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Kimani S. K. Nehusi

Kimani Nehusi

Position: Senior Lecturer

Location: ED.1.09, Stratford Campus

Telephone: +44 (0) 20 8223 2550

Contact address:

Cass School of Education
Stratford Campus
WaterLane
Stratford
London E15 4LZ

Brief biography:

Class 1 Grade 1 Trained Teachers Certificate (Cyril Potter College of Education, Guyana), BA and MA (University of Guyana), PhD (University College, London), Diploma in Egyptology (University of London). Post graduate training in Education Research Methodology (Research Unit, Ministry of Education, Guyana).

Module Leader for ED3000: Independent Research Project. Module Leader for ED3031: Education Systems in Comparative Perspectives.  Lecturer on ED 2000: Introduction to Research Methodology. Lecturer in 'Race, Globalization and Education', Doctorate of Education.

Combined Honours Leader, Cass School of Education.

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Activities/responsible for:

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Areas of interest/Summary of Expertise:

Afrikan and Caribbean history and society, including Nile Valley societies; Research Methodologies; Education and Socialisation in pre-colonial, colonial and neo-colonial societies; Afrikan and Caribbean languages.

Teaching:

Programmes:

  • Education and Community Studies (EDUCOM)
  • Doctorate in Education (EdDoc)

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Modules:

  • ED 2000: Introduction to Research Methodology
  • ED3000: Independent Research Project
  • ED3031: Education Systems in Comparative Perspectives
  • Race, Globalization and Education

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Research / Publications:

Current research:

  1. 'Flags and Flag Planting', 'Spit', 'The Number Three', 'Water': Articles in Encyclopedia of African Religion. Vols. 1 & 2 (SAGE Publications, Inc., California, London, etc., 2009) Edited by Molefe Kete Asante and Ama Mazama.
  2. "Kemet and the literary origins of world civilization - establishing the truth of history". Chapter in The Politics of Apologetics; Edited by E. T. Ngurare, H. H. Scibeb and B. C. Swartbooi. Windhoek, Namibia, 2009.
  3. Education in Kemet (Ancient Egypt) - An Overview of the System. Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization (CBAAC), Lagos, Nigeria. Monograph in press.
  4. "Identity, Development and Underdevelopment in Afrika." Distinguished Kenneth Dike Memorial Lecture, to be presented at the 54th Congress of the Historical Society of Nigeria, 10th March, 2009, Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Nasarawa, Nigeria.
  5. 'Introduction' to 'Egypt as an African Culture', section of a forthcoming book on Egypt in its African Context to be edited by Stephen Quirke and Bayo Folorunso and published by Archaeopress. Proceedings of a conference at the Manchester Museum, University of Manchester, 3-4 October, 2009.
  6. "Egypt in Afrika and Afrika in Egypt: The example of Libation". Forthcoming chapter in the above mentioned text.
  7. Starred in "Motherland" a film by Owen 'Alik' Shahadah, premiered in Los Angeles, USA on 15th and 17th February, 2010. For more information go to www.themotherland.info
  8. Edited and provided an Introduction to Richard Hart. Caribbean Workers Struggles. Forthcoming, Bogle L’Ouverture Publishers, London. 2010.
  9. Libation: An Afrikan Ritual of Heritage in the Circle of Life. Book length study, forthcoming soon.
  10. The political development of Guyana, 1838-1964. Book length study, forthcoming.
  11. The System of Education in Kemet (Ancient Egypt). Book length study, forthcoming.
  12. 'Three Modules in Identity'. Southwark Black Parents Forum. Forthcoming.
  13. The Afrikan Family from Ancient Egypt to modern multicultural Britain: Transition, Challenge and Change in a primary social institution. Provisional title of contribution to a School Book on the family in the UK, edited by Tomas Boronski

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Research archive:

