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SUDAN: THE LONG VIEW will feature a joint talk by
@MakawiRaga
@KholoodKhair
and
@joshua_craze
to offer a nuanced historical understanding of the conflict.
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"In colonial conquest, language did to the mind what the sword did to the bodies of the colonized"
The legendary Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o turns 85 today. Happy birthday 💖✨
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All empires think they are special and that they are somehow benign but they all bring misery, destruction, death...
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Arundhati Roy on how to lay siege to empire 🔥✊🏿♥️
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Happy birthday, Arundhati Roy. You are legend 💖✨
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An extraordinary soul, a beautiful person and a giant of literature.
Ama Ata Aidoo, rest in power ♥️✊🏾
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On why Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o started writing in his mother tongue Gīkūyū.
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It’s all about love, she said
heartsick about Ama Ata Aidoo today but also a tidal wave of gratitude for this legend
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"I answer no." Aimé Césaire's response to that still-prevalent argument that colonization and empire brought civilization.
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Lots of spaces available for our Reading Palestine session. We will read Ghassan Kanafani's Men in the Sun and think, talk, live, love and hold space for Palestine. December 2nd, Saturday. We will send you the reading.
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Our immersive seminar on Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Dr. Antonia Darder was a tour de force. The zoom room was a warm, engaged and generous space as well. Here's a recording if you missed it!
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Arundhati Roy breaks down colonial logic, colonial mindset and colonial strategies of dehumanization in 2002. Today, 21 years later, it has gotten worse. Listen till end.
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Ama Ata Aidoo on 500 years of colonialism in Africa
“Look at us…we’ve given you everything…and you’re still taking.”
H/t
@kadillacgrillz
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the reason why this literary giant asks that we decolonize our minds...
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Happy birthday, James Baldwin! What would we do without you 💖🔥
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if you mock political correctness, something to think about
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Ama Ata Aidoo: Five Decades of Killjoy Feminism
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Education can become the practice of freedom, writes Paulo Freire.
Join our masterclass on Pedagogy of the Oppressed in September
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Patrice Lumumba was assassinated 55 years ago today. He was 36. His electrifying speech on the day of Congo’s independence did not pander to Belgium but spoke of its violence, racism, apartheid, and saluted all those who fought for freedom
full vid:
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Memoricide 💔
Gaza’s main public library has been destroyed.
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New Yorkers, don’t miss this wonderful event at the Museum of the AfricanDiaspora in Brooklyn
@MoADsf
Tsitsi Dangarembga
@EfieZethu
and Angela Davis in conversation 💥♥️
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The one and only Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o has a poem for our times. It arrived with simple instructions: "share far and wide" 💗💫
It was written in response to poems by
@MukomaWaNgugi
and Naveen Kishore of
@seagullbooks
(included) Special thanks to
@jobitek
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“I’m not saying art and culture will replace the rifle—rather, I’m saying there should be no rock left unturned” A brilliant essay on art, literature, representation, culture in the political struggle to free
#Palestine
by
@m7mdkurd
@Mondoweiss
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Rare, wonderful and intense interview with Palestinian revolutionary writer Ghassan Kanafani
#Palestine
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The colonists usually say that it was they who brought us into history: today we show that this is not so. They made us leave history, our history, to follow them, right at the back, to follow the progress of their history.
--AMILCAR CABRAL
assassinated 50 yrs ago today, age 48
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“The history of the world is always the history of weak people…who have the correct case for fighting strong people who use their strength to exploit the weak. These people, the Palestinian people prefer to die standing than to lose its case” - Ghassan Kanafani
#FreePalestine
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#archives
Two brilliant and prolific novelists
@thesailorsgirl
and
@MaazaMengiste
are participating in the Hargeysa International Book Fair
@hibf
2019 in
#Somaliland
A great moment to visit their wonderful conversation from the
@WARSCAPES
archive —>
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Happy birthday, Ghassan Kanafani. He would have been 87 years if he had not been assassinated when he was only 36 years old
#FreePalestine
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“If you can only be tall because somebody is on there knees, then you have a serious problem.”
