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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.

Eric Omanga23 August 202615 min read

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