Download or read book We Only Come Here to Struggle written by Berida Ndambuki and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000-03-22 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Kenyan trader shares her life history, including enduring British colonial rule, overcoming poverty, and reclaiming her life. Here is the life history of Berida Ndambuki, a Kenyan woman trader born in 1936, who speaks movingly of her experiences under the turbulences of late British colonialism and independence. A poverty survivor, Berida overcame patriarchal constraints to reclaim the rights to her labor, her body, and her spirit. She invokes a many-faceted picture of central Kenyan life in this compelling narrative.