What are some questions you want to ask Nanjala when she comes to visit our class? by

2024-10-03 14:57:31 UTC

What was the turning point that motivated you to start exploring this issue further?

2024-10-03 14:57:45 UTC

What do you think are the next steps we must take in avoiding a single story and to truly understand and hear each other

cwhite29_19 — 2024-10-03 14:58:21 UTC

How did your initially skewed perception of Africa and African people affect how you felt about yourself?

2024-10-03 15:00:34 UTC

how did you overcome or deal with the discomfort you felt with your own race?

adreger1 — 2024-10-03 15:01:55 UTC

What is our role, as students living in a country rooted in Western narratives, in promoting more diversity in the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge and stories, both in our country and globally?

2024-10-03 15:04:31 UTC

You talked about how Burkina Faso surprised you. What other countries and experiences have challenged your preconceptions?

2024-10-03 15:05:00 UTC

Are you planning to write more books based off of your experiences relating to your book, Travelling While Black?

2024-10-03 15:05:48 UTC

How do we truly make a difference with change and social activism, so that it wont be absorbed into the status quo of colonized societies? What can be done to truly address these problems?

2024-10-03 15:06:02 UTC

How is solidarity built between groups like Palestine, Sudan, Congo, Kenya, and other indigenous peoples suffering right now

2024-10-03 15:06:39 UTC

How did you get started with Al Jazeera?

2024-10-03 15:06:42 UTC

How are Kenyan’s going about reclaiming the history of the country and valuing Indigenous culture over western fabricated history?

2024-10-03 15:06:48 UTC

How do you suggest to decolonization tourism to Nairobi and more places to promote their own culture and not one that only portrays the white narrative of that city.

2024-10-03 15:07:13 UTC

In your media perspectives article, you discussed how Kenyans can be open to foreign investment and international aid, but this must be (rightfully so) done on the terms and in frameworks decided by Kenyans. What does this look like / mean to you ?

2024-10-03 15:07:34 UTC

To what extent can social media be used to increased political engagement and activism in Africa, and how can it be instrumentalized

further to contradict false narratives about Africa?

Social media as a gathering of Ideas, 10 yrs later

2024-10-03 15:08:26 UTC

With more experience and time the world has more understanding of how social media algorithms, actors, or platforms in general can be manipulated, or just naturally formed to allow hate groups, conspiracy theorists, violent political extremists, or other harmful groups to exist in an echo chamber. considering this, can social media still be a safe place to form counter narratives?

2024-10-03 15:09:35 UTC

How do you live with and manage the rage that is referenced in the James Baldwin quote (ch.17 Travelling while black) ?

2024-10-03 15:09:38 UTC

How can we combat Western ignorance around the global south?

2024-10-03 15:12:11 UTC

Who and what inspired you to start your activism and your academic work?