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  As Congolese philosopher Valentin-Yves Mudimbe famously argued, Africa has often been constructed as an object of knowledge rather than a subject producing it   ARTS | CHRISTOPHE PREMAT | Who counts as an intellectual? In many traditions, the figure of the intellectual is tied to the search for truth, social critique …

TRIBUTE | BY CHARLES ONYANGO-OBBO | Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (January 1938 – 28 May 2025) was one of Africa’s most celebrated literary figures. He never just wrote books. He staged revolts, each title a well-aimed Molotov hurled at the colonial cannon, the neocolonial bureaucrat, and the post-independence sell-out. …