Experience and Poverty, by Walter Benjamin (1933)

A short reflection on Walter Benjamin’s ‘Experience and Poverty’ and on why the text still matters for thinking about transmission, crisis, and intellectual rebuilding.

December 2021 · Dr Mahamadou KANTE

For Prof. Nianguiry KANTE, a son who is relearning to live

That place… so calm, so hazy, so sad, so mysterious, so difficult to decipher. A poem about grief, mortality, and learning again how to live.

January 2022 · Dr Mahamadou KANTE

In my imagination

I know you will never be mine But still I close my eyes And imagine how beautiful it would be If we were together In my imagination The world seems to pause And everything feels

May 2024 · Dr Mahamadou KANTE

Reflections on the 2024 Sahel Symposium: presenting HealthyMaman and stimulating partnerships

A fuller reflection on the 2024 Sahel Symposium and on presenting HealthyMaman within a broader conversation about research partnerships.

December 2024 · Dr Mahamadou KANTE

Voltairine de Cleyre, Life or Death

A brief sharing of Voltairine de Cleyre’s powerful dialogue between life and death, and why it continues to resonate.

December 2022 · Dr Mahamadou KANTE