Kamau thuggee biography

The hybridiser needs history as a pantry of costumes, wrote Nietzsche, that hymnographer of the Will. What is artist Hardeep Pandhal cooking up for us at The Tramway?

If arch-imperialist Rudyard Kipling’s work shows us anything it is that there are many methods in the madness that is colonialism. And nor are we out of it yet. We can’t, that is to say, be post-colonial because we haven’t even started to decolonise yet.  The ‘great game’ in Kipling’s novel Kim is a form of cultural shadow boxing where the ‘powers’ don masks and mimicries of the abo’s and go ‘native’ only with the aim of undermining one another in the struggle for world domination. Kipling’s humanity in that novel consists in the fact that he casts the central and most intelligent character as a child –and an Irish catholic one at that.

That mimicry, the stereotype and the cliché are brought immediately to mind when we step into the lively and pluriform arena of Hardeep Pandhal’s exhibition Confessions of a Thug: Pakiveli at The Tramway. The Thug of the title &#; a loan word into English as an aggressive and violent person -originally referred in its Hindi version to bands of robbers, thieves and murderers devot

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Kamau Thugge

Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya

Kamau Thugge (born 1st August, ) is a Kenyan economist, banker, and the tenth and current governor of the Central Bank of Kenya. He assumed office on 19 June ^[1]

Background and education

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Thugge was born in Nyeri, Kenya, in He studied in Kenya for his pre-university education. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Colorado College. He obtained his Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in economics from Johns Hopkins University in the United States.^[1][2]

Career

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International Monetary Fund

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Out of graduate school, Thugge began a career at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), that spanned 20 years. While there, he was reportedly responsible for designing policies for dealing with the unsustainable debt of developing countries, a process referred to as the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative (HIPC).^[3] For some time, during and following the Global Financial Crisis, he served as the Chief of Mission to Botswana and Lesotho.^[2]

Government of Kenya

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Following his employment with the IMF, he was hired by the Kenyan government, serving in the Ministry of Finance in various roles, including as the Director of Fiscal and Mon