Category: indigenous knowledge & practices

embodied pathways to the pluriverse – podcast

13th September 2024
Posted by Wang​ũi
Leave a comment
a model representing the framework of fromtheroots, an image of a tree with roots visible. around the roots are the words core community cycles and calling. around the branches are the phrases prevent death, heal dis-ease, add life and embody sovereignty. In the centre around the trunk a figure 8 is shown with the phrases cycles of healing, and cycles of creation on either side

Post Growth Institute · Embodied Pathways to the Pluriverse: Transitions from Coloniality to Regeneration transitions are desperately needed, so what do we do? Here is the final piece of my invocation: the ‘fromtheroots’ model proposes that being deeply grounded in the roots of core, calling, community and cycles while we engage healing and creating processes will support us to divest from coloniality and practise regeneration. Said differently, for us to…

considering nourishment on world food day [podcast]

2nd December 2020
Posted by Wang​ũi
Leave a comment

“On March 13th 2020, the first COVID-19 case in Kenya was reported and that was just a prelude to a “new normal” where schools, markets and offices folded operations. However, despite the pandemic sending chills down everyone’s spine, another crisis was building up at an alarming rate – job losses and lack of safe, affordable and nutritious food. Formerly viewed as a “village thing”…rural thing, kitchen gardens have become a…

on grief – a meditation in 3 part harmony

11th August 2020
Posted by Wang​ũi
Leave a comment

GRIEF AND REST “Rest? Grief? I don’t have time for that” she said to me. Collectively we are in awakened deep generational pain. Awakening to the ways colonialism never truly ended. Awakening to the thieving of the colonial State both past and present. Awakening to the ways in which we are made disposable. Awakening to the places where trust and community are broken and need to be rebuilt. Even for…

the memory of seeds and indigenous resurgence in tharaka, kenya

9th December 2019
Posted by Wang​ũi
Leave a comment

“In the global North, it has become more common to declare that indigenous peoples hold the solutions to the climate crisis. Such rhetoric risks being only lip-service if solutions don’t recognise and resource indigenous-led work to repair damage to indigenous cultures, commit to indigenous resurgence and integrate the wisdom of indigenous values.  After decades of shame, suppression and devaluation, much indigenous knowledge held by groups like the Tharaka has been…

why we should study afrikan history

4th December 2019
Posted by Wang​ũi
Leave a comment

“Tracing African pasts through the interlinked lenses of agency, possibility and imagination allows us to counter narratives of Africa as a blank slate, to challenge the privileging of whiteness and Europeanness, and to debunk myths about Africans as people who are destructive or unchanging. It allows us to illuminate diverse possibilities of human living to build on, against the hegemony of a present moment that unsees and devalues us. For…

on development (reclaiming naming worlds)

22nd October 2019
Posted by Wang​ũi
Leave a comment

Development is a word and a world, A word from a certain kind of world Building. In an ecosystem of other words (progress, growth, sustainable development, adjustment, reforms, good governance, democracy) That makes a certain kind of world, Built for certain kinds of people Possible. What world? A world of scarcity, Of not enough Lower – on a ladder Behind – in a queue, Slow – in movement, Least –…