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Facing Mount Kenya
by Jomo Kenyatta
"Jomo Kenyatta provides a detailed insider description of the Gikuyu peoples of Kenya. THe book
takes a structural functionalist approach to anthropology, providing a very detailed description
covering virtually all aspects of tribal life. A native Gikuyu,son of a medicine man, Kenyatta reveals
his wonderful anthropological ability in a storybook fashion. A must read for anyone interested in
learning about African culture."
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Kenya Business Law Handbook
by Emerging Markets Investment Center
"This law handbook contains information on basic business legislation, laws and regulatoins affecting
export-import, business, foreign investments, property rights, taxation and
banking."
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No Picnic on Mount Kenya
by Felice Benuzzi
"Ethiopia, 1941. Felice Benuzzi was a junior officer in the Italian Colonial Service, stationed in Addis
Ababa, when the British thwarted Mussolini's ambition to build a colonial empire in East Africa.
Benuzzi, along with thousands of other Italians, was captured and interned in a POW camp near the
foot of Mount Kenya, where he and his countrymen languished indefinitely, waiting out the war and
the desperate boredom, passivity, and isolation of prison life. "In order to break the monotony," he
writes, "one had only to start taking risks again." But the isolation of the camp precluded the
possibility of escape to a neutral country: "I thought, then at least I shall stage a break in this awful
travesty of life. I shall try to get out, climb Mount Kenya and return here." So begins No Picnic on
Mount Kenya, a first-class adventure story full of courage, humor, and exquisite
detail."
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The Way the World Is : Cultural Processes and Social Relations
Among the Mombasa Swahili
by Marc J. Swartz
" Marc Swartz takes us for the first time into the homes and neighborhoods of the Swahili in the East
African port of Mombasa. At the same time he develops a new model for the operation and
transmission of culture. In asking how cultural elements influence the social behavior of those who
do not share them as well as of those who do, Swartz points to the mediation of status. The many
types of status available to individuals provide guidelines that help explain, for example, why the
broadly shared elements of Swahili culture (Islamic religion or the nuclear family) do not alone
translate into behavior. The Way the World Is demonstrates in a highly original way how culture
"works.""
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