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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 549: SPECIAL ISSUE: TRIBUTES TO A FALLEN FIGHTER: WAMBUI OTIENO The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Pambazuka News (English edition): ISSN 1753-6839 CONTENTS: 1. Features, 2. African Writers’ Corner /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 1 Features WAMBUI OTIENO: SHE BELONGS TO KENYA! Awino Okech ‘In this special issue of Pambazuka News we seek to bring to the fore the layered nature of Wambui’s life and the opportunities it in turn offers to understanding the social, political and economic factors that are contested, influence and shape Kenya … Through these pieces we gain some insight into how the brazen defiance of one woman captured the imagination of a nation, writes Awino Okech. ‘Love or hate her, you could not ignore her.’ http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/76625 ****** A DECADE OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY: WAMBUI OTIENO’S MAU MAU Elsie Cloete ‘With her death on 30 August 2011, Wambui Otieno-Mbugua joins the pantheon of African women activists who devoted their lives to struggles against colonial and post-independence political regimes and against systems that favoured and still do favour men over women,’ writes Elsie Cloete. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/76621 ****** WAMBUI OTIENO: A LOVE STORY Wandia Njoya Wambui Otieno, a 'solitary woman who fought against patriarchal values', may have 'struggled against oppression, but her story is simply a struggle for love and dignity,' writes Wandia Njoya. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/76622 ****** HOW (NOT) TO REMEMBER WAMBUI WAIYAKI OTIENO Soundtracks of our youth Grace A. Musila If they must sing about Wambui Otieno, ‘may our children’s songs be a robust tribute to the courageous spirit of a woman who said “sikubali!” to the chauvinist currents of her time,’ writes Grace A. Musila. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/76623 ****** BURYING SM: SIMPLY COMPLEX Awino Okech Awino Okech examines Kenyan public memory, 24 years after the SM Otieno case and in the wake of Wambui Otieno’s death. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/76624 ****** SHE DANCED TO THE BEAT OF A DIFFERENT DRUMMER Mshai Mwangola Mshai Mwangola writes that while not everyone would agree with the choices Wambui Otieno made, it is impossible to ignore her. ‘Her very life functioned as a battleground in the struggle to assert her understanding of what it meant to be a human being’. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/76638 ****** THE PASSING OF A REVOLUTIONARY Njoki Wamai Wambui’s tensions, dilemmas and challenges represent the realities of colonial and post-colonial Kenya, writes Njoki Wamai, who also points out that she has left Kenya a rich legacy of courageous struggle for personal and national freedom. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/76640 ****** WAMBUI OTIENO-MBUGUA: A TRIBUTE Shailja Patel ‘Whether we are aware of it or not, in our daily negotiations with modernity and tradition, with selfhood and community, with partnership, family, society and state, we swim in waters changed forever by the battles she fought, writes Shailja Patel. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/76641 ****** BALLAD TO A TRUE REBEL Patrick Dominic Maina In a male-dominated society where many customs oppress women, Wambui Otieno stood out for resisting the status quo, says Patrick Maina. Her life offers the lesson that women’s equality to men in rights and dignity cannot be realised without a fight. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/76643 ****** A LEGACY OF RESISTANCE TO OPPRESSION Anne Njogu Wambui Otieno-Mbugua fought valiantly for freedom and women’s rights, writes Anne Njogu who describes the fallen Kenyan heroine as robustly nationalist, progressive and feminist. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/76636 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 2 African Writers’ Corner WAMBUI, OUR WARRIOR Njeri Wangari Wanjohi The Mau Mau uprising Found you and left you You fought with the white man Like a man And won Wambui our warrior... http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/African_Writers/76639 ****** MAMA WAMBUI: NATIONAL ETHNO-FEMINIST My tribute Dennis Dancan Mosiere In your struggle you exposed traditional chauvinism Seen through the mirror of self In your struggle, There was a sense of weaving a nation A true nation of humanity and unity... http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/African_Writers/76642 ****** A WOMAN WEARS WOODEN SANDALS Philo Ikonya If I sing you a song whose words You have heard in the west You will forget that I come from the East You will tell me that I am a confused Afrikan woman Who has learned from the west to sting with venom deriding cultures and speaking in borrowed tongues Failing to stem Lawino’s tide for all that sharpness Relying on papers instead of oral wit... http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/African_Writers/76626 ****** I TOO WEEP WITH THE WIDOW Philo Ikonya Daughter of Kenya, Wambui, I weep with you. Why has your nation left you alone? In the moment of pain... http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/African_Writers/76627 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ Fahamu - Networks For Social Justice http://www.fahamu.org Pambazuka News is published by Fahamu Ltd. © Unless otherwise indicated, all materials published are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. For further details see: http://www.pambazuka.org/en/about.php Pambazuka news can be viewed online: English language edition ( http://www.pambazuka.org/en ) Edição em língua Portuguesa ( http://www.pambazuka.org/pt ) Edition française ( http://www.pambazuka.org/fr ) RSS Feeds available at http://www.pambazuka.org/en/newsfeed.php Pambazuka News is published with the support of a number of funders, details of which can be obtained here ( http://www.pambazuka.org/en/about.php ) . 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