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Indigenising Sites of Knowledge in Africa

(top image: University of al-Qarawiyyin, Africa’s oldest university, founded by lady Fatima al-Fihri in 859 AD)

 

Nearly 50 years ago, the renowned Kenyan writer and academic, Professor Mĩcere Mũgo, was among a group of intellectuals at the vanguard of Kenya’s cultural and artistic revival. They fought for the centering of indigenous knowledge systems.

 

How have we fared since, and what are the new pathways in which homegrown knowledge can flourish in a global ecosystem?

 

Join Professor Mĩcere Mũgo and the Kenyan author and academic, Professor Peter Kimani, as they reflect on the praxis of indigenising knowledge in Africa.

 

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Join in the pre and post event live discussions by registering here on the HiA Network; and then join the Indigenising Sites of Knowledge in Africa Community – Karibuni sana! (you are very welcome)

Hourly Schedule

Programme

8:00 - 8:10 PM
Arrival of Guests
8:10 - 8:30 PM
Pre-Launch Discussions
Speakers:
Melissa Mungai
8:30 - 8:35 PM
Opening Remarks
Founder & Managing Director - Hosted in Africa
Speakers:
Femi Omere
8:35 - 9:15 PM
Conversation
Speakers:
Prof. Mĩcere Gĩthae Mũgo, Prof. Peter Kimani
9:15 - 9:25
Q&A
Speakers:
Melissa Mungai, Prof. Mĩcere Gĩthae Mũgo, Prof. Peter Kimani
9:25 - 9:30
Journal Launch & Closing Remarks
Speakers:
Melissa Mungai
Melissa Mungai
Melissa Mungai
Moderator
LLM candidate, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria Issue Editor, Strathmore Law Journal (volume 5)
Femi Omere
Femi Omere
Founder / Managing Director Hosted in Africa
Femi is a Nigerian / UK Citizen. He is the Founder and Managing Director of Hosted in Africa Group Limited. Femi is Barrister at Law, called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1999 and remains an Associate Member of Garden Court Chambers UK. Femi currently lives in Tanzania, and has over with 20+ years of public law and human rights expertise. Femi has been able to bring a unique angle to his work in the East African region, translating this expertise into the increasingly key legal areas of privacy, data protection, consumer-rights, environmental management and sustainability, local community rights and engagement (including human-resettlement); thereby bridging the gap between the international commercial mind-set, human rights best-practices and Afrocentricity. Femi is a recognised expert international trainer, having been selected by the International Senior Lawyers Project (ISLP) to deliver training to the South African Human Rights Commission; the Uongozi Institute in Tanzania to deliver Oil and Gas Contract Negotiation skills to groups of senior public sector officials from across the continent of Africa; as guest lecturer, course designer and tutor at the Law School of Tanzania. Femi has recently been involved in a number of African Legal Support Facility (ALSF) initiatives in support of the organisation’s skills and capacity building work, led by its Academy. Having successfully set up the Africa Legal Network Academy (ALN Academy), which provides high level legal training throughout Africa to cater for key private, public and civil society sectors, Femi has now commenced a consultancy initiative (Hosted in Africa) to assist entities in focusing their efforts on building authentic Afrocentric / Pan-African modes of operation; drawing upon Africa's systems of knowledge, governance and justice. Hosted in Africa's core objectives are to promote and popularise Afrocentric excellence as an authentic narrative of regeneration for the continent and humanity at large.
Prof. Mĩcere Gĩthae Mũgo
Prof. Mĩcere Gĩthae Mũgo
Prof Mĩcere Gĩthae Mũgo, Emerita Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence, Department of African American Studies, Syracuse University.
Prof. Peter Kimani
Prof. Peter Kimani
Internationally acclaimed Kenyan author, journalist and editor. An interdisciplinary scholar, whose research cuts across four main areas: creative writing, journalism, African literature, and postcolonial studies.
Prof. Peter Kimani has published four books—including Dance of the Jakaranda, a New York Times Notable Book of 2017 and Editors’ Choice selection. He is Professor of Practice at Aga Khan University’s Graduate School of Media and Communications in Nairobi. He previously taught at Amherst College and is the 2022 Blackburn Artist in Residence at Duke University.

Date

23 Nov 2021
Expired!

Time

8:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Local Time

  • Timezone: America/New_York
  • Date: 23 Nov 2021
  • Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Location

Zoom Meeting
Zoom Meeting
Category

Organizer

Hosted in Africa
Hosted in Africa
Email
[email protected]
Website
https://www.hostedinafrica.com/

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