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Oct 19

Settler Colonialism and Pedagogies of Liberation: Jackie Namadi

October 19, 2022 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

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Jackie Namadi Talk

Jacklyne Namadi is the head of programmes at Ecogreen Kenya, a community based environmental organizational. She is a Business manager by profession and trained in agroforestry. She is a mature, positive and hardworking individual who always strives to achieve the highest standards possible at any given task. Having studied agroforestry for 10 years has given her an opportunity to blend business and forestry to bring out a working formula that has enabled the bamboo industry as a product to be marketable within Kenya and beyond. Her mantra has been “leave no one behind” and thus has made the bamboo industry become one of the fastest growing value chains in Busia County and its neighboring Counties in Kenya. Ms. Namadi is a GIA (Green Innovation Awards) Award National winner 2021, a Tall Berge global award nominee 2020, a Zuri Award winner 2020, an ALIBABA scholarship beneficiary and young media boss award global winner 2020. All these revolving around the environmental community work she has been undertaking from the year 2013 under the stewardship of the Kenya Forest Service (KFS), INBAR (International Bamboo and Rattan Organisation and KEFRI (Kenya Forestry Research Institute). She has been a volunteer through using bamboo as a tool to address climate change mitigation, livelihood improvement within the community, degraded sites restoration, hill tops reforestation, river banks and dykes protection and towards contributing to the Country’s target of achieving 10% forest cover. Currently Busia County has been able to increase its forest cover and tree cover from 0.014% and 4% to 2% and 5% respectively as recorded by KFS and the Department of Environment, Busia County. The community involvement at on-farm level has been enhanced and thus is commended for increase of the tree cover on farms. The Western part of Kenya has more 10,000 Farmers involved in the greening initiative using bamboo and Busia County is leading with more than 4,000 farmers growing bamboo with an estimated hectare of 3000 acres. All these have been attained because of their commitment in delivering their contribution to address effects of climate change and seeking solutions to enhance their livelihoods. Ms. Namadi appreciates the technical support of INBAR (International Bamboo and Rattan Organisation), Kenya Forest Service and Kenya Forestry Research Institute.

Keywords: Settler colonialism, pedagogies of liberation, land-based teaching, displacement, border and cultural studies, occupation/theft (privatization, containment, dispossession), decolonizing approaches to learning, principles of responsibility. The questions in this series are anchored in the pedagogical approach to teach/learn beyond the binary, as part of Dr. Clelia O. Rodriguez’s commitment to dignify community-based ancestral knowledge to recuperate sustainable ways of living.

Students/participants will be encouraged to make connections between local, everyday practices and wider historical contexts and critically analyze settler colonialism across Turtle Island (Canada/US) and other settler colonial contexts, such as Aoteroa/New Zealand, Palestine/Israel, South Americas and South Africa.

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October 19, 2022
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5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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