The central theme which runs through these essays, is the need to create a new culture firmly rooted in African history and tradition to take the place of the economic and social values of Africa former's oppressors. In the opening section of the book, Ngugi points the way toward the ...
Studies of labour coincided with worker education programs and support for trade unions. Some intellectuals were members of liberation movements, such as the ANC, or engaged in organised resistance. The mass democratic movement that gained steam in the early 1980s, exemplified by the United ...
It is also pertinent to consider the issue of Gender-Based Violence (GBV), including Intimate Partner Violence, albeit not a common theme in transport studies. Men's and women's mobility across all social groups has been curtailed to an unprecedented extent during lockdowns, but stasis particul...
That, unfortunately, is a common theme running through just about the entirety of African-American baseball history in New Orleans. In 1947 specifically, those citizens who declined to support their own Negro League team missed one helluva conclusion to the season. That, plus a focus on three o...
Law enforcement remains an institution that is characterized by toxic masculinity; its core tenets are reinforced by police unions across the country (Carlson 2020). Research, court cases, and reports show a range of disproportionate verbal harassment, physical assault, and sexual assault for people ...