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Once again I am leaving the Munich Security Conference in a low mood. Amongst all the noise, the US signalled their plans for Europe, so things are becoming clearer. But things are clearly not good.
This is what we now know, and what we have to do about it:🧵1/17
February 15, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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And how colonialism deliberately worked to undermine heteronormative family practices in black families in Kenya by criminalising black urban masculinities through the kipande system and the forced labour system, and compelled rural urban migration of men as policy.
December 4, 2024 at 8:48 AM
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It’s easy to be sceptical of pan-Africanism. The notion that Africa isn’t just a geographical space but a metaphysical entity whose population, though genetically the most diverse on earth, shares culture, heritage and a common fate, can seem dubious. But, the idea is bred of necessity not genetics.
We must lead the world or be damned
To get us from the back of the global bus to its steering wheel, pan-Africanism needs to be internationalist too.
continent.substack.com
December 3, 2024 at 8:21 AM