Word: africanã
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...album breaks most genre-categories. Its aim is the creation of a moving and gorgeous sound, and it succeeds gloriously. This is the “African?? music all of the Vampire Weekends have been striving to create for years: unbridled, joyful, lush, and paradoxically cosmic...
...Against the colonial myths that the Mau Mau epitomized intrinsically “African?? savagery, history makes clear systematic British inhumanity. Even though the rebels were responsible for the deaths of almost 2,000 locals enlisted in the colonial cause, more than 10,000 Kenyans were killed by the British, with some estimates running much, much higher (in contrast, only 90 Europeans were murdered by the rebels). The British ran infamous concentration camps, assisted actively by their (civilian) settlers, one of whom described his role in the interrogation process as follows: “Things got a little...
...black women at Harvard, performed by Expressions Dance Company, ABHW members, and BlackCAST (Community and Student Theater). Depicting ABHW’s evolution throughout the decades, performances ranged from a recitation of the Glenis Redmond’s poem “If I Ain’t African?? to an Expressions performance set to the ’90s song “Tootsie Roll.” In addition to recognizing the history of ABHW and black Harvard students in general, organizers said they hoped this weekend’s celebrations would show the fruition...
...comes to the conclusion that the harm done by involuntary circumcision must be weighed against its “contributions to the meanings of particular African??identities.” Appiah spends pages analyzing the alternatives and justifying his own notion of cosmopolitanism through the lens of the liberal philosophical tradition. He makes philosophical sense out of common sense, bending and plying theories of great thinkers of the past and present to assemble a comprehensive assessment of the meaning of identity...
...comes to the conclusion that the harm done by involuntary circumcision must be weighed against its “contributions to the meanings of particular African??identities.” Appiah spends pages analyzing the alternatives and justifying his own notion of cosmopolitanism through the lens of the liberal philosophical tradition. He makes philosophical sense out of common sense, bending and plying theories of great thinkers of the past and present to assemble a comprehensive assessment of the meaning of identity...