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She was born when her family, along with many other Kuria people were crossing north between Tanzania (a German colony) and Kenya (a British one) around the time of World War I. It is the ambition of this project to write a book that pursues the three strains of history available for that period: archival records of the German and British colonial administrations, missionary accounts and the oral tradition based on living memories of Kuria people alive at that time, perpetuated till today.
To build the temporal, spatial, cultural and demographic context, Prazak is exploring archival sources, including those of the nation of Kenya, of the Seventh Day Adventist church, and of the Mill Hill Mission from England. She is also conducting research in secondary sources. And she continues to listen to the approximately 40 hours of recorded interviews with this elder as well as many others she have interviewed on similar themes, and organize transcripts and images.