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151 Notes Pref ace 1. John Iliffe, Africans: The His tory of a Con ti nent, 2nd ed. (Cam bridge: Cam bridge Uni ver sity Press, 2007), 251. 2. Grace Bunyi, “Con struct ing Elites in Kenya: Im pli ca tions for Class room Lan guage Prac tices in Af rica,” in Dis course and Ed u ca tion, 2nd ed., En cy clo pe dia of Lan guage and Ed u ca tion 3, ed ited by Mar i lyn Martin-Jones, Anne-Marie De Mejía, and Nancy H. Horn ber ger (New York: Springer, 2008), 147. 3. Mag nus O. Bas sey, “Higher Ed u ca tion and the Rise of Early Po lit i cal Elites in Af rica,” Re view of Higher Ed u ca tion in Af rica 1, no. 1 (2009): 31–32. 4. Ibid., 31. Intro duc tion 1. My mem ory has been aided by the fol low ing doc u ment: “Or ien ta tion Course—T.E.A. Wave III: Au gust 1963, Royal Col lege, Nai robi,” Ed/ 2/18319, KNA. 2. I never kept a jour nal dur ing my time at Gia kanja, a circum stance for which I now have much re gret. As a re sult, though I had many con ver sa tions with stu dents as I have de scribed, I can re call few de tails. 3. All of these pro vi sions are set out in the contract that I signed upon ar ri val in Nai robi. “TEA Post ings,” Ed/2/17617, KNA. My 1963 group was not re quired to sign the Of fi cial Se crets Act nor pass a Kis wa hili lan guage exam, as ear lier TEA groups had done. Ed/2/7409, KNA. 4. Heidi Gen gen bach, “Truth-Telling and the Pol i tics of Women’s Life His tory Re search in Af rica: A Reply to Kirk Hoppe,” Inter na tional Jour nal of African His tor i cal Stud ies 27, no. 3 (1994): 624. 152 Notes to pages 12-21 5. Jean Dav i son, Voices from Mu tira: Change in the Lives of Rural Gi kuyu Women, 1910–1995, 2nd ed. (Boul der, Colo.: Lynne Rien ner, 1996); Le o nard Plot ni cov, Strang ers to the City: Urban Man in Jos, Ni ge ria (Pitts burgh: Uni ver sity of Pitts burgh Press, 1967). Of those not inter viewed, two were known to have died, one lived abroad, an other was men tally ill, sev eral oth ers lived in in ac cess ible parts of the coun try, and the re main der I sim ply could not lo cate. 6. I wish to thank an anon y mous re viewer of my man u script for this phrase. 7. Leroy Vail and Landeg White, Power and the Praise Poem: South ern African Voices in His tory (Lon don: James Curry, 1991), 222–27. 8. Eliz a beth Ton kin, Nar rat ing Our Pasts: The So cial Con struc tion of Oral His tory (Cam bridge: Cam bridge Uni ver sity Press, 1993), 3. 9. Law rence Stone, “Pro so pog ra phy,” Dae dalus 100, no. 1 (Win ter 1971): 46. 10. K. S. B. Keats-Rohan, “Pro so pog ra phy and Com put ing: A Mar riage Made in Heaven?” His tory and Com put ing 12, no. 1 (2000): 2. 11. K. S. B. Keats-Rohan, “Biog ra phy, Iden tity and Names: Under stand ing the Pur suit of the In di vid ual in Pro so pog ra phy,” in Pro so pog ra phy Ap proaches and Ap pli ca tions: A Hand book, ed ited by K. S. B. Keats-Rohan (Ox ford: Uni ver sity of Ox ford,2007),143–44,http://pro so pog ra phy.mod hist.ox.ac.uk/im ages/06%20 KKR.pdf.pdf. For a list of works on pro so pog ra phy, see “Se lect Bib liog ra phy of Works Re lat ing to Pro so pog ra phy,” Mod ern His tory Re search Unit, Uni ver sity of Ox ford, http://pro so pog ra phy.mod hist.ox.ac.uk/bib liog ra phy.htm. 12. Susan Gei ger, “Tan gan yi kan Na tion al ism as ‘Women’s Work’: Life His to ries, Col lec tive Biog ra phy...