We Didnt Come Here For This

Download or read book We Only Come Here to Struggle written by Berida Ndambuki and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000-03-22 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.