People Power in the 2010 Constitution: A Reality or an Illusion?
WEBMar 6, 2020 · While the Kenyan elite continues to pay lip service to the implementation of the Constitution, the people of Kenya resist this elite and focus on making the 2010 Constitution a reality in its economic, social, cultural, political, and ideological vision. It mitigates the current status quo in Kenya that the people find unsustainable and ...
Assessing the Peace Accord for Tigray
WEBA press statement issued on 26th November 2022 on the Tigray Peace Accord by concerned African scholars. Download PDF. About. Partnerships. Newsletters. Join the Herd. Write for us. Series. Topics.
Publishing Partners - The Elephant
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Thirty Years of Anti-Corruption: A Personal Reflection - The Elephant
WEBFeb 23, 2024 · Thirty Years of Anti-Corruption: A Personal Reflection. Journalist and activist John Githongo reflects on the shifting story of anti-corruption in Africa, from Western models to new agendas. John Githongo is Publisher of The Elephant and Chair of the Transparency International, International Council.
Agriculture, the Millennial Side Hustle: The Story of ‘Telephone ...
WEBSep 25, 2019 · Yet, telephone farming is not a preserve of the odd adventurer millennial. George Mukoya, 64, has been engaging in remote farming for 20 years, since 1999. A consultant in the energy sector, Mukoya is a farmer by choice and has been farming his six-acre farm in Ndalu scheme through the telephone for those many years.
The Luo Problem - The Elephant
WEBOct 30, 2017 · The Luo Problem. The biggest frustration for a rational thinking Kenyan, is the flimsy justification of extra-judicial killings by the police. Whether it is the Wagalla Massacre (they provoked the government), displacement and killing of Kikuyus during our tumultuous electoral cycles in the 1990s (they should know how to vote), or the state ...
Africa’s Lands Are Targeted for Climate Action, but Who Owns the …
WEBSep 8, 2023 · One topic that has not gained prominence in the climate change discussions is that of land rights and tenure rights, and how all the planned climate action will impact these rights in Africa. With 90 percent of Africa’s rural lands being undocumented and informally administered, the communities that rely on these lands are at risk of losing their main source of livelihood to support ...
Culinary Imperialism and the Hierarchies of Food
WEBSep 27, 2019 · Culinary Imperialism and the Hierarchies of Food. Food has never been about the simple act of eating; food is history, and identity. Hence, colonialism, as a violent process, fundamentally altered the way of life of a people, including their culinary habits. Joe Kobuthi September 27, 2019. The author is an analyst based in Nairobi, Kenya.
I Write What I Like: Steve Biko’s Legacy of Black Consciousness and ...
WEBAug 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.
Conceptual Decolonisation: Kwasi Wiredu’s Disruption of …
WEBApr 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.
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