  1. A Book Of African Names. (Queenstown, Essequibo, 1972; Revised and Reprinted, 1982).
  2. (With Others). Social Values Among Secondary School Students In Guyana And Their Occupational Preferences. (Georgetown: Research Unit, Ministry Of Education, Social Development And Culture, 1979).
  3. The Jordanites: A Study Of A Black Cultist Movement (Georgetown: Curriculum Development Centre, Ministry Of Education, 1982).
  4. "European Settlement In Guyana: The Early Cases of Kijkoveral And Nova Zeelandia" in Report Of CXC/USAID Secondary Curriculum Development Project: Selected  Document Workshop In History. (Georgetown: Ministry of Education, etc. and University Of Guyana, 1982).
  5. "The Development Of Guyanese Political Organisation: The Organisation And Mobilisation Of The Original Peoples' Progressive Party". Paper Presented To the XVIth Association Of Caribbean Historians Conference, Dover Convention Centre, Barbados, April 1984. 
  6. "The Problems Of Teaching And Studying History At The University Of Guyana" History Newsletter University College London, 1989
  7. "The Middle Class In The Political Economy Of British Guiana, ca. 1870 - 1928” Graduate Seminar Paper, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, May, 1989. Reprinted in History Gazette No.11. University of Guyana.
  8. "The Origins And Development Of Trade Unionism In Guiana" Paper presented at the Annual Conference of The Caribbean Studies Association, U.K., April 1990.
  9. "Ancient African Builders: Ancient African Architecture and Building Construction At Home and Abroad" Black Contractors Association 5th Anniversary Brochure, London: B.C.A., 1990.
  10. Early African Builders Southwark Council, Black History Month. London, 1990.
  11. “The People's Association (1903-1921) in the Evolution of Popular Politics in Guyana" Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 12 March 1991. Reprinted in History Gazette No. 36 University of Guyana, September 1991.
  12. "The Causes of the Protest of 1905" History Gazette   No.22 University of Guyana, September 1991.  Reprinted in W. F. Mc Gowan, J. G. Rose and D. A. Granger (eds.) Themes In African-Guyanese History Georgetown: Free Press, 1998, 2010.
  13. "The Village Movement and Guyana's Political Evolution" The Rodneyite.  Washington, D.C. June 1992.
  14. "The Development of Political Organisation in Guyana up to 1953" History Gazette No.27 University of Guyana, December, 1990. Reprinted in W. F. Mc Gowan, J. G. Rose and D. A. Granger (eds.) Themes In African Guyanese History Georgetown: Free Press, 1998, 2010.
  15. "The Reaction of Governor Sir Frederick Mitchell Hodgson to the Protest of 1905" History Gazette No.37 University of Guyana, October 1991.
  16. "Notes on the Writing of the History of Villages in Guyana and the Caribbean" Paper read on 8th December 1992 at joint Postgraduate Seminar of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London.  Reprinted in 150th Anniversary Magazine of Queenstown Village, Guyana.  New York, August 1992. Reprinted in History Gazette. University of Guyana.
  17. “Tony Waithe - A young Black Inventor: Following In the Footsteps of His Ancestors" Black Contractors Association 7th Anniversary Brochure London: July 1992.
  18. "The Social Context Of African Names" Black Contractors Association 8th Anniversary Brochure 1993.
  19. "The Meaning of Reparations". Paper Presented to the Preparatory Conference on Reparations, Birmingham, 11 December 1993.
  20. "African Names in the Emancipation of African People" Emancipation. Georgetown, Guyana. No. 3, August 1995.
  21. "Naming the African-Guyanese Child" Emancipation. Georgetown, Guyana. No. 3, August, 1995.
  22. "The Meaning Of Queenstown: Tradition, Consciousness and Identity In a Guyanese Village" Queenstown Anniversary Publication New York: Queenstown Essequibo New York Association, 1995.
  23. "Names, Naming and Our Emancipation" African Peoples   Review (Reading, U.K.) Vol. V, No. 2. May-August, 1996.
  24. "Why 'Ethnic Minority' is Racist" African Peoples Review. Vol. V, No. 2. May-August, 1996.       
