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Mūkami Kīmathi, Mau Mau Woman Freedom Fighter shortlisted for the African Studies Association UK, Fage and Oliver Prize!
Mūkami Kīmathi, Mau Mau Woman Freedom Fighter has been shortlisted for the African Studies Association UK, Fage and Oliver Prize. This prize is awarded to the author of an outstanding original scholarly work and one that is enlightening for a wider public about African issues published during the preceding two years.
May 4, 2014
Drawing on years of personal experience mediating armed conflict across several countries and from collective community voices, Alice Wairimū Nderitū presents a cutting-edge approach, Peace Through Pluralism, in the Companion for Women Mediating Armed Conflict in Communities – Peace Through Pluralism (The Companion). The Companion includes a guide for facilitators.
May 5, 2014
The National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) was set up to facilitate and promote equality of opportunity, good relations, harmony and peaceful coexistence between persons of the different ethnic and racial communities of Kenya, and to advise the Government on all aspects thereof after the violence that followed the December 2007 elections.
May 6, 2014
Mũkami Kĩmathi: Mau Mau Woman Freedom Fighter is the story of the brave wife of one of Kenya’s foremost freedom fighters, Field Marshal Dedan Kĩmathi Waciũri. Kĩmathi led the Mau Mau war in Kenya’s independence struggle against the British colonialists. Mũkami’s role as a daughter, wife, mother, freedom fighter and leader is varied and very complex.
May 8, 2014
The manual, Beyond Ethicism, Exploring Racial and Ethnic Diversity for Educators, a first of its kind in Kenya, speaks to the key issues of ethnic and racial belonging that are such a key determining factor in defining and dividing Kenyans. These two issues influence many social, economic and especially political-decisions. The manual transcends the limitations of current discussions on ethnicism and racism. Questions Of ethnic and racial belonging are connected to some of the deepest moral and political decisions of our time. Belonging is an emotional subject that as a country citizens should not lose capacity to discuss coherently.
October 27, 2019
Catherine Ndereba, known in athletics as Catherine the Great, is a runner of great repute and professionalism, one of the best marathoners the world has ever seen. She is strong, resolute, committed and a great credit to her country, Kenya.
Catherine broke the world record in the 2001 marathon, and was named the most consistent women’s marathoner in history, running and winning, for a decade without a break. She has won twelve half marathons, the most for any individual in the history of athletics. She is the only woman in the world to have won the Boston Marathon four times. She is the winner of two Chicago marathons. She is also the only woman holder of two world championship gold medals and silver in addition to two Olympic silver medals.
The world would be poorer without her contributions to athletics. She has now increasingly taken on the role of mentoring younger athletes. Catherine is truly a woman who has written her way into the history books of athletics.
Interview with Stephanie Kitchen, Managing Editor, International African Institute, London
Alice Wairimū Nderitū is an author, columnist (The EastAfrican) ethnic relations educator and mediator of armed conflict. She authored Beyond Ethnicism: Exploring Ethnic and Racial Diversity for Educators, approved by the Kenya Institute for Curriculum Development for Teacher Training Colleges; Kenya: Bridging Ethnic Divides, A Commissioner’s experience on Cohesion and Integration and, Mũkami Kĩmathi: Mau Mau Woman Freedom Fighter, an authorized biography. Alice was named 2012 Woman Peace Maker of the Year by the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, University of San Diego; 2014 Raphael Lemkin participant of the Auschwitz Institute on the Prevention of Genocide; 2015 Aspen Leadership scholarship recipient; 2017 inaugural Global Pluralism Awardee; 2017/18 Simon Fraser University’s Centre for Dialogue Jack P. Blaney Awardee for Dialogue; and 2019 Diversity and Inclusion Peace and Cohesion Champion Awardee (Kenya). Her book Mũkami Kĩmathi: Mau Mau Woman Freedom Fighter was shortlisted for the African Studies Association (UK) Fage & Oliver Prize. She holds a BA in Literature in English and a Masters in Armed Conflict and Peace Studies from the University of Nairobi.
March 11, 2020
Ethiopians eat from one plate and occasionally, scoop food to feed each other. This is called ‘Gursha.’ It is done in the spirit of sharing and shows the importance of not eating alone. Abiy needs ‘Gursha’
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October 28, 2019
Was there a middle ground? I wondered. I had taken the seat she offered and encouraged her to tell me about her life. I could not now shut down the conversation with a curt, “What do you mean by asking whether I am Kikuyu or Luo? I am a Kenyan!”
October 11, 2019
The hospitality industry management must begin discussions from an objective knowledge base grounded in facts rather than opinions and misconceptions. Talking meaningfully can help find a framework, language and tools to end discrimination
October 11, 2019
African societies must begin to develop an unconditional culture of ending social acceptance of self-discrimination.
October 11, 2019
Some of the most atrocious crimes against humanity in the world are committed in the name of religion.
October 11, 2019
A book and a documentary on Peter Tabichi's life would help in impacting his father's values on a greater number of people. They don't make them like Mzee Tabichi anymore.
October 11, 2019
Setting up happiness and loneliness ministries is still rare with countries that have done so, and is inevitably scrutinized.
October 10, 2019
This case study provides the first analysis of the successful mediation between
two communities who took up arms against each in the wake of the disputed 2007
General Elections. It is written by one of the mediators in the peace process. The
Nakuru County Peace Accord ensured that, for the first time since 1992, a peaceful
election took place in 2013. That this happened despite the earlier indictment of
important political actors from the two communities by the International Criminal
Court is even more remarkable.
October 10, 2019
What are the potential – and limits – of bringing together human rights and conflict transformation in specific contexts? Going beyond the divide and polarising language of "peace versus justice", the authors argue that a more thorough emphasis on human rights – as causes and manifestation of conflicts, but also as normative and practical intervention tools – contributes to bringing conflict transformation closer to its aim of tackling conflicts at their deepest roots Evidence comes from contexts such as Nepal, South Africa, Israel/Palestine, Uganda and Colombia.
May 4, 2014
On the eve of the 2013 elections, co-author Alice Nderitu, commissioner of the National Cohesion and Integration
Commission-Kenya and former Joan Kroc Peacemaker of the Year, speaks about community ownership of peace at
Kibera, Kenya’s largest informal settlement and scene of some of the worst atrocities during the 2007/08 violence.
March 12, 2014
The statement that begins the conclusion of Michelle Parlevliet’s lead article provides a good entry
point into the much discussed and rarely agreed upon topic of conflict and human rights. She states:
“Over the years, I have often wondered why the mutual stereotypes about human rights actors and
conflict transformation practitioners remain so strong” and why “the perception of a clash between
the two fields [is] so persistent, despite the increasing recognition of the close link between human
rights, conflict and peace”