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In 1998 Prof Dickson Eyoh, now Associate Professor at Toronto, wrote in Africa Today about the"dichotomy between African intellectuals (particularly but not exclusively those located on the continent) and their
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Greta LaFleur
GretaLaFleur
Ok, so I obviously fully agree that the “canon” of eighteenth-century Anglophone texts and their authors is a trash fire. But as someone who works on the C18– a field
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Wokal Distance
wokal_distance
1/I mean, dude, it's right in your own quote. Mills likes what postmodernism does politically and he says so in the highlited portion of the bit YOU quoted. Also, he
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Lee Jones
DrLeeJones
Dreadful but predictable response to the @SecDialogue #SecuritizationTheory imbroglio. Demanding that basic standards of scholarship be upheld, and insisting on a clear, defensible definition of racism, now constitutes "assault" o
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Rachel Esplin Odell
resplinodell
The US FONOP against India's restrictions on foreign military exercises in its EEZ is based on the US government's view that India's position violates international law.The reality—as with most contentious
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JuergenDinkel
JuergenDinkel
As the 65th anniversary of the Bandung conference is approaching some facts&thoughts about this historical event.The conference took place in Bandung, Indonesia on 18– 24 April 1955. 340 delegates from
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Uchenna
uchennangwe
I'm a day late to the amazing #ShowMeTellMe sharing organised by @BlackInArtsHums! I'm a Music PhD creative practice candidate at @TrinityLaban researching ways of increasing visibility of Black histories in
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Ruchir Sharma
ruchirsharma_1
The vast majority of our Anglophone elite is so deracinated and disconnected from Indians outside their South Delhi, South Bombay, and Civil Lines gated communities, that they Orientalise and Other
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wilfred chan
wilfredchan
There are not neat analogies to Western politics for Hong Kong's movement. So many tropes & binaries Westerners take for granted — East vs. West, left vs. right, capitalism vs.
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Mohammad Ali Musawi
malimusawi
Yesterday the EU Delegation in #Iraq along with the embassies of the UK & Canada raised the rainbow flag in Baghdad to mark #IDAHOBIT2020 sparking outrage and bewilderment. Here are
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Televassi, Drinker of Mead, Teller of Tales
Televassi
There's some discussion around whether the classics of English Lit are bad actually, and I can't wait to paraphrase for you all the reasons why it's a complicated but valid
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Youssef Cherif
Faiyla
A new trend to attack Turkey in Tunisia is to call the Ottomans invaders and to link them to the French colonization of Tunisia. Proponents of these stories are the
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Helen Pluckrose has returned to Hermit Mode
HPluckrose
Yes, there is a mess here. I think this is where the biggest divide between theory & activism occurs. I can explain why I think this happens.https://twitter.com/jenniferkrhn/status/1309830168215654403 Queer theory is
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Helen Pluckrose has returned to Hermit Mode
HPluckrose
I don't think they do. I have always believed this was obvious intellectually but have also personally experienced the 'seeing through the lens' and it was deeply alarming. I shall
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someotherva
atharva_karn
Police brutality in India is a direct result of the country's colonial legacy.[A Thread] The Indian Police was founded on the basis of laws (The Police Act, 1861) enacted during
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Uwagbale Edward-Ekpu
uwagbale_
From 1400s - 1900s, the "Igbu" which the Portuguese referred to as "Mukponoqua or Bini cloth was a currency & sought after commodity by Europeans & West Africans. The cloth
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