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Charles Q. Choi in his article entitled The Real Science of ‘Avatar’ in SPACE.com states that “the movie is set on the fictional Pandora, one of the many moons of a fictional Saturn-sized gas giant, Polyphemus, which is located in the real Alpha Centauri system, which at nearly 4.4 light-years away is the closest star system to Earth. [...]

The conservation of wild lands is well documented and neatly archived in history. Eviction of indigenous people from their homeland in the wild for the sake of conservation is only found in collective memory and oral history. Through a hundred years, indigenous people have often been seen by conservationists as a problem, and the solution has always [...]

Ngugi wa Thiong’o successfully wrote in English but eventually turned to writing in Gikuyu, his mother tongue. He wants other writers to follow his example. ‘Decolonising the Mind’ is both an explanation of how he eventually decided to write in Gikuyu, as well as an encouragement for African writers to write in their native languages. Ngugi [...]

Slavery and colonialism did not leave the African continent even during the age of post-colonial Africa. The establishment of an African bourgeoisie did not help the traditionalist view any. This African middle class has viewed their native languages as “shameful,” “inelegant,” and “incapable of expressing scientific or [...]