UNDAUNTED: STORIES OF FREEDOM IN A SHACKLED SOCIETY - Couverture souple

Dolan, Gabriel; Kiai, Maina

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9914402496 ISBN 13 : 9789914402490

Editeur : Daraja Press, 2021

Synopsis

….to free oneself or assist in liberating others involves taking risks, being suspicious of the status quo, leaving the safety of the shore and launching out into the deep and the unknown. This is a very lonely calling too as one immerses oneself into the whole of reality with courage to confront and listen. Yet, the calling is not to be the liberator of the oppressed but to make a commitment to fight alongside them, as Paulo Freire wrote in Pedagogy of the Oppressed. — Fr Gabriel Dolan From his work in Turkana, Kitale, Kapenguria and Mombasa, Father Gabriel reminds us that true transformative change comes from the people themselves, from the bottom up. This is a challenge that the social justice/human rights practitioners must internalize and the sooner the better. The idea of being the “voice of the voiceless” must transform to facilitating, encouraging and giving space to those who suffer the indignities of injustice, violence, poverty and repression. Indeed, one of the most significant tasks for the human rights community is to devolve away from Nairobi, in real, practical, and substantive ways. It is not easy for a white man, with all the attendant privileges that brings, to become an integral part of the struggle for pro-poor transformative change in Kenya, and be subject to arrest, harassment, and repression. For those who read these memoirs, please circulate them to everyone you know. Translate them, read them in the mosques, churches and under trees so that Kenyans can get a sense of where we have come from, what we should avoid, and what it takes to make some gains that benefit the majority of our people. — Maina Kiai

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À propos des auteurs

Father Gabriel Dolan is an Irish Missionary Priest and has been in Kenya since 1982. Currently he works in Mombasa and is the Executive Director of Haki Yetu. He is also a board member of the KHRC, the Katiba Institute, Muhuri and is a regular columnist with the Sunday Standard

Maina Kiai is a Kenyan lawyer and human rights activist who formerly served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association from May 1, 2011, to April 30, 2017. Since 2018, he has headed Human Rights Watch's Alliances and Partnerships program.Kiai is also active in human rights work in Kenya, where he has focused on combating corruption, supporting political reform, and fighting against impunity following post-election violence that engulfed Kenya in 2008.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Daraja Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9914402496
• ISBN 13: 9789914402490
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 184
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• Personne responsable: non disponible