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Cabral Pinto : Willy Mutunga under cover : selected opinion-editorial columns published between 2006 and 2011 / by Willy Mutunga.
Van Pelt Library DT433.586 .M88 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mutunga, Willy, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kenya--Politics and government--2002-.
- Kenya.
- Op-ed pages--Kenya.
- Op-ed pages.
- Mutunga, Willy.
- Nairobi (Kenya)--Newspapers.
- Nairobi (Kenya).
- Press and politics--Kenya.
- Press and politics.
- Daily nation (Nairobi, Kenya).
- Physical Description:
- xix, 405 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Nairobi, Kenya : Vita Books, 2022.
- Summary:
- For over 30 years, Willy Mutunga has blazed the trail in starting many important public conversations about remaking Kenya and the wider world into a better society. As a public intellectual, he has consistently challenged convenient stereotypes in an effort to bring down the social barriers erected by fear and ignorance, and led in persuading individuals and communities to re-examine widely held prejudices and to start difficult dialogues. Between 2006 and 2011, Mutunga wrote a weekly column in the Saturday Nation. It is from these contributions, under the pen name Cabral Pinto - a combination of the surnames of the two African ideologues he greatly admired -- that the 146 articles in this volume are selected. The clarity of Willy's moral voice is unmistakable on a broad variety of themes, ranging from exhortations for an alternative leadership that would deliver a human rights state, to an unapologetic call for mass action as a peaceful way to bring change. This collection by Cabral Pinto is the story of Kenya's long democracy struggle, told by a pro-democracy activist.
- Contents:
- Talking about a revolution
- Free speech and religion
- Alternative political leadership
- Praise for outstanding (wo)men
- Justice in transitional moments
- Women and justice
- Identity, sexuality and public morality
- Kenya's 2007 elections
- Speaking truth to the grand coalition
- A new constitutional order
- Patriotism and nationalism
- Eyes abroad.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9789914992199
- 9914992196
- OCLC:
- 1362511499
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