Submitted by An_Old_Big_Tree in Anarchism (edited )
zorblax wrote
tbh I just don't know anything about Africa. News sources available on the English-speaking internet are almost silent about everyday life, and good luck finding anybody online living in sub-saharan Africa.
Even the history available to mere casuals such as myself are pretty sparse, and almost all of them are written by/for Europeans, informed primarily by European study and so on.
All I know is, Africa is basically an entire continent that has been used and abused by every form of shitty government, turned up to 11.
An_Old_Big_Tree OP wrote
Africa's an elided continent. Part of the point of this article is to demonstrate that it is a political circumstance that causes your lack of knowledge; not an mere silence but a centuries-long silencing, built into a global continental hierarchy.
And there's an increasing amount of good scholarship and media coming from some places in the continent, among some amazing work that already exists. I try to put some of it in f/Africa.
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