Come ride with Malitia Malimob
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Africa is a Country ran a profile on #Somalia-via-Seattle rap duo Malitia Malimob two years ago. On the heals of the release of their latest album, #Seattle-based journalist Devon Leger sat.....
#MUSIC_PAGE #Africa_Rising #Afropolitans #East_Africa #hip_hop #immigration #USA
]]>“An African City,” the #web_series about five single women in #Accra, #Ghana
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For the last few weeks social #MEDIA has been abuzz with comments about a new web series set in Accra called #An_African_City. The series tells the story of the ’Afropolitan Returnee’ and as one viewer aptly put it: it is “Sex and the City meets Americanah where she [the book’s protagonist] goes back to Lagos.” Though not as finely tuned.
#VIDEO #Africa_Rising #Afropolitans #Girlfriends #Sex_and_the_City
]]>An #Afropean Journey
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A few years ago, on a snowy January evening, a stranger mistook me for someone he had seen the previous week, aboard an evening train heading to Frankfurt. The moment lasted seconds, but our brief encounter would serve as a catalyst for what became a lifelong journey of (self-)discovery. As a mixed race teenager growing […]
#HISTORY #Afro_Europeans #Afropeans #Afropolitans #culture #Europe
]]>Why I’m Not An Afropolitan
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Last summer, I was invited to take part in a discussion, ‘Fantasy or Reality? Afropolitan Narratives of the 21st Century’, as part of Africa Writes 2013 Festival. I was joined on the panel by Minna “Ms Afropolitan” Salami and the journalist Nana Ocran. Professor Paul Gilroy was the Chair. At the time I was researching […]
]]>The Afropolitan Must Go
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My first thought when reading #Taiye_Selasi’s 2005 essay ‘Bye-Bye Barbar’ (or ‘What is an Afropolitan?’) was that this is the kind of sludge that would piss off Binyavanga Wainaina. One quick google and lo and behold: “For Wainaina, Afropolitanism has become the marker of crude cultural commodification — a phenomenon increasingly ‘product driven,’ design focused, […]
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