Associate Professor of English Guy Mark Foster recently spoke at Ladd house about a theory called Afro-Pessimism, which looks at blackness as a “social death” rather than celebrates it as a cultural ...

Originally published in Salvage, this piece by Kevin Ochieng Okoth, offers a sustained critique of American 'Afro-pessimism', noting, in particular, how it erases experiences, including political ...

Originally published in Salvage, this piece by Kevin Ochieng Okoth, offers a sustained critique of American 'Afro-pessimism', noting, in particular, how it erases experiences, including political ...

The Journal of Intersectionality, Vol. 5, No. 1, CRITICAL ORTHODOXIES: (RE)IMAGINING SCHOLARSHIP FOR A BRAVE NEW WORLD (2021), pp. 4-17 (14 pages) As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage and ...

Soweto (South Africa) (AFP) – Danny Jordaan, the man who spearheaded the 2010 World Cup, believes the tournament put an end to “Afro-pessimism” and helped transform the African continent from ...

Chinua Achebe — a Nigerian novelist best known for his 1958 novel "Things Fall Apart" — spoke Friday about Western prejudice and misconceptions of Africa. His speech, titled "Insider Perspectives on ...

With a new decade comes the decennial census on April 1 — the enumeration of the U.S. population to ensure that communities receive a proportionate amount of $675 billion worth of government funding.

Danny Jordaan, the man who spearheaded the 2010 World Cup, believes the tournament put an end to "Afro-pessimism" and helped transform the African continent from "hopeless to hopeful". The Barron's ...