Joel Litu, Pioneer African Quaker
The pages that follow are an attempt to record something of the life of Joel Litu, a pioneer Kenyan Quaker. Everything about Joel Litu was outstanding. When he walked his feet gripped the ground vigorously. When he spoke his voice rang out loud, unusually deep and very distinct. In his mother tongue, Luragoli, he was fluent and had a characteristically slow way of rolling his R's.

My main sources of information were interviews: I interviewed Litu's elder brother Masia, his sister Kahi, his wife Marita, his daughter-in-law Sarah Adede, and a good number of his other relatives, including his children and grandchildren. I also talked to other people who knew him, lived with him, and worked with him as far back as 1916. Further information came from letters which he wrote and letters which other people wrote about him, and from his speeches and sermons which were taped, especially during the later part of his life.
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Joel Litu, Pioneer African Quaker
The pages that follow are an attempt to record something of the life of Joel Litu, a pioneer Kenyan Quaker. Everything about Joel Litu was outstanding. When he walked his feet gripped the ground vigorously. When he spoke his voice rang out loud, unusually deep and very distinct. In his mother tongue, Luragoli, he was fluent and had a characteristically slow way of rolling his R's.

My main sources of information were interviews: I interviewed Litu's elder brother Masia, his sister Kahi, his wife Marita, his daughter-in-law Sarah Adede, and a good number of his other relatives, including his children and grandchildren. I also talked to other people who knew him, lived with him, and worked with him as far back as 1916. Further information came from letters which he wrote and letters which other people wrote about him, and from his speeches and sermons which were taped, especially during the later part of his life.
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Joel Litu, Pioneer African Quaker

Joel Litu, Pioneer African Quaker

by Rose Adede
Joel Litu, Pioneer African Quaker

Joel Litu, Pioneer African Quaker

by Rose Adede

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The pages that follow are an attempt to record something of the life of Joel Litu, a pioneer Kenyan Quaker. Everything about Joel Litu was outstanding. When he walked his feet gripped the ground vigorously. When he spoke his voice rang out loud, unusually deep and very distinct. In his mother tongue, Luragoli, he was fluent and had a characteristically slow way of rolling his R's.

My main sources of information were interviews: I interviewed Litu's elder brother Masia, his sister Kahi, his wife Marita, his daughter-in-law Sarah Adede, and a good number of his other relatives, including his children and grandchildren. I also talked to other people who knew him, lived with him, and worked with him as far back as 1916. Further information came from letters which he wrote and letters which other people wrote about him, and from his speeches and sermons which were taped, especially during the later part of his life.

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BN ID: 2940156998685
Publisher: Pendle Hill Publications
Publication date: 07/16/2016
Series: Pendle Hill Pamphlets , #243
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 218 KB

About the Author

Rose Kasandi Adede was born June 26, 1952, at Kaimosi, Kenya, where her parents, Joseph and Sarah Ngaira Adede, were stationed at the mission school. After completing work at Kaimosi and Lugulu High Schools she entered the University of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, in 1972, graduating in 1975 with a B.A. in education. For the next six years she taught English language and literature at secondary school level in Kenya, while sewing as volunteer editor of the Friends World Committee for Consultation, Africa Section, Newsletter. In the autumn of 1981 she came to Pendle Hill to learn more about Quakerism its history, beliefs, and diversity a subject she hopes to pursue further when she goes to the Earlham School of Religion in September of 1982.
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