Details

Subject(s)

• Fathers and daughters—Fiction [Browse]
• Kikuyu (African people) [Browse]
• Social conflict—Kenya—20th century [Browse]
• Kenya—History—Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-1960 [Browse]
• Waciuma, Charity [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Autobiographies [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• autobiographies (literary works) [Browse]

Series

Modern African library [More in this series]

Summary note

Tells of the tensions felt by an adolescent who was torn between her allegiance to traditional Kikuyu identities and a father who sees his support for British colonial rule as an allegiance to modernity.

Notes

Autobiographical.

LCCN

72286351

OCLC

205099

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