by fromtheroots | Jun 28, 2026 | Blog
[reposted from wangui.org, published, 8 July 2020] When did you realise you were Afrikan? What does it mean to you? If you’re like me and grew up in an Afrikan country, you may not have realised your Afrikanness early on – you may not have had a reason to....
by fromtheroots | Jun 28, 2026 | Blog
previously published on theelephant.info For British colonisers, the lands that now form Kenya were a space that needed to be traversed on the way to the ‘Pearl of Africa’, Uganda. The Pearl of Africa was a place where kingdoms, a form of governance recognisable to...
by fromtheroots | Jun 28, 2026 | Blog
previously published on theelephant.info “We die thirsting for knowledge, yet it is all around us.”— Saki Mafundikwa In Crazy Normal, Trevor Noah makes a joke about South Africa that I think applies to all of Africa. In his sketch, Africa responds to...
by fromtheroots | Jun 28, 2026 | Blog
[reposted from wangui.org, published 11 Aug 2020] “Rest? Grief? I don’t have time for that” she said to me. Collectively, we are in awakened deep generational pain. Awakening to the ways colonialism never truly ended. Awakening to the thieving of the...
by fromtheroots | May 18, 2026 | Blog
the anthology of regeneration which our hearthkeeper, Wangũi wa Kamonji contributed to along with 12 other researchers, activists and practitioners from around the world was published a month ago. Called together by Unearthodox, a conservation nonprofit based in...
