We invite submission of personal and place memoirs for the second special issue of The Nairobi Reader to be published in December 2021.
March 22, 2021April 6, 2024
Decolonising the Mind is a Pyrrhic Debate
The love for nativism is nothing more than scholars falling over themselves in attempts to outdo one another in throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
March 5, 2021April 7, 2024
No One—Not Anything—Needs a Name
Yes, we can be without labels. We already are. Unnaming cannot take anything away from us. We can live outside our names. We are bigger than our names.
March 4, 2021April 6, 2024
Let’s Erase Colonial Names from our Natural and Cultural Heritages
Our glorification of European names for our natural and cultural monuments reeks of colonial hangover.
Stripped Naked: My Writing and Publishing Journey
Though teenage and young adulthood are such a difficult time for one to write his or her story, I encourage young people to document their life experiences.