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The Mbeere: Adapting to Change in Kenya |
| Section: CULTURE / CROSSROADS |
| Author: David Bokensha; photography by Bernard Riley |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1987 |
| Size: 5,736 Words, 34,809 Characters |
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The Mbeere live in Embu district, about one hundred miles northeast of Kenya's capital, Nairobi, in an area of 620 square miles. The higher lands, near the foothills of Mount Kenya, have rich soil and a high population density, but the majority of the people live in the drier parts that go down to the Tana, Kenya's major river. Historically, the area (especially near the Tana) has teemed with wild animals; even in 1970 huge herds of elephants, buffaloes, antelope, and hippopotamuses abounded.
Numbering some eighty thousand today, the Mbeere are one of Kenya's smaller ethnic groups, ranking twentieth in population size. In its responses to the complex forces of "modernization," the Mbeere region can be regarded as a microcosm of many other parts of Africa, and, in some ways, similar...
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...e, one of Africa's leading writers, used the title Things Fall Apart for his best known novel about the disintegration of Ibo society in Nigeria after the coming of white administrators and missionaries. Despite the many changes that Mbeere has experienced, especially over the last twenty years, it is not "falling apart," but rather using its indigenous resources to cope with the new world.
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