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For 500 years, Africa has fed, clothed, sheltered and powered the West. What has it gotten in return? Hunger, disease, poverty, underdevelopment and its greatest leaders deposed or murdered by that same West.
In this 1987 interview with Norsk rikskringkasting AS (NRK), Ghanaian author and poet Ama Ata Aidoo (1942 - 2023) comments on this dark pattern, and how Africa has gained next to nothing from the West, despite giving it everything.
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https://tv.nrk.no/serie/forfat....terinne-i-dag/sesong
https://www.theguardian.com/po....litics/2005/aug/20/p
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🎙 From Shoot the Breeze Episode 251 on the Bitter Medicine Podcast.
Brother Bakari takes the dress-code conversation in a different direction: if we are talking about respect, standards, and self-presentation, why don’t we also talk about the language we use with each other?
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🎙 From Shoot the Breeze Episode 251 on the Bitter Medicine Podcast.
Byron Allen says slavery was about money — “green” — not Black and white. The panel reacts to that claim and asks whether economics can ever be separated from anti-Black racism in the transatlantic slave trade.
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