The Unconventional Home
From January 11th to January 16th, 2024, the Kenyan Program on Pedagogies for Community (KPPC) embarked on a profound mapping journey across Kenya.
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Beyond the Graveyard Gates: A Tale of Resilience, Hope and Solidarity
In the heart of Jakarta's bustling capital city, tucked away from the glimmering skyscrapers and busy streets, lies an extraordinary community that few know about—a slum nestled amidst the shadows of a Chinese graveyard. Here, where the living coexists with the memories of the departed, three young girls, Maria, Siti, and Rani, weave a remarkable story of optimism and resilience.
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Body Culture in East Africa
In late 2019, I embarked on a transformative journey to Kampala, Uganda, as part of an academy organized by the Equator Peace Academy in collaboration with CEDAR (Communities Engaging with Difference and Religion). The academy involved visiting different communities in Uganda and Kenya to understand the concept of body markings and their significance to the communities.
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Diversity and Social Harmony
This publication explores the perceptions, understandings, and experiences of difference between selves and communities in Africa and beyond. It focuses on the nature of difference in its many manifestations – social and communal, local and national – while making the case that being different doesn't necessitate being enemies, antagonists or subjects of contestation. The authors present thoughtful ideas on realizing social harmony through individual and community reflection and understanding.
Link to book"Lawyers engaging transformative constitutions in Africa will find the book useful in interrogating these constitutions' implementation which calls for a multi-disciplinary approach to their interpretation and implementation. The various insights of this book necessarily engage the burning issue of the people's sovereign power. Political scientists interrogating the politics of division and the quest for alternative forms of political leadership in Africa will find the book's theoretical and practical reflections useful."
— DR. WILLY MUTUNGA EGH
Former Chief Justice, Kenyan lawyer, intellectual, reform activist, and former Commonwealth Special Envoy to the Maldives