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@keguro_

7 Oct

some notes on ethnonationalism

1. I use ethnonationalism instead of “tribe” to mark a set of power relations and practices.

2. Attachment of identity to place, and the idea that being rooted in place is what provides and affirms identity.

#Ethnonationalism

3. Idea of “home” as a threatened space that must
be defended. This idea has transformed rural spaces into militarized spaces, where young people can be easily recruited to defend home.

#Ethnonationalism

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k'eguro

@keguro_

7 Oct

now I'm wondering what version of an origin story I'd tell

my grandfather, for whom I'm named, was a teacher

he'd have been in the first generation of Kenyans taught to read and write by the British colonizers—generation is a weird term to use here

he taught primary school

about his father, I know very little

I've thought for a while that there's something about how "family history" disperses in polygamous families, something about how it fragments, and is difficult to collect

lineage does not work with polygynous mothering

that is not a way to tell this type of story, where mother means mother means mother, and care moves across and through and around something called blood

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k'eguro

@keguro_

7 Oct

https://twitter.com/ntvkenya/status/1313828815064444928

"prevention of dissemination of undesirable political messages/social media content"

https://twitter.com/ntvkenya/status/1313828815064444928

if I'm reading this correctly, something that was ostensibly established to curb hate speech is now being extended to curb political critique

(anyone who studies power could have predicted this

but then those of us in the humanities who study power are ignored when the lawyers and politicians sit down to draft their things)

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k'eguro

@keguro_

7 Oct

now that I am old and very conservative, I must confess I am distressed by the absence of foot fetishism on here

not enough of you are sucking on toes

and I don't mean those pretty feet that have been pampered and loved

I'm talking those feet that run marathons and walk over thorns and kick ostriches—DO NOT KICK OSTRICHES—and can be used when shops are out of sandpaper

those feet

now, those are true feet

it's like
you know

(I am cursed with beautifully soft hands—NO MATTER WHAT I DO)

so, like, hands with texture
those are interesting hands

raspy hands
oh, yes

BUT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT FEET!

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k'eguro

@keguro_

7 Oct

@Nanjala1

FORTHCOMING

(that means it's being published soon, you rubes)

hurstpublishers.com/book/travellin…

by @Nanjala1

@Nanjala1

@Nanjala1 And those blurbs!
***
Lethal and restless, yet tender and vulnerable. Disturbing, delicious, defiant. A triumph.’ — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor,

@Nanjala1

@Nanjala1 Nyabola’s is a profound, gripping and beautiful book of undeniable genius on exile, migration and travel in our catastrophic times—Cornel West

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k'eguro

@keguro_

7 Oct

And then, when I was watering plants today, I thought about the possibility that Africans—some Africans?—might be genuinely immune to Rona.

And I got excited for three seconds.

And then I started thinking about how people who don't think we are human would harvest us.

Do we imagine they would not kidnap and murder us to harvest whatever they think would protect them?

Do we imagine our rapacious governments would not sell us off?

History tells us differently.

I need to stop thinking when I'm gardening.

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