Authoritarian Drifts, Freedom of Speech, and Academic FreedomI grew up in Kenya under the one-party state of Daniel arap Moi. A defining characteristic of the Moi regime was an attack on political…Nov 6, 2023Nov 6, 2023
Leading to Transform and ChallengeOver the last five years, I have spent time talking to people who have taken on a range of leadership roles. Despite the differences in…Jan 22, 20231Jan 22, 20231
10 YEARS ON: NOTES ON LOSSTen years ago on 15th December 2010, my mother died unexpectedly. In 2011, the first year after her death, I did not think I would make it…Dec 27, 20201Dec 27, 20201
GENDER, ANTI-BLACKNESS AND UNIVERSITIESIt’s 10th September 2020 and I receive an email notification from a listserv with the heading Crisis of care: whiteness in the Collective…Nov 4, 2020Nov 4, 2020
Research Methodology — A Reading ListAs debates on institutional and structural racism resurge across the globe, there is an increasing interest in the longstanding feminist…Oct 10, 20201Oct 10, 20201
Radical Reading Groups and Community BuildingAt the beginning of the 2019/20 academic year, a new colleague from Development Studies Althea Maria Rivas reached out to me to discuss a…Aug 12, 2020Aug 12, 2020
“One man no matter how bright does not a forest make” — Tajudeen Abdul-RaheemThe metaphor of a bright tree versus a forest is a fitting one to use to frame the discussion around intergenerational leadership. In a…May 31, 2020May 31, 2020
A Feminist Reading List on Care, Crisis and PandemicsSome of you will have watched the short clip of Vivian Balakrishnan the foreign affairs minister for Singapore who argues that the…Mar 29, 20202Mar 29, 20202
Reading List IIPlacing this here separately because it gets lost in the other reading list yet it’s a much larger list.Mar 18, 2019Mar 18, 2019
Feminist MentorsI have been thinking a lot about mentoring. The term mentor evokes the image of learning from the elder under a tree. In that image there…Mar 8, 2019Mar 8, 2019
