{"title":"Education for Self-Effacement - A Student's View","authors":"Wangui Kimari","doi":"10.13169/groudevepanacrit.5.2.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/groudevepanacrit.5.2.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Considering the ultimate limitations of instructing Kenya’s children in ‘civilised’ acts like eating a banana with a knife and fork at the expense of an education true to the nation’s history, Wangui Kimari wonders whether the current educational system simply upholds students’ self-effacement. When my sister was in primary school (the school where we all were had a supposedly pious nature that was the talk of town), like all of the students within this institution she had to take a mandatory ‘ethics’ class. The title of this class appeared to us ambivalent, big and intimidating, but from what we could garner, ‘ethics’ were simply tacit rules that we needed to embody in order to live (or pretend to live) in religious harmony with each other.","PeriodicalId":249775,"journal":{"name":"Groundings: Development, Pan-Africanism and Critical Theory","volume":"110 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117239042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Struggle for Social Justice is Not a Walk in the Park","authors":"Esther Waigumo Njoki","doi":"10.13169/groudevepanacrit.5.2.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/groudevepanacrit.5.2.0010","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing strength from Maina wa Kinyatti, Esther Waigumo Njoki shares her reflections on how we work and organise with others for a common cause. She emphasises the importance of defining the oppressors and the oppressed, of identifying our comrades and enemies, of educating cadres and cultivating their integrity, loyalty and commitment to the cause.","PeriodicalId":249775,"journal":{"name":"Groundings: Development, Pan-Africanism and Critical Theory","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133046426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Maina wa Kinyatti: The Patriot Who Stood at a Time Many Would Have Preferred to Lie Down","authors":"Mzalendo Wanjira Wanjiru","doi":"10.13169/groudevepanacrit.5.2.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/groudevepanacrit.5.2.0005","url":null,"abstract":"In beautiful and captivating prose, Mzalendo Wanjira writes about Maina wa Kinyatti’s detention and ordeal in the hands of his captors - the pain, anger, frustration, resilience, commitment and loyalty to the cause. She recollects how her first encounter with \u0000 Kenya: A Prison Notebook made her question the history she’d been taught, and more fundamentally, to understand the truth about post-colonial Kenya and its attempt to hide its glorious struggle against imperialism and in turn blind coming generations from their generational objective.","PeriodicalId":249775,"journal":{"name":"Groundings: Development, Pan-Africanism and Critical Theory","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130125916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}