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David Ndii - The Elephant
Jan 10, 2020 · David Ndii is a leading Kenyan economist and public intellectual. Posted in Opinion. Notes on the Division of Revenue Debate: Five Points to Ponder
Jaramogi Oginga Odinga: The Man Kenya Can Never Forget
Jan 31, 2019 · Jaramogi Oginga Odinga death anniversary on January 20 th, twenty-five years since his passing, was marked quietly in a manner that diminishes his immense contribution to the Kenyan national project. If Thomas Joseph (TJ) Mboya was the young man that Kenya wanted to forget, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga is the grand old man who Kenya can never forget.
I Write What I Like: Steve Biko’s Legacy of Black Consciousness and ...
Aug 27, 2021 · In 2015 students at South African universities rose up in a mass revolt. Young women and men born after the end of apartheid in 1994 demanded free education; they forcefully insisted that tuition fees be scrapped, and also that the contents, methodologies and academic teachers reflect the post-apartheid ‘free’ South Africa.
Tracing the Roots of Benga
Oct 19, 2017 · The book begins in the mid-1940s in the post World War II period with the return of the soldiers in the King’s African Rifle regiment. The King’s African Rifles East African battalion fought in several campaigns for the British during the First and Second World War.
The Kitenge Route: The algorithms and aesthetics of African fabrics
Feb 21, 2019 · The Kitenge Route: The algorithms and aesthetics of African fabrics. Every digital circuit in the world, has its unlikely origin very long ago in Africa, and the humble kitenge is just part of a much bigger legacy. Christine Mungai is a writer and journalist based in Kenya. Currently, she is the curator for Baraza Media Lab in Nairobi, a co ...
Conceptual Decolonisation: Kwasi Wiredu’s Disruption of Philosophy
Apr 25, 2019 · Kwasi Wiredu, a Ghanaian philosopher, is an important voice in the discussions on decolonisation in Africa. The tenor of Wiredu’s project of conceptual decolonisation is by and large pragmatic – he interrogates the divide between tradition and modernity in African contexts. Here, this pragmatism comes to the fore.
Stanley Gazemba - The Elephant
Nov 22, 2019 · Stanley Gazemba is an award-winning author and his breakthrough novel, ‘The Stone Hills of Maragoli’, published by Kwani? won the Jomo Kenyatta prize for Kenyan Literature in 2003. He is also the author of two other novels: ‘Callused Hands’ and ‘Khama’, he has written eight children’s books. A prolific writer, Stanley’s articles and stories have appeared in several ...
Not My Brother’s Keeper: Forces That Have Kept the Luyia People …
Mar 14, 2019 · Luyias have never been able to take advantage of their numbers to gain or forge strong, collective political mileage. They have been unable to put their eggs in one basket to negotiate for their community. To understand the story of the Luyias of Kenya, one has to analyse their history from pre-colonial days to date, and particularly the impact of colonial events, ideology and administration.
Who Are Kenya’s 42+ ‘Tribes’? and Should We Be Asking?
Mar 5, 2021 · This included long lists of “sub-tribes” for groups such as Swahili, Kalenjin, Mijikenda and Luhya, as well a considerable number of newly recognised ethnic groups, including Nubians (last counted in 1948 as “Sudanese”). The political mood was an inclusive one, seeking peace and inter-ethnic harmony.