Tribalism

Secure the Base

Secure the Base

Secure the Base (2016) is a collection of speeches that Ngugi wa Thiong’o gave. His other works include Decolonizing the Mind (1986), An African Renaissance (2009) and Theory and Politics of Knowing (2012), amongst many others. A few quotes: “It is fair to say that ‘tribe’, ‘tribalism’ and ‘tribal wars’, the terms so often used […]

Tags: #decolonization #Education #Ngugi wa Thiongo #Tribalism #Tribe

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Moral History of the 20th Century

Moral History of the 20th Century

Jonathan Glovers’ (1999) Humanity: A Moral History of the 20th Century explores why atrocities occurred – from World War I to the Rwandan genocide – and insight on how we can learn from this history to prevent similar events from occurring again. This “thought provoker” post presents a limited selection of those insights; those interested […]

Tags: #Ethics #Morality #Nietzsche #Prisoner's dilemma #Tribalism

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Logan Cochrane

Associate Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last fifteen years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.

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