Blackness

Nigeria’s queer literature offers a new way of looking at blackness

Nigeria’s queer literature offers a new way of looking at blackness: Author Akwaeke Emezi. Theo Wargo/WireImage Queering the Black Atlantic: Transgender Spaces in Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater is a paper by Rocío Cobo-Piñero. It considers Emezi’s award-winning semi-autobiographical novel about Ada, who is an ogbanje, a spirit born in a human body. It uses the novel …

Blackness, oceans and South Africa’s colonial history are at my family’s core

Blackness, oceans and South Africa’s colonial history are at my family’s core: Cape Town Sutterstock This excerpt is based on an extract from the book, “Race Otherwise: Forging a New Humanism for South Africa” by the author. My blackness is supposedly visible only because I do not “look white”. But, in some parts of West …