—Toni Morrison
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#VoguePictures
#UkraineWar
— distasteful, tone-deaf, confounding. Just a reminder that fashion and war have always been best friends.
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One of the conversations from our
#Palestine
literature event.
@suchitrav
and
@Louis_Allday
discuss revolutionary writer Ghassan Kanafani's previously unpublished works of literary criticism in this
#podcast
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“You're a successful novelist…Do you have a chip on your shoulder?"
“Oh yes, I have a chip on my shoulder for being a woman in the 1st place & for being a Black woman in the 2nd place.”
Remembering the trailblazing Nigerian writer Buchi Emecheta who passed away 6 years today
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#ReadPalestine
-- Our reading group on Ghassan Kanafani's "Men in Sun" discussed the story and then shared and read out poems at the end. We assembled all the poems shared during that beautiful session...
1. Mosab Abu Toha's "Desert and Exile"
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You have 4 weeks to read the short but mighty Black and Female by Zimbabwe's Tsitsi Dangarembga. Book club meets on April 15th and is part of our Transformative Futures series
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This beautiful Audre Lorde documentary is streaming for free right now. Please watch this instead of clicking on The help, ugh …
h/t
@gentanishku
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A beautiful coincidence that our reading group will meet during
#ReadPalestine
week!
Lots of spaces available for our Reading Palestine session. We will read Ghassan Kanafani's Men in the Sun and think, talk, live, love and hold space for Palestine. December 2nd, Saturday. We will send you the reading.
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"...now is a particularly important time to return to the words of Palestinian writers themselves. Nowhere can we find more powerful expressions of resistance and the will to endure."
Join us December 2nd online.
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Thread on a few things we recommend you read, watch, engage with today as we are hit with a flood of opinions everywhere:
1. A video from yesterday's event by
@haymarketbooks
featuring
@4noura
@ProfessorKumar
@jkpuar
@KeeangaYamahtta
and
@NaomiAKlein
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Steve Biko, anti-apartheid activist died today 37 years ago after a brutal interrogation. He was only 31 years old.
http://t.co/l2TAjeP1UW
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We are super excited for bringing you our RADICAL FOUNDATIONS seminar on Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed on Sept 30!
This is a great opportunity to learn with Dr. Antonia Darder who will guide us through every chapter of the book.
Register NOW:
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Pyre by Perumal Murugan is a minimalist, gripping, timely novel about toxic traditions, caste violence, misogyny but also young love. Murugan will join our book club hosted by
@doctorpoco
and take questions from the audience.
Sign up:
@WARSCAPES
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Always a pleasure when this Ghassan Kanafani interview starts doing the rounds online.
#Palestine
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“as the world seeks to grasp events in
#Sudan
, there is a spike in news coverage, policy papers, social media attention, but the polyphonic, lyrical and historically substantive nature of the novel is a great way to gain insights into the region today”
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It took forever (thx covid) but our
@WARSCAPES
anthology INSURGENT FEMINISMS: WRITING WAR focused on gender & war is out with
@ZubaanBooksin
South Asia only.
This chubby beauty is totally unique and includes 60+ contributors from all over the world!
👉🏿
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Our first Decolonize That! webcast drops this FRIDAY! 💥
"In the Beginning, There Was Black Feminism" with
@FaniaMakaya
&
@yolandebouka
We're streaming live on FB & Twitter but register on Eventbrite for the YouTube links in advance!
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🔥 🚀 Launching monthly literary salons in fabulous Nairobi!
With the city as backdrop for understanding questions of home, belonging, migration, marginalization, we hope to explore & redraw the maps of African identity.
Feat. Lutivini Majanja, Itoro Bassey, Abdul Adan 🌸💥⚡️
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"If there is to be any proving of our humanity it must be by revolutionary means.”
― Walter Rodney
Next month, come join our book clubs discussing his previously unpublished essays in a collection by
@VersoBooks
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Happy birthday to the legendary James Baldwin, born on this day in 1924!
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Joe Sacco's "Footnotes in Gaza" was excerpted in the inaugural issue of Warscapes magazine when we launched in November 2011.
