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This is the fifth post in our themed series, Cities at Play. By Ahmadu Abubakar From Playground to Panopticon: Colonial Youth Welfare and the Shaping of Urban Leisure in Lagos and Nairobi In the late 1940s, colonial authorities in Nairobi began to express growing concern about what they referred to as “the presence and increasing […]
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By Waseem-Ahmed Bin-Kasim Not long after the horrifying murder of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis in May 2020, protesters took to the streets in cities across the United States and the rest of the world demanding justice and a redress of decades of police brutality, systemic racism, and inequality. In London, Bristol, […]
Read MoreBruno Ribeiro Oliveira Ph.D. Candidate Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa @ROBruno88 Describe your current research. What about it drew your interest? My current research is about the intellectual history of Kenya. More precisely, I study the works of the novelist and political thinker Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. I try to reconstruct all the intellectual […]
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