Missionaries, mercenaries and misfits

Lara Pawson, cur­rently a writer in res­id­ence at the Uni­ver­sity of Wit­water­srand, has a chapter out in a new book edited by Kenyan author, Rasna Warah. Don’t judge it by the cover (unless, of course, you really LOVE the cover). Here’s what she sent me:

It’s a very read­able antho­logy fea­tur­ing some of East Africa’s best-known writers, thinkers and “devel­op­ment­al­ists”, such as Binyavanga Wainaina (who reg­u­larly fea­tures in the Mail & Guard­ian) and … er, an Eng­lish woman from East Lon­don. My own chapter ori­gin­ally appeared in Rad­ical Philo­sophy (a journal also worth read­ing and avail­able at www.radicalphilosophy.com). Con­tinue read­ing