https://www.kathryntoure.net Education, Research, Partnerships Sat, 20 Dec 2025 19:34:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 https://www.kathryntoure.net/2024/02/27/decolonize-humxnize/ https://www.kathryntoure.net/2024/02/27/decolonize-humxnize/#comments Tue, 27 Feb 2024 13:03:08 +0000 admin https://www.kathryntoure.net/?p=2110 Whose knowledge counts? Why delve deep to understand self, history and intercontinental relations? How do people and communities heal from the wounds of colonization and related trauma passed from generation to generation? Such intractable questions are explored in this collection of essays on decolonization. To decolonize means to humxnize, which is of even greater urgency [...]]]> https://www.kathryntoure.net/2024/02/27/decolonize-humxnize/feed/ 0 https://www.kathryntoure.net/2021/01/15/covid-stories-from-east-africa-and-beyond-lived-experiences-and-forward-looking-reflections/ https://www.kathryntoure.net/2021/01/15/covid-stories-from-east-africa-and-beyond-lived-experiences-and-forward-looking-reflections/#comments Fri, 15 Jan 2021 21:04:15 +0000 admin https://www.kathryntoure.net/?p=1924 Coronavirus happened and is still with us. Its impact has been far reaching, and many lives have been deeply disrupted, even lost. Africans have sought to cope with it in various ways, including giving it names of derision, names of defiance, and names that point to a determination to overcome it. In one of Kenya’s [...]]]> https://www.kathryntoure.net/2021/01/15/covid-stories-from-east-africa-and-beyond-lived-experiences-and-forward-looking-reflections/feed/ 0 https://www.kathryntoure.net/2020/08/17/chadian-sister-engages-kansas-city-youth-about-peace-and-justice/ https://www.kathryntoure.net/2020/08/17/chadian-sister-engages-kansas-city-youth-about-peace-and-justice/#comments Mon, 17 Aug 2020 12:58:16 +0000 admin https://www.kathryntoure.net/?p=1891 A woman meets young people from various backgrounds – at a U. S. university. She is African, from Chad. The students, eager to learn about her life, ask probing questions. She tells them about the war, her flight, her refugee status, her experiences in West Africa and Algeria. In turn, she discovers that they are still [...]]]> https://www.kathryntoure.net/2020/08/17/chadian-sister-engages-kansas-city-youth-about-peace-and-justice/feed/ 0 https://www.kathryntoure.net/2020/06/06/usages-et-appropriation-des-technologies-educatives-en-afrique/ https://www.kathryntoure.net/2020/06/06/usages-et-appropriation-des-technologies-educatives-en-afrique/#comments Sat, 06 Jun 2020 19:20:55 +0000 admin https://www.kathryntoure.net/?p=1792 Ce livre veut faire état de l’appropriation des technologies, dans divers contextes africains, par les enseignants et les apprenants de l’enseignement primaire, secondaire et universitaire. Pour ce faire, il présente les travaux de chercheurs de différents pays d’Afrique – Bénin, Burkina Faso, Cameroun, Cote d’Ivoire, Mali, Niger et Sénégal.]]> https://www.kathryntoure.net/2020/06/06/usages-et-appropriation-des-technologies-educatives-en-afrique/feed/ 0 https://www.kathryntoure.net/2020/05/02/ruby-a-novel/ https://www.kathryntoure.net/2020/05/02/ruby-a-novel/#comments Sat, 02 May 2020 18:31:56 +0000 admin https://www.kathryntoure.net/?p=1800 Ruby had stories decades old that she had folded up and tucked away between her spine and her heart…]]> https://www.kathryntoure.net/2020/05/02/ruby-a-novel/feed/ 2 https://www.kathryntoure.net/2020/03/11/feminist-parenting-perspectives-from-africa-and-beyond/ https://www.kathryntoure.net/2020/03/11/feminist-parenting-perspectives-from-africa-and-beyond/#comments