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    Aref, Tunis (2014), courtesy of the Mariane Ibrahim Gallery

    Arts · Culture · Featured · Magazine

    Scarlett Coten, Mectoub: In the Shadow of the Arab Spring

    Author: Negarra A. Kudumu

    The negotiation of identity looms large at the nexus of the colonial past and the postcolonial reality, and it is an important exercise for nations and citizens seeking separation and[...]

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

    Dispatches from Lahore: The Importance of Politicized Ancestral Narratives

    Author: Sania N. Sufi

    Che Guevara once said that revolutions are driven by a deep sense of love.[1] I smile at these words, for I have witnessed such love of humanity in the pedagogical[...]

    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[...]

    Salt-of-Earth

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

    Unsalting the Earth: Sebastião Salgado and Le Sel de la Terre

    Author: Ann Deslandes

    A film about renowned social photographer Sebastião Salgado, created by master documentarian Wim Wenders, makes sense from the outset. The two figures share a history of political commentary, each crafting[...]

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

    De l’humour noir aux caricatures : impensés d’une tradition satirique

    Author: Isolde Lecostey

    Liberté d’expression et humour font l’objet d’une quête permanente de leurs limites. C’est un truisme de rappeler que la liberté n’est pas l’espace ouvert à tous les possibles contenus dans[...]

    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:[...]

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

    Writing Rites of Reclamation: Blackness and Caribbean Remembering

    Author: Melanie Manuel-Webb

    In his Nobel Prize speech Derek Walcott noted that a “sense of elegy, of loss, even of degenerative mimicry” defines our understanding of the sweep of Caribbean and arguably post-plantation[...]

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    Creative · Featured · Magazine

    No is Yes (poetry)

    Author: Manash Bhattacharjee

    Let us treat Yes as a No…and No as a Yes ~ Nikos Karouzos, ‘Texts/Non-fiction/Prose’ Greece, Your no is also a yes To other things, You spurned usurers For Athens’[...]

    Haiti-Slaves

    Civil Discourse · Featured · Magazine

    From Port-au-Prince to Baltimore, with Love

    Author: Lesley Curtis

    A cartoon joking about the ease with which Haitians gained their freedom from French rule bounced around Facebook this week, as protests continued in Baltimore following the death of Freddie[...]

    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[...]

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    Civil Discourse · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    « Je suis Charlie » ? Laïcité, islam et guerre de l’erreur

    Author: Paul Giffard-Foret

    Quelle réponse, s’inscrivant dans une perspective postcoloniale, apporter aux attentats terroristes qui ont eu lieu à l’encontre du journal satirique français Charlie Hebdo, et ont conduit au massacre brutal de[...]

    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,[...]

    MenInTheSun

    Arts · Culture · Featured · Magazine

    “Men in the Sun” and the Modern Allegory

    Author: Nadeen Shaker

    Palestinian novelist Ghassan Kanafani is often compared to William Faulkner, Bertolt Brecht, and occasionally, to Arab authors such as Yahya Haqqi, all bound together as allegorists. The Palestinian novella, Men[...]

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    Civil Discourse · Culture · Featured · Magazine

    Summary Execution: A Recent Episode of Police Violence Against Young, Black Males in Bahia, Brazil

    Author: Cidinha da Silva

    Photo credit: Morgana Damásio. In protest in 2014 against the genocide of the Black population in the city of Salvador, Bahia promoted by the courageous and fearless campaign REAJA OU[...]

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    Civil Discourse · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Defending Charlie Hebdo? Secularism, Islam and the War on Error

    Author: Paul Giffard-Foret

    Photo Credit What postcolonial response can be made of the terrorist attacks on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, which led to the brutal massacre of most its editorial board? On[...]

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    Culture · Featured · Magazine

    What does French National Unity Look Like? Personal Reflections on Charlie Hebdo

    Author: Laura Reeck

    On sabbatical in France, two days before the attacks in Paris I delved back into an essay in progress on immigrant and ethnic minority writing.  Writing it has required solving[...]

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    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[...]

    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[...]

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    Arts · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Black Gay Genius (Book Review)

    Author: Egbert Alejandro Martina

    Travelling with Joseph in the Wake Black Gay Genius, an anthology edited by Steven Fullwood and Charles Stevens, opens with a meditation, a series of haunting questions that linger and will,[...]

    Hmland

    Arts · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Framing Muslim Women: The Problem with Homeland’s Season 4 Campaign

    Author: Mariam Karim

    Image Credit: Wikipedia On my last trip to NYC, I was overwhelmed with Homeland season four’s new advertisement campaign plastered on almost every public bus in the city. The American[...]

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    Civil Discourse · Featured · Magazine

    Beyond the Elections: Politics in Brazil

    Author: Paulo Moreira

    Whenever I am asked about the Brazilian elections, people expect me to say something about the presidential run. It is the only election to which I am entitled to participate[...]

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    Civil Discourse · Featured · Magazine

    Sobre Eleições Brasileiras

    Author: Paulo Moreira

    Sempre que me perguntam sobre as eleições no Brasil, as pessoas esperam comentários sobre a disputa presidencial. É a única eleição em que posso participar como brasileiro vivendo no exterior.[...]

    Haiti-Curtis

    Arts · Culture · Featured · Magazine

    Early Postcolonialism in Haiti: On Being between a Rock and a Hard Place

    Author: Lesley S. Curtis

    Image Credit: Lesley S. Curtis Haiti was postcolonial before postcolonial was cool. As the result of the first successful slave revolt in the Americas, Haiti declared its independence in 1804[...]

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    Civil Discourse · Culture · Featured · Magazine

    A Colonial Miseducation: Language & Unmaking Canadian Identity

    Author: Lee Skallerup Bessette

    I was born in Quebec the same year that Bill 101, or The Charter of the French Language, was passed in the Canadian province. There was something strange, in terms[...]

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    Civil Discourse · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Lições de São Paulo: Uma Mudança Merecida na Política Urbana

    Author: Derek Pardue

    Faltando dias para a eleição presidencial, no dia 5 de outubro, com tantos temas em jogo (veja aqui um resumo), a novela política e ideológica do Brasil segue em suspenso.[...]

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