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    On Umbrellas… -- Lumley Market, Freetown Sierra Leone, July 2015

    "Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Arts · Creative · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    (Alter)Native Lens: Seeing my Sierra Leone like a Postcolony

    Author: Fodei Batty

    “…the upshot is that while we now feel we know nearly everything that African states societies, economies, are not, we still know absolutely nothing about what they actually are…” (Mbembe[...]

    Tired-poor

    "Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Braving Oceans: Migration and Subjective “Illegality” from the Pilgrim Fathers to Boat Migrants

    Author: Fodei Batty

    One of the greatest lies in the modern history of human migration is famously etched at the feet of Lady Liberty herself. The inscription boldly proclaims only a partial reality:[...]

    Controversial statue. Image credit: UCT Rhodes must Fall

    Civil Discourse · Featured · Magazine

    “Rhodes Must Fall” – Decolonisation Symbolism – What is happening at UCT, South Africa?

    Author: Brian Kamanzi

    Photo credit: UCT Rhodes Must Fall In this moment it appears increasingly clear that the growing levels of inequality and the tensions in national politics in the South African context[...]

    BokoHaram

    Featured · Magazine

    What’s in a name? Boko Haram and the Politics of “Terrorism” in Africa

    Author: Fodei Batty

    Unlike groups such as Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State in Syria and the Levant (also known as Daesh), Boko Haram and other insurgent groups in sub-Saharan Africa are less frequently,[...]

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    Call for Papers · Featured

    Call for Papers, Spring/Summer 2015: “Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom”

    Author: The Editors

    The Spring/Summer 2015 issue of The Postcolonialist invites submissions that explore, analyze, challenge, and re-stage the complex power dynamics involved in determining “free speech,” “freedom of information,” and “radical speech,”[...]

    New_Ebola_isolation_center

    Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Surviving Ebola, Surviving Postcolonialism?

    Author: Fodei Batty

    The Ebola epidemic in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, and the international response to it, has reprised contentious questions about postcolonial paternalism in Africa.  This satirical piece reflects upon these[...]

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    "Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis" (December 2014/January 2015) · Featured · Global Perspectives

    Letter from the Editors: “Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis”

    Author: The Editors

    The year 2014 marked twenty-five years since Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term “intersectionality” to describe how social realities such as “class” or “race” should not be analyzed in isolation, but[...]

    DakArt

    "Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis" (December 2014/January 2015) · Arts · Culture · Featured · Magazine · Releases

    Dak’art 2014: At a crossroads

    Author: Anna Stielau

    Towering over the Senegalese capital of Dakar, the recently completed African Renaissance Monument casts a long shadow that stretches out across the surrounding suburb of Ouakom. Ahead of these three[...]

    ThisCountryIsALieAndWell-Galanin

    Arts · Culture · Featured · Magazine

    Transcendence, Transformation and Continuum: Summer 2014 at Seattle’s Frye Art Museum

    Author: Negarra A. Kudumu

    * All photos courtesy of the Frye Art Museum At present, the exhibitions The Unicorn Incorporated (Curtis R. Barnes) and Your Feast Has Ended (Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes, Nicholas Galanin, and Nep[...]

    Welcome_refugees

    Civil Discourse · Creative · Featured · Global Perspectives

    Refugees, Language, Family, and Cooking: Sermon Excerpt by Ashley Makar

    Author: Ashley Makar

    Everyday at IRIS, the refugee resettlement agency where I work, I can see the shape of justice in a photo that was taken by a volunteer who chartered a bus[...]

    Featured

    Call for Papers: “Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis” (Fall 2014)

    Author: Editors

      The past decade has seen a wave of socio-political and economic changes across the globe. We are witnessing geopolitical conflict on a local as well as international scale, intensified[...]

    Zamora

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Arts · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Laberintos de memorias: Una conversación con Francisco Zamora Loboch

    Author: Martin Repinecz

    Francisco Zamora Loboch[1], o “Paco” para los que lo conocen, es uno de los escritores más conocidos de Guinea Ecuatorial. Nacido en 1948 en la isla guineana de Annobón, su[...]

