Reinventing Africa's national heroes: The case of Mekatilili, a Kenyan popular heroine
A nation's heroes are rarely fixed and are frequently reassessed and reinterpreted by new generations. In the case of a number of African countries, the very masculine liberation heroes of yesteryear often prove divisive, emerging from very fraught histories. In this context, there are moves to...
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Oxford University Press
2016
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