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CELEBRATING OUR CONTRIBUTORS CELEBRATING OUR CONTRIBUTORS
Tell us about yourself tions to these issues. Msingi tor. We'll have made it when we
and what you do, in Afrika Magazine fits this shoe stop looking up to the so-called
perfectly and I feel very humble first-world countries, waiting for
relation to the move for a
being featured in it. Especially their approval for every single
truly liberated Afrika. against the caliber of guests or thing. Getting here means we
I'm Maagu Karuri Kabui, a 26
authors I've seen featured thus must first understand our cul-
year old Afrikan man based in
far. Having discovered Msingi ture. As Dr Llaila O. Afrika used
Kenya. I'm a Software Develop-
Afrika Magazine quite recently, to say, you cannot be free when
er by profession, with an under-
it's one of those gems I won- you are not practicing your
graduate degree in Computer der how I didn't come across culture! We each have a role in
Science from Kenyatta Univer-
earlier. To suddenly find myself reclaiming our memory.
sity. Although formally in the
in a place with masters in their
tech space, I have an interest
crafts is quite humbling. I have What ought Afrikans be
in all things Afrikan — basically
learnt quite a lot from previous
any area that touches our day issues of the magazine, and I doing now to ensure that
to day lives. To get answers, we as a people and as
look forward to future issues.
part of what I do is spend a lot a continent truly realize
Kudos to the writers, editors,
of time in the past — our past.
and everyone else involved! Afrika's great potential?
I spend a lot of time revisiting
Our identity. Only then can we
our history, since we typically What's your hope and realize the greatness we truly
learn it from a very Eurocentric/ hold and work towards it.
Westernized perspective. I take aspiration for Afrika for
the phrase "Know thyself" very the next ten years?
seriously. In my opinion the The hope I have for Afrika over You can follow Maagu Karuri on
most important part of knowing the next years is simply free- his facebook platform
thyself is learning your true, dom. Freedom, which comes https://www.facebook.com/
authentic history. It's the begin- from remembering herself, then maagu.karuri.3
ning of not only finding answers restoring herself to her former
about yourself, but also of find- glory; maybe even transcend-
ing solutions to our current and ing it. Great efforts are needed
future problems. By so doing to make this more than just a
I've found that our ancestors pipe dream. First and foremost,
had a deeper understanding efforts in the re-education of the
of almost everything. Contrary Afrikan, so that they remove
to popular belief that we have from themselves notions of be-
developed more now, thanks ing inferior to others. Education
to science and other modern here doesn't only imply school,
tools, I've found we have retro- but the education we give
gressed. ourselves and each other. As happy 1st
Carter G. Woodson said in "The Anniversary
Say something about Mis-education of the Negro," MSINGI AFRIKA MAGAZINE
the most important education
Msingi Afrika Magazine
a man gets is the one he gives
and how you feel about
himself. It is my hope that over
contributing articles to it/ the next decade we can at least
why you do it. restructure the education sector
In these times of ever-rising so that our educational institu-
Eurocentricity, one cannot tions produce a crop of people
overemphasize the impor- who understand they are there
tance of Afrocentric journalism. to provide solutions for their re-
Journalism invested in honestly spective situations. This in itself
understanding issues facing the would be a colossal step as it
Afrikan and voicing the solu- would touch on every other sec-
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