Tag / colonialism
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Boycotting Rhodes
In 2000, Professor Kwaw “Andreas Woods” Imana stepped up to the podium to give the valedictorian speech at Morehouse College’s graduation. Morehouse is a private all-male historically black college, and it has produced the most black male Rhodes Scholars in the world. To the audience’s surprise and raucous support, Professor Imana revealed during his speech…
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The Empire Strikes Back: Soccer In A Postcolonial World
As the final whistle blows at a World Cup Quarter Final watch party in Miami, I leave the venue alongside dozens of silent yellow-clad Brazil fans, many on the verge of tears. With their heartbreaking 2-1 defeat to Belgium, Brazil’s elimination narrows the competition to six teams going into the second leg of the Quarter-Finals—all…
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Art Repatriation: An Ethical Obligation
With deep brown and perfectly symmetrical eyes, Ka-Nefer-Nefer, as depicted on her funerary mask, stares intently forward, prepared for her entrance into the afterlife. In accordance with ancient Egyptian belief, the funerary mask is intended to provide a means for the ba, or the spirit of the deceased, to recognize and return to its mummified…
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Talking Heads: Robert Mugabe
To escape the bitter St. Louis chill over break, Talking Heads hopped over to Harare, Zimbabwe, warmed by the African sun and the kind welcome that President Robert Mugabe so graciously gave us. Never mind the American government has said he is undermining democracy, the man knows how to be a good host. Talking Heads:…
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When One Nation Becomes Two
On January 9th, citizens living in southern Sudan will vote on a referendum to secede from the northern part of the country. A clock in the town of Juba, the political center of southern Sudan, counts down to this referendum, symbolical of the locals’ excitement to part from the hegemonic north. Nearby, the Darfur genocide…
