Mary Nyambura Muchiri
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Most of the papers reproduced here have either been presented at a national or international conference, and some have been published elsewhere. I have obtained permission to republish because I think it is important to have them all together. The idea came to me when I was asked, during an interview, why I wrote on such different topics as part of my scholarship. The question was based on the different publications in which the person asking had...
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Adoption affects the birth parents, the adoptive parents, and the adopted children in many different ways, some positive and some negative. Each party within this triad has many unanswered questions, but discussing them helps to lighten the burdens for everyone.
Mary Muchiri and her adopted son share their journey and try to answer their individual questions. They hope to inspire all who are asking similar questions, by comparing human adoption with...
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My main purpose of writing was not to solve all the problems of racial discrimination, but rather to introduce some historical reasons why it came about, how it has been systematically perpetuated, and how we might find some solutions by honestly bursting the basic myths that have been used to justify racism in its many and subtle forms.