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The delicate balance between getting stuff done effectively vs leaving space for things to remain undone. This poem muses about spirals of “doing”
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A routine contract decision in CSIDNet’s participatory budgeting process turned out to be a values question.
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Well-intention academics told us not to call our new initiative “research”. We did so anyway.
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People are still surprised when I speak Swahili as a white-presenting person in Kenya. The fact that we are in 2026 and they are surprised surprises me (and disappoints me because it tells me how little other white people try).
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When I asked a room of scientists in Cape Town if they would welcome village elders and community health workers, it gave them pause. That pause is where the real work begins.
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I was recently invited to write a post for the LSE Citing Africa podcast/blog series and am reposting below the final version of the post that originally appeared here. I want to also point your attention to the fast approaching deadline for ASAA call for individual papers and panels (closes on May 30th and June 15th, respectively)! As…
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First posted in 2017, during my PhD research at UC Irvine on heavily researched populations. Lightly revised in June 2026 for reposting. Willoughby-Herard (2015) writes about why she decided not to write about and research black South African women, despite attempts by South African archivists to redirect her toward them. She states: “We do not…
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Angela Okune, PhD. 