By Nancy Monnya if you forced your way into my house, forced me and my children to speak your language, pray to your god and fear you like you were some god, work me like a slave and tell me I am the sporne […]
introspection politics
The discourse on language preference is an on-going one and is particularly widespread in this month tied with the events of 1976 – not that at other times the issue of language is completely neglected. Bhiyoza Publishers takes the challenge to make indigenous languages a […]
philosophy politics
By Nancy Monnya Inspired by Binyavanga Wainaina, the Kenyan writer who passed on recently Remembering one of his most powerful pieces “How to Write About Africa” – A satire about Africa How to Write About Africa Because you are so tired of the […]
opinion politics
“A people losing sight of origins are dead. A people deaf to purposes are lost” (Ayi Kwei Armah in Two Thousand Seasons, 1973, p xiii. My italics) “How indeed would a living understanding come to those, who have fled knowledge of the source?” (Ayi Kwei […]
history politics
“In our land the law of the nation reigns supreme.” (Mazisi Kunene) Francis Cress Welsing argues that “if you don’t understand white supremacy, everything else that you think you know, will only confuse you”. In implicit agreement with this fundamental argument, Wade Nobles further […]
history politics
“There is a task which the Dutch-Afrikaner has in common with his English-Afrikaner compatriots as a bearer of white civilization, but there is also the special task which rests upon him in his own area, namely Dutch-Afrikaner culture…” (Die Burger as quoted in T. Dunbar […]
history politics
“Nomos is the measure by which the land in a particular order is divided and situated; it is also the form of the political, social and religious order determined by this process” (Carl Smichtt) “The nomos by which a tribe, a retinue or a people […]
politics
A people that cannot celebrate themselves and their culture would never believe in themselves and their capabilities. In my previous paper ‘The Relevance of Magadi in the Modern African Society’, I spoke about the struggles that have engulfed Africa; the struggles that include but […]
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