Swahili Muslim Publics and Postcolonial Experience is an
exploration of the ideas and public discussions that have shaped
and defined the experience of Kenyan coastal Muslims. Focusing on
Kenyan postcolonial history, Kai Kresse isolates the ideas that
coastal Muslims have used to separate themselves from their
"upcountry Christian" countrymen. Kresse looks back to key moments
and key texts-pamphlets, newspapers, lectures, speeches, radio
discussions-as a way to map out the postcolonial experience and how
it is negotiated in the coastal Muslim community. On one level,
this is a historical ethnography of how and why the content of
public discussion matters so much to communities at particular
points in time. Kresse shows how intellectual practices can lead to
a regional understanding of the world and society. On another
level, this ethnography of the postcolonial experience also reveals
dimensions of intellectual practice in religious communities and
thus provides an alternative model that offers a non-Western way to
understand regional conceptual frameworks and intellectual
practice.
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