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Friday, 20 January 2012
Celebrating Citizenship Bills?
‘It’s celebration time’, declared the Minister for State for Immigration and Registration upon receipt of five draft Bills on citizenship and related provisions of Kenya’s Constitution 2010. By 15 July, 2011 the jubilation was even infectious among a few Civil Society Organisations (CSO) that had been frustrated tracking the work…
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Friday, 20 January 2012
Identity in the Age of Globalization
Individual identities are defined by location, work, ethnicity, language and religion. These attributes may be supplemented by the notion of citizenship and the nation state. As the contacts with other people and countries expand through commerce, travel and cultural exchanges, individual identities evolve and become more complex. With the intensification…
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Friday, 20 January 2012
The clash of Kenya's identities and the solution
‘We must work from the basis that Kenya is a garment of many colours, which is beautiful because each colour is present. We cannot be one colour because we would be dull. Some colours cannot run over others because we would be ugly. We must all stay in place and…
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Friday, 20 January 2012
Turbulence and Clarity - Thoughts around identity and womanhood
At 14, my identity was defined by my family. I was my parent’s daughter. My brother’s sister. At 17, it was defined by anything but family. My ideas. My first love. At 20, I was defined by my ‘Indian-ness’. Not American. Not an immigrant. I started becoming a theatre person.…
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Monday, 30 January 2012
There is need for a new ethics and language to discuss identity
The question ‘Where Do You Come From’ is never far from the introductions involving people who are strangers to each other. It is often an innocent statement; a search for an entry point into the social life that the meeting between the people will inaugurate; some kind of ‘I don’t…
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Monday, 02 January 2012
The Fabric of Our Other Lives
Indian African Quilts at the Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco The Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) display titled: ‘Soulful Stitching: Patchwork Quilts by Africans (Siddis) in India’ was historic for many reasons. Held between 15 July and 25 September, 2011, it was billed as the first exhibition…
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