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Why Spike Lee was right about Django Unchained
Spike Lee did the right thing in publicly taking issue with Django Unchained, the latest Quentin Tarantino movie about a freed African slave who embarks on a violent journey to save his wife. The wife...
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Does an increasingly mixed race Britain mean that British society is postracial?
I have a post at Black Feminists UK today, Results of the 2011 census were published in the UK this week revealing that the number of mixed-race people in Britain has almost doubled in ten years. As...
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Q & A with Walter Mosley about Ferguson, race and his latest novel
What I especially admire about Walter Mosley, author of 37 critically acclaimed books including DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS, is that although his novels explore serious matters, they make a light read. In...
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Watching ‘Concerning Violence’.
The trailer for Göran Hugo Olsson’s ‘Concerning Violence’. I just watched ‘Concerning Violence’.’ ‘Anger. Catharsis. Birth. Small paroxysms of ritualistic release.’ ‘I also felt...
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Why you should read Assata Shakur in times of Ferguson
Having witnessed police officers mercilessly beat up a group of young hippies, Assata Olugbala Shakur, at the time a young activist in the Black Students Union in New York, had an epiphany. It was...
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Review of Fruitvale Station
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice,” said Martin Luther King famously in this speech. This may be so, but for Americans of African descent, one might add that it bends...
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The African Femme Fatale
Via weheartit.com As the year comes to an end, I thought that I would like my last post of the year to be about something exciting, a feminine energy we could do well channeling more of in 2014....
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Meditations with Lorna Simpson
Why do I like pictures that seem ghostly? I’m not religious and I am no more spiritual than any one else. I’m not an atheist either but I cherish rational argument. I spend quite a lot of my time...
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What I liked about Louise Mensch’s reality-based feminism piece
TweetIn a much debated OpEd last week by former conservative MP, Louise Mensch, Mensch defiantly declares that intersectionality is bollocks and that she for one, has “no intention of checking her...
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Apart from Chinua Achebe, which other African writers deserve the Nobel Prize...
TweetIn the lead up to the short list announcement for the Nobel Prize in Literature on 30 May, headlines this week brought to the fore the problematic obsession that some people have with the Nobel...
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Why African women should blog
TweetThe world has never been as patriarchal as it is today. I’m not claiming that individual societies don’t treat their women better than they did previously, but in the globalised, interconnected...
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Barack Obama, villain or hero?
Tweet When it comes to places, the affection that I have for my hometown, Lagos, is matched only by a sort of nostalgia that I harbour towards Tampere, the Finnish city I’m from, which shapes many of...
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Why Spike Lee was right about Django Unchained
TweetSpike Lee did the right thing in publicly taking issue with Django Unchained, the latest Quentin Tarantino movie about a freed African slave who embarks on a violent journey to save his wife. The...
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Does an increasingly mixed race Britain mean that British society is postracial?
Tweet I have a post at Black Feminists UK today, Results of the 2011 census were published in the UK this week revealing that the number of mixed-race people in Britain has almost doubled in ten...
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10 inspiring black British women, suggestions for BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour...
TweetImage by MMagallan BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour is to publish a Power List to rank the 100 most powerful women in the UK at the start of 2013. The list will answer – Which women have the biggest...
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The multiple jeopardy of being an African woman
Tweet This is the last in a series of posts discussing intersectionality. Read the previous two here and here. In this clip of The Actors, Denzel Washington speaks about the advice he has given to his...
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A cultural history of intersectionality, and it dates back to Sojourner Truth
TweetThis is part II of three blogs about intersectionality. Read the first post here. “Woman is the Nigger of the World” and “The Black Man’s Burden” When Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term...
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Why you need to know about intersectionality
TweetMy next three blogs are going to be about intersectionality, a theory that originates from the black feminist struggle and that has since truly revolutionised academic thought and even state...
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Nina Simone, Zoe Saldana and the question of glamour
Tweet On this your certain journey Do you ever doubt you have a beauty to match the strength of those of us who carve a strength to match your beauty? ~Abena P.A. Busia Images of Zoe Saldana at the...
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Seven things about gorillas and Africa
Tweet Why write about gorillas and Africa? Because there is an alarm about Gorillas in the midst of Congo conflict /////// One ~ Tourists will generally shy away from unstable regions but this is not...
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