Award-winning author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o presented his recently released publication, "Minutes of Glory And Other Stories." Local high school students read excerpts from his works in Gikuyu and English.

- Noted as a perennial favorite to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is an award-winning, world-renowned Kenyan novelist, scholar and playwright, who has been publishing written works for more than 50 years in more than 32 languages. He is the founder and editor of the first Gikuyu-language journal and is currently a distinguished professor of English and comparative literature at the University of California, Irvine.

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Ali Mazrui discussed the state of contemporary African culture and post-independence literary production.

Speaker Biography: Ali Mazrui is an academic and political writer on African and Islamic studies and North-South relations. He is an Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities and the Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York.

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On this edition of Conversations with History, UC Berkeley's Harry Kreisler talks with Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka. In an extraordinarily prolific and rich body of work including plays, novels, poems, and essays, Professor Soyinka draws on both Yoruba and western culture to exquisitely weave a subtle understanding of the tragedy and comedy of the human condition. Series: Conversations with History [10/2002] [Humanities] [Show ID: 6797]

⁣Dr. Anthony Browder: Your Second Education

Minister Louis Farrakhan, "To Save Ourselves," Howard University [2017]

Excerpt from the presentation of Molefi Kete Asante, Professor of Africology at Temple University in the USA, during Session Nine at the Multiversity International Conference on Decolonising Our Universities held in Penang, Malaysia, 27-29 June 2011. He outlined 'The Philosophical Bases of an African University,' pointing out that in the imposition of the Eurocentric worldview in higher education 'there was a Greek at every corner' but that the Greeks themselves 'were but children to Africa, and to India and to China.'

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Further information about the Penang conference and participants, including a selection of papers, is available at the conference webpage:

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H. Rap Brown: The Politics of Education

Mhenga Amos N. Wilson Lecture:

Educating the Black Child According to the Developmental Psychology of the Black Child

Statistics show that at least 70% of the Kenyan population still use traditional medicine. However, if this form of health care is to succeed and endure, especially when practiced in tandem with Western medicine, a serious look at legislation and the regulatory framework is needed.

⁣⁣Las puertas de la percepción 2. 'Iboga, los hombres de la madera sagrada

The Doors of Perception 2. 'Iboga, the men of sacred wood'

Doc for research purposes. By the way i don't understand a word that is being said but the images are very familiar.

translated text of the description on utube:
⁣The root bark of Tabernanthe Iboga, in Africa and South America, contain ibogaine, an enteogen. The root is used there by the fang, mitsogo and others ethnic groups, in Gabon, Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea. Eboka is a sacred Entheogen, sacrament or power plant.