POL381H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Afropolitan, African Socialism, Essentialism
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We are afropolitans: not citizens, but africans of the world . Pushing back against negative, overgeneralized, disaster writing about. Similar to binyavanga wanaina"s satirical how to write about africa . Asserting that afropolitan is part of what africa is. Marked by itinerancy, mobility, displacement: an interweaving of worlds (28, includes, but isn"t limited to, selasi"smodern, global, technocratic, Eze: identity no longer purist, essentialist, oppositional materialist figure. Common critique: afropolitanism is an attempt to decouple africans from. Common critique: afropolitanism is an attempt to decouple africans from (us-grounded) discourse & experience of blackness. Searching for universal codes of conduct (244: contesting the strictures of ascribed identity (244) Note similarities of eze"s account to cpt work: The idea of intellectual openness, [equated] with the desire to understand the other in orderto engage with him (243: empathic imagination: switching perspectives with otherssee the world from the other person"s standpoint (243) Rather than a self-conscious method, the afropolitan stance here is more naturally engaged.
