At The Kraal, our storytelling is communicated through; an in depth study of African history, arts & culture, traditions & spirituality and lifestyle. Our work seeks to answer one simple question: how do we add value to our reader’s life? From this vision, we are committed to the truth. Looking for it and spreading it as much as we can. …
Power is Knowledge:
Dr Chika Ezeanya Esiobu on the relationship between ideas and power.
Ideas stick not because they are always technically sound, but because they are normalized by institutions. From measurements of time, how we organize calendars, to what names we call ourselves, how we organize markets, technology, agriculture, and societies, what ideas become normalized, are often expression of the will of a dominant class.
Africa is a Continent and other stories.:
Why we need new maps, new words, and old ideas.
Africa is not a country. Neither is it a continent. Not really—not in a true sense. Continents are more a social idea than a true science. The continental frame you and I learn about in elementary school you know, Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America are not entirely made up, but they are imperfect intellectual constructs. …
Tradition:
What should we do with our cultural past ?
There is very little that is traditional about tradition or modern about modernity. Both categories are deeply related to each other. Societies that are characterized as traditional inherit ideas, beliefs, and institutions from their past and are never culturally static.
Dr Munyaradzi Mawere explains Knowledge
I think of knowledge and belief sometimes in biological terms. We have the body, which is made up of a complex system of coordinating networks that keep us alive. If this system is threatened by say a virus, our system kicks in to destroy that virus. If it is successful, the body develops resistance towards this virus, and whenever the …
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