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• Anglophone African Literature

  Posted: February 16, 2010, 2:49 pm by keguro

  Is Anglophone African Literature foreign literature? What makes literature “foreign”? And how does the designation “African” function? I ask this, in part, as a response to reading Dan Edelstein’s article, in which he asks, “Why do we still partition the literary canon according to nationalist traditions? Is this really the most intellectually satisfying and authentic [...]

• “Overproduction” of PhDs

  Posted: February 12, 2010, 3:43 pm by keguro

  I am trying to find some logical way to misunderstand what appears to be a bad joke at this stage of our collective history. While I understand, or am trying to, the institutional and structural changes taking place in the academy, I cannot wrap my head around the following dumbed-down statement. We are over-educating too many [...]

• Questions

  Posted: February 11, 2010, 10:20 am by keguro

  I have entered what I would like to think is a semi-productive hibernation period, when questions bubble, answers are few, and some interesting stuff happens. Here are three interrelated questions I am pursuing. 1. Did harambee kill unionization? And, if so, is it central to Kenya’s neoliberal history? 2. How does the changing image of the Kenyan abroad [...]

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