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Before the Rooster Crows

von Kimani, Peter

Fiction History Politics Social Issues

ISBN

9966251553

Verlag

East African Educational Publishers

Erschienen

06.06.2007

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Komme während der Öffnungszeiten vorbei und leihe ein verfügbares Exemplar aus.

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Kenyan literature African fiction post-colonialism political activism romance tragedy social justice racism economic hardship betrayal historical fiction murder mystery cultural identity societal inequities young adult coming-of-age revenge urban life village life coffee plantation global society literary fiction Peter Kimani Muriuki Mumbi activism Kenyan politics historical reverberation fictional female activists.

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This is the story of Muriuki, a young man from a Kenyan village who leaves him home and back-breaking job on a coffee plantation for the city, to pursue wealth, and happiness with his childhood sweetheart Mumbi. But life is not straightforward for the young lovers who become steeped in the quagmire of Kenyan politics, and are confronted with the sophistication of a new world, its economic hardships and brutality, and the racism and persistent inequities of the post-colonial and global society. Then Mumbi is murdered on account of her activism and race, in lineage with so many of her country's historical and fictional female activists. Muriuki avenges her death in a controversial act which reverberates historically and throughout the society in which he lives. But then he experiences betrayal by his own people, which changes him irrevocably.