This paper analyses four different but connected explanations for addressing environmental change on Mount Kilimanjaro. These explanations are: the scientific, the chiefly, the economic, and that which pertains to social policy. Scientists document that the glaciers on Mount Kilimanjaro are thinning and disappearing. Descendants within chiefly lineages argue that t...

This article argues that current efforts in parts of Africa to teach Chinese language and culture to university students is an example of how sometimes polarised understandings of education as 'western' or 'northern' are re-mapped on to an East Asian-oriented future. The first part of the article applies a Weber-inspired theory of rationalisation to a rethinking of...