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During the COVID-19 pandemic, India’s Narendra Modi government has been successful in scapegoating, discriminating against and marginalizing minorities, putting lives at greater risk.
The culture of remembrance in Germany is viewed by many as exemplary. But it has some grave shortcomings.
Xenophobia negates the spirit of pan-Africanism, especially its ideal that Africans share a mutual bond, regardless of their geographical location.
Hollywood will allow the world of the Black Panther to be black, only if it doesn’t hurt white people’s feelings.
“Critique of Black Reason” offers readers insight into how the construction of race and racism underpins our understanding of modernity.
South Africa’s universities are in a state of upheaval. Academic developers must rethink their own purpose and how they work with academics in this environment to foster positive change.
The late Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko and political philosophers Frantz Fanon and Achille Mbembe top the list of writers who get routinely abducted by discerning pirates of the book world.
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