This Series addresses the question of human freedom from the perspective of the damned of the ear... more This Series addresses the question of human freedom from the perspective of the damned of the earth, those on the underside of history. Each speaker, engaged in radical intervention across different emancipatory, anti-colonial struggles, considered how communities are thinking about and forging alternative futures. Speakers included Randolph B. Persaud, S’bu Zikode, Nigel Gibson, Françoise Vergès, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, and Irene Calis.
Africa, in popular imagination, is often separated into two disconnected worlds of the North and ... more Africa, in popular imagination, is often separated into two disconnected worlds of the North and South. The conceptual divide arguably rests on what is perceived to be a ‘natural’ physical divide, namely the Saharan desert. Above and below the desert expanse, a seemingly homogenous Islamic and Arabic speaking ‘North Africa’ is differentiated from the remainder of the continent below, the ‘Africa’ of ‘black’ nation-states. This schism is normalised in multiple spheres, at the level of political discourse and policy, in development and aid work, and through news media reporting about the continent.
This Series addresses the question of human freedom from the perspective of the damned of the ear... more This Series addresses the question of human freedom from the perspective of the damned of the earth, those on the underside of history. Each speaker, engaged in radical intervention across different emancipatory, anti-colonial struggles, considered how communities are thinking about and forging alternative futures. Speakers included Randolph B. Persaud, S’bu Zikode, Nigel Gibson, Françoise Vergès, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, and Irene Calis.
Africa, in popular imagination, is often separated into two disconnected worlds of the North and ... more Africa, in popular imagination, is often separated into two disconnected worlds of the North and South. The conceptual divide arguably rests on what is perceived to be a ‘natural’ physical divide, namely the Saharan desert. Above and below the desert expanse, a seemingly homogenous Islamic and Arabic speaking ‘North Africa’ is differentiated from the remainder of the continent below, the ‘Africa’ of ‘black’ nation-states. This schism is normalised in multiple spheres, at the level of political discourse and policy, in development and aid work, and through news media reporting about the continent.
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