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IBRAHIM WILLIAMS
JANUARY 12 2025
IBRAHIM WILLIAMS•JANUARY 12 2025
Note on Being Groomed for Exile
As Africans, our being lost in the diaspora is contingent on the preservation of life for ourselves and for those of our families left behind.
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Ibrahim Williams
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is a Lagos-born academic in the diaspora. He researches migration, comedy, and diasporic narratives in black literature and film.
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Ibrahim Williams
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3 Stories
is a Lagos-born academic in the diaspora. He researches migration, comedy, and diasporic narratives in black literature and film.
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IBRAHIM WILLIAMS
AUGUST 25 2024
IBRAHIM WILLIAMS•AUGUST 25 2024
The World After Wole Soyinka’s Climate of Fear
First presented as Reith Lectures exactly 20 years ago, what does it mean to revisit Wole Soyinka’s Climate of Fear in today’s chaotic world?
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IBRAHIM WILLIAMS
MARCH 17 2024
IBRAHIM WILLIAMS•MARCH 17 2024
Afro-complicity in the United Nations
What Robert A. Wood, Ralph Bunche and Linda Thomas-Greenfield represent is known in the discourse of African ontology as Black complicity—Afro-complicity, if you please. This is a distinct kind of complicity reified when a Black person tries to dispel racist oppressive hegemonic constructs but due to his inability to be critical of the underlying subtleties of Black stereotypes, he ends up becoming the instrument for its advancement.