This is a blog that studies the liberal arts through a post-structuralist lens.

Traditionally, the arts and sciences were never at odds. They were complementary and unified to cultivate well-rounded, critically thinking individuals, yet today we’re often caught in a tug-of-war between STEM and the Humanities, where each side is pushed as mutually exclusive, each serving different agendas.

This binary is reductive as there’s so much nuance and possibility in the grey. Partial Arts was born to honour the space in-between and provide a home for critical reflections, creativity and those who believe ideas should challenge and ultimately reveal something deeper.

The central purpose of Partial Arts is to uncover the principles on which the seven liberal arts are based and apply them in an African context, to introduce readers to the radical act of meaning-making and unify knowledge that’s been hidden in code.

To those blessed with the heart of an artist but the mind of a scientist, stay weird. Perhaps you were never meant to choose between the two.