Mijikenda - Bibliography


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Allen, J. de V.
Shungwaya, the Mijikenda, and the Traditions
In International Journal of African Historical Studies Vol.16(3) pp.455-84, 1983

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Mortuary Posts of the Giryama
Bronx Community Art Gallery, New York, 1978

Barrett, W.E.H.
Notes on the Customs and Beliefs of the Wagiriama
In Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute Vol.41, 1911

Bergman, J.L.
A Symbol, Spirit, and Social Organization: A Comparative Study of Islam and Indigenous Religion among the Two Mijikenda People
Seminar Paper No.182, Institute of African Studies, University of Nairobi, Kenya: 1988

Brantley, C.
Gerontocratic Government: Age Set in Pre-colonial Giriama
In Africa Vol.48(3) pp.248-264, 1978

Brantley, C.
Historical Perspective of the Giriama and Witchcraft Control
In Africa Vol.49(2) pp.112-133, 1979

Brantley, C.S.
Giriama Rising, 1914: Focus for Political Development in the Kenya Hinterland 1850-1963
PhD Thesis. University of California, Los Angeles. 1973

Brantley, C.S.
The Giriama and Colonial Resistance in Kenya 1800-1920
Los Angeles, USA: California University Press, 1981

Brown, J.L.
Mijikenda Grave and Memorial Sculptures
In African Arts Vol.13(4). pp.36-9.88, 1980

Caruso, J.S.
Witchcraft Eradication as Political Process in Kilifi District, Kenya 1955-1988 (Mijikenda, Tsuma Washe Kajiwe)
PhD Thesis Columbia University, 1992

Champion, A.M.
The Agiryama of Kenya
Royal Anthropological Institute Occasional Paper 5 (London: Royal Anthropological Institute, 1967)

Chittick, H.N.
The Book of Zenj and the Mijikenda
In International Journal of African Historical Studies Vol.9.pp.68-73, 1976

Cooper, F.
From Slave to Squatters: Plantation Labour and Agriculture in Zanzibar and Coastal Kenya, 1890-1925
Nairobi, Kenya: Kenya Literature Bureau, 1980

Dammann, E.
Digo Märchen
In Zeitschurift fur Eingeborenen-Sprachen, Vol.26 (1935) & 32 (1942?)

Dammann, E.
Zur Geschichete der Digo
In Zeitschurift fur Eingeborenen-Sprachen Vol.34 (1944)

Dammann, E.
Tiegeschieten der Digo
In Mitteilungen des Institute Orientforschung Vol.6 (1958)

Gerlach, P.L.
The Social Organization of The Digo of Kenya
PhD Thesis, University of London, 1961

Hollis, A.; Werner, A.
Nyika Enigmas
In Journal of African Society Vol.16. pp.135-142, 1916

Hollis, A.C.
A Note on the Graves of Wa-Nyika
In Man Vol.9. p.145, 1909

Hollis, A.C.
Nyika Proverbs
In Journal of African Society Vol.16. pp.62-70, 1916

Lundeby, E.A.
The Digo of the South Kenyan Coast: Description and Annoted Bibliography
Th.M. Thesis, Fuller Theological Seminar School of World Mission, 1993

Morton, R.F.
New Evidence Regarding the Shungwaya Myth of Mijikenda Origins
In The International Journal of African Historical Studies Vol.10(4) pp.628-43, 1977

Mutoro, H.W.
The Mijikenda Kaya as a sacred site
In D. Carmichael & J. Hubert & B. Reeves & A. Schanche (eds.), Sacred Sites, Sacred Palces (Routledge, 1994)

Mwangudza, Johnson A.
Kenya's People: Mijikenda
Nairobi, Kenya: Evans Brothers, 1983

Noble, D.S.
Demoniacal Possession among the Giryama
In Man Vol.61 pp.50-2, 1961

Nurse, Derek
Shungwaya and the Bantu of Somalia: some linguistic evidence
In H.M. Adams and C.L. Geshekter (eds.), Proceedings of the First International Congress of Somali Studies (? Chico CA: Scholars Press, 1980? 1992?)

Nurse, Derek
Shungwaya and the Diaspora
In Études Océan Indien (EOI) 12: 125-59, 1989

Odaga, A.B.
Giriama Oral Literature
In MILA Vol.5(2) pp.8-28, 1979

Orchardson-Mazrui, E.C.
Spirit Possession among the Mijikenda
In Kenya Past and Present Vol.21 pp.29-32, 1989

Parkin, D.
Swahili Mijikenda: Facing Both Ways in Kenya
In Africa Vol.59(2) pp.161-175, 1989

Spear, Thomas T.
The Kaya Complex: A History of the Mijikenda Peoples of the Kenya Coast to 1900
Nairobi, Kenya: Kenya Literature Bureau, 1978

Spear, Thomas T.
Traditions of Origin and their Interpretation: The Mijikenda of Kenya
Athens, USA: Ohio University Press, 1982

Spear, Thomas T.
The Mijikenda 1550-1900
In B.A. Ogot (ed.), Kenya Before 1900: Eight Regional Studies (Nairobi, Kenya: East African Publishing House, 1978)

Udvardy, M.
Kifudu: A Female Fertility Cult among the Giriama
In A. Jacobson-Widding & W. van Beek (eds.), The Creativity Communion: African Folk Models of Fertility and the Regeneration of Life (Stockholm, Sweden: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1990)

Willis, J.
Mombasa, The Swahili, and The Making of Mijikenda
Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1993

Wolfe, E.
Vigango: The Commemorative Sculpture of the Mijikenda of Kenya
MA thesis, Williamas College Museum of Art, 1986

Zeleza, Tyambe
Mijikenda
New York, USA: Rosen Publication Group, 1995


 
 
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