Wed, 11 Mar 2020 09:17:55 +0000 admin https://www.kathryntoure.net/?p=1774 “I am happy to have a chapter (8) in this inspirational book: Feminist Parenting: Perspectives from Africa and Beyond.” Kathryn Toure The essays cut across racial, gender, queer, and geographical difference, raising difficult questions regarding what it means to parent as a feminist, and how feminism shapes our experiences and aspirations of parenting. —DR. LYN OSSOME, Senior Research Fellow, Makerere Institute of Social Research, Uganda]]> https://www.kathryntoure.net/2020/03/11/feminist-parenting-perspectives-from-africa-and-beyond/feed/ 5 https://www.kathryntoure.net/2019/10/17/meet-the-author-and-illustrator-of-mary-on-the-move/ https://www.kathryntoure.net/2019/10/17/meet-the-author-and-illustrator-of-mary-on-the-move/#comments Thu, 17 Oct 2019 07:40:30 +0000 admin https://www.kathryntoure.net/?p=1752 KANSAS CITY, MO — Mary on the Move is a graphic novel, based on the life of Author Kathryn Toure’s mother. Kathryn joins us, along with Illustrator Celeste Wimaru to discuss the inspiration behind the book, how they met and started their collaboration in Kenya, and where you can purchase it.]]> https://www.kathryntoure.net/2019/10/17/meet-the-author-and-illustrator-of-mary-on-the-move/feed/ 1 https://www.kathryntoure.net/2019/07/18/une-jeune-fille-sur-un-bateau-ivre-agathe-uwilingiyimana-du-rwanda-par-innocent-butare/ https://www.kathryntoure.net/2019/07/18/une-jeune-fille-sur-un-bateau-ivre-agathe-uwilingiyimana-du-rwanda-par-innocent-butare/#comments Thu, 18 Jul 2019 21:00:57 +0000 admin http://www.kathryntoure.net/?p=1748 Très peu de personnes auront eu à traverser des temps aussi troublés que ceux que vécut Agathe Uwilingiyimana comme Premier ministre du Rwanda avant le génocide. Au sujet de cette femme de tête, ses idées et son action, bien des questions demeurent sans réponse. Qui l’a assassinée et pourquoi ? Aurait-elle tenté un putsch contre le [...]]]> https://www.kathryntoure.net/2019/07/18/une-jeune-fille-sur-un-bateau-ivre-agathe-uwilingiyimana-du-rwanda-par-innocent-butare/feed/ 0 https://www.kathryntoure.net/2017/12/25/reflecting-on-empower-missouri-and-a-life-of-service-conversations-with-mary-kay-mcphee/ https://www.kathryntoure.net/2017/12/25/reflecting-on-empower-missouri-and-a-life-of-service-conversations-with-mary-kay-mcphee/#comments Mon, 25 Dec 2017 15:04:47 +0000 admin http://www.kathryntoure.net/?p=1653 Mary Kay McPhee of Kansas City accepted, at the age of 90, the invitation of Empower Missouri to be interviewed about her life of service. She embodies the Empower Missouri slogan of advocating for justice and empowering change. In her ethical will and the conversations documented here, she shares her life, values, and hopes.]]> https://www.kathryntoure.net/2017/12/25/reflecting-on-empower-missouri-and-a-life-of-service-conversations-with-mary-kay-mcphee/feed/ 0 https://www.kathryntoure.net/2017/11/18/do-you-know-this-missouri-history/ https://www.kathryntoure.net/2017/11/18/do-you-know-this-missouri-history/#comments Sat, 18 Nov 2017 19:02:35 +0000 admin http://www.kathryntoure.net/?p=1630 I was honored to work with students, teachers, school administrators and community members to deepen understanding of history and culture. Hope you are inspired and learn something insightful and useful in browsing through “Do You Know this Missouri History?” by Liberty North High School juniors of Black Students United. So proud of our students!]]> https://www.kathryntoure.net/2017/11/18/do-you-know-this-missouri-history/feed/ 0