Writing and speaking from the heart of my mind : selected essays and speeches /

by Mugo, Micere Githae. Published by : Africa World Press, (Trenton, NJ :) Physical details: xxiv, 284 p. ; 22 cm. ISBN:9781592218530 (hardcover); 1592218539 (hardcover); 9781592218547 (softcover); 1592218547 (softcover).
Subject(s): Mugo, Micere Githae. | Politics and literature -- Africa -- History -- 20th century. | Women -- Africa -- Social conditions -- 20th century. | Women intellectuals -- Africa. | Africa -- Civilization -- 20th century. | Africa -- Social conditions -- 1960-
Year: 2012 Item type: Book

"The essays and speeches that appear in this book were originally presented as either keynote addresses, or conference papers, or interviews, while others were submitted for publication as book chapters on request."--Acknowlegments.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Autobiographical touches using a Black feminist brush. The role of African intellectuals: reflections of a female scholar, University of Nairobi, 1973-82 -- The south end of a north-south writer's dialogue: two letters from a post-colonial feminist -- Part II. Orature, literature and creativity through a Black feminist lens. Women and books -- The woman artist in Africa today: a critical commentary -- Popular paradigms and conceptions: orature-based community theatre -- Elitist anti-circumcision discourse as mutilating and anti-feminist -- Part III. Culture, class, gender, Pan-Africanism and human development -- Culture in Africa and imperialism -- Gender, ethnicity, class and culture -- Re-envisioning Pan-Africanism: what are the roles of gender, youth and the masses? -- Part IV. Democracy, empowerment and construction of new sites of knowledge. Advocacy for empowering the masses: translating rhetoric into action -- Meeting point between basic, subsidiary and people's rights: lessons from African orature -- Transcending colonial and neo-colonial pathological hangovers to unleash creativity -- Burying the Kasuku syndrome: constructing inventive sites of knowledge.

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