December 2011
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Dambudzo Marechera Interview with Flora Veit-Wild,...
DM: I think, in a very macho society, to display feelings of love is actually to display weakness, that it is not male, that it is not a sign of strength to in any way emotionally rely on another person, and also that virility, male sexuality, is not dependent on mutual understanding but on conquest...That is the kind of attitude I grew up with in Vengere township. That is what I also wrote about in The House of Hunger. . . This is also what silences me sometimes, usually when I feel that I love somebody. I then remember all the things I have been brought up with.
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“At a certain point in her life, she realizes it is not so much that she wants to...”
– Lydia Davis | ‘A Double Negative’
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“But she was upset, and made even more so by Odenigbo’s expression, as if...”
– from Chimamanda Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun, p.128-9
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Yes We Know It's Christmas say African musicians... →
Speaking at the launch of the single, whose proceeds will go towards teaching discipline, literacy and contraception at British schools, composer and singer Boomtown Gundane said that for years he had been irked by Geldof’s assumption that hungry Africans were also stupid.
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Gundane said he hoped that his involvement with the song would turn him into an expert on British...
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Jorge Ben | Menina Mulher da Pele Preta
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“You are the central movement of the hour. You’re raising questions that...”
– Message from Mumia Abu Jamal to Occupy Wall St
Predictably grim comments underneath the blog post here, but a few salient and sensible voices - especially JackStrawfromWichita
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1951 Census | population by place of birth in England and Wales
1,569 - Trinidad
2,024 - British Guiana
6,447 - Jamaica
110,767 - India
11,117 - Pakistan
151,736 - Poland
96,379 - Germany
33,159 - Italy
Rethinking what I ‘know’ about post-war immigration & the pitfalls of discussing postcolonial migration in the UK as a separate event…
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“The mainstream media is ripe with oversexualized images of women of color, and...”
– Samhita Mukhopadhyay’s Outdated: Why Dating Is Ruining Your Love Life (via soadatnewschool)
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“What is new about [the PATRIOT Act] is that it radically erases any legal...”
– Giorgio Agamben | State of Exception
(via cultureofresistance)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/15/americans-face-guantanamo-detention-obama
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“To love is to discover terror, a very personal and intimate kind of terror: you...”
– Dambudzo Marechera | Interview with Flora Veit-Wild, December 1984
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“Indeed, behind the partisan posturing over deficit reduction, it is rarely noted...”
– Gary Younge | ‘Land of the Free, home of the Hungry’
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Chude Jideonwo on Nigeria's shiny new 'anti-gay... →
“Indeed, you have to weep for a people that decry “foreign imperialism” on one hand, and then ignorantly hide under the cover of colonial influences to perpetuate intolerance.” - Chude Jideonwo
more here and here
(where Sean Jacobs helpfully points to US ‘human rights imperialism,’ in which, needless to say, the UK has been known to dabble. Interesting to look...
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“What we think of as our individuality - something given before culture, which we...”
– Staurt Hall, ‘Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life’ in Caribbean Reasonings: Culture, Politics, Race and Diaspora: The Thought of Stuart Hall ed. Brian Meeks (Kingston, 2007) p. 274
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“I stressed the love situation and I still think I was right. Because its very...”
– Julia Kristeva | ‘Julia Kristeva in Conversation with Rosalind Coward’ in The Portable Kristeva
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“To become one with another is simultaneously to lose and acquire one’s...”
– Dambudzo Marechera | from Amelia: Sonnets and Other Poems p.167 in Cemetery of Mind
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