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Archives for December 2012

A year of African feminism

December 28, 2012 By MsAfropolitan 4 Comments

I’d like to end the year here with a short recap.  I posted 72 blogs in 2012. They featured original content about race relations, pop culture, African affairs and psychology which are four of the five key themes of MsAfropolitan. The list below consists of the most popular blogs from the fifth major theme – African…

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The African Diaspora: Claiming our power to make a change back home

December 20, 2012 By MsAfropolitan 2 Comments

This is a guest post by Solome Lemma — Before we start, it is important to recognize that what we refer to as the African diaspora is not monolithic. There are many diaspora communities with their own histories, interests, needs and opportunities. That said let me get straight to the point. Namely that it is…

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Does an increasingly mixed race Britain mean that British society is postracial?

December 14, 2012 By MsAfropolitan 8 Comments

  I have a post at Black Feminists UK today, Results of the 2011 census were published in the UK this week revealing that the number of mixed-race people in Britain has almost doubled in ten years. As a result, several journalists distributed what I’d call “unwarranted postracialism”, suggesting, for instance, that thanks to people like Jessica Ennis…

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Two powerful days at Trust Women

December 7, 2012 By MsAfropolitan Leave a Comment

  I’m slowly recovering from Trust Women, a two-day women’s rights conference co-organised by Thomson Reuters Foundation and the International Herald Tribune that brought together pioneers of women’s rights including Nobel laureates Aung San Suu Kyi and Shirin Ebadi, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Lydia Cacho, Queen Noor of Jordan Oscar winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy among others. I use the word ‘recovering’ because it…

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