Thank you Dr Wandia for having beautifully memorialised my late wife, and for having elevated her thinking and dreams of a better Kenyan society, more just and responding to the needs of its people, to the thinking and lessons of great thinkers and intellectuals such as Fanon and Cabral. As Kenya is taking a stand as a champion in Universal Health Coverage in Africa, I wish that the Government, and the National and International Organizations working to strengthen the Kenya Health Sector, may take the "manifesto" and the ultimate sacrifice of Dr Eunice, which has been remembered beautifully by your lecture, as an eye opener of the extent of the gaps in the health sector that still need to be addressed.

Wandia Njoya is a scholar, social and political commentator and blogger based in Nairobi, Kenya. She thinks and writes a lot about what pan-African history means for everyday life issues. Her mentors and icons are Frantz Fanon, Micere Mugo, Nikki Giovanni, Lewis R. Gordon and Tiyambe Zeleza - that speaks volumes of how she views the world. Wandia or Mwalimu Njoya as she is fondly known and credits social media for giving her a voice. She uses the gift of teaching to reach the uninformed and gives a voice to the powerless.
We are talking about what it means to be human and the importance of naming how we feel and being authentic; the importance of the soul and of respecting the environment. She sums it well: “the way we treat the universe is the way we treat one another.”
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Episode 50: On Being Human

"Professionals for export: Training and work in the Kenyan political imagination"

Lecture at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, as part of their Mellon 30th Anniversary Seminar series on "Mapping African Futures," 17 July 2019

2:37 The Eunice Songa Manifesto - story of a young dedicated doctor

8:17 The struggle of professionals in colonial/neoliberal economy

9:26 Songa, Fanon and Cabral, and their views of professionals

19:40 Theoretical perspectives: Proletarianization as the war against professionals

28:43 #Lipakamatender and the struggle of doctors against alienation by Kenyan politicians and the media

43:45: The commodification of education, the public war against teachers, and competency based curriculum

51:31:  Where do we go from here?

(Picture is "Bone Doctor" by Leroy Campbell)

Professionals for export

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