Joe Sacco, such a hero ❤️: Groundbreaking graphic novel on Gaza rushed back into print 20 years on
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Happy birthday, Angela Davis! Thank you. You make us want to be better human beings ❤️✨
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"The Indian state lays claim over how Kashmiris live, and how they die: the body that does not obey shall be taken. But the youth is turning this equation on its head." via
@project_polis
#Kashmir
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“People rarely win wars, governments rarely lose them. People get killed. Governments moult and regroup, hydra-headed. They use flags first to shrink-wrap people's minds and smother thought, and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury their willing dead.”
— Arundhati Roy 🥀
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"Decolonize That! 5 interventions" -- please join us every Friday this October for conversations hosted by
@bhakti_shringa
&
@wwJJDdo
w/ a sparkling array of guests.
We will discuss
#decolonization
today and engage strategies in sites of struggle.
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Radical Books Collective us proud to sign this “Publishers for Palestine: Statement of Solidarity” calling for a ceasefire and denouncing repression of Palestinian solidarity.
@VersoBooks
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This week, we will dive into this urgent and visually rich book ABOLITION FEMINISM NOW by
@haymarketbooks
Nov 17
NYC: Mika Bar, 25 Thames St, Brooklyn
Philly:
@RobesonHousePHL
4951 Walnut St
Nov 19
Johannesburg: Breezeblock Cafe, Brixton
Online👉🏾
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#FreePalestine
No empire is unique, benevolent, civilized or dignified.
Stop the genocide in Gaza. End the occupation and apartheid.
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Yes, he dared. Thomas Sankara was assassinated on this day over three decades ago. He was only 37 years old 🖤
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African writers worldwide speak out against the murder of Black people in the U.S. A solidarity statement for the movement and protests happening today.
#BlackLivesMatter
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Walter Rodney immersion this month!
Online book club reads Decolonial Marxism published by
@VersoBooks
on March 25th
+++ Documentary screenings:
NYC, March 28
Joburg, March 30 via
@africasacountry
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Tsitsi Dangarembga on writing while black and female.
Read her powerful book with us in April:
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In this famous interview, Ghassan Kanafani confronts the violence of language in masking ground realities while foregrounding
#Palestinian
liberation and quest for justice.
Kanafani was assassinated on this day in 1972
#FreePalestine
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New documentary "ushers Frantz Fanon into a twenty-first century generation that has, perhaps, never known colonialism proper, but has inherited all of its enduring brutalities," writes
@bhakti_shringa
for
@Africasacountry
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Indian cinema has become a battleground that manufactures consensus about violent occupation in Kashmir, sustains hostilities w/ neighboring regions & fosters Hindu nationalism
@bhakti_shringa
@suchitrav
@azadessa
@natashajaved1
will discuss
Livestream👉🏾
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Fascinating story of the Danish trading post in the village of Tranquebar on Tamil Nadu’s Coromandel Coast to supply servants to aristocrats in the 17th century. By
@gautierari
@scroll_in
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February is dedicated intellectual and activist Walter Rodney -
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From “The Historical Roots of African Underdevelopment” by Walter Rodney, essay included in Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution by
@VersoBooks
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"On Zionist Literature" by Ghassan Kanafani is one of the best books of this year, says
@suchitrav
and editor/publisher
@Louis_Allday
speaks about imperative to publish Kanafani's non-fiction and also it is 50 years since he was assassinated.
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Assia Djebar (1936-2015) was an Algerian novelist, filmmaker and historian who continually centered the lives and voices women caught in the throes of war, revolution and patriarchy. Her words ring true as dissenting women the world over rise up for freedom.
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Happy birthday, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 💫✨💕
The only teacher we have ever needed...
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Journalism today is unable to shake off its colonial structures whether its the "foreign correspondent" or the "embed" or the patriotic "propagandist" for the state.
