Not everyone likes the songs you do,
Let alone your songs. There are places,
Even, where nobody will fancy them.
But that should never ever stop you.
We all have a title to a song
Of our very own,
A song no one else has ever sung.
A song in the life.
Saturday, November 19, 2016
Sunday, November 13, 2016
On the Contradictions of 'Pluralism': A Theoretical and Empirical Overview
By Dr. Mauri Yambo
January 30, 1985
1. INTRODUCTION
If one accepts the view that all contemporary societies are heterogeneous, one finds it difficult to isolate societies [perhaps better understood nowadays as nation-states] in which the term "plural" cannot apply. What Gutkind (1957: 351) said nearly thirty years ago [nearly sixty now] of "multiracialism" applies equally well to the term "plural societies" -- particularly when defined as loosely as Mazrui (1969: 333) does. In other words, the term implies a polarity between its existence and nonexistence. CLICK HERE TO READ THE WHOLE PAPER IN ITS ORIGINAL FORM.
The paper was presented at a workshop on The Role of the Judiciary in Plural Societies, January 30 - February 4, 1985; Nairobi and Eldoret (Sirikwa Hotel). The workshop was organized by Kenya's Public Law Institute and the International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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