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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | Call us ms |
Author: | Patel, Zarina |
Year: | 1979 |
Periodical: | Ufahamu |
Volume: | 9 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 78-85 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Kenya |
Subjects: | women language usage |
Abstract: | Language is a reflection of the condition of society. It follows, therefore that as those conditions change, so language too must evolve. In Kenya today, colonial terras have been discarded and new words and phrases have been coined which are acre in keeping with the prevailing historical condition. Any group of people engaged in the process of liberation themselves have to develop a new terminology reflecting their new awareness and clarity of their line of action. And so it is with women too. No longer can women tolerate words which claim to address them but in fact oppress them. The article is a reprint from 'Viva' (1979, July), a monthly magazine published in Nairobi. |