thinking about Black internationalism through Pauulu’s diaspora w/ Quito Swan

Africa World Now Project · Jan 7, 2021 · 1h 23m

Image: Pauulu Kamarakafego As we have explored in previous programs, in fact, as we have attempted to unpack in every program, Black internationalism is an intentional disruption; a radical intervention in the global terms of order [nod to Cedric Robinson]. In order to understand Black internationalism as a critical disruption, a radical intervention, we must unpack it. The concept, international, as understood in dominant discourse [opposed to discourse on the periphery, discourses from below] is related to the creation and forced imposition of the nation-state, birthed from a European…