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• Daniel Bensaïd- RECORDED FRAGMENTS Reflections on twelve events of the 21^st century
  11 November 2020, by siawi3

  These interviews with Daniel Bensaïd were broadcast in 2008 on the radio station Fréquence Paris Plurielle. Through them, Bensaïd gives his insight into twelve significant events including the October Revolution, the Spanish Civil War, the assassination of Lumumba, the 1973 coup in Chile, and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

• UK: The omission of Black and Brown troops from British history is unforgivable
  12 November 2020, by siawi3

  At the outbreak of World War I, Britain recruited people from its colonies in India, Africa, and the West Indies to contribute to the war effort. As a result, millions of Black and Brown soldiers and auxiliaries saw service. However, from the British West Indies Regiment and the King’s African Rifles to the African American Harlem Hellfighters, the non-white servicemen who fought, worked, and died in the war have been eradicated from our history.

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  13 novembre 2020, par siawi3
• On the History of Dissent and How it Shaped Hinduism and India
  17 November 2020, by siawi3

  Hindu nationalism as a concept comes directly out of one among the tenets of the colonial understanding of India, namely, the two-nation theory.

• South Africa: For over four decades, ES Reddy led international opposition to apartheid
  17 November 2020, by siawi3

  His life reflected the best of left internationalism.

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  23 novembre 2020, par siawi3
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  25 novembre 2020, par siawi3
• Ethiopia’s war of narratives
  30 November 2020, by siawi3

  Nation-building is a contested process of narrative construction. In his book, Imagined Communities, political scientist Benedict Anderson reminds us that nations are “imagined political communities.” There is an enduring disunity among Ethiopian elites regarding the country’s history and future. Informed by its long, and contentious multi-ethnic history, and fueled by recent shifts in the political landscape in the country, a war of narratives has been reignited. The narrative war is fought between adherents of what we have termed “Pan-Ethiopianists” and “Ethno-nationalists.”

• Africa: History class
  2 December 2020, by siawi3

  What might Black Lives Matter learn from Africanist scholars who have studied inequality outside the US, especially in Africa? “There is a real tension between the importance of addressing the pain that comes from the history people of African descent have faced of enslavement, colonization, and racism, and addressing issues of inequality across time and space. This tension can be a source of fruitful exploration. The histories of enslavement, colonization, and racism are not “out there” but right here; one cannot understand the United States or France any more than Nigeria or South Africa without a focus on these subjects.”

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  1er décembre 2020, par siawi3

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