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Travelling While Black — Nanjala Nyabola
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Nanjala Nyabola, the Kenya-based writer, advocate, activist and political analyst has written a wonderful new book titled "Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a life on the move”. She explore show travel and migration reveal numerous aspects of race, identity politics and culture and why the world order has become hostile to human mobility. In this beautifully written book, Nanjala tackles several important questions: What are the joys and pains of holidays for people of colour, when guidebooks are never written with them in mind? How are black lives today impacted by the othering legacy of colonial cultures and policies? And what can travel tell us about our sense of self, of home, of belonging and identity?
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Professor Dan Banik, University of Oslo, Twitter: @danbanik @GlobalDevPod
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Professor Dan Banik (@danbanik @GlobalDevPod)
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137 episodes
Manage episode 312102747 series 2738914
Nanjala Nyabola, the Kenya-based writer, advocate, activist and political analyst has written a wonderful new book titled "Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a life on the move”. She explore show travel and migration reveal numerous aspects of race, identity politics and culture and why the world order has become hostile to human mobility. In this beautifully written book, Nanjala tackles several important questions: What are the joys and pains of holidays for people of colour, when guidebooks are never written with them in mind? How are black lives today impacted by the othering legacy of colonial cultures and policies? And what can travel tell us about our sense of self, of home, of belonging and identity?
Resources:
Host:
Professor Dan Banik, University of Oslo, Twitter: @danbanik @GlobalDevPod
Host
Professor Dan Banik (@danbanik @GlobalDevPod)
Subscribe:
137 episodes
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