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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...

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