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Governance and Society · ThePortal: Commentary4 articles

Governance and SocietyCommentary

For Every Answer, There Is a Question

Best Practice remembers what worked. The Use Journey reveals what is happening. Relevance evidence turns better questions into Next Practice.

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Governance and SocietyCommentary

Mzungu Research vs Mwafrika Research: Who Holds the Knowledge?

A doctoral defence and a jua kali engine on the same morning. Formal research makes knowledge contestable; apprenticeship makes it consequential. Africa’s opportunity is not to crown one laboratory and dismiss the other, but to build institutions where footnote and fingerprint can interrogate each other.

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