A summary of the reign of Elizabeth II and events that took place during her reign
Listening Tree Video (LT)
January 28, 2022
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: “Europe and the West must also be decolonised” (2019)
Writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o has always questioned the literary tradition written in colonial languages, analysing the dynamics and the functioning off colonised societies and their relationship with the colonisers. Thiong’o defends the mother tongue as a weapon against linguistic imperialism, and recommends decolonising minds and the imagination, in Africa and Europe alike. We talk with him on the occasion of the publication in Catalan of his book “La revolució vertical” (Raig Verd, 2019).
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General (LT) Listening Tree
January 25, 2022
NGUGI WA THIONG’O ON HARDtalk (2013)
HARDtalk speaks to one of Africa’s greatest living writers, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o. Tipped to win the Nobel prize for literature, he decided years ago not to write novels in English but in Gikuyu, his mother tongue. His work includes extraordinary memoirs of colonial times and the Mau Mau uprising in his native Kenya. How far have today’s young Africans forgotten the sacrifices that brought about independence? And has that independence itself been a disappointment?
Encyclopaedia Africana J
March 21, 2021
JOMO KENYATTA
While in Europe, Kenyatta studied anthropology at the London School of Economics, gave public lectures, wrote to newspapers, traveled across Europe and participated in the Pan-African Congress.
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A Encyclopaedia Africana
March 6, 2021
AYAAN HIRSI ALI
“Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.”
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Encyclopaedia Africana O
February 28, 2021
OPERATION LEGACY: what the British did as they left ‘their’ colonies
In Northern Rhodesia, colonial officials were issued with further orders to destroy “all papers which are likely to be interpreted, either reasonably or by malice, as indicating racial prejudice or religious bias on the part of Her Majesty’s government”.
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E Encyclopaedia Africana
February 28, 2021
ELLEN JOHNSON SIRLEAF
“The size of your dreams must always exceed your capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they’re big enough.”
Listening Tree Poetry (LT)
February 27, 2021
I CROSSED by ALI AL’AMIN MAZRUI
When I grasp you, my hands grasp nothing
but a corpse that died with no justice
(Image credit: Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, CC BY 2.0
Listening Tree Poetry (LT)
February 27, 2021
I AM I by ALI AL’AMIN MAZRUI
River –
We stand on your bank
tears falling on us
that stream into your heart
Listening Tree Poetry (LT)
February 27, 2021
DOOR by ALI AL’AMIN MAZRUI
Everything looks at you twice
Ashamed, you look away,
you let it happen.
You can’t look for a fight.
(Image credit: Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, CC BY 2.0