The development sector sees competence and Europeanness exist at one end of a spectrum, with incompetence and Africanness placed at the other argues Ayesha Fakie Read More
We are not “belligerent,” “dark” or “bitter”
by Tele Ogunyemi Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s recent article ‘Blend it like Britain’ is a masterpiece in how to simultaneously erase and fetishize people of colour. Published on 6th November 2016 in the Sunday Times Magazine to promote Amma Asante’s new film A United Kingdom, the article is littered with racist or otherwise problematic assertions about people… Read More
A Public Life of Intimate Violence
Touched by Patsey’s struggles in the Oscar winning film ’12 Years a Slave’, Karen Williams describes how the film helped her to recognise and articulate the depths of latter day racism in her own ‘Public Life of Intimate Violence’ I have spent decades challenging women to have public lives, and for dark women to insist on their right to it, even with the abuse… Read More
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