Tabitha M Kanogo

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The book is structured around Maathai’s life stages, focusing on milestones and noteworthy events within each chapter.

The book covers Maathai's journey to becoming one of Kenya's most influential figures, from her childhood in a Nyrei reservation, through her often-bittersweet experience in academia, to her relentless battles to protect Kenya's forests. Mwangi-wa-Githumo (1981) Land and Nationalism: The Impact of Land Appropriation and Land Grievances upon the Rise and Development of Nationalist Movements in Kenya, 1895–1939 (Washington D. No rating/under appeal/rating suspended – there are some services which we can’t rate, while some might be under appeal from the provider. While she was unsuccessful in attaining a seat in parliament in 1982, Maathai was elected as a member of parliament for the Tetu constituency under the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) banner in 2002. Kanogo argues that in colonial Kenya, African women were oppressed and had a lower status than that of African men.If this is the first time you used this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your Google Drive account. Kanogo follows Maathai's childhood and education, linking her early development to her later achievements. She fought unremittingly to save urban parks, most notably, Karura Forest and Uhuru Park in Nairobi—both of which still exist today. The chapter argues that Kenyan male political leaders sought to determine how and which women would give birth in maternities as a mean to establish power and authority over women’s bodies.

The emergence of individualism amongst Kenyan women and girls, Kanogo argues, involved “normative and geographical migration” (p. The conclusion to which the experiences of women in colonial Kenya points again and again is that for these women, the exercise of individual agency, whether it was newly acquired or repeatedly thwarted, depended in large measure on the unleashing of forces over which no one involved had control. Kanogo, (1980) ‘The Historical Process of Kikuyu Movement into the Nakuru District of the Kenya White Highlands: 1900–1963’ Ph.This is a study of the genesis, evolution, adaptation and subordination of the Kikuyu squatter labourers, who comprised the majority of resident labourers on settler plantations and estates in the Rift Valley Province of the White Highlands. African Womanhood is deeply imbedded in Kenyan colonial archives, the historiography of Kenya, and combines and analyzes rich individual accounts of Kenyan women.

It is unsurprising that the following chapter is given over to bitterly resisted attempts to restrict or prohibit clitoridectomy.If you do not have a society account or have forgotten your username or password, please contact your society. To save this article to your Dropbox account, please select one or more formats and confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies.