The limits of intercultural translation and modern scientific thought in building ecologies of knowledge for epistemological reconstruction Submitted in response to the essay question: Boaventura de Sousa Santos’ book, Epistemologies of the South: Justice Against Epistemicide, is built on three founding principles. (i) What are these principles/ ideas, (ii) related to these principles, what are … Continue reading Revisiting Ujamaa and the Debate on African Socialism
Postcolonial studies
Imperial Ahistorical History and the Conundrum of Postcolonial Studies: the challenges of modernity and the nation state in African History
This piece is from a school assignment, submitted in response to the essay topic: [I]nsofar as the academic discourse of history – that is, ‘history’ produced in the institutional site of the university – is concerned, Europe remains the sovereign theoretical subject of all histories, including the ones we call ‘Indian’, ‘Chinese’, ‘Kenyan’, and so. … Continue reading Imperial Ahistorical History and the Conundrum of Postcolonial Studies: the challenges of modernity and the nation state in African History
Simon Rakei 