  25. "Names and Naming In Kemet (Ancient Egypt)" African Peoples Review. Vol.V, No. 3. September-December, 1996.
  26. Editor and major contributor to Jermil's Carnival Magazine. No. 1, August 1996.
  27. "Afrikan Names From Kemet (Ancient Egypt)" Emancipation (Georgetown, Guyana). No.4, August 1996.
  28. “The Origins of the Carnival” African Peoples Review May-August, 1997.
  29. “Going Back Home To The Carnival” in Ian Isidore Smart and Kimani S. K. Nehusi (eds.) Ah Come Back Home: Perspectives on the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival Original World Press: Washington, D.C. and Port of Spain, 2000.
  30. “The Origins of Carnival: Notes From a Preliminary Investigation” in Ian Isidore Smart and Kimani Nehusi (eds.) Ah Come Back Home: Perspectives On The Trinidad and Tobago Carnival Original World Press: Washington, D.C. and Port of Spain, 2000.
  31. "The Meaning of Reparations" Caribnet Journal 2000
  32. "From Medew Netjer To Ebonics" in Clinton Crawford (ed.) Ebonics and Language  Education of African Ancestry Students   New York and London: Sankofa World Publishers, 2001.
  33. With Clinton Crawford, "Recommendations” in Clinton Crawford (ed.) Ebonics and Language Education of African Ancestry Students   New York and London: Sankofa World Publishers, 2001.
  34. "Afrika History Month" Kilombo Vol. 4, Issue 1, November 2001.
  35. With David Gosling. “Travellers’ Tales from the University of East London: The Experiences of ‘Black’ Adult Learners” in Linden West, Nod Miller, Dave O’Reilly and Rod Allen (eds.) Travellers’ Tales: from adult education to lifelong learning … and Beyond. Proceedings of the 31st annual conference of SCUTREA, 2001.  Pilgrim College, University of Nottingham, 2001. 
  36. "The Meaning Of Reparations" Kilombo Vol. 4, Issue 2, February 2002.
  37. ‘Mental Enslavement’. Emancipation Vol. I, No. 10, August 2002.
  38. ‘St. Bartholomew’s Church: The Story of a National Monument’ Emancipation   August, 2003.
  39. ‘Language in the Construction of Afrikan Unity: Past, Present and Policy’ in Mammo Muchie (ed., 2003). The Making of Africa-Nation: Pan-Africanism and the African Renaissance. Adonis-Abbey Publishing House, London. 
  40. ‘Rukiza Okera: Tek Me Home’ Sleve Notes on a compact disk of Guyanese folk songs.  AM Limited, London, February, 2004.
  41. ‘Fragment of memory? The Building that Houses St. Bart’s Anglican Church’ (2004) Queenstown Anniversary  Publication 2004. The Queenstown New York Association, New York.
  42. With Clarence Ellis (2004) ‘Towards the Queenstown of the Future: Some Matters of Administrative Development Through Local Empowerment’ Queenstown Anniversary Publication 2004. The Queenstown New York Association, New York.
  43. “Who Is An Afrikan?” African Renaissance Vol. 1 No. 2.  September/October, 2004.
  44. "Long Time waiting” Sleeve Notes on a compact disk of music by Lascelles James. 2007.              
  45. ‘Foreword’ to Gus John (2007). Emancipate Yourself …Choose Life’. The Gus John Partnership Ltd., Manchester.
  46. “The Slave’ as slave narrative: The Mighty Sparrow and (Re)memory in Caribbean Society.” Gyana Folkfest. Journal of the Guyana Folk Festival. New York. August, 2008.

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Other scholarly activities:

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

  1. Association of Caribbean Historians  
  2. Association for the Study of Classical Afrikan Civilisations (ASCAC)
  3. Caribbean Studies Society, UK       
  4. Caribbean Studies Association (CSA)
  5. Member of the Editorial Board, Liceducation Journal (LICEJ), peer reviewed journal of the Infomatics Society. For more information go to http://www.infonomics-society.org/LICEJ/EditorialBoard.htm
  6. Consultant to The Equiano Society. For further information go to http://www.equiano.org
  7. Member of the Steering Committee, London International Conference on Education (LICE - 2010).

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Last updated: 24th February, 2010


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