*Featured art: “Hope” by Mcharo Mwakio, 2022. Oil on Canvas Art is a people’s conscience. When put on canvas or any medium, that conscience becomes a tangible treasure. With time, it can become priceless, a national treasure displayed only in museums under tight security. You see it and it hits you with a sense of…
Presidential hopeful, Elizabeth Warren, exited stage-left. The audience that cheered her on muttered disappointment about how it will be a long while before this country ever gets a woman president. It’s still a relatively new thing for the European culture to accept women in powerful positions. That was never the case in the African cultures….
Churches never disappoint in wartime. That the Orthodox Russian church is supporting the killing of innocent humans an imaginary border across is quite unsurprising. The US came from a 4-year era of a powerful Evangelical church supporting a dangerous liar whose regime culminated in a violent insurrection. Without the pact between political barons and the…
The US imposes a travel ban on 8 African countries over Omicron. Other countries with the same virus detected but not banned include Belgium, Israel, Hong Kong, UK and Germany. This calls for a lesson on transmogrification (the Western gaze that views the African/Black human as a dangerous creature). Its opposite is humanization. Stay with…
It’s office hours. One-on-one with students on Zoom. Pandemic teaching feels like an apocalyptic burnout in a gray sci-fi future, cold light streaming through your window in colors of hopelessness. My office hours are no longer about academics and negotiating assignment deadlines. They’re about survival. We have gone through a whole year of Covid-19, and…