    DRC Book-1

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Arts · Culture · Featured · Magazine

    Book Review: The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Between Hope and Despair (Michael Deibert, 2013)

    Author: Soraya Aziz Souleymane

    Michael Deibert’s The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Between Hope and Despair is a 260-page well-researched book compiling Congo’s struggles dating back to the 15th century (the moment when the Congolese[...]

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    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Arts · Civil Discourse · Featured · Magazine

    Peter Clarke: Meditations on Space, Place and Movement

    Author: Raél Jero Salley

    The artist Peter Clarke was one of the first people I met on my arrival to Cape Town. As I remember it now, the impact of the quiet, careful elder[...]

    Rael-Exhibition

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Creative · Featured · Magazine

    Vistas: A Visual Project by Raél Jero Salley & Photographs by Jared Thorne

    Note: This creative submission is a sister piece to the critical article, Antinomies of Neighborliness. The two submissions are meant to be viewed in concert. ***** “To my compatriots, I have[...]

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Arts · Creative · Magazine

    Antinomies of neighborliness, or anti-blackness as a reactionary persistence

    Author: Athi Joja

    Note: This article is a sister piece to the creative submission, Vistas. The two submissions are meant to be viewed in concert. Writing in 1961, on the eve of both[...]

    President-Bekolo-Featured

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Arts · Culture · Featured · Magazine

    Review of Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s “Le Président”

    Author: Amber Murrey

    “When will it end? 1982-201?” The open-ended question – with the last digit intentionally left out – fills the final screen of Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s most recent film, Le Président (2013).  The question[...]

    Zamora

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Arts · Culture · Featured · Magazine

    Labyrinths of memories: A conversation with Francisco Zamora Loboch

    Author: Martin Repinecz

    Francisco Zamora Loboch[1], or simply “Paco” to those who know him, is one of Equatorial Guinea’s best-known writers. Born in 1948 on the Equatorial Guinean island of Annobon, his life[...]

    Igbo school girls

    Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Language as a Narrative of Post-Contact Dynamics in Nigeria

    Author: Chidi Ugwu

    C. Wright Mills’ sociological imagination draws attention to the fact that a number of social connections inform the apparently personal life of the individual. Today, even for those who are[...]

    Neighbours

    Arts · Creative · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Vecinos. Neighbours. Film Review: “Home is the planet, don’t accept anything else”

    Author: Raél Jero Salley

    The short film titled Vecinos, translated as Neighbours (9”45) opens with a montage sequence—views of a busy underground metro; graffiti etched and painted onto walls; a sleeping man in a[...]

    Public-Humanities

    Arts · Civil Discourse · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    The Public Humanities and Academe: A Letter from the Editor of The Postcolonialist

    Author: Editor-in-Chief, Lara Dotson-Renta

    It is no longer possible to ignore the need for public and accessible avenues of discourse and debate. As the university model becomes further aligned with a corporate vision of[...]

    GrassIsSinging

    Arts · Culture · Featured · Magazine

    Film Review: Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing (Michael Raeburn, 1981)

    Author: Elizabeth Taylor

    “It is more important to buy a sjambok than a plough” was the advice the prosperous Charlie Muller gave to the young farmer Dick Turner. The sjambok, a long whip[...]

    FireInTheBlood

    Arts · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Fire in the Blood: Medicine, Monopoly, and AIDS in the Global South

    Author: Negarra A. Kudumu

    The story of the global pharmaceutical industry’s complicity in the AIDS related deaths of millions of Africans, Asians and Latin Americans is a story that, like politics and religion, gets[...]

    Hassan-Musa

    Arts · Culture · Featured · Magazine

    Poétique du tableau offert : Entretien avec Hassan Musa

    Author: Alisa Belanger

    Photo Source: hassanmusa.com [U]ne image, dans le fond, c’est comme une bouteille à la mer. J’écris un message que je mets dans une bouteille, que je lance à la mer. Elle[...]

    Hassan-Musa

    Arts · Culture · Magazine

    Poetics of the Visual Text: Interview with Hassan Musa

    Author: Alisa Belanger

    Photo Source: hassanmusa.com [A]n image, deep down, is like a bottle thrown into the sea.  I write a message that I put into a bottle, that I throw to the sea.[...]

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