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Reflections & Rememberings
my afrikanness is embodied and alive
When did you realise you were Afrikan? What does it mean to you?
Land, Dance and Finding a Way Through This Painful Life Together
Trusting one’s body, and one’s experience of the world is not celebrated or even tolerated in the formal education forced on Africa through missionary and colonial education. School and religion alienated me and us from ourselves, and from the Earth.
Agency, Possibilities, and Imagination: Countering Myths about Africa’s Past
Tracing African pasts through the interlinked lenses of agency, possibility and imagination allows us to counter-narratives of Africa as a blank slate, and to debunk myths about Africa as a place that did not innovate or create.
GRIEF AND REST
[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 colonial State...
anthology of regenerative futures is published – unearthodox
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...
Embodied Pathways to the Pluriverse: From Coloniality to Regeneration
The importance of restoring balance in our relationships with ourselves, each other, and the planet.
Tending the Roots – practice session with Transition International
Explore a flexible framework of four roots –core, community, calling, and cycles– that can support you to bring more wholeness, healing and creativity into your life
Decolonising Our Bodies: experiences and practices for reclaiming our whole body sovereignty
How has modernity shaped the way we perceive, inhabit, and relate to our physical bodies? What does it mean to “reclaim whole body sovereignty”? How do we free not only our minds, but also the body from the shackles of coloniality and extractivism? How do we unroot...
Could we reach for more? Reflections on revolutions in our time – the pro-good governance protests in Kenya 2024
[reposted from wangui.org] In June a mass protest movement began in Kenya in response to the proposed Finance Bill 2024 that would raise taxes on a range of basic goods. The face of the protests reflected the largely young population and one of the movement’s slogans...