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Commentary · 2026-08-23
Mzungu Research vs Mwafrika Research: Who Holds the Knowledge?
A doctoral defence and a jua kali engine on the same morning. Formal research makes knowledge contestable; apprenticeship makes it consequential. Africa’s opportunity is not to crown one laboratory and dismiss the other, but to build institutions where footnote and fingerprint can interrogate each other.