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Kenyan men are paralyzed by patriarchy - not women in power or with pangas

Wandia Njoya — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:23:22 -0800

Lewis Ricardo Gordon, a professor of philosophy at Temple University, gives an interesting story about his time as professor at a university whose environment was hostile to black faculty. The faculty would park their cars next to the buildings where they taught, and then disappear once their classes were done. However, Gordon decided to be walking across campus to class. read more »

Kenyan intellectuals have to lead the way in nationalist thinking

Wandia Njoya — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:49:35 -0800

As the presidential elections appear around the corner, Kenyans are getting anxious about how they are going to manage an election in a toxic political environment poisoned by ethnic animosity.

In such troubling times, the role of intellectuals is crucial: to help Kenyans clarify the issues, and to help them imagine a different scenario that would help us vote peacefully and with our conscience and intellect - as opposed to violently and according to our primal instincts.

Africa is People, Nigeria is Nigerians: Provocations on Post-Mendicant Economies

Pius Adesanmi — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 11:18:01 -0800

I guess it is in the character of my friend, Sharif Khalill, CEO of Aga Khan Foundation Canada, to put one on a podium before a distinguished assemblage of guests comprising members of the diplomatic community, Members of Parliament, Directors in the Canadian Foreign Affairs Ministry, staff of international development agencies, CEOs from corporate Canada, senior academics, and ask one to get the discussion rolling with a ten-minute ope read more »