Ngecha
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Ngecha

A Kenyan Village in a Time of Rapid Social Change

  1. 280 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Ngecha

A Kenyan Village in a Time of Rapid Social Change

About this book

Ngecha is the monumental and intimate study of modernization and nationalization in rural Africa in the early years following Kenyan independence in 1963, as experienced by the people of Ngecha, a village outside Nairobi. From 1968 to 1973 Ngecha was a research site of the Child Development Research Unit, a team that brought together Kenyan and non-Kenyan social scientists under the leadership of John Whiting and Beatrice Blyth Whiting.

The study documents how families adapted to changing opportunities and conditions as their former colony became a modern nation, and the key role that women played as agents of change as they became small-scale cash-crop farmers and entrepreneurs. Mothers modified the culture of their parents to meet the evolving national economy, and they participated in the shift from an agrarian to a wage economy in ways that transformed their workloads and perceptions of isolation and individualism within and between households, thereby challenging traditional family-based morals and obligations. Their children, in turn, experienced evolving educational practices and achievement expectations. The elders faced new situations as well as new modes of treatment. Completing this valuable record of a nation in transition are the long-term reassessments of the observations and conclusions of the research team, and a description of Ngecha today as viewed by Kenyans who participated in the original study.

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Table of contents

  1. Chapter 1: Background and Contexts (Carolyn Edwards and Beatrice Whiting)
  2. Chapter 2: The Village and Its Families (Beatrice Whiting and Carolyn Edwards, with Ciarunji Chesaina, John Whiting, John Herzog, and Dorothy Herzog)
  3. Chapter 3: The Historical Stage (Beatrice Whiting, John Whiting, John Herzog, and Carolyn Edwards, with Arnold Curtis)
  4. Chapter 4: Women as Agents of Social Change (Beatrice Whiting)
  5. Chapter 5: Changing Concepts of the Good Child and Good Mothering (Beatrice Whiting, with Ciarunji Chesaina, Grace Diru, Jonah Ichoya, Priscilla Kariuki, Violet Nyambura Kimani, Irene Kamau, Rose Maina, Wanjiku Munge-Kagia, Jane Mwangi, John Whiting, Thomas Landauer, and Lynn Streeter)
  6. Chapter 6: The Teaching of Values Old and New (Ciarunji Chesaina)
  7. Chapter 7: Aging and Elderhood (Frances Cox, with Ndung’u Mberia)
  8. Chapter 8: The University as Gateway to a Complex World (Carolyn Edwards, with E. G. Runo and Ezra arap Maritim)
  9. Chapter 9: Ngecha Today (Violet Nyambura Kimani)