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I keep going on and on about colonial systems of discipline and punishment because that is LITERALLY what is in our law books.Look at the dates most laws punishing Kenyans

"I think she's frozen" "in the eyes of every editor in the world I was my ethnicity" "any journalist could go to Pakistan and claim they had breakfast with terrorists

You know, there's a way U.S. scholars are completely uninterested in Claude McKay *as* Jamaican, and will happily use "Black Diaspora" and "Black Atlantic" to unthink Jamaica.It irritates me. A

Reading deliberately and with care is more important than reading a lot.While I think this is absolutely true for people with limited resources - not many people have access to

One day I might write something about how tired I am about "Africans need to tell our own stories."And the assumptions thata) we do not tell our own stories every

this introduction is inviting and generous I like it Prof. Gloria Wekker up now Started engaging with afropessimism because was asked by editor if she wanted to write a review

I've been thinking about that "Africa has been spared from Rona" nonsense from NPR.About the narrowness of it. About the lie. We have not been spared job losses.Poor people were

Not what I do, but I keep thinking we need a book that tracks colonial administrators and laws as they move across geohistories.Who moved from India to Africa? Who moved

As I was watering stuff this morning, I started thinking of that interview with Frank B. Wilderson III.https://mg.co.za/friday/2020-07-02-part-iii-afropessimism-and-rituals-of-anti-black-violence/?fbclid=IwAR23dEOgf6NtC8waC2sAodhiKUoY2wR1Zt

because I practice what I preach: I bought a WHOLE BAG of KSL SWEETS, not CANDYit cost 160 bobsome of you are spending 160 on ONE chocolateI HAVE ENOUGH KSL

And as these books go out of copyright and different editions become available, we are losing many important Introductions and Prefaces that created intellectual and historical genealogies.(I'm a Harlem Renaissance

Genealogies are important. Very important.Because of important Black feminist work in the 1970s and 1980s, it was possible to write scholarship in the 1990s and 2000s that cited Black feminists.