Afrilition: The blackness challenge, By Adéwálé Àjàdí
Afrilition is about the broad church of our humanity, built through the love, fights, and flashing kindness, covered in using the African world as our holding space so that incoming generations stand on mental models of cooperation despite areas of disagreement, building on practices of understanding multiple perspectives.
The extraordinary challenge going forward is how the diverse humanity greatest in Africa and acknowledged beyond the simplicity of black identity can build a powerful and plausible future alternative to the cannibalistic capitalism that exemplifies what has now been titled Western civilisation.
In understanding the challenge of Black as an identity, I had to contend with its capacity to oversimplify our complexity and diversity, reducing the genuine power of Africaness from its basis as the origin of humanity to its shade in a caste pigmentation stereotype.
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