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‘Decolonize the Mind’: Black South Africans Are Figuring Out How to Heal From the Mental Damage of Apartheid
Black South Africans have been fighting for their right to live with dignity since before the time of King Shaka Zulu. Millions are still trying to heal from the brutality of an institutionally racist system that placed them in the lowest social status—below the “coloreds,” who were below white people. Now black South Africans have…
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Audiences Across Africa Hail Black Panther for Humanizing Black Characters
On Sunday night, I sat in a crowded room in Canal Olympia Téranga, the only movie theater in Dakar, Senegal, that was showing Black Panther. With all the seats around me occupied, I waited to see what the “black people” in the movie would look like, what they would sound like. Would they use that…
Chika Oduah is a Nigerian-American journalist reporting out of Africa, on Africa for The Root