Charity Waciuma
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Charity Waciuma is a Kenyan writer, who wrote several novels for adolescents and an autobiographical novel, Daughter of Mumbi (1969).
Charity Waciumbi grew up in pre-Independence Kenya, during the violent anti-colonial struggle between the Mau-Mau and British rulers. Daughter of Mumbi tells of the tensions felt by an adolescent who is torn between her allegiance to traditional identities (Mumbi
was the mythical female founder of the Kikuyu) and a father (to whom the book is dedicated) who sees his support for British colonial rule as an allegiance to modernity.
Charity Waciumbi grew up in pre-Independence Kenya, during the violent anti-colonial struggle between the Mau-Mau and British rulers. Daughter of Mumbi tells of the tensions felt by an adolescent who is torn between her allegiance to traditional identities (Mumbi
Mumbi
Mũmbi is a mythological figure regarded as the mother of the Gĩkũyũ people. The word Mũmbi can be translated as "one who moulds." She was the wife of Gĩkũyũ , and ancestor to all the "Agĩkũyũ" people...
was the mythical female founder of the Kikuyu) and a father (to whom the book is dedicated) who sees his support for British colonial rule as an allegiance to modernity.