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	<title>Black Looks &#187; African History</title>
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		<title>The Promise of April 12: A Preface to Liberia’s Complicated Biography</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 05:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robtel Pailey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 12, 1980 is often described as the beginning of Liberia’s end. I think of it as the preface to Liberia’s long, complicated biography, the beginning of our awakening. It was a day when our pomp and circumstance left a deafening echo; when we were all exposed, laid bear by the realization that being the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Telling Uneasy Stories: El Negro of Banyoles #4</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 06:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald Molosi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Africa - Creative Arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African History]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I continue my weekly series here on Black Looks about El Negro of Banyoles, the Southern African man who was stuffed like a human trophy and exhibited in Europe from 1830 to 2000 to amuse Europeans. Last week I received insightful comments from Sokari and Annie about the &#8216;love&#8217; that Banyoles still says it feels [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Telling Uneasy Stories: El Negro of Banyoles #3</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 09:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald Molosi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; We start this weekend with a continuation of our discussion about El Negro. Since El Negro’s display was of a dead body I will at this juncture expand the notion of hybridity we spoke about last week. I think we can expand the notion from binary form to include another element. That is to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Telling Uneasy Stories: El Negro of Banyoles #2</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/03/telling-uneasy-stories-el-negro-of-banyoles-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 07:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald Molosi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Man]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Botswana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donald Molosi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[El Negro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I continue where we left off last week with the story of El Negro, a Motlhaping man who was eviscerated and stuffed like a trophy animal and exhibited in Spain for the entertainment of Europeans. To first recap, we established a freak as “a person or animal on exhibition as an example of a strange [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Telling Uneasy Stories: El Negro Of Banyoles  #1</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 13:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald Molosi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Botswana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colonial Astrocities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[El Negro Banyoles]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; Over the next several weeks, I will be analyzing the phenomenon of human exhibition  that was the trend of the day in 19th century Europe. I will do this with specific interest in the exhibition of the African body, and even more specifically the body of a Motlhaping man who came to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From colonial dependence to petro dependence:  A video window into the colonial past</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/02/from-colonial-dependence-to-petro-dependence-a-video-window-into-the-colonial-past/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Britain]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=9180</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Three Roads to Tomorrow &#8211; a BP promotional film uses three students from the three different regions of Nigeria to depict the transition from the past to the modernity &#8211; from colonial dependence to petro dependence.      And the trains ran too.  I even suspect there was electricity or at least there weren&#8217;t any generators. View the film [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kadialy Kouyate</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/02/kadialy-kouyate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kora Music]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kadialy Kouyate performs at TEDx the music of Senegal, Mali, Guinea and Gambia which dates back to the 13th century. One of the oldest instruments is the Balafon whilst the Kora is newer and dates back to 17th, 18th century when it became one of the main instruments of the Girots. Kadialy&#8217;s plays and sings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A history to remember: &#8220;Who says being queer is unAfrican?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/02/a-history-worth-noting-who-says-being-queer-is-unafrican/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/02/a-history-worth-noting-who-says-being-queer-is-unafrican/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa LGBTI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HIV/AIDS]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=9127</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; In “The frightful development of this vice amongst the Natives”: Who says being queer is unAfrican?&#8221; Zackie Achmat traces the role of missionaries and the colonial state in the control and disciple of the African male body. He begins with a brief account of his own imprisonment at the age of 16 where he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/audre-lorde-the-berlin-years/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/audre-lorde-the-berlin-years/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Feminism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queer Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Audre Lorde]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Berlin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Lesbian Feminism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cannot wait for this&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. &#160; Scheduled to make its world premiere in the Panorama Documentary section is Dagmar Shultz&#8217;s Audre Lorde &#8211; The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 is an untold chapter (the Berlin years) of the late writer, poet and activist, Caribbean child of immigrants from Grenada, who died rather young at 58 years old in 1992. Specifically, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anything but Black &#8211;</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/anything-but-black/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Black Feminism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caribbean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queer Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afro Descendants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Central America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colonisation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colourism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recolonisation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Documentary series explores the complexities of racism and colourism in Central and South America! &#8220;Who do you think you&#8217;re kidding &#8211; you ARE Black&#8221;, &#8220;You aren&#8217;t really Black&#8221;, &#8220;You&#8217;re mixed race / half caste / mestizo / mulato&#8221;, &#8220;Actually you&#8217;re white&#8221;. Reminds me of the &#8220;UnAfrican&#8221; conversation, an essentialist notion of blackness where people are [...]]]></description>
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