Tribe
A Human History of the Sahara
Judith Scheele is an anthropologist who has spent decades across the Sahara. This book project, Shift Sands: A Human History of the Sahara (2025) appears to have begun at least a decade before. The book is less a human history, and more an introduction to the peoples and livelihoods of the Sahara, as viewed from […]
Tags: #Africa #Anthropology #History #Reflexivity #Sahara #Tribe
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
About me
Logan Cochrane
Logan is a 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 twenty 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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