Last Sunday the Göteborg International Film Festival and International Writers’ Stage Gothenburg co-hosted a conversation between Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Swedish film critic Jannike Åhlund (JÅ). It got weird quickly.
When Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie met Sweden » AFRICA IS A COUNTRY
This is a must read and a must watch (with content warnings and caution of erasing discourses, gaslighting and other assorted tactics of white deflection) for any person interested in European ideas around race, People of Color, colonialism and history (Sweden’s but also the other European Empires). Especially on how these erasure rests on a foundation of exceptionalism and being “better” than those white supremacist masses that do not have “nice things” such as welfare policies, “human rights”, peddled “equality”, etc.
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