NGUGI: Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative
Collapsed classrooms at Precious Talent Academy in Kenya's capital Nairobi on September 23, 2019. Every year similar substandard buildings are put up in our towns and cities. PHOTO | EVANS HABIL | NATION MEDIA GROUP
Thus Julius Nyerere argued that “we in Africa have no need of being taught democracy, it is rooted in the traditional society that produced us.”
On his part, Kwame Nkrumah wrote about a “cluster of humanist principles which underlie traditional African society” And Jomo Kenyatta in Facing Mount Kenya claimed that “before the coming of the Europeans, the Kikuyu had a democratic regime.”