#DecolonizeJournalism
w/
@suchitrav
@parvaizbukhari
@bhakti_shringa
&
@wwJJDdo
link:
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"The Ethiopian government and their allies are intentionally centering the narrative of inter-ethnic violence as a pretext to justify and legitimize ideological and political dominance"
Brave context for
#OromoProtests
@iamsoreti
&
@ThaAyantu
@WARSCAPES
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—coming very soon—
⚡️DECOLONIZE THAT!👊🏿
5 interventions
Episodes will be live-streamed on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube
@WARSCAPES
Individual links coming soon.
#decolonize
#resist
#BlackLivesMatter
#AbolishThePolice
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“Ngũgĩ has continued to focus on supporting “the genius of every language”…One of Ngũgĩ’s favorite projects was the campus screening of Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice—in Māori” — Lovely profile in
@TheAtlantic
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Today marks 50 years since the assassination of Ghassan Kanafani — author, journalist, fighter, leader and from whose writings we grasp the concept of “resistance literature.” We learn from him everyday
#Palestine
#FreePalestine
#RESIST
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We can barely believe it! The legendary AMA ATA AIDOO will visit Radical Books Collective on Sept 22. We'll celebrate 5 decades of her firebrand killjoy feminism w/ our friends
@africasacountry
@brittlepaper
@theaiej1
Diarise, we're still sorting details!
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A much needed travel advisory for the United States from
@amnesty
from 2019 more relevant than ever.
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"Colonialism is like a psychopath’s violent overtaking of a happy family’s home, the decimation of its members, and the profiteering of the family’s suffering and material resources."
@AdhiamboKE
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Have you signed up yet? Tsitsi Dangaremgba is a multi-genre artist who writes novels and films. Black and Female is her first book of essays which seamlessly blends manifesto, memoir and theory.
April 8th, lets dive into it!
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What is a Radical Book?
@bhakti_shringa
on the searing feminist novel that was a transformative experience.
The Radical Books Collective promises to bring you new ways of reading, thinking, engaging w/ books.
Check out our brilliant line up:
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Frankétienne is without doubt one of the most important figures in Haitian literature and arts. Today, 10 yrs after
#HaitiEarthquake
this excerpt from
#archives
trans by Kaiama Glover illustrates the richness of culture, lit, art, memory in
#Haiti
♥️
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Importing optimism from the heart of an occupation
#Kashmir
- the brilliant
@parvaizbukhari
claims that certain longstanding structures have indeed begun to unravel thanks to online and social media spaces. Listen in full👇🏾
#DecolonizeJournalism
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Its Angela Davis day! An important reminder from this legendary activist that it is collectivities and communities that breathe meaning into everything.
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"My sadness gathers force" writes
@Sisonkemsimang
expressing a world plunged in grief as lives remain hostage to a range of injustices and crises...
@GuernicaMag
Grief Is Another Word For Love
Ultimately, we do not want to love only the dead.
www.guernicamag.com
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Frantz Fanon's potent work Black Skin, White Masks turns 70 this year! Our Radical Foundations masterclass is in 5 weeks -- until then, lets get reading.
On Fanon and afterlives by
@bhakti_shringa
for
@africasacountry
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The lists are long and impressive! 💪🏿Ethiopian women are the new face of African leadership, writes
@jamamusse
#Ethiopia
#WomenInSTEM
#womenpower
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Excited to get a copy Black Foam by Haji Jabir translated by our absolute favorites
@mlynxqualey
&
@sawadhussain
Longlisted for Arabic Fiction prize in 2019, this novel follows Ethiopian Jews emigrating to Israel.
Perhaps a book club or podcast? Whatsay
@arablit
friends?
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"“Decolonizing” the curriculum can never just be about reading lists or adding a few non-Western thinkers to a course. Pedagogy plays as big of a role in what we teach as the readings we choose to teach with."
@saramsalem
on an "anticolonial archive"
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Presenting MollyCrabapple:
@oliviasnaije
calls her a 21st century Renaissance woman MUSTREAD
http://t.co/p7ZEt2WU3G
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It’s here, it’s beautiful and it’s the only primer you will need to understand the colonial history of museums and the many movements attempting to decolonize, disrupt, abolish them
Get your copy of
@shimritlee
book now
@orbooks
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"Before maps, the world was limitless"
-- Abdulrazak Gurnah ❤️
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