Kwasi joins art fight-!

Of course, one of the very real injustices of the last forty-five days is that when you search for images of Kwasi, you get pictures of Kwasi Kwarteng and not this legend.

The Famous Five are a group of child-like politicians who have the sort of adventures most wannabe right-wingers can only dream about. In a world where tax cuts flow like lemonade, and champagne and caviar are the staple diet of every hedge fund manager arranged picnics, Liz, Kwasi and James, get together with Therese in their first adventure, Five On A Treasure Island: Britain Goes Bust.  Therese is actually a girl who wants so desperately to be a boy she crops her hair and struts about doing boy things like smoking cigars and drinking. Their attack dog, Suella, joins the four chums and together they are set to have many exciting adventures.

Liz is the boss and her no-nonsense Head Girl persona is sometimes mistaken for arrogance. Kwasi has been described by his rich friends as a “useful idiot”. James likes to appear intelligent and caring but doesn’t always pull it off, whereas the soft-spoken Therese puts people so at ease they often fall asleep before she has finished speaking.

For centuries Western scholarship, and the African scholars seduced by this body of knowledge, have not been interested in African "religions" per se, but what was worse, African scholars began not to study indigenous African spirituality on its own terms but through European eyes and intellectual categories. Okot p'Bitek, who is best known for Song of Lawino, was one of the first African scholars to call attention to this situation and argue African scholars need not "Hellenize" African spiritual practices and ideas and that what we have come to think as "African religions" are European versions in African disguise. This publication, along with a new introduction by Ghanaian philosopher Kwasi Wiredu, reintroduces a classic work to a new generation, especially for those with an interest in African spiritual cultures and in need of "decolonizing" them so that they be studied, appreciated, and engaged on their own cultural and historic terms.

The Kindler and the Prince

Mine vs original