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...Schmid observed, “I always felt that the Core curriculum was too rigid.”Historian Caroline Elkins, another new addition to the council, won a Pulitzer Prize this year for her book on British colonial rule in 1950s Kenya??a work that began to take shape while she was a graduate student at Harvard.Elkins, who is Foster associate professor of African studies, says she wanted to join the council because of the quality of its current members.“The faculty council is comprised of a diverse group of members of the Harvard...
...inherently limited, means of battling corruption. A failure of will or coordination can derail attempts by a government to set its own house in order. Moreover, whistleblowers in third world governments, even more so than those in the West, often face threats and intransigence. John Githongo, appointed by Kenya??s President Mwai Kibaki to root out corruption, ended up fleeing the country after exposing what he called “looting and grand corruption.” The best way to encourage and sustain the work of whistleblowers is to subject the government to thoroughgoing media scrutiny.Finally, focusing...
Workaholic Kenya (Sanaa Lathan “Love and Basketball”) is the star of the corporate finance world and the darling of wealthy black society. And then she falls in love with her gardener, Brian. And he’s white. Unfortunately, Kenya??s family, friends, and even Kenya herself struggle with Brian’s race and economic status. The rest of the movie follows the familiar plotline of “Kenya must follow her heart...
...recent years, as her movement has spread to other African nations, Maathai has been elected to Kenya??s Parliament, appointed Kenya??s minister for Environment and Natural Resources, and awarded the Nobel Peace Prize...
Elkins’ inclusion of the term “gulag” in her work’s title as a description of colonial Kenya??s labor camps is similarly troubling. Professor of History Niall Ferguson has already labeled Elkins’ use of the term “wildly inappropriate,” and this criticism seems on-point. “Gulag” in Elkins’ mind appears to mean any camp system where detainees are thrust into a system of forced labor. This usage of “gulag” divorces...