Ep 7: Why We are NOT Afropolitans! And Other Stories
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The duo is back! And on this episode, we look at a new (or old) kind of othering where we constantly compare ourselves to the west and firmly latch on to the belief that anything African + Natural = backward, whereas anything and everything Western is the ideal. What is the basis of such assumptions and what can we do to flip the script? We also look at the genesis of the term Afropolitan and go into why we are very uncomfortable with it. Is there a reason why even the biggest proponents of the term and concept are now trying to redefine it?
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