Category: power & power relations

  • Could we reach for more? Reflections on revolutions in our time – the pro-good governance protests in Kenya 2024

    Could we reach for more? Reflections on revolutions in our time – the pro-good governance protests in Kenya 2024

    In June a mass protest movement began in Kenya in response to the proposed Finance Bill 2024 that would raise taxes on a range of basic goods. The face of the protests reflected the largely young population and one of the movement’s slogans was “leaderless, partyless and tribeless”. As I…

  • embodied pathways to the pluriverse – podcast

    embodied pathways to the pluriverse – podcast

    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…

  • considering nourishment on world food day [podcast]

    “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…

  • stories of life vs stories of death in fossil fuel rich country

    stories of life vs stories of death in fossil fuel rich country

    Kaiso is a fishing town on the SE edge of Lake Mwitanzige. The lake is currently known as Lake Albert maintaining its British colonial name. The original name means killer of locusts in Runyoro, the main language of the Banyoro people who are the indigenous folks of this area. The south-eastern…

  • the memory of seeds and indigenous resurgence in tharaka, kenya

    the memory of seeds and indigenous resurgence in tharaka, kenya

    “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…

  • why we should study afrikan history

    “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…

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