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Africa Is A Country

By SindreDecember 5, 2018'Race', Achille Mbembe, Anthropology, Apartheid, Cameroon, Colonialism, Cultural racism, Decolonization, Far right, Frantz Fanon, Nationalism, Nazism, Neo-liberalism, Neo-racism, Norway, Paul Gilroy, Political liberalism, Populism, Postcolonialism, Public sphere, Racism, South Africa, The Black Atlantic, USA, W. E. B. Du Bois, Xenophobia

My essay on Prof Achille Mbembe, Frantz Fanon and Mbembe’s ‘Critique of Black Reason’ (Duke UP, 2017) for Africa Is A Country.

Antirasistisk.no

By SindreOctober 26, 2018'Race', Achille Mbembe, Africa, Cameroon, Cultural racism, Decolonization, History, Neo-liberalism, Neo-racism, Norway, Paul Gilroy, Public sphere, Racism, Slavery, South Africa, Xenophobia

A short essay of mine on the life and work of one of the world’s leading postcolonial intellectuals, Prof Achille Mbembe (b. 1957 – in Cameroon) of Wits and Harvard University, ahead of his first ever visit to Norway (Universitetets Aula, Bergen, Dec 1 and House of Literature, Oslo, Dec 2 2018.)

Afrika.no

By SindreOctober 15, 2018Colonialism, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural racism, Danish West Indies, Decolonization, Freedom of expression, Neo-liberalism, Norway

An essay of mine originally published by Africa Is A Country has now been made available in a Norwegian version, courtesy of the fine website afrika.no, run by the Norwegian Council For Africa.

Africa Is A Country

By SindreSeptember 4, 2018Colonialism, Counter speech, Cultural racism, Danish West Indies, Decolonization, Neo-liberalism, Neo-racism, Norway, Postcolonialism, Public anthropology, Racism, Slavery

My new essay for Africa Is A Country on ‘decolonization debates’ in Norway.

Samora Magazine

By SindreAugust 24, 2018'Race', Civil rights, Colonialism, Cultural racism, Decolonization, Neo-liberalism, Neo-racism, Paul Gilroy, Postcolonialism, Racism, Slavery, The Black Atlantic, W. E. B. Du Bois

My essay on Paul Gilroy and his seminal The Black Atlantic twenty-five years on for the Norwegian anti-racist magazine Samora 2/2018 is now online.

Africa Is A Country

By SindreApril 13, 2018'Race', Cultural racism, Decolonization, Paul Gilroy, Postcolonialism, Racism, The Black Atlantic, Visual cultures of racism, W. E. B. Du Bois

My New essay about Paul Gilroy and his seminal The Black Atlantic: Modernity And Double Consciousness twenty-five years on for Africa Is A Country.

Samora

By SindreJuly 1, 2015Antisemitism, Cultural racism, Decolonization, Extremism, Far right, Genocide, Germany, Hate speech, History, Holocaust/Shoah, Human rights, Islamophobia, Jews, Muslims, Nazism, Neo-racism, Norway, Racism, South Africa

My own and Cora A. Døving’s primer on racism – Hva er rasisme? [What is racism?] Universitetsforlaget, 2015 – has been reviewed by Mohamed Abdi for the Norwegian journal Samora. The review can be read in full in Norwegian here: http://mohamed86a.tumblr.com/post/122836319840/hva-b-r-antirasisme-i-var-tid-vaere

Re-envisioning the history of human rights: Reading Samuel Moyn

By SindreMay 10, 2015Antisemitism, Decolonization, France, Genocide, Germany, History, Holocaust/Shoah, Human rights, Humanitarianism, Islam, Liberal internationalism, Muslims, Nazism, Norway, Political liberalism, UNDHR 1948, World War IIJeremy Waldron, Jürgen Habermas, Lynn Hunt, Michael Ignatieff, Michael Rosen, Samuel Moyn, Tony Judt

There is a deep and undeniable sadness in all this: whenever we see the dawn of an eternal good that will never be overcome by evil – an evil that is itself eternal but will never succeed in overcoming good – whenever we see this dawn, the blood of old people and children is always […]

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