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Black Genealogy After Alex Haley’s Roots

“A lot has been stolen from Black Americans. A lot has been hidden from Black Americans. And so there is

Mulling over how to deal with the passing of Robert Farris Thompson, the famed “guerilla scholar,” as he termed himself—he

**This essay is a work of satire, modeled after the late Binyavanga Wainaina’s “How to Write About Africa.” Much like

Consider the vagaries surrounding the label “antiquity”: whose antiquity do you imagine to be the norm? Greece? Rome? Africa? For

Recently at a public forum, someone asked me if “same-sex relations in Africa [are] un-African?” While answering the question,