TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mugo,Micere Githae
TI  - Writing and speaking from the heart of my mind : selected essays and speeches
SN  - 9781592218530 (hardcover)
AV  - DT14.M78 2012 
U1  - 960.32 22
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Trenton, NJ
PB  - Africa World Press
KW  - Mugo, Micere Githae.
KW  - Politics and literature
KW  - Africa
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Women
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Women intellectuals
KW  - Civilization
KW  - 1960-
N1  - "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
ER  -