Mau freedom struggle, and eloquently projects the social stigma that afflicted the natives caught in between the "liberation" forces and the colonial administration. Using two orphans (courtesy of this war), he tells a tale of two immense loyalties: of those who took up arms against the colonial government, and of those who collaborated with the white man. For what gain?
Independence has to decide. |
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