We Only Come Here to Struggle: Stories from Berida's Life

A Kenyan trader shares her life history, including enduring British colonial rule, overcoming poverty, and reclaiming her life.

Here is the life history of Berida Ndambuki, a Kenyan woman trader born in 1936, who speaks movingly of her experiences under the turbulences of late British colonialism and independence. A poverty survivor, Berida overcame patriarchal constraints to reclaim the rights to her labor, her body, and her spirit. She invokes a many-faceted picture of central Kenyan life in this compelling narrative.

© 2000 Indiana University Press (E-bog): 9780253014658

Release date

E-bog: 22. marts 2000