The book challenges the traditional human rights paradigm and its concomitant idea of Gender Equality, flagging instead the African philosophy of Ubuntu as a serious alternative for reinvigorating African notions of social justice.
This book provides a rare glimpse into a story that is rarely told in most societies about minorities. It does this by highlighting the critical role South Asian Africans have played in the revolution and the transformation of Kenya.
This is the untold story of Mathare Slum that has never been told to the world: of the role it played in anti-colonial struggle and the planning ground for the Mau Mau struggle which culminated in the fall of the British colonial empire in Kenya at midnight on December 12, 1963.
Mathare – An Urban bastion of anti-oppression struggle in Kenya
Expelled from Uganda by Idi Amin in 1972, Mahmood Mamdani arrived in a cold and overcast London to join his compatriots in a camp run by the UK government’s resettlement board. As he recounts: ‘On the face of it, life in the camp, with its surface calm and order, presented a sharp and favorable contrast to the open terror of living in Uganda.
From Citizen to Refugee: Uganda Asians Come to Britain
“Anita Patel has written a family saga that spans the globe and a century of human history. It is lovingly written and provides valuable insight into historical and social context.”