Tigritude: Of the Souls and Spiritual Strivings of Aime Cesaire and Leopold Senghor
“A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces” (Wole Soyinka, 1964) The Newtonian equation…
Browsing: Racism
Black Lives Matter: ‘Get Your Knee off My Neck’, ‘I Can’t breathe’
‘I was born to work up to my grave, but I was not born to…
Racism
At the center of misdiagnosing racism has always been, for years, the undermining of the…
Only privilege speaks: White racism & black hypocrisy(Around hair politics) in South Africa
Privilege and proximity to whiteness speaks. A position of privilege and relative proximity to whiteness…
#StopRacismAtPretoriaGirlsHigh
‘It saddens me that these 13 year olds from Pretoria Girls High are put in…
LUISTER – The doccie that exposes racism at Stellenbosch University
Source: http://www.enca.com/ STELLENBOSCH – Luister is a documentary about the lives of students of colour who…
Racism Masked as Innocence
One shockingly disturbing example of blatant racism being masked as “innocent tradition” is ZWARTE PIET…
Air you can breathe
At the Wits panel on ‘decolonization’ the rage was palpable, the anxiety intense. Like many…
Human zoos
source: Wikipedia (http://wikipedia.org) Human zoos (also called ethnological expositions or Negro Villages) were 19th- and…