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  A Review of Yurugu: An Afrikan-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior By Dr. Marimba Ani. First Africa World Press Books 2014 (First Edition, First Printing Africa World Press, 1994) By Mboya Ogutu Introduction Dr. Marimba Ani is forthright and unapologetic on the polemic tone of this magisterial milestone in African-centered ideological and political (anthropological) study of European culture. The book “Yurugu,” is a 570-page relentless analysis of the source (“asili”-further on) and mechanics of European ideology. It is determined that European ideology, which informs its nationalism is intrinsically imperialist in tendency. The main purpose of Dr. Ani’s study is to unmask this ideology, therefore providing tools to appraise and counter it, “ideologically and politically.” In essence, this is a study of European culture in its totality by a non-European, an African. An intriguing if not vital twist in the sense of the colonized using anthropolo...
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            Edward Bruce Bynum, Ph.D.   Dark Light Consciousness: Melanin, Serpent Power, and the Luminous Matrix of Reality. 2012, Inner Traditions, Rochester, Vermont, USA A brief review by Mboya Ogutu In this book, Dr. Bynum a Clinical Psychiatrist, challenges the dominant materialist and positivist Western model of science, particularly in matters of the mind and consciousness. Herein, is a reluctance to recognize collectively verified, replicable subjective experiences. These practices begun in ancient Kemet and eventually spread to other areas. Bynum states that such subjective experiences tend to be categorized as pathologies in Western based psychiatry. Essentially, Bynum presents the human mind and consciousness as subsumed in a wider spacetime continuum. In ancient times to the present, meditative, prayer and other spiritual techniques, have been used to “yoke” (yoga in Asian practices) the mind to the universe.  Sema Tawi,  which p...
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The Principle Importance of Classical Kemet (Ancient Egypt) For the Kenyan School Curriculum (Drafted in 2021) By Mboya Ogutu* Introduction Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s, “Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense [1] ​ ​ ,” identifies parents, formal education tutors and the Government in the workplace, as key instructors through one’s lifespan. In this song, the Afrobeat icon poses a radical question: “Who be government teacher?” The answer: “Culture and tradition.” The song is a searing indictment on the validity of tutelage endured, arguably, across post-colonial Africa. Africa is fundamentally under the sway of somebody else's heritage.   Although we focus on Kenya, the thrust of our argument applies across the African continent. Kenya’s education policies continue to borrow from foreign curricula. This may be necessary. We argue however, that the considered insertion of Africa’s foremost Classical Civilisation, ancient Egypt (Kemet [2] ​ ​ ) into the curriculum, as a basis of wh...
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