Blessol Gathoni

Across the globe we observe similarities and intersections in black people’s struggles in both Western and non-Western contexts. This stems from pervasive socio-political and cultural notions that black bodies can a) be commodified, hence b) be consumed and, when of no use, c) killed.

It is time we analyzed or cracked open the narrative that is ‘Africa rising’.

There is much to say about my first hundred days placement since October 2010, in the Fahamu Pan African Fellowship Programme.