Wanderlust

Since my teen years, I had wanderlust. I voraciously studied languages in preparation for the travels of my dreams. My …

Anti-Blackness in the Anti-Trafficking Movement: “Modern-Day Slavery” and the Erasure of Racial Slavery

I read this passage in Tryon P. Woods’ 2013 article entitled, “Surrogate Selves: Notes on Anti-Trafficking and Anti-Blackness”: “…the anti-trafficking …

Links and News Roundup: 12 November 2013

Solome Lemme, “Against the Gospel of ‘Africa Rising.’” On the continent, despite improvements in national economies, technology, and certain human …

“Re-Branding Africa” and “Africa Rising”: Whose Africa? Whose Rise?

I just finished reading Afrolicious’ “An Open Letter to African Writers, Artists and Creators of the 21st Century” and I …

A Case for the Use of “Coloniality” versus “Colonial/Postcolonial”

I am beginning to think that colonial/postcolonial are insufficient terms for conceptualizing the occupation and exploitation of lands and peoples. …

Akátá- or how I realized that Afrocentrism was not for me

By no means am I a ‘natural’ citizen here in the US. I have the trappings of belonging- state-issued IDs, …