Racism or Classism?

There is a pervasive discourse of Africa as a non-racial continent, a place where racial thought and practices are rare and where the manifestation of race is an aberration. Africans, it is assumed, express their identities through ethnic and cultural signatures and not through the language of race. In the land of black people, in a supposedly racially homogeneous continent where race is taken for granted, racism and racial consciousness are said to be meaningless. Race, in this narrow understan

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