Kimeru Traditions, Proverbs and Idioms Kimeru Traditions and Proverbs |
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| Introduction by:
| M'Thirua, Gichunge Wa |
| Author:
| GICHUNGE, Tarcisio F. B. |
| ISBN: | 979-8-3727-0996-6 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2023 |
| Publisher: | Independently Published
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $4.25 |
Book Description:
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Writers are interesting people! Why do they write? What drives them to write about a subject or topic? Can one write out of a vacuum? Do blank minds write about nothing? If yes or even no, what is their motive for writing about something? What do readers think about writers? The answers to all the above six questions can be understood only by an inquisitive and intrusive minds. Blank minds are insensitive and unresponsive to many things that happen around them....
More Description Writers are interesting people! Why do they write? What drives them to write about a subject or topic? Can one write out of a vacuum? Do blank minds write about nothing? If yes or even no, what is their motive for writing about something? What do readers think about writers?
The answers to all the above six questions can be understood only by an inquisitive and intrusive minds. Blank minds are insensitive and unresponsive to many things that happen around them. Such minds have no sense of history. Therefore, if you can read history, you can write history. History is for the Historians. Historians are open-minded (unbiased, just, fair, progressive, unprejudiced, liberal, flexible and tolerant) people who see beyond their imaginations and experiences.
Historians are responsive and progressive while they stick to their routine in search of more information to justify their thinking. They therefore peruse existing records and compare, relate and analyze them to come up with fresh assumptions and conclusions and by doing so, they open up topics for discussions and debates by the contemporary parties. Ameru writers and authors in the past have lauded Meru History on the basis of "probably and possibly, may be or perhaps this and that happened." Ameru provoke history and its making!
However, our source of information while writing and editing this book has been selected, read deeply, understood and analyzed for inclusion to enlighten the readers interested to learn about Meru History and its Cultural Anthropology. We would wish our readers to understand that our information is comparable to a Radio announcer who gives you his information by sound only and where the TV announcer gives you sound and pictures while leaving you to become a potato!
In this case, our book gives you the clues while leaving you to inquire, investigate, query, examine, explore and probe the contents to make your own conclusions about any topic. For your information History is for the continuation and perpetuation readers. That is why in Meru there is a Kimeru idiom (Ntemi) that says, "Wijie ni wiiri (102)" meaning, he who knows has been told.
If you are an historian, your mind is not blank because you already know what you want to know! History is a subject for those whose brains are already preoccupied with history, but they only need little facts to fill their gaps.
Read this book to visualize the facts of history in its making! Doctor Carter G. Woodson of USA (the Founder of ASALH), once said, "If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile traditions, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world and it stands in danger of being exterminated." Ameru of Kenya have the longest history about their origins and traditions.