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Naita Ussene

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Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s Afro-existentialist Experiment #OnSite⚡

Have you ever come across works that display elements of Afro-existentialism and Afro-surrealism?

In this online essay, arthouse film reviewer, Tony Malik, posits that ‘This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection’ is the perfect afro-existentialist film, not because of the existential interstice implied in its title, but because of how it paints mystical and metaphysical pictures about the different types of death.

According to Malik: ‘The opening scene of Mosese’s film introduces a face full of anguish and from its lips plays the lesiba, a traditional wind-stringed instrument of Lesotho’s Basotho people. An ancient storyteller squats within the confines of a decaying urban jungle in the ‘future’. In between cutbacks, his haunting tune sets the mood of the film while the camera sets the pace, slowly revealing the isolation of this antiquated existence straddling two worlds.’

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📝: Tony Malik (@malicknoirr)
📷: Mary Twala Mhlongo in This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection. DEKANALOG

Today in 1797, writer and abolitionist, Olaudah Eq

Today in 1797, writer and abolitionist, Olaudah Equiano, died in London. #RxHistory⏳

On 31 March 1797, writer and abolitionist, Olaudah Equiano, died in London. Equiano was a former enslaved African and writer whose experiences prompted him to become heavily involved in the British abolition movement.

According to his autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Equiano was born in the village of Essaka in the interior of modern-day southeastern Nigeria. He was kidnapped with his sister at around the age of 11, sold by local slave traders and shipped across the Atlantic to Barbados and then Virginia.

In Virginia, he was sold to a Royal Navy officer, Lieutenant Michael Pascal, who renamed him ‘Gustavus Vassa’ after the 16th-century Swedish king. Equiano travelled the oceans with Pascal for eight years, during which time he was baptized and learned to read and write.

After years of working as an enslaved man in the West Indies, America and Britain, Equiano bought his freedom in 1766. In 1786 in London, he became involved in the movement to abolish slavery. He was a prominent member of the ‘Sons of Africa’, a group of 12 Black men who campaigned for abolition.

Published in 1789, Equiano’s memoir was so popular that in his lifetime it ran through nine English editions and was translated into Dutch, German, and Russian. It was one of the earliest books published by a Black African writer. He is often regarded as the originator of the slave narrative because of his firsthand literary testimony against the slave trade.

Despite the criticism around the authenticity of his account, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano remains an essential work both for its picture of 18th-century Africa and for its eloquent argument against the slave trade.

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📝: Ibukun Olokode and Ugonna Eronini
📷: 1) Olaudah Equiano by Daniel Orme, on the frontispiece of his autobiography (1789). NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, LONDON.

2) Plaque at Riding House Street, Westminster, England, noting the place where Equiano lived and published his narrative. WIKIMEDIA COMMONS.

Problematizing Freedoms in Artificial Intelligence

Problematizing Freedoms in Artificial Intelligence #OnSite⚡

What are your thoughts on artificial intelligence? Do you think the advancements will harm humanity in the long run?

In this online essay, Aarshin Karande posits that ethics and accountability in artificial intelligence should deviate from binary thought processes of positive and negative. Karande proposes the concept of a 'computational conscience', an intersection of the binary.

According to Karande: 'Interests in controlling the hopes and fears about intelligent machines have shaped imagined possibilities and vice versa. Intrinsic dichotomies, mutually co-constitutive hopes and fears have defined the imagining of Al. Hopes for a longer life, living free of work, fulfilled desires, and power over others are inseparable from fears like losing one's identity, becoming redundant, becoming redundant to each other, and that Al will turn against us. These hopes reflect deep-rooted narratives of human aspirations meeting technological possibilities.'

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📝: Aarshin Karande
🎨: Onyinye Dike

Today in 1987, the University of Dakar was renamed

Today in 1987, the University of Dakar was renamed Cheikh Anta Diop University. #RxHistory⏳

On March 30, 1987, the University of Dakar in Senegal was renamed Cheikh Anta Diop University or Université Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD), in honor of the late Senegalese historian, physicist and pan-Africanist, Cheikh Anta Diop. The public university is one of the most prestigious higher institutions in French-speaking West Africa.

In the 1950s, a number of higher institutions in Dakar formed the Dakar Institute of Higher Education. The institution achieved full status as a university in 1957. Months after Diop passed away in 1987, the University of Dakar was formally renamed Cheikh Anta Diop University in his honor.

Diop was a champion of African history. He served as a member of the UNESCO International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa in 1971 and wrote the opening chapter about the origins of the ancient Egyptians in the UNESCO General History of Africa.

Cheikh Anta Diop University is one of Africa’s most reputable institutions, with several post-independence Senegalese leaders graduating from the university and many of its alumni teaching globally.

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📝: Peace Onafuye and Sinmi Sowande
📷: Cheikh Anta Diop University. Photo by David Evan Harris / Flickr

The Dangers of a Same-Faith Presidency #OnSite⚡

The Dangers of a Same-Faith Presidency #OnSite⚡

Did you know that APC’s controversial Muslim-Muslim ticket is not the first of its kind in Nigeria?

In this online essay, political analyst, Gbọ́láhàn Adébíyì, believes that Nigeria’s corporate existence is reliant on the peaceful co-existence of people of different ethnicities and religions. APC’s Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket and ‘win’ have broken decades of political and ethical convention regarding party ticketing, and threatens Nigeria’s ‘delicate balance’.

According to Adébíyì: ‘Arguably, the possibility of a Christian-Christian presidential win in Nigeria is low. While getting bloc votes for such a ticket may be possible in southern Nigeria and parts of the Middle Belt, getting such in the North would prove difficult, particularly in the North West and the North East where communities have experienced waves of Islamic fundamentalism. Again, such a move by Christian institutions would most likely introduce buzzwords like “Christianization” into national politics for the first time.’

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📝: Gbọ́láhàn Adébíyì
🎨: Onyinye Dike

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