Going Back to the Basics?
Vincent Ogoti Carol Cohn’s Women and War has challenged me to reflect on the following questions: With all the legislation and resolutions calling for…
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Simon Gikandi’s Slavery and the Culture of Taste (Part I)
Contrapuntal analysis will show that even when the lives of enslaved Africans were located at the opposite pole of modern identity and…
Read MoreAfrican traditions as an antidote to Judeo-Christian and Islam exclusivism: A reading of Wole Soyinka’s of Africa
Wole Soyinka explores the concept of exclusivism in his book Of Africa. Although he does not explicitly define what exclusivism means, we…
Read MoreThe Chinese Community in Kenya: Pitfalls and Possibilities
Two years ago, Kenyan authorities arrested a Chinese restaurant owner who allegedly had a “no African” policy in his restaurant. The restaurant,…
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