About this Edition
In early 2020, Beth Ann Williams, then a history PhD candidate at the University of Illinois, approached SourceLab with a proposal to digitize a selection from Viva. After discovering Viva by chance due to a misfiling at the University of Illinois Library, Williams immediately recognized the magazine’s historical importance and began work on the article “‘Call Us Ms.’: Viva and Arguments for Kenyan women’s respectable citizenship 1975-1980.” Due to the limited availability of Viva in print form, Williams was interested in making the magazine readily available to students and researchers through a SourceLab edition.
In an attempt to place the magazine within the broader context of feminist issues in postcolonial Kenya, we have chosen to focus on select issues related to the changing nature of marriage and financial independence. As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent shelter-in-place order, we were unable to access the full run of Viva magazine. Thus, we selected articles from the collected volume available in the University of Illinois Library.
Citation Guide for this Edition
Footnote:
Mia Guzina and Dylan Tomlins, “Public Debates on Women's Issues in Postcolonial Kenya: Selections From Viva,” SourceLab 3, no. 1 (2022), https://iopn.library.illinois.edu/scalar/public-debates-on-womens-issues-in-postcolonial-kenya-selections-from-viva/index.
Bibliographical Note:
Guzina, Mia and Dylan Tomlins. “Public Debates on Women’s Issues in Postcolonial Kenya: Selections From Viva.” SourceLab 3, no. 1 (2022). https://iopn.library.illinois.edu/scalar/public-debates-on-womens-issues-in-postcolonial-kenya-selections-from-viva/index.*To cite specific pages, for example "About this Source," insert the URL of that page (that is the part that begins "http://") in place of the homepage URL given.
