Facing Mount Kenya
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Facing Mount Kenya by Jomo Kenyatta
With an Introduction by Bronislav Malinkowski, Facing Mount Kenya is a central document of the highest distinction in anthropological literature, an invaluable key to the structure of African society and the nature of the African mind. Facing Mount Kenya is not only a formal study of life and death, work and play, sex and the family in one of the greatest tribes of contemporary Africa, but a work of considerable literary merit. The very sight and sound of Kikuyu tribal life presented here are at once comprehensive and intimate, and as precise as they are compassionate.
Kenyatta, Jomo: - Jomo Kenyatta was born in 1889 in Gatundu of Kiambu County in Kenya. As a boy, Kenyatta assisted his grandfather, who was a medicine man. This greatly contributed to his interest in Gikuyu culture and customs. He received his preliminary education at the Scottish Mission Centre at Thogoto, Kiambu. He also received elementary technical education at the same institution. In the 1930s he studied Anthropology at the London School of Economics. His first work was on a monthly Gikuyu journal called Muigwithania (One Who Reconciles) first published in May 1928. Jomo Kenyatta was among the foremost leaders of African nationalism and he became Kenya's first president. He died on 22 August 1978 at the age of 89 years.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780394702100 |
| ISBN 10 | 0394702107 |
| Title | Facing Mount Kenya |
| Author | Jomo Kenyatta |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 1962-02-12 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
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