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Africa Will Always Have History Art and Literature in My Sleepless Pursuit of African Pasts

June/July 2020
Now, Western institutions, theorists and analysts sell catchphrases like ‘the future is African’ as compensation for the distortion of our roots, and those of us on the continent gladly comply. But which future can exist without proper recognition of the present and past?  When I was an undergraduate student in Ogbomoso, I lived alone in a self-contained studio with two wide windows and three doors—one led to a restroom, the other, to a kitchen and the last one opened into a corridor.
 

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